GOLAEM 6.2 (2017/10/27)

Important Notice

From this release, Golaem Navigation relies on Golaem Sensors. Thus, all previous scenes using the Navigation Behavior will produce a slightly different result due to an improved perception system  

New Features

• New Golaem plugin for Katana which allows to preview and render Golaem Caches within Katana, KtoA and RfK

• New Geometry Tag mechanism to switch the Geometry Files used in the different steps of the pipeline (simulation cache replay, render and bake)

• Introduction of the Golaem Attributes as replacement for the PPAttributes

• New Golaem Attribute Spreadsheet Tool to monitor and edit Golaem Attributes

Improvements

• Navigation Behavior now uses Golaem Sensors for its perception. Sensors can be configured

• Support of Geometry Tags in the Geometry Behavior

• OptionVar glmGeometryTags can be used to define custom Geometry Tag names

• All selected items are deleted when clicking on a Simulation Layout Tool Layer delete button

• GLM_CROWDUNIT environment variable can also be used for the 3ds Max plugin

• Entity Scales are taken into account in the Perception

• Orient Pelvis On Ground Normal attribute now works in particle mode within the AdaptGround Behavior

Bug Fixes

• Fixed motion blur computation with Arnold 5

• Fixed a crash when using the physics Behaviors and some specific collisions

• Fixed a crash when using Group EntityTypes

• Fixed a crash when using a Translate and a Rotate Expression in the SetBone Behavior

• Fixed a crash when displaying the Maya Rigid Bodies in the Character Maker under Linux

• Fixed Autocompute Skeleton Mapping not mapping some effectors in the Character Maker

• Fixed glmClearChOpEditor and glmRefreshChOpEditor being called in Maya batch

• Fixed geometry repartition within the Golaemisator Tool

• Fixed Golaemisator not opening with Maya 2017 and Linux

• Fixed Reset Shaders button with Renderman shaders

• Fixed time offset in the One File Per Entity Alembic Bake Mode

• Fixed Trajectory Edit and Trajectory Mode order in the Simulation Layout Tool

• Fixed error message about missing Simulation Cache when using Trajectory Layers

• Fixed Group Laxness not set correctly when using multiple Navigation Behaviors

• Fixed the loading of old Character Files (pre-v6) in the Character Maker

• Fixed V-Ray Subdivision 

Refactoring

• Reorganized icons in the Simulation Layout Tool

• Crowd Archiver does not archive Simulation Caches anymore by default

• SiToA is not supported anymore

API

• The Character Geometry files are now returned and set per Geometry Tag in the glmCharacterFileTool command

• Geometry properties now include the Geometry Tag in the glmCharacterMaker command

• Removed glmGetNavMeshDefaultValue command

• Removed glmSpatialRequestCmd command

Supported Rendering Engines

• Mtoa 1.4.X

• V-Ray For Maya 3.6X, 3.5X & 3.40.XX

• V-Ray For 3ds Max 3.60.XX

• Renderman Studio 21.3 & 21.4

• Mental Ray 3.13.X

• Redshift 2.5.30

• 3Delight Studio Pro 11.0.XX & 12.X

• Guerilla Render 1.4.4

• Katana 2.5 and 2.6 with KtoA 1.1.5.1 and above, 2.0.4 and above and RfK 21.X 2.0 & 1.4.X

Also supported (but must be manually installed)

• Mtoa 2.0

• Redshift 2.0.91-93