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Miscellaneous

• Added support for pre- and post- render hooks via RFHhooks

• Brought back PxrDebugShadingContext VOP
•  Improved Improved motion blur support for hdPrman in Solaris

  • Motion blur for meshes, curves, and point particles is now supported through a shared codepath

  • On Render Geometry Settings node there's There is now a Motion Blur tab under the RenderMan Master Attributes .on Render Geometry Settings node 

  • Velocity blur and enabling/disabling motion blur for objects is now supported through the Render Geometry Settings node

  • Enabling/disabling motion blur works for transforms and geometry

• Other changes in Solaris - 

  • The camera now tumbles around the mouse cursor when rendering in Solaris.
  • Added baking options to the RenderMan LOP under the Rendering/Render tab
  • Added back support for the pause/resume callbacks in Solaris.
  • For hdPrman now just print xcpt messages rather than routing into TF_STATUS, etc.  because depending on the host app those may just get lost.

• Removed remove xform_motionsamples and geo_motionsamples from the RenderMan tab (geo and cam) because these are not RenderMan-only parameters and are were affecting mantra Mantra renders. Now you must manually add if you want to set these parameters on the object.

• emitting all renderman geometry primvars to alembics because RfH doesn't know what type is inside the packed alembic so we need to cover all bases.

• read Added support for shop_materialpath in alembic attributes. add bundle to rop , but the material must be included in the RenderMan scene for the procedural to apply the material. Added a bundle parameter on the RenderMan ROP to force material export.

• Added back support for the Pause/Resume callbacks in hdprman
• improved Improved viewport lighting
• read Read abcvelocityscale attribute to scale alembic velocity
• Added baking options to the RenderMan LOP under the Rendering/Render tab
• promoted parameters can have different names now
• add acceleration blur support
• RfSolaris: The camera should now tumble around the mouse cursor when rendering with RenderMan in the viewport
• For hdPrman now just print xcpt messages rather than routing into TF_STATUS, etc.  because depending on the host app those may just get lost.