Maya - Version history

Version 2.7.4 - June 18th, 2012

• Maya 2013 is supported
• added Maxwell grass
• updated the command line render flags for pre- and post- MEL scripts to match the built-in renderer
• projecting UVs works when no placement object is present
• added support for cubic and spherical texture projections
• increased maximum f/stop value to match Studio
• added anamorphic bokeh settings in the Maxwell camera attributes panel
• added render flags for the MXS reference objects
• bump maps are exported as disabled when bump mapping is off, instead of being completely ignored
• PaintFX hair can generate root UVs
• added a new entry in the list of displacement types: "3D RealFlow"
• particle mass, age, color and UV are exported to the MaxwellParticles extension when present
• PXY files can be used with the MaxwellParticles extension
• added back the region rendering controls on the camera attribute editor; the Maya region settings take precedence when using region rendering
• the rendered region is applied on top of the existing Render View image
• smoothed meshes with per-face material assignments are supported
• fixed: FIRE was not refreshed when moving a MXS reference object

Version 2.6.27 - April 2nd, 2012

• added "off" to the display mode list of the BIN mesh loader, which prevents the BIN files from being accessed for viewport preview
• setting the LOD to 0 in the particle objects and MXS reference prevents the plug-in from reading anything from disk
• added shelf buttons for creating and assigning Maxwell materials
• added help and about buttons on the shelf
• added an API which can be used to customize the export process
• the transparency of the native materials is used as layer weight instead of transmittance color in the Maxwell approximation
• the IOR parameter of Blinn and Phong shaders is taken into account by the translator
• fixed: crash when trying to run Maya with non-accelerated OpenGL drivers (e.g. under Remote Desktop in Windows, or with Mesa on Linux
• fixed: errors on Mac OS and Linux when the RealFlow plug-in was also loaded
• fixed: some AE controls did not work correctly on Mac when a material had multiple layersadded Maxwell render flags for hair nodes, particle systems and instancers

Version 2.6.23 - January 30th, 2012

• added a motion blur factor control for particle systems
• added Maxwell render flags for hair nodes, particle systems and instancers
• the format and depth of the extra render channels are forced to the same values as the color channel when embedding is on
• added an attenuation unit control for the BSDF
• added support for multi-step camera motion blur
• the referenced material supports viewport 2.0
• added support for silent installs on Windows (pass /S on the installer command line)
• the FIRE scene state can be frozen using the Viewport menu in the popup panel
• added the -restartFire and -freezeFireState flags to the maxwell command which apply to all running FIRE instances
• Maxwell is started with -node when running a batch render, so that it uses a node license, not a GUI license
• the search paths configured in the plug-in preferences are saved in the exported MXS files
• integrated region rendering with Maya's render view and removed the Maxwell-specific region attributes from the camera
• removed the "Default to High Quality" plug-in preference
• added a render option which disables the export of built-in Maya lights
• fixed: slow export for particle instancers
• fixed: native light intensities were not read back correctly from ML if the intensity multiplier was left at its default value
• fixed: possible crash when loading the plug-in
• fixed: the Maxwell material didn't respect the viewport backface culling setting (culling was always on)
• fixed: render layer overrides could not be applied on material checkboxes
• fixed: wrong state for the save image, start and stop menu items in the FIRE panel
• fixed: global displacement scale shouldn't be applied to relative displacement heights
• fixed: the global displacement scale wasn't applied to 3D displacement height
• fixed: the "merge materials" window didn't have a title
• fixed: a "0" was displayed in the override temp directory control when the value was not set
• fixed: bad text alignment in the preferences window
• fixed: if a Maya or Shave hair object fails to produce lines, the export is no longer canceled
• fixed: texture UV channel indexes were not imported from MXM files
• fixed: exporting with "Will use sequence rendering" enabled resulted in an error about invalid file extension
• fixed: the meaning of the "embed in MXS" flag on the referenced material was reversed