Stoke MX 2.3 Beta 1 - August 25, 2016

Deprecated Stoke MX Beta Builds
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This is the first Beta build of Stoke MX 2.3.
It requires a new 2.3 license - please email sales@thinkboxsoftware.com to request a temp. Stoke 2.3 Beta license!

The main new feature of this update is the introduction of Birth and Per-Step Magma evaluation in the Stoke Particle Simulator. Detailed release notes will be provided in a separate post.

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[size=200]Changes Since Stoke MX 2.2[/size]

[size=150]Particle Reflow Simulator[/size]

[size=125]New Features[/size]

  • Added a birth-time Magma which is evaluated against new particles after they are born
    [list]
    [] Output channels added to this Magma will automatically be added to the list of available channels in the Stoke UI
    [/    :m]
    [] Added a per-step (advection-time) Magma which is evaluated against all particles between the calculation of the advection offset and the application of the advection offset[/:m]
    [*] Added an “AdvectionOffset” channel

  • This represents the amount in length units which the “Position” channel will be offset by during advection

  • The channel is written before the per-step Magma is evaluated so that it can be modified using the per-step Magma before it is applied to the “Position” channel

  • Modifying the “Position” or “AdvectionOffset” channels with these Magmas will not change the “Velocity” channel, meaning it must be modified manually if these channels are changed for correct sub-frame interpolation or motion blur rendering in Krakatoa
    [/:m]
    [    ] Added the ability to simulate without a velocity source[/*:m][/list:u]

See these videos for examples of modifying the AdvectionOffset, Velocity and Color using a Per-Step-Magma, and history-dependent deletion of particles using Birth and Per-Step Magma:
youtu.be/mzg_JruYYBY

youtu.be/eZTH0-OCZOo

[size=150]Magma[/size]

[size=125]New Features[/size]

  • Added a phase input to the Noise and VecNoise operators
  • Added various pseudo random number generator operators for distributions including:
    [list]
    [*] UniformRandom
  • VecUniformRandom
  • GuassianRandom
  • WeibullRandom
  • TriangleRandom
  • ExponentialRandom
  • UniformOnSphere
    [/*:m][/list:u]

[size=125]Fixes[/size]

  • Fixed an issue where PropertyQuery nodes couldn’t query properties with ‘.’ characters in their name

[size=150]UI[/size]

[size=125]New Features[/size]

  • Added an option to open the Windows Explorer at the location of the file sequence to the Stoke Field Loader in a new context menu.
  • Added menu items to the context menus of the Stoke Field Magma, Stoke Field Simulator, Stoke Field Loader to open the Stoke Field Magma Viewer, Probe and Exporter tools directly from the UI of the object.