Copyright (c) 2015 , Jens Kafitz. All Rights Reserved.
RELEASE DATE: January 28, 2015
REQUIRES: Mari 2.6v3 or later
New Features
Feature Improvements
Bugfixes
Known Issues + Workarounds
Credits
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•Texture Scatter 2D
A Texture Bombing Node capable of automatically creating tileable textures up to 32k
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TEXTURE SCATTER 2D : A NOTE TO WINDOWS USERS
Please refer to Known Issues & Workarounds before use to avoid display driver crashes on Windows. Lnux & Mac Users are unaffected.
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•Axis Projection
Axis Projection is similar to a Triplanar Projection but with a lot more control over
rotation of projection in space (for objects that are not perfectly aligned in XYZ)
and isolation of each +/- axis
•Backface Mask
A way to isolate interior faces of objects for example cloth lining. Works off your objects normals.
•VoronoiPopcorn
A complex procedural for creating veins, cracks, crumbled paper looks etc. Baking/Flattening recommended.
•Black/White/Grey Constants
Ever realized how many times you create a constant, then set it to black, white or grey ?
If the answer is : "A lot" then this simple addition of the 3 pre configured constants will come in handy.
Press TAB while in the Layer Palette and type white, grey or black
•Illegal Value Warning
Adjustment layer that gives a visual warning when values outside a custom range are detected.
•Posterize
Simple Posterize adjustment implementation, specifying how many color/value steps you want, optionally on desaturated colors.
•Export Selection
A new feature was added to the right mouse click menu to export multiple selected images from the Image Manager.
Existing naming and extensions are kept. If no extension is found images will be exported in TIF format.
•Export UV Mask
A new feature was added to the Objects Menu that allows you to export Geometry UV Masks
•Duplicate & Flatten
A new feature was added that allows you to easily flatten a duplicate of a selected channel.
Naming of the new channel is inherited from the original, any sharing on the original is maintained.
•Export Custom Channel Selection
A new Export Mode was added that allows you to export a custom selection of channels across multiple geometries
•Save/Load/Create from Channel Resolution
A new feature was added that allows you to transfer mixed UDIM Resolution Layouts between Channels
•Clone & Merge Layers
A new feature was added to give similar functionality to Photoshop's "Merge Visible".
Clone & Merge will create a merged copy of all selected layers - optionally for selected UDIMs only.
•Toggle Visibility
New options have been added to toggle visibility state of multiple selected/unselected layers
•Toggle Lock
New options have been added to toggle lock state of multiple selected/unselected layers
•Channel Layer
A new option has been added to simplify the use of entire Channels in another Layerstack
•Channel Layer Mask + Grouped Channel Layer Mask
New options have been added to the "Add Mask" Menu to simplify the use of complete channels in a layer mask.
"Add grouped Channel mask" will place the selected layers in a group first and apply the channel mask to the group node.
•Mask from Selection
New options have been added to the "Add Mask" Menu to create Masks from selected patches.
•Sync Object Shaders
A new option was added to the Shaders Palette to allow you to sync selection of shaders across multiple objects
in your project
•Patch to Image Manager
A new option was added to the Patches Menu that will bake a copy of selected patches
and place the images in the Image Manager. Other than Mari's default 'extract selected'
this works on your entire channel and does not have any patch size restriction.
•Quick Unproject Channel / Layer
Two new options where added to the Camera Menu to quickly unproject the currently visibly
channel or layer to the Image Manager
•Screenshot All Channels
A new option was added to automatically screenshot all Channels in your project
(requires "Incremental" to be turned on under "Screenshot Settings")
•Extension Pack Online Help
A new option was added to the Help Menu for a full Online Help for all features of the Extension Pack.
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•Convert to Paintable
Convert to Paintable now supports selection/converting of multiple Layers.
•Color Range to Mask
"Color Range to Mask" now has a basic Grade Module for selected colors.
Due to the size + expense of the node baking or caching is recommended in bigger layer stacks.
"Enhance Selection" Mode in Color Range to Mask was improved
Default Preview Options were changed
•Polysurface Curvature
Polysurface Curvature now has a "Hard Edge" Mode that will clip gray values
Polysurface Curvature now has a "Attenuate by Ambient Occlusion" Mode, giving more plausible results on
hard-surface objects
Intensity Slider is now ranged to 2.0 and resulting masks will be clamped to 0 and 1 by default
•Custom Object Normal
Precision Sliders were removed to avoid user confusion.
•General
.svn or .git files in the Extension Pack directories could cause the Extension Pack to not load properly
•Legacy Noise
"Legacy Cloud" was broken and not behaving like Mari Cloud Layer in Nodepack 1.5
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KNOWN ISSUES + WORKAROUNDS
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•Texture Scatter 2D
WINDOWS USERS ONLY
Texture Scatter 2D can crash your display driver (depending on speed of your GPU)
during baking/flattening due to an automated windows feature that lets your driver time out after
a few seconds of inactivity. To work around this you need to set
EDIT - > PREFERENCES -> GPU TAB
MAX RENDER SIZE FOR BAKING: 256 (default is 1024)
to allow Mari to split the processing into smaller chunks
•Voronoi Popcorn
The Node is very expensive. Caching or Baking recommended.
•Paintable Gabor Noise
The paintable Gabor Noise can crash nvidia display drivers when used in a
Displacement Preview Channel.
The current workaround is to cache the GaborNoise before displacement preview.
•for this release goes to Ben Neall, Jorel Latraille and Sreenivas Alapati for their python contributions
•Sreenivas Alapati - http://cg-cnu.blogspot.in
•Antoni Kujawa
•Jorel Latraille - http://www.jorel-latraille.com
•Ben Neall - http://www.bneall.blogspot.co.nz
•Nicholas Breslow - http://www.nbreslow.com
•Orlando Esponda
•Jens Kafitz - http://www.campi3d.com
•Antoni Kujawa
•Miguel A Santiago Jr. - http://www.digiteck3d.com
•Nicholas Breslow - http://www.nbreslow.com
•Miguel A Santiago Jr. - http://www.digiteck3d.com
•Jens Kafitz - http://www.campi3d.com
