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- Preset Browser for Materials and Environments
- Multi-threaded Katana Scenegraph traversal (faster time-to-first-pixel)
- Multi-threaded Alembic_In_Prman (improves speed when reading multiple alembics)
- Live add, delete and transform for geometry
- Live updates for light-linking
- Live light deleting
- Instanced lights
- Light array support
- Can assign light shader to geometry using MaterialAssign
- Cone angle now visualized on Viewer Modifiers
- 64-bit object IDs, consistent across disk/live/preview renders
Additional Changes
Miscellaneous Changes
- Cannot set material at instance source location
- RIB Include has been removed
- RfK will now read args files for custom integrators
- Integrators are now configured via the PrmanIntegratorSettings node
- "insertWhen" directives for config.xml are removed pending new configuration
- Parameter Layout has been removed from PrmanGlobalStatements and PrmanObjectStatements
- Deprecated:
- "prmanGlobalSettings.plugin.instanceSourceMode"
- "prmanGlobalSettings.commandArguments.numThreadModeProcs"
- "textures" attribute group
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