Golaem Crowd 2.2 (2013/01/11)
New Features
- Procedural rendering plugin, proxy and shaders for Arnold
- New plugin CrowdRender to handle render proxies in Maya (does not
require a license)
- Procedural shaders for VRay
- Multi material support for all renderers
- Added crowd unit in CrowdMangerNode to centralize the scale ratio
- Distance trigger
- nParticles are now taken into account natively with the CrowdField
- New popTool mode able to take any selection component into account
(vertices, faces, edges...)
- MEL Command "replaceMaterialType()" to replace a material type with
another (for Arnold and Phong not supported)
Improvements
- Multi selection available between Maya and the Behavior Editor (shift
key)
- Poptool per-particle index rendering
- Show/hide poptool annotation
- NavMesh Tool: Voxel Subdivision uses tiles to compute large
environments. Added warning when voxel count is huge (> 100 million).
- New display for the Enternal Entity Locator
- Uniformization of the rendering proxies (it is now possible to add
different rendering proxies in a same scene)
- Default material in VRay when shaders are missing is now orange
- MentalRay plugin: Small performance increase
- Support RenderMan Studio 4.0 (Maya 2012 & 2013 64-bit only) and
RenderMan Pro Server 17.2 (64-bit only)
- FAQ link from CrowdRender plugin
- Load/Save windows uniformisation
- BeNavigation: Default acceleration set to 10
- BeNavigation: No more max speed
Bug fixes
- Correction on arm bones orientation when playing a motion
- PopTool: Mesh scale is taken into account (when linked to it)
- Fixed reparenting behavior problems in the Outliner
- Fixed trigger reevaluation in Alt operator
- Fixed transparency and alpha in MRay shaders
- Fixed randomness in NoOrder operator
- Fixed crash at fbx eport (single file)
- Fixed crash when exporting entities without a skeleton/mapping file
- Fix auto-map between Goto Targets and Goto Behaviors
- Asset Manager: Fix bug when adding a new geometry file
- Rendering: Fix crash when with motion blur samples <= 1
- Mental Ray plugin: Fix the alpha channel
Documentation
- Information about how to install Windows and Linux packages in silent
mode
- Update for Asset Manager
- Documentation for Crowd Unit
- Documentation for Arnold proxy
- Documentation for VRay procedural shaders