Stoke MX 2.3 Beta 2 - October 25, 2016

Deprecated Stoke MX Beta Builds
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This is the Beta 2 build of Stoke 2.3:
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It requires the same Stoke v2.3 license as Beta 1 - contact our Sales team if you don’t have a license.

The main change in this Beta drop is the addition of a Stoke Field Mesher object which can turn scalar fields and level sets to mesh surfaces.

See this YouTube video for an introduction:
youtu.be/97Ba7I5b8kE

Detailed release notes are provided in a separate post in this thread.

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[size=200]Changes Since Stoke MX 2.3 Beta 1[/size]

[size=150]Stoke Field Mesher[/size]

  • The new Stoke Field Mesher object is based on the OpenVDB Mesher.
  • It takes a valid Stoke Field source object and converts a specified scalar field to an iso-surface mesh.
  • Valid sources are Stoke Field Loader, Stoke Field Magma, Stoke Field Simulator, and any mesh with a Stoke LevelSet modifier.
  • Any relevant fields including Selection, Color, TextureCoord and Mapping channels will be propagated to the mesh.
  • Currently available options are:

Field Mesher rollout

  • Enable in Viewport - when unchecked, the mesh will not be created in the viewports, but can still be rendered.

  • Display - Mesh or (Bounding) Box. More options to come…

  • Icon display and size

  • Velocity To Map Channel controls - when checked, the Velocity will be copied to the specified Mapping channel.

  • Apply Object Transforms - when checked, the transforms of the Mesher will be applied to the resulting mesh. Otherwise, the mesh will respect the world space data of the source field.

Source rollout

  • Field Source

  • Options button - opens a context menu with useful source-related functionality: [list]
    [*] Select Field Source

  • Hide Field Source

  • Add Relax Modifier To The Stack

  • Clear Material

  • Align Field Mesher To Field Source

  • Reset Field Mesher To World Origin

[/:m][] Surface Channel
[/:m][] Surface Level[/*:m][/list:u]
Meshing rollout

  • Adaptivity

  • Viewport Quality > Sampler - controls the field sampling method used when the Resolution is not 1.0

  • Viewport Quality > Resolution - controls the mesh resolution relative to the source’s grid resolution.

  • Render Quality > Use Viewport Settings - when checked (default), the render mesh will use the same quality settings as the viewport.

  • Render Quality > Sampler

  • Render Quality > Resolution

  • Flip Normals - when meshing a Level Set field, the resulting mesh will have its normals pointing inwards. Checking this option will flip the normals to produce the expected surface with normals pointing outwards.

[size=150]Stoke Menu[/size]

  • The Stoke Menu Creator has been updated to support sub-menus
  • A new sub-menu includes the Genome macro scripts for adding an empty or preset modifier.

[size=150]Bug Fixes[/size]

  • Birth and Per-Step Magma evaluation were not supported on Deadline in Beta 1, this has been fixed.
  • Partitioning with Birth and Per-Step Magma was not working in Beta 1, this has been fixed.