We’ve updated the viewer’s “pause” button icon in Gaffer 0.57.1 to avoid confusion with the new Interactive Render Control overlay buttons. It still works exactly as it did before!
Gaffer 0.57.1 : Viewer pause button
Tag: UI
Gaffer 0.57.1 : Interactive Render Control
Gaffer 0.57.1 adds an interactive render control to the Viewer. This allows you to quickly pause, stop or restart renders directly from the Viewer.
Continue reading “Gaffer 0.57.1 : Interactive Render Control”0.57.0: Edit Scopes introduction
Gaffer 0.57.0.0 introduced Edit Scopes. They are fundamental in our endeavours to make Gaffer more user friendly for everyday tasks. They provide a container for node graph edits made by interactive tools in the UI. In this post, we take a quick look at how they work.
Check out the video above to see them in action then read on for more details.
Continue reading “0.57.0: Edit Scopes introduction”0.56 series: New features recap
As adoption of Gaffer 0.56 or later is contingent on moving to Arnold 6, we appreciate it may take a little longer to switch production shows over. People may also move directly to the the upcoming release of 0.57.
This post contains a quick recap of the main artist-facing changes in the 0.56 series for those moving up more recently.
Continue reading “0.56 series: New features recap”0.56.0: Area light visualisation
In Gaffer 0.56, we’ve made significant improvements to the visualisation of area lights. This video dives into the details, and talks about the varying support for connected shader networks:
Read on for more details and tips on how to customise the default settings…
Read more0.56.0: Crop Window Tool – 2D
Another improvement in Gaffer 0.56 is the ability to adjust your render crop window from the 2D view (finally!). This video demonstrates some of tool handling improvements we added at the same time:
TL;DW:
- Drag (outside)
Shift-drag (inside) to create a new window. - Drag inside to move.
0.56.0: Transform/Camera tool improvements
In Gaffer 0.56, we’ve improved the behaviour of the Transform and Camera tools. In this short video we take a look at the changes:
TL;DW?
Shift(precision) mode now works for camera movements and scroll wheel zooming too.- Tools no longer reset when precision mode is enabled mid-adjustment.
Labelled menu dividers
From 0.55.0.0 onwards, you can now label menu dividers. You can see an examples of this in the Editor Focus menu, which has both a title (in black) and two labelled dividers (dark grey).
To create these, simply add a label to your item when setting "divider" : True:
menu.append( "/Follow Divider",
{ "divider" : True, "label" : "Follow" }
)
Gaffer 0.55.0.0
Another major release, so soon? You bet. This time we have fewer changes, but they’re quite far-reaching. Included are major updates to the main application’s editor UI, new scene manipulator features, and the new CopyPrimitiveVariables and NameSwitch nodes. Let’s take a tour.
Continue reading “Gaffer 0.55.0.0”G4P – part 5 – File Browser Bookmarks
In this instalment of the Gaffer for Pipeline series of ‘ground up’ posts, we look at adding custom bookmarks to the various Gaffer browsers. We’ll recap the tutorial from the Gaffer docs, introduce dynamic bookmarks and look at Gaffer’s own categories in more detail.
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