Release Notes

New features

• SkeletonMotion Converter: Added a 2D previzualisation of skeleton when choosing detection mode
• SkeletonMotion Converter: Added visualization help and tooltip for mapping
• SkeletonMotion Converter: Added 2D previzualisation of the motion before exporting it
• NavMesh is now automatically mapped in most cases, otherwise accessible by a dropdown menu
• New MEL command: spatialRequestMELCommand (count entities in a given zone)
• Added an ExternalEntityLocator: permits to use an external object as an obstacle in the avoidance field
• Population Tool: Added a triangle shape
• Population Tool: Added a "quincux" mode
• Population Tool: Added a "replace particle shape" mode
• Behavior Node: Splitted into Behavior and TriggerNode (old files are no more compatibles, sorry for the inconvenience)
• Behavior Node: Added a loop option to the behavior (reevaluate a starting trigger after being stopped)
• Behavior Node: Automatically create 2 linked TriggerNode (start/stop). Customizable via Tool Setting
• Trigger Node: Triggers can be chained using AND/OR operator
• Trigger Node: Trigger can aggregate other triggers
• Trigger Node: One trigger can be shared between multiple BehaviorNode
• Trigger Node: Added a "zone" trigger type
• Trigger Node: drivenAttribute changed from "triggerAttribute" to "drivenAttribute"
• Assets Tool: Shader templates can be exported/imported
• Assets Tool: Shader Assets can use custom int/float shader attributes which are passed to the RenderMan plugin
• Better skeleton mapping interface
• RenderMan plugin uses surface shaders & texture coordinates with multiple diffuse materials
• 3Delight render plugin
• Renderman compliant plugin (.exe)
• Updated to support FBX SDK 2012

Improvements

• SkeletonMotion Converter: Window can be fully resized
• NavMesh Creator: Automatically add a navmesh locator after a succesful generation of navMesh (configured with the generated .gse)
• NavMesh Creator: Default maximum horizontal slope value has been set to 45° for better navMesh results
• NavMeshCreator: when the input geometry is not triangulated, the error message explains how to triangulate it within Maya.
• NavMeshCreator: construction history is now ignored
• Avoidance Field: random targets are now placed only in accessible zones
• Avoidance Field: characters keep on going to other target when reached random targets
• Avoidance Field: when using random targets entities keep moving between different targets
• Avoidance Field and crowdField now init at frame 1 instead of frame 2.
• Avoidance Field now handles directionPP attribute at initialization
• Population Tool: Added a "Emit Selected" command to enable emitting several PopulationTool at once
• Population Tool: Added ProgressBar (appears only if population time is more than 0.8s)
• CrowdField: removed warning when no directionPP/velocityPP is set on crowdField
• Assets Tool: Asset Tool is less annoying when the .cam was never saved
• Assets Tool: exports the meshes in the character and its skeleton without having to select them in maya
• Assets Tool: the caa file now only contains entity - renderingType associations
• Assets Tool: mesh distribution is done when exporting FBX/RIB and in the renderer plugins
• Assets Tool: shader data is computed in the renderer plugins
• Assets Tool: shader assets can be assigned to multiple meshes at the same time
• Assets Tool: Maya and FBX buttons are now unified
• Assets Tool: Meshes can be viewed in Maya when selected in the Assets tab (using Ctrl key)
• Assets Tool: meshes with the same name (but different paths) are now supported
• Assets Tool: rendering Types can be unassigned from entity types by removing them from the "Assign..." list
• Assets Tool: Individual meshes can now be added / removed from a mesh asset; the +/- buttons have
• shortcuts ([Numpad+]/[Del])
• Assets Tool: Added a character sample in tutorial resources
• Simulation Tool - FBX Export: materials are not duplicated anymore when all the characters are exported into the same FBX scene.
• Simulation Tool: changed the way errors are reported
• Simulation Cache Editor: a user defined output directory can now be used to export the edited cache
• All custom widgets have the locale English-United States: double spinboxes use . (dot) instead of , (comma)

Bug fixes

• SkeletonMotion Converter: fixed skeleton description export when bones are absent from the bindpose (which resulted in huge bones in the crowdfield locator)
• SkeletonMotion Converter: fixed a crash when joints have children that are not joints on a skeleton in Maya
• Fixed a bug when skeleton root != motion root
• Motion Locator: could not replay the motion on some specific characters
• Motion Locator: corrected a minor bug: the scale was not taken into account to apply the motion's translation
• Motion Locator: fixed a root orientation bug that could affect some characters
• NavMesh Creator: when selecting a transform node, all child meshes are properly added to the nav mesh computation
• NavMesh Creator: better error management
• Avoidance Field: fixed a bug where the result of the first simulation was different from the subsequent ones
• CrowdField: No more artefact crowd Entities are displayed when reseting a scene.
• CrowdField: More robust when touching the NavMeshFile.
• EntityType: multiple mapping of behavior nodes is now working
• Assets Tool: fixed a bug when saving the fbx character without giving the .fbx extension to its name
• Assets Tool: fixed a bug that caused changes to be lost when minimizing and restoring Maya
• Assets tool: Fixed a bug when saving the fbx character without giving the .fbx extension to its name
• Assets Tool: Fixed a bug that caused changes to be lost when minimizing and restoring Maya
• Simulation Tool: fixed crash on Simulation Protobuf export when selecting all attributes.
• Simulation Tool: Fixed pbz export bug when using entities with different bones count
• Fixed a bug where some characters are not exported correctly in FBX
• Fixed a bug that could crash Crowd on some FBX files
• Various bugfixes for linux version