4.2.4

Released: 16/02/23

Dependencies: MtoA 5.2.2.0, Arnold 7.1.4.0, V-Ray 6.00, Renderman 24.4, Redshift 3.5.06, Clarisse 5.0 SP8

Changes & Bug Fixes

rendering now supports the region of interest if in use, this will need to be toggled on via the Obey Region of Interest attribute in the Render tab of the Yeti shape.
resolved an issue that would cause VRay renders to hang when referencing a single cache file to be updated by scene geometry during export.

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4.2.3

Released: 18/01/23

Dependencies: MtoA 5.2.2.0, Arnold 7.1.4.0, V-Ray 6.00, Renderman 24.4, Redshift 3.5.06, Clarisse 5.0 SP8

Changes & Bug Fixes

improvements to feather texture projection mapping.
resolved a bug that was causing Yeti to crash when exporting/rendering with multiple samples.
the Redshift extension will now pass the Yeti nodes world transformation to the rendering engine.
made sure that the correct transform falloff is applied when moving strand end points while editing components.

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Released: 14/12/22

Dependencies: MtoA 5.2.2.0, Arnold 7.1.4.0, V-Ray 6.00, Renderman 24.4, Redshift 3.5.06, Clarisse 5.0 SP8

Changes & Bug Fixes

switched Random number generator in Scatter node to one with much better properties to avoid patterns appearing at larger densities and scales.
updated Clumping to avoid artifacts introduced in volume preservation.
added per Clump randomness.
added Attach Input Curves parameter to the Convert node which will attach static curves to a moving input mesh (with a Texture Reference object).

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Released: 25/11/22

Dependencies: MtoA 5.2.2.0, Arnold 7.1.4.0, V-Ray 6.00, Renderman 24.4, Redshift 3.5.06, Clarisse 5.0 SP8

Changes & Bug Fixes

updated to Arnold 7.1.4.0 and MtoA 5.2.2.0.
Clumping node now retains the input shape of fibers in a similar manner to the pre-4.0 release. A new Retain Shape parameter (on by default) can be used to toggle this change in the event it breaks the look of any assets in production.

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Released: 22/11/22

Dependencies: MtoA 5.2.0.0, Arnold 7.1.3.0, V-Ray 6.00, Renderman 24.4, Redshift 3.5.06, Clarisse 5.0 SP8

Changes & Bug Fixes

updated to V-Ray 6.0.
dropping support for Maya 2020
Clarisse module now ships with Maya 2022 and 2023 distribution.
Redshift extension supports more than 2 deformation blur steps.
refactored how the dynamic system handles stiffness for more accurate results.
added Barb Tear Seed to the feather shape UI which can be overridden in the graph by modifying the feather_barb_tear_seed attribute (uniform float).
added Barb Width control to Feather shape UI to provide an overall modulation of the feather width curve.
added textures parameter to pgYetiCacheInfo which will return a list of files used by any texture nodes in a cache.

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