Attached is the Krakatoa MY release candidate. It is built for 64 bit Maya 2011, 2012, 2013. It includes builds for both Windows and Linux.
Release notes:
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Added support for material evaluation.
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[*]Particles can now be colored dynamically using Maya textures. -
Both 2D and 3D textures are supported.
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[]Implemented “Particle Repopulation” -
“Particle Repopulation” is a way of creating a dense set of particles from an existing sparse set.
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It will multiply the number of by particles by seeding particles within a radius around the original particle set.
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[]Added per-object channel operations. -
Set/Copy/Scale channel operations currently supported.
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[]Created a “Particle Modifier” UI. -
This UI allows the user to manage a stack “modifiers” for individual scene objects.
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Materials, Repopulation, and Channel operations are all managed using this modifier system.
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[]Added a shutter offset for motion blur. Previously only centered motion blur was possible.[/:m]
[]Added an option to disable camera motion blur.[/:m]
[]Added “Load percentage” to the renderer dialog to allow control over how many particles will be rendered.[/:m]
[]Added a UI for launching batch renders.[/:m]
[]Added the ability to cancel batch renders.[/:m]
[]Added global density channel override.[/:m]
[]Fixed the depth of field computation. Previously it did nothing when enabled.[/:m]
[]Fixed a bug that was not allowing CSV files to be loaded.[/:m]
[]Fixed bug in the PRT export/partitioning code that was not taking into account global channel overrides.[/:m]
[]Fixed bugs in the PRT Loader to allow easier importing of partitions.[/:m]
[]Fixed a batch rendering bug that was causing incorrect output image filenames in certain cases.[/:m]
[]Fixed a bug that was causing a crash when displaying normals in the PRT Volume.[/:m]
[]Fixed a bug that was not allowing users to save and load render presets using Maya’s preset system.[/:m]
[]Modified the way direction lights work to allow for better control over the light’s radius. It is now controlled with an extra attribute.[/:m]
[]Removed the global “copy channel” operators. These are done via modifiers now. Scenes using the old operators will still work.[/:m]
[]Fixed inconsistencies in the matte object tagging attributes.[/:m]
[]Updated licensing model to match our Maya plugin licensing policy.[/:m]
[]UI fixes and polishing.[/*:m][/list:u]
Please provide feedback and report bugs on the forums!
PLEASE NOTE: If this is the first time installing the plugin, you will still need to manually load the plugin using Maya’s “Plugin Manager”.
ATTACHMENTS
KrakatoaMY_2.1.7.50062_linux.zip - removed
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KrakatoaMY_2.1.7.50062_windows.zip - removed
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