Golaem 5.3.2.1 (2016/11/18)

Important Notice

New Features

• Shading diversity in the Redshift render plugin

Improvements

• Values of Time Offset / Time Warp layers can now be set or added
• Improved Bind Pose Detection Mode in the Character Maker (now uses skin clusters information)
• Improved performances when using multiple Simulation Cache Proxies in a scene
• Added support of instances in the Redshift render plugin
• Added support of Vector Shader Attributes exports in the Alembic Baker
• Added selection information in the Simulation Cache Layout Tool
• Added default material support in 3delight and Renderman render plugins
• Added Up axis check in the Maya Scene Settings Checker
• Support of scaling in the Character Geometry GCG file
• Support of Blendshape / Blind Data animations in glmExportMotion
• Added evaluation mode in the Ramp Node

Bug Fixes

• Fixed node transform not taken into account by instanced geometries at render time
• Fixed simulation display frustum culling when using huge values for the far clipping plane
• Fixed creation of Stop Triggers when duplicating behaviors
• Fixed mapping of Motion Clips when duplicating Motion, SyncMotion and Locomotion behaviors
• Fixed mirror animation in specific situations
• Fixed a crash when rendering more than 8 Crowd Render Proxies
• Fixed a crash when rendering time offset characters
• Fixed a crash after picking an entity with a start frame different than the simulation start frame
• Fixed a crash when exporting an empty mesh as Character Geometry GCG file
• Fixed a crash when refreshing Simulation Cache Proxy when in Simulation Mode
• Fixed a crash when using ragdoll with zero-mass or zero-density
• Fixed a crash when a ApexCloth behavior is started
• Fixed a crash with uninitialized entities in VP2
• Fixed a crash hen rendering a mesh without a shading group in the Redshift render plugin
• Fixed normals when using Render Previz on some Character Geometry GCG file
• Fixed multi material handling in the Character Geometry GCG file
• Fixed ground adaptation when the entire motion had footprints
• Fixed ground adaptation when blending with non ground-adapted animations
• Fixed material export when baking a simulation as FBX
• Fixed namespaces creation when baking a simulation as FBX
• Fixed display of Box Crowd Rigid Bodies with VP2
• Fixed parameters not correctly taken into account when having multiple Flock Behaviors
• Fixed Sync Mode based on Body Mask in the Motion Behavior
• Fixed non reproducible simulations when using more than one particle system
• Fixed disconnected roadmaps in the NavMesh Creator
• Fixed no Cache Replay display on CentOS7

Refactoring

• Replaced User Properties with Arbitrary Geometry Parameters in the Alembic Baker
• Bake Simulation Cache Layout as a Simulation Cache has been moved to the Simulation Exporter Tool (Baker tab)
• Decreased limit for warning message when computing a NavMesh for a huge environment
• Target reachability is checked even when there are multiple zones in a NavMesh
• Removed Layout operations on a CrowdManager Node (Kill, Set Mesh Assets)
• Render Previz geometries get refreshed when shaders are imported​
• NavMesh Creator now ignores hidden geometry

API

• Added a -personal flag to the glmCheckLicense command
• Added a -savedWithPLE flag to the glmCheckLicense command
• Added a sortedBones attribute flag to the glmCharacterFileTool command
• Added a entityKilled attribute flag to the glmSimulationCacheTool command
• Added a boolean return value to the glmConvertFbxToGcg command

Supported Rendering Engines

• Mtoa 1.4.0 & 1.3.X / Arnold Core 4.2.X
• V-Ray For Maya 3.40.XX & 3.30.XX
• V-Ray For 3ds Max 3.30.XX
• Renderman Studio 21.X
• Mental Ray For Maya (any version)
• Redshift 2.0.70, 2.0.71 & 2.0.72
• 3Delight Studio Pro 11.0.XX
• Guerilla Render 1.4b31
• Katana 2.X (Arnold and Renderman)

• Renderman Studio 20.X