Machinima 2021.2

2021.2 Release Notes

Release Date: 2021-10-12

Highlights

Many updates to the “Kit” infrastructure which has added features and stability to Machinima.
The stability of Machinima has been greatly improved, as has its performance. Users should experience far fewer crashes, and better performance.
Sequencer is also more stable and performs much better.
Soft-body physics support has been added.
Many constraint issues have been resolved. See KNOWN ISSUES.
Marbles content has been added.
Many new asset browsers have been added which greatly improve the experience of looking for content.
Several extensions have improved drag/drop functionality
UI improvements include better input latency and cursor changing
Thousands of bugs have been fixed thanks to user input.
Property windows are much more functional, and include many new fields and features supported across numerous extensions
User settings UX has been improved.

Extension Changes

Extensions Added

added extension omni.anim.curve 102.1.4
added extension omni.anim.recorder 102.0.9
added extension omni.anim.skelJoint 102.2.3
added extension omni.blast
added extension omni.graph.io
added extension omni.isaac.onshape
added extension omni.kit.asset_converter
added extension omni.kit.graph.delegate.default 1.0.10
added extension omni.kit.graph.editor.core 1.0.0
added extension omni.kit.importer.cad 0.2.3
added extension omni.kit.mesh.raycast 102.3.3
added extension omni.kit.pointclouds 0.0.9
added extension omni.kit.profiler.window 1.3.1
added extension omni.kit.property.collection 0.1.6
added extension omni.kit.stage_column.payload 1.0.5
added extension omni.kit.stage_column.variant 1.0.2
added extension omni.kit.tool.brush.modify 102.3.3
added extension omni.kit.tool.brush.scatter 102.3.5
added extension omni.kit.tool.brush.scripting 102.1.2
added extension omni.kit.tool.brush.select 102.3.3
added extension omni.kit.tool.paint 102.3.5
added extension omni.kit.tool.paint.bundle 102.3.9
added extension omni.kit.tools.mergemesh 0.1.5
added extension omni.kit.widget.collection 0.1.6
added extension omni.kit.widget.material_preview 1.0.2
added extension omni.kit.widget.zoombar 1.0.1
added extension omni.kit.widgets.custom 0.6.2
added extension omni.kit.window.collection 0.1.7
added extension omni.kit.window.material_graph 1.4.3
added extension omni.kit.window.sunstudy 1.0.10
added extension omni.machinima.base 2021.2.0
added extension omni.machinima.splash 1.1.0
added extension omni.particle.system.bundle 102.1.7
added extension omni.particle.system.core 102.1.4
added extension omni.ramp 102.1.4
added extension omni.scene.visualization 102.1.4
added extension omni.script.system 0.1.8
added extension omni.usd.fileformat.e57 0.1.6
added extension omni.usd.schema.destruction 0.1.1

Extensions Updated

Note

You can see more detailed change lists by looking directly at these extensions in the extension browser.

changed omni.anim.timesample_editor: 103.0.6 -> 102.0.11
- Lots of performance improvements
- Fixed: Euler rotation was constraint to within 360 degrees
- Changed: Remove unmatured spline interpolation UI
- Changed: Remove OmniGraphHelper import
changed omni.kit.browser.asset: 1.0.5 -> 1.1.2
changed omni.kit.browser.core: 1.1.5 -> 1.1.9
changed omni.kit.browser.folder.core: 1.1.4 -> 1.1.7
changed omni.kit.browser.sample: 1.0.3 -> 1.0.4
changed omni.kit.browser.texture: 1.0.1 -> 1.0.2
changed omni.kit.quicksearch.actions: 0.8.4 -> 0.8.5
changed omni.kit.quicksearch.hdri: 0.8.3 -> 0.8.4
changed omni.kit.quicksearch.material: 0.8.2 -> 0.8.3
changed omni.kit.thumbnails.mdl: 1.0.6 -> 1.0.7
changed omni.kit.tool.asset_exporter: 1.0.6 -> 1.0.8
- Better material support and added support to submit to Omniverse Farm
changed omni.kit.tool.asset_importer: 2.3.5 -> 2.3.12
- Improved upload and download experience
- UsdPreviewSurface support added for importer
changed omni.machinima.app.setup: 0.0.0 -> 0.1.0

Additional Extension Changes

This in no way reflects all the changes to all extensions. This is just a summary. If interested in the details of a specific extension, find that extension in your extension browser and check through its release notes.

EXTENSION omni.kit.window.viewport
- Fixed crash when switching to Iray
- Added mouse smoothing and other interface improvements
- Many more camera settings added, and camera behavior improved
EXTENSION rtx_plugins
- Fixed animated gif support
- Added Chromatic Aberration and LensFlare postprocessing
- Updated minimum version for RTX - You may need to update your graphics driver
- Fixed some GPU memory issues which would cause premature out of memory crashes
- Fixed a device lost crash
- Fixed multiple material crashes and material compilation optimizations
- Several lighting and fog fixes were added – this may result in brightness changes in some situations
- Optimized shader compiler times
- Domelight is now enabled by default on reflections
- CloudXR updates to make tablet run smoother
- Some skinning fixes for blend shapes
EXTENSION omni.kit.widget.layers
- Several performance fixes and UI refresh fixes
- Fixed “duplicate across layers” feature
EXTENSION omni.kit.window.content
- Fix drag and drop from system to content browser
EXTENSION omni.kit.widget.filebrowser
- Fixes context menu not persistent on click
- Drag/drop multiple objects supported
- UX improvements
EXTENSION omni.usd
- Many improvements to undo operations which improve stability of editing.
- Stability fixes, audio fixes, and data issue fixes
- We no longer allow moving a prim under instance or instance proxy
- Precision of some values were changed to doubles to allow more precision at larger values
EXTENSION omni.kit.app
- Many additional features to improve our ability to capture crashes, telemetry, and hangs
EXTENSION omni.kit.widget.stage
- Some fixes to serializing data, and drag/drop issues
EXTENSION omni.kit.ui
- More drag/drop fixes
EXTENSION omni.kit.window.file
EXTENSION omni.kit.property.usd
- Multiple fixes related to payloads in these two extensions
EXTENSION omni.kit.capture
- Narrow down the use of sync rendering of Movie Capture to EXR files only
- Fix wrong timing of timeline update and revert workaround for that.
- Multiple iRAY fixes
EXTENSION omni.kit.window.movie
- New “Omniverse Queue” added to Movie Capture
EXTENSION omni.kit.property.skel
- Path fixes for Animation Retargeting