Release Notes

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Golaem Crowd 3.3.0.1 (2014/06/25)

Improvements

  • Noise Frequency in the SetBone behavior

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed Locomotion Behavior not turning at all when Motion Clips with no null linear velocities are in the database

Supported Rendering Engines

  • Mental Ray For Maya (any version)
  • V-Ray For Maya 2.4
  • Mtoa 1.0.X
  • 3Delight 11.0.57
  • Renderman Studio 18.0

Golaem Crowd 3.3 (2014/06/11)

Important Notice

Some node attributes have changed between Golaem Crowd 3.2.2 and 3.3. Use MEL function golaemCrowd322To33() to update your scene from Golaem Crowd 3.2.2 and 3.3

New Features

  • Maya Blend Shapes are now completely supported from Assets Management to render
  • Import Shaders tool (automatically executed when using the Render Proxy tool)
  • Swiss Army Knife Tool to automatize common tasks in Golaem Crowd
  • Crowd Scene Checker tool

Improvements

  • Visual Feedback information are displayed in a dedicated dockable HUD
  • Visual Feedback displays the selected Entity posture in a dedicated viewport
  • Terrain Locator now defines a default infinite and planar NavMesh (see the important notice above to update your scenes accordingly)
  • Added a "none" Ground Mode in the Terrain Locator
  • PopulationTool locator now allows to automatically link its created particle systems to a CrowdField
  • PaintTool supports teared off panels
  • Progressive brush pressure and stroke direction smoothing in the PaintTool
  • Outer Flow parameter in the VectorField locator
  • New attribute in the CrowdField to export the pelvis velocity in a PPAttribute
  • Use Shift + Click on [+] to expand / collapse items in the Assets Manager & Character Maker tree views
  • Tree views of the Assets Manager are now consistent
  • Improved quadrupeds ground adaptation
  • Improved quadrupeds orientation adaptation (independant from behavior order)
  • New Rotation Pivot Mode and Rotation Pivot Offset in the AdaptOrientation behavior
  • PolygonZone trigger can now take groups containing several meshes
  • Distance trigger can now take groups containing several dag nodes
  • Added an integer attribute mode in the EntityType Attribute node
  • Added a slots assignment mode in the Advanced Parameters of the SetFormation behavior

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed crash in the PPAttribute trigger and an empty attribute name
  • Fixed crash when misconfiguring attributes in the GoTo behavior
  • Fixed crash in the Alteranative & Random operators when a connection is leading to a "no behavior"
  • Fixed crash when the terrain geometry is hidden
  • Fixed crash when rendering with Arnold and messages where logged
  • Fixed crash when the bone name attribute was not correct in the SetBone behavior
  • Fixed crash when computing the automatic mapping of a skeleton with no limbs
  • Fixed crash when the Motion Velocity is at 0 in the Motion behavior
  • Fixed units (seconds) for the Min / Max Update Period attributes in the Locomotion behavior
  • Fixed painted EntityTypes slots consistency in the PopulationTool Locator
  • Fixed weights when duplicating a Rendering Type in the Assets Manager
  • Fixed rotate axis in the SetBone behavior (see the important notice above to update your scenes accordingly)
  • Fixed random target picking when looping on a GoTo behavior
  • Fixed footprint display in the Motion & Locomotion behaviors
  • Fixed discontinuities in postures when using the Loop operator
  • Fixed incorrect bounding box position when root joint is in a transform hierarchy in the Assets Manager
  • Fixed Randomize Start Offset interface in the Motion & Locomotion behaviors
  • Fixed glmComputeMeshNamesCmd error message with lifespan-0ed particles
  • Fixed display for Force & Steer behaviors when the Crowd Unit change
  • Fixed disabling Physics Properties on bone chains in the Character Maker
  • Fixed Cylinders display mode scale
  • Fixed EntityType sliders in the GroupEntityType node template
  • Fixed SetFormation visual feedback

Refactoring

  • Better support for scaled meshes in the PaintTool
  • Error message from Triggers are more verbose and indicate the name of the problematic Trigger node
  • Verbose message when the exported geometry FBX file does not have all the meshes listed in the Assets Manager
  • Remove the gravity parameter from the PhysicsLocator and the Force behavior (now only in the Physicalize behavior)
  • Remove the Override Translation parameter from the AdaptOrientation behavior (not used anymore)
  • A FlockLocator is created automatically when a Flock / Steer behavior is created
  • A PhysicsLocator is created automatically when a Physicalize / Force / Detach behavior is created
  • Physics shapes are no longer shown when loading a gmo file in the CharacterMaker
  • A warning message is displayed when the radius changes too much in a PopulationTool locator (meaning that the Crowd Unit may not be appropriate)
  • Remove default distance between slots when using different Crowd Units in the PopulationTool locator
  • SurfaceShape transform node is now locked
  • New paint panel in the PopulationTool Locator template
  • Small refactoring of the behaviors Visual Feedback templates
  • Small refactoring of the CrowdManager node template
  • Small refactoring of the Locomotion behavior template
  • Small refactoring of the AdaptOrientation behavior template
  • Small refactoring of the PaintTool template
  • Small refactoring of the MotionClip template

Supported Rendering Engines

  • Mental Ray For Maya (any version)
  • V-Ray For Maya 2.4
  • Mtoa 1.0.X
  • 3Delight Studio Pro 10.0.50
  • Renderman Studio 4.0

Golaem Crowd 3.2.2.2 (2014/05/19)

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed Asset Manager Rendering Type duplicate not keeping weights

Golaem Crowd 3.2.2.1 (2014/05/16)

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed Character Maker not disabling Physics Properties on bone chains

Golaem Crowd 3.2.2 (2014/05/04)

New Features

  • Paint Tool can load / save 32bits png file
  • Simulation Tool can now only export the caa file

Improvements

  • PPAttribute Trigger can take component into account (myAttrPP.x / y / z / r / g / b)
  • Physics shapes are built automatically when creating the skeleton mapping in the CharacterMaker
  • Better support of occluded geometry in the PaintTool
  • Brush opacity influences VectorField painting in the PaintTool
  • Major performance improvement with huge maps in the PaintTool
  • Rotate stroke in the PaintTool
  • Bone count limit upped to 512 in the Render Previz
  • PaintTool contextural icons improved
  • Better support for CTRL/ALT/SHIFT keys in PaintTool
  • Heading direction can be edited in the MotionClip node
  • Use limb name instead of limb id in the glmExportMotion
  • In CrowdField, export the pelvis velocity in a per particule vector attribute
  • In Locomotion and Motion Behaviors, modify the color of footprints (visual feedback)

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed crash when changing a motion file path manually in the MotionClip
  • Fixed crash when using PPAttribute in the AdaptOrientation behavior
  • Fixed inconsistent ids in ComputeMeshNamesCmd
  • Fixed heading direction computation in the CharacterMaker
  • Fixed the edition of delta way of an animation in the CharacterMaker
  • Fixed Distance Trigger when particle system is the Entity particle system
  • Fixed Distance Trigger when particle system have lifespan0ed particles
  • Fixed broken slots display on some hardware configurations in the PopulationTool
  • Fixed running behaviors display in the Visual Feedback
  • Fixed locator bounding box computation in the PaintTool
  • Fixed the display bounding box in the SurfaceShape
  • Fixed bounding boxes check in the Render Checker

Refactoring

  • Default physics shape is now Capsule in the CharacterMaker
  • Unplugged undo/redo in the EntityType mode of the PaintTool
  • Complete refactoring of the Render Checker 

Supported Rendering Engines

  • Mental Ray For Maya (any version)
  • V-Ray For Maya 2.4
  • Mtoa 1.0.x
  • 3Delight Studio Pro 10.0.50
  • Renderman Studio 4.0

 

Golaem Crowd 3.2.1 (2014/04/16)

New Features

  • SetBone behavior which let you noise, replace, control bones orientation during a simulation
  • Entity Types can be painted on top of an existing Population Tool
  • Visual debug information are now displayed in a dedicated HUD, including behaviors specific information
  • Physics collision trigger to start a behavior when two entities collides

Improvements

  • Paint map size, vector field color, vector field arrow size can be customized
  • Paint brush resize ratio is now view dependent
  • Paint cursor improved now indicate mode with letters: (P) Paint, (R) Radius, (E) Erase
  • Optimized Distance Trigger if particle system is entity's particle system
  • Added Render Stats on the V-Ray proxy
  • Improved frame init performances on the V-Ray procedural rendering plugin

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed characters stopping in the middle of vector fields
  • Fixed a crash in the Character Maker when autocomputing a skeleton mapping
  • Fixed display refresh when loading a .gmm file in the Character Maker
  • Fixed motion replay that was not correctly taking the pelvis orientation into account
  • Fixed behaviors grouping in the Behavior Editor
  • Fixed "Save as Template" in the Behavior Editor
  • Fixed a bug when using the Attribute Editor to configure an Alternative Op
  • Fixed the glmExportMotion command which could not save gmm files as xml
  • Fixed saving/loading of the play pelvis/spine parts of the gmm files in the glmExportMotion command

Refactoring

  • A Visual Feedback Attributes panel is now available in every Behavior
  • Added context icons to swith to paint tool mode
  • Made StartPercent attributes in Motion and Locomotion behaviors more coherent
  • Improved error message relative to Motion Clips
  • Fixed Population Tool Locator Component Mode buttons layout
  • Added Golaem Crowd version number to dump file names

Supported Rendering Engines

  • Mental Ray For Maya (any version)
  • V-Ray For Maya 2.4
  • Mtoa 1.0.x
  • 3Delight Studio Pro 10.0.50
  • Renderman Studio 4.0

 

Golaem Crowd 3.2 (2014/04/03)

Important Notice

Due to the addition of motion weights, motion priorities in Motion behaviors must be set again

New Features

  • Golaem Crowd can now generate a 30d evaluation license if no license is found on the system (it still needs no license for rendering)
  • Erase Paint Tool to remove painted information
  • Slots of a Population Tool Locator generated from the Component Mode can now be updated
  • Weights can be used to control blend weight on concurrent Motion Behaviors with same priority
  • New command glmComputeMeshNames to get the mesh names of an exported entity

Improvements

  • Render Previz now supports Dual Quaternion and Weighted blend skinning
  • Distance trigger takes particles of a particle system into account
  • Start frame between nodes (CrowdManager, CrowdField, particle systems) are now linked
  • Use limb name instead of limb id in the glmExportMotionCmd
  • GroundAdaptation behavior now adapts the entity even when no motion is applied

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed Vector field mode when the Crowd Unit is set to decimeters
  • Fixed a crash when loading pyMel with Maya 2012
  • Fixed a crash when painting slots in a manually created PopulationTool locator
  • Fixed multi-shader order in the Assets Manager to match FBX order
  • Fixed a crash when computing perceived objects in obstacle heavy environments in the Navigation behavior
  • Fixed a crash when the Character File is invalid and Visual Debug is activated
  • Fixed a crash when removing the mirror mapping on a limb with effectors in the Character Maker
  • Fixed a lag between the BehaviorEditor Visual Debug and the Viewport Visual Debug
  • Fixed the mirror animation display on the Character Maker Locator
  • Fixed entity navigation when entity is not generated on the terrain
  • Fixed undo/redo in the Crowd Paint Tool

Refactoring

  • Footprints are now displayed without orientation in the CharaMaker Locator

Supported Rendering Engines

  • Mental Ray For Maya (any version)
  • V-Ray For Maya 2.4
  • Mtoa 1.0.x
  • 3Delight Studio Pro 10.0.50
  • Renderman Studio 4.0

Golaem Crowd 3.1.2 (2014/03/17)

Important Notice

Due to the introduction of detachable bones & props, Simulation Cache files created with the previous version of Golaem Crowd should be re-exported.

New Features

  • Crowd Paint Tool to paint everything in Golaem Crowd! Population Tool slots, PPAttributes, Vector Fields, Triggers and much more
  • Detach behavior to interactively detach bones or props from the Entity
  • Substep parameter in the Crowd Manager node to set the number of times the simulation is updated per frame
  • Simulation cache now stores world positions of each bone (in addition to world orientations)
  • Delay operator to add delays in the behavior graph
  • Simulation Cache can now be exported dynamically for the current frame when a Render is launched
  • New Simulation Cache Editor node to import, edit, export a simulation cache in Maya
  • Introduction of the DevKit (installed in GolaemCrowdDir/devkit)

Improvements

  • Physics properties are now edited in a table view in the CharacterMaker
  • Added conversion preview that allow to test Ik planes and Ik cache in the CharacterMaker
  • Added parameters to randomize the start percent of a Locomotion behavior
  • Improved consistency between the Behavior Editor selection and the Maya selection
  • AdaptOrientation behavior now takes ground normal to compute the character attitude
  • AdaptOrientation behavior now takes bones projection to compute the character attitude
  • Added an IK cache to improve performance in simulation (can be disabled by using the useConversionIkCache parameter on the Entity Type)

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a crash when saving a cam/caa file in a read only directory
  • Fixed a crash when saving an empty cam file
  • Fixed a crash when dealing with the sliders of the Assets Manager
  • Fixed a Linux crash when loading a scene with a terrain and a connected Population Tool
  • Fixed a crash in Render Previz mode caused by empty entity list
  • Fixed a crash with nParticle linked to a CrowdField
  • Fixed a crash in the Population Tool context
  • Fixed RenderingTypeId PP in the EntityType node
  • Fixed Arnold .ass file export
  • Fixed a crash when adding a new Spine in the CharacterMaker
  • Fixed broken drag and drop bone mapping in the CharacterMaker
  • Fixed error messages when no Assets Manager file or no assigned Rendering Type are assigned in the Entity Surface Shape

Refactoring

  • Removed GetUserDataVray shaders (use VRay User Scalar shader instead)
  • Removed trueTrigger and falseTrigger nodes (no more useful)
  • Settings are now saved when loading a .cam file in the AssetsManager
  • Cleaned the Extra Attributes panel of the plugin nodes
  • Moved Windows default installation directory to "C:\Golaem"

DevKit

  • New sample to read and display the Simulation Cache 

Supported Rendering Engines

  • Mental Ray For Maya (any version)
  • V-Ray For Maya 2.4
  • Mtoa 1.0.X
  • 3Delight Studio Pro 10.0.50
  • Renderman Studio 4.0

Golaem Crowd 3.1.1.2 (2014/02/25)

Bug Fix

  • Fixed a crash in previz caused by empty entity list

Golaem Crowd 3.1.1.1 (2014/02/19)

Improvement

  • AdaptOrientation Behavior can now take the ground normal to compute the character attitude

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