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March 1, 2023

v0.5.0​

  • Adjustment to simple material treatment:
    • Simple materials are exported and treated outside 3ds Max if deemed 'simple Materials'.
    • Simple materials are only composed of texture, color, bump and normal map texmaps.
    • At the moment, VRayblend and VRayFastSSS2 cannot be considered simple Materials.
    • Non-simple simple materials are now baked inside 3ds Max in a way to preserve its tiling.
    • The translation of simple simple materials outside of the DCC has special requirements and is a WIP:
      • At the moment, we only consider Diffuse components for the Base color of simple materials.
      • Texture rotation is not yet taken into account.
  • As a result of the adjustments to simple materials, changes to the classification and baking have occurred:
    • Materials with Real World Texture will be considered complex materials.
    • Materials and Textures with UDIM are not yet supported.
    • simple materials, both simple and Standard simple, do not support Ambient Occlusion maps baking.
  • RPDX is now only called once to unwrap all nodes in the scene.
  • Revamped node -> color value conversion.
  • Revamped image related functions: images are only read/saved when needed.
  • Ignores nodes and materials listed in the RPDP configuration file.
  • Added python script to install dependencies.
  • Updated default install dependencies requirements.
  • Changes to MaterialX usage:
    • MaterialX is now an optional dependency.
    • Creation of MaterialX files is now skipped if library can't be found.
    • a --createMtlx flag has been created to optionally create MaterialX files.
    • MaterialX files are now created completely outside of DCCs.
    • As a result, it's no longer needed to install MaterialX inside any DCC applications.
  • Added new Renderer classes.
  • Revamped Asset Retargetting/Path Fixing.
  • Forces VRayBlend and VRayFastSSS2 to be treated as complex materials.
  • Removed unused code and flags.
  • Unsupported procedural VRay geometries, such as VRayPlane, are now ignored.
  • General bug fixes.

For more information, see the reference documentation for RapidPipeline DCC Importer.