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