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@webermm webermm released this 20 Feb 13:16
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[2.0.0] Switch to Ramses 28, Abstract Scene View, Misc UI Iprovements and Bugfixes

  • This is a major version upgrade for both RamsesComposer and Ramses/LogicEngine containing changes that can break existing scenes.
  • File version number has changed. Files saved with RaCo 2.0.0 cannot be opened by previous versions.
  • Update from Ramses-Logic 1.4.2 and Ramses 27.0.130 to Ramses 28.0.0. The LogicEngine has been merged into Ramses.
  • Scenes exported with RaCo 2.0.0 can't be loaded with Ramses versions prior to 28.0.0.
  • Export will only write a single file containing both Ramses and LogicEngine objects.
  • The feature level will start counting up from 1 in RaCo 2.0.0 and Ramses 28.0.0 again. The RaCo 2.0.0 feature level 1 does include all features from any feature level in RaCo <2.0.0 or Ramses 27.0.130 though. This implies that scenes of any feature level saved with RaCo <2.0.0 are automatically upgraded and all previously available features will be enabled upon loading.
  • RamsesComposer now requires Ubuntu 20.04 and gcc 9.4.0 instead of Ubuntu 18.04 and gcc 8.4.0 to build.

Breaking Changes

The following changes can break existing scenes upon loading

  • Bool uniforms are now represented by bool instead of int32 properties in Materials. Due to the change in the property type the property value will be lost. In addition links ending on bool uniform properties will break.
  • Module statements in LuaInterface objects are never ignored anymore. They were ignored at feature levels <5 in Raco <2.0.0. See also changes for v.1.6.0.

The following changes may break python scripts processing a scene but existing scenes will be migrated automatically when loading them

  • Conversion of the fixed number of layer properties in the RenderPass and buffer and bufferMS properties in the RenderTarget into array-type containers. Breaking python scripts due to the changes in the property names.
  • Conversion of the targets and joints properties in the Skin and animationChannels in the Animation to array-type properties. Breaking python scripts due to the changes in the property names.
  • The newly introduced array-type properties mentioned above have the indices starting at 1 as property names as for the LuaScript array-type properties.
  • Split the RenderTarget type into separate RenderTarget and RenderTargetMS types with only a single buffers array-type property which can contain only RenderBuffers or RenderBufferMSs.
  • Introduced generic meta data scheme.
    • The meta data is now stored in a new metadata property.
    • Each category of meta data has a named container property inside the metadata property and can be accessed from the Python API like any other property.
    • The gltfExtras meta data is now stored in the gltfExtras category inside the metadata container. The Python API metadata function has been removed.
  • Removed the userTags property from the ProjectSettings object.
  • The logic_path parameter was removed from the export function in the Python API.

Added

  • Added abstract scene view which shows a 3d representation of all objects in the scene in world space. This has a separate camera which can be moved around freely and also allows to manipulate the transformation proerties of objects using the mouse and/or the keyboard.
  • Added button in property browser to show objects referencing the current object.
  • Added prefab lookup button to the property browser.
  • Added texture preview in the property browser.
  • Added controls to allow the resizing of array-of-reference properties. This applies to the animationChannels property in Animation, the layer property in RenderPass, the buffers property in RenderTarget and RenderTargetMS, and the targets property in Skin objects.
  • Added resize property member function to the Python API to resize array-type properties.
  • Added composite commands to the Python API which generate only a single undo stack entry. See Python API reference for details.
  • Added shortcuts for the mostly used functions.
  • Added warning when an opened RCA file is changed externally.
  • Added dialog to copy the content of scalar read-only properties into the clipboard as plain text.

Changes

  • After starting a new instance of RaCo with "Load external project" via the context menu of an object, that object will be automatically selected in the new instance.
  • Object filtering in the tree views now can be done using complex boolean expressions. The search syntax is described in the User interface overview section of the Introduction chapter in the documentation.

Fixes

  • Prevent crash when opening invalid or broken project files and show an error dialog instead.
  • Fixed crash caused by a tabbed away Preview Window when closing RaCo.
  • Fixed crash when the folder of the currently loaded project is deleted.
  • Prevent directories from being added as external projects when calling the addExternalProject Python API function with a directory as argument.
  • Export of Nodes with enabled=false and visibilty=true is now correct.
  • Fixed generation of multiple undo stack entries when a property inside a Prefab is changed multiple times. The undo stack entries are now merged as for properties outside Prefabs.
  • Fixed update of partially linked array uniform properties to avoid discarding the non-linked property values during updates.
  • Prevent user from taking screenshots when multisampling factor is greater than zero.
  • Add manual update (refresh) button to the preview which will reset the preview itself and all offscreen buffers and rerender the scene.
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