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New Features

Mograph

• Field Driver Tag - Control Parameters of Objects.
• Variance Attribute added to the Tracer

Simulations

• Simulation Pre-Roll for uncached Simulations and Mograph
• Rigid Bodies Inherit Properties from Particles
• Mograph Weights for Object Properties in Rigid Bodies
• Force Object supported by Rigid Bodies
• Improved control over placement for auto-generated connectors

Pyro

• New Emission Type - Sparse Surface and Sparse Volume
• Min/Max Substeps controls in Pyro Simulation settings
• Expected Advection Distance Attribute - To compute max velocity and chooses ample substeps in between min/max substeps
• Gradient Force (Shredding) Controls added
• Automatic Padding Mode available to reduce unnecessary padding

Particles

• Basic Emitter Shape - Point
• Infinite lifetime attribute toggle
• Follow Spline Modifier - Allows particles to follow a specified spline
• Mix attribute added to Color Mapper, Data Mapper, Look, Spin, Turn Modifiers
• Switch on Contact attribute added to Collide, Stick and Surface Attract Modifiers
• Align to Surface Rate added to Surface Attractor Modifier
• Attributes added to Pyro Advect Modifier - Color Mode, Color Mix, Temperature Scales, Alignment Modes, Angular Velocity Mode, Spin Strength
• Math Modifier Attributes - Variance, Seed, Source, Min/Max Value, Animation Speed, Distribution, Random Source Seed

OCIO

• Updated workflow for easier render color space conversions
  • Adjustments to Convert Render Space wizard
• Color Chooser improvements
  • Lists of available input color spaces
  • Color Clamp Display - Switching between wide and narrow color space will be preserved
• Undo Project Setting - Undo project color space switch
• Scene Element Instantiation
  • Copy/cut and paste elements will convert colors in the pasted elements
  • Creating objects and materials will be converted to current active color space
• Color Exchange - Import/Export follows color space settings
• Two new render tokens for render and display color spaces

Object Manager

• Object Profiler - Measures execution time spent for objects and tags of a scene

Exchange

• USD Importer/Exporter Improvements
• FBX Importer/Exporter Improvements
• Substance 3D Nodes Presets

General Enhancements

• New Quick Start Home Screen for Trial Users
• Asset Browser Enhancements

Scene Nodes

• Spline Modeling Improvements
  • Spline Capsule Auto Mode
  • Set Closed Status Node
  • Segment Node Improvements
• New Nodal Capsules
  • Set Points Value Node
  • Noise Modifier
  • Set Color
• Node Editor UI and Icon Improvements