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Please see the release notes below for all the new capabilities and known issues!
What's New
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- You can now use the "F" shortcut to focus on light filters in the Hydra Viewer (Katana 3)
- Improved drawing lights and light filters with transparency in the Hydra Viewer (Katana 3)
- In the Hydra Viewer, (Katana 3) don't display parent locations that are not included in the Viewer Visibility Working Set
Miscellaneous Changes
- Added the option to use "objectdistance" dicing in RfK, see the RenderMan 22.3 release notes for more details
- You can now edit the "tint" and "intensityMult" parameters of PxrPortalLight in the corresponding "Color" and "Int" columns in GafferThree. You can also edit the "skyTint" parameter of PxrEnvDayLight in the "Color" column
- There is a new option in PrmanGlobalStatements - "plugin.deferInstanceSources" which tells RfK not to traverse and build instance sources that aren't instanced
- The global plugin option "recover" is now correctly emitted to the prman command line
- Cameras now inherit relevant attributes from /root. The prmanCameraStatements, material, and geometry attributes from /root are merged with those on camera locations. Additionally, cameras that are children of cameras will inherit the attributes from their parent cameras. To get the old behavior back, you can set this attribute at /root: info.__prmanOriginalCameraBehavior.
- Cameras now use the fov from the geometry.fov attribute by default. You can switch to use the projection shader's fov parameter by setting the prmanCameraStatements.useGeometryFov attribute to 0. To enable fov motion blur using the geometry.fov attribute's time samples, enable prmanCameraStatements.fovMotionBlur. These settings are available on the PrmanCameraSettings node. To get the old behavior back, you can set this attribute at /root: info.__prmanOriginalCameraBehavior
- Removed the extra blank line in the Render Log after each loaded shader library
- The page, label, and help hints are now available from the RendererObjectInfo for c++ plugins
- The default number of parallel traversal threads has been changed from 0 ("automatic") to 4. In many cases this will result in parallel traversal performance
improvementimprovement - In the Hydra Viewer, (Katana 3) don't display parent locations that are not included in the Viewer Visibility Working SetThe Barn Edge scale manipulator handles are now hidden if the "edge" value is zero
Fixes
- The RfK preset browser would incorrectly accept network materials that were not above the view node in the nodegraph
- The "visible" attribute will now work with all types of instancing and with light locations
- Attributes set under prmanStatements.primAttributes are now correctly applied to renderer procedural locations
Known Limitations
Live Rendering
Creating a mesh light from existing geometry will duplicate the geometry in-render. Restart the render to remove the duplicate.
- Cannot change a geometry primitive type during live rendering (e.g. from NURBS to polymesh)
When assigning a material to a Scene Graph location, that location must be enabled in the live render working set
Katana Limitation
- When rendering to "it" from Katana, do not stop the render from "it", abort the render from Katana. Your Katana session may freeze for a time if you abort from "it". If you make this mistake you can restore Katana to operation by terminating the prman render process manually. This will be fixed in a future version. You can also avoid this entirely by rendering to the Katana Monitor.Light Linking volumes is not currently supported
- We do not receive live render edits from Katana for nodes added at the end of the node graph, right above the Render node. If a no-op node (e.g. Merge) is inserted above the Render node and the node is added above that then the edit is received.
- Any live updates will cause interactive motion blur to be disabled. The render must be restarted.
- PRMan error handlers are not fully supported yet.
- Instanced lights with filters using the "Light Filter" coordsys have an incorrect transform. The workaround is to promote the light filter to a shared light filter using a light filter reference.
- There are a few live render limitations in Katana 2.6 that have been resolved in Katana 3.0 based on the improvements to 3.0, typically limitations with live working sets and adding/deleting locations in 2.6