Softimage - Version history

Version 2.7.14 - April 29th, 2013

Fixes

• emitters weren't working

Version 2.7.13 - April 25th, 2013

Changes

• added support for XSI 2014
• added support for moving the camera in FIRE
• the exporter takes into account cluster visibility
• hair radius is no longer affected by the global scale factor
• tokens such as [Project], [Time], [Frame] etc. can be used in paths passed to the plug-in (output image, HDR environment images etc.)

Fixes

• UV transforms from the image clip weren't taken into account when exporting the UV coordinates
• instances of the first model in the scene didn't get exported
• crash when closing XSI while FIRE was still open
• crash when particle instances didn't have a valid time channel
• instances disappeared from FIRE when their base object was modified
• deformation motion blur wasn't exported correctly

2.7.9 - December 17th, 2012

• added a setting on the MXS reference node which controls if the global scale affects the size of the referenced objects
• added a button for sending the scene to the Maxwell network manager in the render options panel
• added support for the skip rendered frames option
• added support for the shape instance time ICE channel
• fixed: wrong material used if two materials had the same name in two different libraries
• fixed: wrong object positions when constraints were used
• fixed: crash in scenes with many models
• fixed: pass-local render settings were not taken into account
• fixed: FIRE ignored the override material setting

2.7.6 - October 16th, 2012

• added support for custom bokeh
• added support for PXY files in the particle loader object
• added render flags on the MXS Reference and RFRK objects
• added support for the "3D RealFlow" displacement type
• fixed: the adaptive precision checkbox is disabled when the displacement type is set to anything other than on the fly
• fixed: wrong grass blade positions in the viewport if the global scale was different than 1.0
• fixed: changing color sliders didn't refresh FIRE in XSI 2013
• fixed: changing grass properties didn't refresh FIRE
• fixed: animated textures did not work when exporting MXS files through File/Export
• fixed: wrong orientation for cameras with no interest point
• fixed: wrong object positions in the render when instancing groups with ICE
• fixed: the hierarchy mode of the ICE instance shape node was not taken into account

2.7.3

• added support for grass
• maximum sequence files for RFRK mesher increased to 20
• added support for negative frame offsets in RFRK objects
• RFRK objects and MXS references can be instanced
• fixed: wrong viewport position for MXS references which had non-zero pivots
• fixed: the opaque alpha setting was not exported
• fixed: bad handling for global scale factor for MXS references
• fixed: deleted sequences were still exported to the RFRK mesher (as empty)
• fixed: crash in case any of the plug-in nodes didn't register correctly
• fixed: the MultiLight read back dialog contained wrong values after it was displayed the second time during a session 2.6.14

2.6.14

• added RFRK primitives: mesh and particles 
• added support for MXS references
• set default camera shutter speed to 1/750 seconds
• fixed: image adjustments were not imported when loading a MXM file
• fixed: scene not cleared between frames when exporting an animation
• fixed: ICE strands were exported incorrectly
• fixed: animated textures did not work

2.6.9

• added model and parenting support for ICE instanced particles
• added support for ICE strands
• added support for multi-step camera motion blur
• added support for previewing embedded materials
• added FIRE script commands: MaxwellFIREOptionsCmd, MaxwellFIREStartCmd, MaxwellFIREStopCmd, MaxwellFIRERestartCmd, MaxwellFIREQualityCmd, MaxwellFIRECameraCmd
• fixed: the fresnel render channel state was not exported correctly
• fixed: previews were broken for referenced materials
• fixed: slowdown when exporting ICE particles as instances
• fixed: global scale no longer applied for ICE particles
• fixed: ICE particles didn't take into account the scale of the emitter
• fixed: incorrect export when using the instance shape node and add point node on a particle cloud

2.6.4

• added support for ICE particle instancing
• fixed: bad root UVs for hair

2.6.3

• the UV channel index can be specified numerically in the Maxwell bitmap node, so that hair channel 1 can be used
• Maxwell object properties are updated to contain the new 2.6 attributes when opening older scenes
• the format and bit depth of the color channel is taken from the scene options, as before
• fixed: crash when unloading the plug-in
• fixed: HDR intensity was always 0
• fixed: HDR channel state was wrong
• fixed: wrong motion blur for instances
• fixed: wrong instance positions if the original mesh was transformed relative to the model
• fixed: wrong names in the displacement type dropdown
• fixed: default vector displacement scale was 0, leading to no displacement
• fixed: wrong enable/disable logic for the displacement controls

2.6.2

• added the option to embed referenced MXM materials in the exported MXS file, or to keep the file reference
• fixed: the new render options were not available in scenes saved with previous versions of the plug-in
• fixed: ground rotation wasn't exported
• fixed: using an object to specify the sun direction didn't work

2.6.1

• new motion blur system
• emitter, camera and environment changes from Multilight can be brought back to the scene
• new displacement settings
• new render options: sharpness, HDTV color space, positions and normals render channels, HDR layer state, sun settings
• hair is rendered as procedural cones
• particle systems can be rendered as procedural spheres
• the output image format and bit depth can be specified individually for each render channel
• new IES intensity parameter