What's new in SynthEyes Pro (formerly SynthEyes) 1407 Build 30
Aug 20, 2014
- New features:
- Synthia, the revolutionary new SynthEyes Instructible Assistant productivity tool, with natural language text and voice control.
- Cloud communications facilitate rapid improvement based on user experience.
- "Notes" for the camera view, for communicating between tracking supervisors and artists, or to remember what you need to do next week.
- Many auto-save and auto-increment enhancements, including File/Save a Copy and File/Save Next Version.
- Lidar reader now has a control panel and various additional controls. Intro users use File/Import Mesh also, rather than a script, and are subject to a 2Mpnt limit.
- Updated to the latest RED SDK, 5.0, which supports 6K Dragon R3Ds. Planar trackers now have an Alpha channel option to track pre-keyed material (eg from separate-alpha files).
- Planar trackers now apply the Key Every setting on the regular tracker control panel.
- Added illumination color for each light, used in the perspective view. Exported via filmbox FBX.
- Ambient illumination for perspective view added to Edit/Edit Scene Settings, initialized by a preference.
- Control-lasso in 3-D viewports to un-lasso, as in camera and perspective windows.
- Scroll bar tweaked to maintain a minimum knob size, to easier accommodate large numbers of trackers.
- Set Target dialog is now resizable.
- Perspective view right-click menu items are checked to show an existing fixed or rolling texture.
- Renamed the "Automatic" direction hint on the Solver panel to "Undirected" to better distinguish between the two dropdowns.
- Renamed "Unlocked" on the Coordinate system panel to "Unconstrained" to better distinguish it from locked/unlocked on the tracker panel.
- Changed "About" and Toolbar version numbers to match 1407 Build 1030 format for consistency with the website.
- Crashes eliminated:
- Using *3 coordinate system setup method from inside the perspective view, when the 3rd point resulted in a solve and change in room.
- Deleting a camera/object from the graph editor by right-clicking.
- In planar tracker, if user double-clicks extraneously while creating an in-plane mask.
- On very old CPUs on planar tracking .
- If the scripts folder is set to a location containing malformed xml files.
- Trying to install license data with NOTHING on the clipboard, ever.
- Mac/Linux: substantial plumbing upgrade to minimize chance of crashes when many windows are opening/closing at once.
- Linux: Clicking something else when a spinner value is being edited.
- Linux: When a popup dialog is shown from a secondary thread, eg an error message during solving.
- Other bugfixes:
- Release floating license immediately on self-detected problems (Imminent Crash message), so license is immediately reusable.
- Linux: Syntheyes.sh script now sets en-US standards to avoid "number" issues.
- Linux: Bugfix that caused OpenGL windows to periodically jump out of position when very slowly resizing the SynthEyes window.
- Linux: Line/line spacing preference wasn't initialized right, users should Edit/Prefs then right-click Leading Multiplier spinner.
- Linux: Fixed issue producing slow python response
- Mac/Linux: Fixed directory reading that might have caused trouble in the batcher.
- Mac: Fixed vertical offset in selected item vs cursor in Set Target dropdown.
- The first light's position was used for the 2nd, 3rd, etc too, in the perspective view.
- EXPORTERS:
- Added option for corner pin selection on after2Djsx.
- Option to delete meshes in blender script.
- Changed 3dsmax export's "start at frame..." from a checkbox to an enterable value...use caution.
- Bug fix for After Effects Javascript export, don't crash if planar isn't valid at start of shot.
- Bug fix in planar export preparation for Set Solved Path/FOV option. Bug fix for After Effects 2-D from planars to accommodate non-square pixels.
- Most modified scripts have been released individually already.
- Sizzle/Python scripting:
- Added new Note object type and list.
- Added light.color, .red, .green, .blue
- Added Scene.ambientColor, .editNote.
- Added Object.opposite and Tracker.opposite for stereo, to give the other corresponding object.
- Added Tracker.lifetime, .errorHpix, .axisAdjLock.
- Mesh.wtrans now writable
- Access to Prefs via Prefs.varnam
- Python: corrected "Dereferencing null" error check, enabling programmatic exports