Release title: 2025.1

Build 658.304: 2025-04-11

Highlights:

Core: Support for configurable easing (in/out) between keyframes.
Core: Better creation of xform keys (obj/cam) along the timeline.
Core: Undo/redo for most timeline operations.
Core: Support for 50xx cards.
UI: Shift+Drag in the Animation panel to clone keys in the timeline.
Documentation: New (first version) docs.maverickrender.com.
Localization: New language options for Spanish, Italian, French, and Simplified/Traditional Chinese.

Added:

Core: Support for time-varying array lengths (affects both the core and the .mks, etc... file formats).
UI: Ability to change the UI theme (magenta is the default theme in Maverick Studio and blue in Maverick Indie).
UI: Deforming attributes (verts, normals, ...) now show up as keyed attributes in the Animation panel.

Improved:

Core: Heavy rework of the reset_xform function (Reset Xform, Reset Scale, ...) to properly support xform/dform animation.
Core: Optimized zoom-to-fit and zoom-extents in heavy scenes.
Core: Added support in zoom-to-fit and zoom-extents to point-only entities such as assemblies, targets, and modifiers.
Core: reset_xforms operations are now timeline-aware.
UI: Multiple cosmetic upgrades in the Move tool gizmo.
UI: Scenes now recall the scrub mode in the animation panel when they are saved/opened.
UI: Different cursor for scrubbing in the timeline rulebar.
UI: Dropping a sticker on an object now automatically sets the Move tool to LOCAL space.
UI: Rotated align-to-cam (Z) so uvmaps end up with their vertical axis facing upwards.
UI: SURFACE mode now enables/disables the rest of the Move tool panel.
UI: SURFACE mode now auto-enables local space, which makes more sense for uvmap/sticker rotating/scaling.
UI: The Q,W,R,T shortcuts auto-disengage SURFACE mode now.
UI: Improved tooltips in the Move Tool panel and the Ambience Composer.
UI: The color/gradient dialogs now won't ever exceed the screen at the bottom (a position clamp has been added).
UI: Move tool Snap-to-Grid can be enabled by holding CTRL pressed now.
UI: The Move tool Snap-to-Grid editboxes (not used frequently) have been nested in a tabbed page.
UI: Less obtrusive sticker/uvmap gizmos.

Changed:

Core: Default matrix/gradient values are not written in .mks files now, producing less busy files.
Core: Upgraded to CUDA v12.8, enabling support to the new 50xx graphics cards.
Core: Upgraded the core to OptiX 9.0.0.
Benchmark: Upgraded the Maverick Benchmark accordingly.

Importers:

Support for imported keys in any fractionary position of the timeline (not necessarily coinciding with Maverick frames).
Imported files with deformation now auto-set their min..max timevalue interval correctly.
GLB/FBX: Cameras are nested in assemblies according to the file structure.
Improved importation of cameras (focal/orientation).
Easing (in/out) between imported keyframes is now correctly set to linear always.

Fixed:

Core: Nesting a light/camera in an assembly doesn't destroy the original position of the light/camera anymore.
Core: reset_xforms on an assembly does not affect the position of the assembly anymore.
Core: Cameras saved within an assembly restore their position correctly on start now.
UI: Correctly removed the keying context menu from the S/R/T spinbars in the Move panel.
UI: On multiple monitor setups where the IPR was maximized, the Move tool was appearing off the screen.
UI: Proper undo of attribute keying: Creation of first attribute key.
UI: Proper undo of attribute keying: Editing of the value of an existing key.
UI: Proper undo of attribute keying: Editing of the easing of an existing key.
UI: Proper undo of key deletions: Now key selection is restored on undo.
UI: Hit-testing of keys in the Animation panel was way off as soon as the horizontal scale was not 100%.
UI: Other miscelaneous fixes in the Animation panel.
UI: Fixed Parent space in the Move tool, which wasn't really working before.
UI: The Camera Home button addresses cameras nested within assemblies correctly now.

Release title: 2024.5

Build 644.060: 2024-12-31

Improved:

Improved the OpenGL preview used in the Importer panel. Now illumination is correct regardless of flip Y/Z.
Improved the OpenGL preview used in the Attributes panel.
Now both the OpenGL preview used in the Importer and Attributes panels reveal backfacing faces.

Importers:

USD: Improved interpretation of PBR materials (specularity in particular).
USD: Improved interpretation of normals.
USD: Improved interpretation of camera optics and animated cameras.
USD: Support for skeletal animation not nested within mesh nodes.
USD: Support for deforming meshes.
USD: Added support for vertex colors.
USD: Better trimming of unnecessary groupings.

Fixed:

Made some fixes in adaptive (-ad) mode, which were accidentally affecting rendering speed negatively.
reset_xforms in 3DM/STEP/IGES imported models was broken in previous builds.

Release title: 2024.4

Build 643.215: 2024-12-24

Added:

Core: Support for deforming meshes (dform animation, via imported data).

Changed:

UI: Added a fourth timeline scrubbing that supports deformation animation.

Importers:

Core: Added support for .glb (in addition to our pre-existing support for .gltf).
Core: .glb -- Added support for embedded textures.
Core: .fbx/.gltf/.glb -- Added support for xform-animated cameras.
Core: .fbx/.gltf/.glb -- Added support for xform-animated objects.
Core: .fbx/.gltf/.glb -- Added support for skeleton-animated objects.
Core: .fbx/.gltf/.glb -- Added support for deformation-animated objects.
Core: OpenUSD is now supported via the official C++ API, which will allow us to progressively provide full support.
Core: .usd/.usdz/.usda./.usdc -- Added support for embedded textures.
Core: .usd/.usdz/.usda./.usdc -- Added support for xform-animated cameras.
Core: .usd/.usdz/.usda./.usdc -- Added support for xform-animated objects.
Core: .usd/.usdz/.usda./.usdc -- Added support for skeleton-animated objects.
Core: Very preliminary support for Alembic (.abc) files.

Release title: 2024.3

Build 640.420: 2024-12-13

Added:

UI: Ability to manage (move/delete) keys from the Animation panel.
UI: Key modifications now auto-notify the IPR.

Improved:

Core: Internal performance optimization in situations with many keys (e.g., when importing animated data).
UI: Ability to undo moc movements/enlargements in the Animation panel.
UI: moc movements/enlargements now auto-notify the IPR.
UI: Sensibly smoother scrubbing in the timeline.

Changed:

Core: Upgraded from Python 3.9 to Python 3.11.
UI: The IPR panel can be undocked as it could in the past.

Importers:

Core: obj/fbx/gltf/glb were incorrectly setting xforms at the polymesh instead of at the assembly level.

Fixed:

UI: Fixed a situation that would cause rearrangement of moc nodes in the Animation panel to be lost on save.
UI: Step to first/prev/next/last keyframe from the context menu in the Animation panel and from a spinbar now work.

Release title: 2024.2

Build 638.700: 2024-12-06

Highlights:

Core: The tonemap frontplate has turned into a Motion Controller, so now it is possible to animated fades and add watermarks anywhere in the timeline.

Added:

UI: Ability to delete individual/all attribute timeline keys, from each spinbar's (right-click) context menu.
UI: Ability to undo/redo the deletion of attribute timeline keys.
UI: Ability to go to prev/next/first/last animation key from the spinbar's context menu.
UI: In the Animation panel, ability to switch between select by moc or select by key (different selection/editing modes).

Improved:

Core: Some general optimizations in scenes with a large number of nodes.
Core: Slightly better AI denoiser under aggressive motion. Due to improved albedo AOV under motion.

Changed:

Core: cam_switch motion controllers now stop having effect past their end (rightmost limit).
UI: mocs are interpreted "from bottom to top" (i.e., top covers bottom) to match the behavior in conventional video-editing apps.

Importers:

Core: Very preliminary support for USD (.usd/.usdz/.usda./.usdc) files.

Fixed:

Core: Stickers now inherit animation/motion-blur from the object they are attached to.
Core: UVMap modifiers now inherit animation/motion-blur from the object they are attached to.
Core: Material map projectors (planar, triplanar/...) now inherit animation/motion-blur from the object they are attached to.
Core: Other more obscure features now inherit animation/motion-blur from the object they are attached to, such as curvature, falloff, wireframe/...
UI: Fixed an annoying bounce effect in our checkboxes.

Release title: 2024.1

Build 637.335: 2024-11-29

Highlights:

Core: Animation!
Core: Motion Controllers for easy procedural motion.
Core: Keyframe support for animating every floating-point attribute in every node.
Core: Smoother IPR navigation (framerate) overall.
Core: Faster time-to-pixel overall when editing. Particularly noticeable in heavy scenes.
Core: IPR render-times are now comparable to final render when editing is idle (before they were measurably slower).
Core: Up to 30% lower memory usage in the GEOMETRY blocks.
UI: New animation-specific workspace layout.
Importers: Upgraded the Rhino-to-Maverick plug-in to auto-detect and support Rhino 8.

Added:

Core: Camera frustum constraint for scatter.
Core: Increased the baketex limit from 4K to 8K.
Core: Extended the scatter modifier to support up to 8 sources.
Core: Support for .gif output in video formats.
Core: Added support for InputImage in Substance .sbsar files.
Core: New tonemapping feature called FRONTPLATE to add a logo/watermark to renders or animations.
Core: Fade feature in the tonemapping frontplate for animatable fade in-out effects.
Python: New dag.create_node(class_suid) function.
Python: New dag.destroy_node(cuid) function.
Python: New classes img_c and mp4_c + their entry in help().
Python: Class and attribute names are now prefixed by their class family. Existing scripts may require changes. Please take a look at the provided examples.
Python: Proper support for Unicode characters in the Python panel.
UI: Completed the Nodal Editor context menu.
UI: Ability to copy-paste values between spinbars (context menu, besides select-copy-paste).
UI: Ability to mouse-wheel (step up/down) values in spinbars, whether in spinbar or in spinbox mode.
UI: Collapsible Move Tool panel.
UI: Tooltips in the Counters panel now display the total size of each memory block.
UI: Collapsed the Lights panel with the Objects panel.
Automation: CLI support for maverick_studio.exe -i:<filename> [-still|-timeline|-turntable] [-o:<filename>] [-sl:<8>] [-quit]
Automation: CLI support for maverick_studio.exe -i:<filename> [-py:<filename>]

Improved:

Core: Upgraded the core to CUDA 12.3.
Core: Upgraded the core to OptiX 8.1.0.
Core: Upgraded the core to Substance engine 8.6.5.
Core: Faster generation of points during scatter updates.
Core: Faster baketex baking.
Core: Upgraded ourselves from Qt 5.13.2 to Qt 5.15.
Core: Upgraded ourselves from TBB Update 4.4 to TBB Update 5.
Core: Faster rendering of swatches for materials with MPDM.
Core: Added a "No trace sets" toggle in Globals to globally disable all trace sets in the scene, for debugging.
Core: The "No maps" toggle in Globals no longer affects bump mapping for better bump evaluation.
Core: The material override feature in Globals preserves bump mapping for better bump evaluation.
Core: Native motion blur (core-wide) support in turntable videos.
Importers: 3DM files are imported into a separate root group, which is convenient when merging multiple files.
Importers: Rhino-to-Maverick now hosts sent models in their own group, named as the .3dm file they come from.
Library: More compact archiving of ambiences, saving up to 500MB in the installed content library.
UI: All-new gradient (spline) editor.
UI: The Blow-Up tool now allows to pan towards the borders of the image, and zooming and panning exactly follow the mouse cursor.
UI: The splash screen now stays on all the way through the start application time.
UI: Streamlining of fonts and spacings for a (hopefully) less cluttered UI feel.
UI: New (much more modern) app-wide spinbar controls for attributes.
UI: New logarithmic and logarithmic-symmetric spinbar control modes.
UI: Reviewed ranges and granularities (steps) for all the attributes in the UI.
UI: Better-looking and locale-friendly IPR bar (e.g., to exit the Move tool).
UI: More responsive object-clicking in the IPR.
UI: Slightly smoother scene navigation.
UI: Slightly snappier drag-and-drop of elements from the library (materials, ambiences/...).
UI: Improved labels for plug names in the Nodal Editor.
UI: Extended the Most Recent Used list in the Start panel to 96 entries.
UI: The Start panel now properly manages non-existing files asking whether to remove them from the MRU list.
UI: The Start panel now properly updates swatches for save/save_as scenes.
UI: The Console panel now reveals the timestamp and memory usage with each new message (like MK_api.log does).
UI: The app recalls the selected page in the Tonemap panel per scene now (used to default to the first page always).
UI: The app recalls the selected page in the Render panel per scene now (used to default to the first page always).
UI: The Nodal Editor (also the Animation Panel) now recall the pan-zoom in their canvas per scene (used to reset on scene load).
UI: The SX no longer expands node references, leading to slightly less crowded treeviews.
UI: The SX for objects and lights has been fused into a single one now that for animation it makes sense to bind assemblies/targets/motion-controllers with both objects/lights.
UI: The IPR can't be undocked or closed now, in order to avoid user accidents.
UI: The toolbar camera in the IPR now displays a warning when the camera has moved away from its Home position.
UI: Non-geometry nodes such as assemblies are now visible in the IPR using a billboard icon.

Fixed:

Core: Fixed the cam_projection map.
Core: Carriage returns in strings are escaped properly now in .ini/.mks/.mkmtl/... files.
Core: Fixed support for Substance .sbsar when each output uses a different resolution.
Core: Fixed a seemingly random crash when deleting a large number of nodes together.
Core: Fixed the bump_blend node, which was half-working until now.
Core: The 'No env.' was not fully disabling IBL lighting.
Core: The 'No env.' now also disables the sky and sun as initially intended.
Core: The baketex node now works for input maps that come from output plugs other than the main output (e.g., sbsar nodes, filetex channels, etc...).
Core: Fixed a broken result issue when using opacity mapping and uvmap modifiers together.
Core: Shaded views correctly notify now if objects are moved in the IPR.
UI: Fixed Region Render, which now respects the rectangle drawn as the resolution is blown-up for final render.
UI: Fixed the UI layout when Maverick is closed and the user sends a scene from Rhino.
UI: Fixed the UI layout when Maverick is closed and the user double-clicks a file from Windows Explorer.
UI: Changed to standard Windows 10/11 window frames (rounded borders, etc...).
UI: Unified and streamlined the UIs and behaviors of the modifiers scatter.
UI: The title bar resets to the product name when the user goes back to the Start workspace.
UI: The statusbar is cleared when the user goes back to the Start workspace.
UI: Cosmetic and functional improvements in the color picker popup.
UI: Cosmetic and functional improvements in the Nodal Editor.
UI: Dragging from the Library to the Nodal Editor now properly positions and selects the dropped nodes.
UI: Plug and arc colors are now always correct in the Nodal Editor.
UI: Greatly decreased the redraw lag when editing in the Nodal Editor.
UI: Shaded views now display node icons (such as cameras, targets/...).
UI: Fixed a refresh problem in the Library when creating or renaming directories inside directories with Unicode characters.
UI: Keyboard shortcuts are now app-wide. i.e., they work even when the focus is in a modal or modeless dialog.

Release title: 2022.7

Build 585.125: 2022-12-22

Highlights:

Core: New remap node to use a gradient/gradient_color to remap/colorize the output of another map.
Core: Ability of the remap node to remap the UVW space of its input node.
Core: New (much improved) gradient_color node.

Added:

Core: Angle steps in the scatter node's random rotation (and also in the multiclone node).
Core: New clamp (u/v/w) in addition to tiling and cropping in the UV transform rollup of all maps that support it.
Core: Camera distortion (pincushion and barrel).
Core: Improved support for the whole embedded python default distribution.

Changed:

Core: Upgraded our codebase to support CUDA v12.0, with specific support for 40xx GPUs.
Core: Upgraded our codebase to support OptiX 7.6.0.
Core: Upgraded the Maverick Benchmark accordingly.
Core: All procedurals use the 1x1x1 tile correctly, which manifests when using the crop-clamp features.
ui: Some of the main IPR tools are now accessible from the main toolbar.

Fixed:

Core: multiclone skew (pyramids) grow on the negative side correctly now.
Core: Scatter and multiclone maps work correctly now when the base object has an uvmap modifier applied to it.
UI: Operations that don't (yet) support undo/redo do not clear the dirty document flag, which makes the app prompt to save for changes on exit (it wasn't doing so before).
UI: Toggles (checkboxes) do not capture input focus when cycling focus with TAB or Alt+TAB.
UI: Plug buckets do not capture input focus when cycling focus with TAB or Alt+TAB.
UI: Color buckets do not capture input focus when cycling focus with TAB or Alt+TAB.
UI: Combobox controls do not accept mouse-wheel events when mouse-wheeling to scroll their containing panel, avoiding accidental combobox edits.
UI: Control + Tab is forbidden while in the Start panel.

Release title: 2022.6

Build 582.065: 2022-11-18

Highlights:

Core: New multiclone modifier, which produces instanced copies of an object or an assembly arranged in multiple ways (lattice, polar/...).
Core: New option to convert instances scattered by a multiclone modifier into regular polymesh geometry.

Added:

Core: Angle steps in the scatter node's random rotation (and also in the multiclone node).

Changed:

Core: Slightly faster scatter warmup speed.
UI: Simplified the modifier creation list.

Fixed:

Core: Fixed a wrong offset in scattered instances when assemblies were involved.
Core: Fixed the interpretation of Euler angles in scatter, which was not behaving exactly like Euler angles.
Importers: Fixed load of scenes imported with more than UV channel in versions pre 2022.5.
UI: Dropping a displacement-based map now correctly preserves the value set by the user, which was incorrectly cast to an integer (losing decimals) in 2022.5.
UI: scatter/multiclone now display their gizmo in the UI like all other modifiers.
UI: scatter/multiclone now feature an eye icon to toggle on/off their gizmo in the IPR.
UI: target nodes now feature an eye icon to toggle on/off their gizmo in the IPR.
UI: Restored our (so far, partial) support for undo/redo, which was accidentally disabled in version 2022.5 (Ctrl+Z/Ctrl+Shift+Z).
UI: Reset xform works correctly now when the selected object(s) have modifiers connected to it/them. Up to 2022.5 it was involving the modifiers in the new xform computation.
UI: Double-clicking a scene from the Windows Explorer was not switching over to the Design workspace, but was staying in the Start workspace instead.
UI: Disconnected modifiers (i.e., without at least one parent) were not displaying their gizmo. Now they are.
UI: The bypass toggle in modifiers now correctly grays out the node in its entirety when bypass is on.
Python: Updated library scripts (some kept old function names and were failing in 2022.5).

Release title: 2022.5

Build 578.510: 2022-10-21

Highlights:

Core: New micro-patch displacement mapping (in-house developed tech), which allows for virtually infinite detail with a negligible memory footprint.
Core: Specially optimized displacement for parallel displacement.
Core: Auto-conversion of our old brute-force displacement by the new mpdm system.
Core: bake_2d map to bake any map or nodal map structure down to a filetex map. Useful for the new displacement system.
Core: bake_2d map to bake any map or nodal map structure down to a normal map. Useful for bump/normal mapping.
Core: Improved long-term noise convergence.
Core: More eye-pleasing short-term noise, as when editing interactively.
Core: Much faster rendering of white thin-glass dielectrics (windshields, plastic covers/...).
Core: The denoiser makes use of the normals AOV now to greatly help preserve the high-frequency noise present in bump or displacement mapping.
Core: Added chromatic aberration (fringe) to the glare/bloom system.
Core: Glare/bloom do not see their power affected when configuring at low resolution and then rendering at high resolution.
Core: New iris aperture map for glare.
Core: New iris obstacle map for glare.
Core: New glare diffraction pattern map to bypass the creation of a custom aperture x obstacle.
Core: New lens dirt map.
Core: New temperature controls for bloom and glare.
Core: New ringing control for glare.
Core: Upgraded development to CUDA v11.8.
Core: Upgraded development to OptiX 7.5.0.
Core: Added support for the new Ada/Hopper GPUs.

Added:

Core: New mappable (color) profile map for all map nodes with a grayscale output (e.g., noise, cellular, falloff/...).
Core: New gradient_color map node.
Core: Improved memory usage of geometry normals by 33% (GEON memory block in the Counters panel).
Core: Single-sided feature in all materials. For example, useful to make dielectric caustics.
Core: Single-sided feature auto-enabled in shadow_catcher floors so the model can be visible from underneath the floor while editing.
Core: Bump mapping in the shadow_catcher material.
Core: New hue slider in the correction map node.
Core: Glare/bloom/fringe/... and other expensive tonemapping effects won't kick in until SL1 now for smoother navigation.
Python: New MK_api.reload_all()/reload_ToC()/reload_ToT() to notify the app about changes in the scene (all/geometry/textures).
Python: New node.list_connections() function to navigate through connections in the DAG.
Python: Ability to place your python scripts in the main toolbar, by placing your .py files in .../Documents/Maverick Studio/Python/.
Benchmark: Updated the Maverick Benchmark to the newest version of the Maverick core.
UI: The Start dialog now records up to 128 recently-opened scenes, so removing entries from the list reveals older entries.
UI: Drivers awareness warning embedded in the application's splash screen.

Changed:

Core: Reduced the apparent increase in specular/metallic roughness when round_edges is used.
Core: Retired the legacy/brute-force (OpenSubDiv) subdiv modifier.
Core: The invert checkbox in filetex no longer inverts the alpha channel, but just the RGB colors (so the swatch does not disappear now, for example).
UI: Scenes always open with the main AOV selected now.
UI: Slightly more compact LightMixer panel UI.
UI: Multiple improvements (clean-ups) in icons, tooltips/...
UI: The Start and IPR panels get auto-shown on app restart if they are closed or hidden accidentally.
UI: Much more verbose START PAGE with better notices about new builds, and a helper to upgrade your GPU drivers.

Fixed:

Core: Fixed a problem that was causing large resolution PSD16/32 files to not open.
Core: Materials with (standard) emission only now fill up their AOVs properly.
Core: Standard emission materials show up in the Lights AOV now.
Core: UV distorsion works with bump mapping now.
Core: Vignetting is constrained to the safe frame in the IPR now.
Core: Fixed persistent noise in opacity mapping in non-standard materiales.
Core: Improved noise convergence when more than 1 sample is used for lights/IBL/sun.
Core: Fixed reflection/shadows layers in psd32 output.
Core: LightMixer correctly supports up to 12 layers now.
Core: Fixed an occasional freeze when rendering too-fast images (too low resolution or SL).
Python: Fixed a crash when accessing (set/get) attributes, providing a non-existing name.
UI: Resource leaks (GPU memory) in the OpenGL displays in the application.
UI: Fixed a crash when stopping the batcher abruptly (stop-without-save).
UI: Light nodes now update their swatch correctly when an emission map such as a gradient_light is connected.
UI: The statusbar is now wiped out when a new scene is created or opened.
UI: The statusbar does change its color for errors and warnings.
UI: Completed some missing node icons.
UI: Proper error messages on failed scene open/save. e.g., Could not save document file.
UI: Fixed an occasional crash when opening scenes, which was particularly annoying when using one of the batch-render Python scripts provided.
UI: Avoided some double-redraws of views and outlines. This leads to (slightly) smoother navigation.
UI: The selection outline now works in blowup mode.
UI: The blowup tool has its own cursor now.
UI: New control for Denoiser Start SL in the IPR.
UI: Reloading all the scene maps now also refreshes the map swatches.
UI: Fixed a triple resolution change on scene start (scenes will open slightly faster now).

Release title: 2022.4

Build 551.650: 2022-05-27

Added:

Core: Support for .CUBE 3D LUTs accessible from the tonemap panel.
Core: Light assemblies now expose their trace set ID (which is inherited by the children lights).
Core: Separate desaturate controls for the IBL and the refl/refr overrides.
Core: Bypass toggle for round_edges for easier on-off tests.
Core: Bypass toggle for curvature for easier on-off tests.
Core: The whole IPR is now occupied by the render, with the actual render (safe-frame) visible in the middle. Among other benefits this expands the usable area for selection, the move tool gizmos, etc...
Core: affect-alpha-only feature in the tonemapping to keep the environment (e.g., the backplate or the IBL) off the tonemapping toolchain.
Core: lock-exposure feature in the backplate that compensates for the exposure of the tonemap and camera nodes.
UI: Floor compositing guide to assist in photo-compositing projects.

Changed:

Core: The IBL lightbox is no longer overlapping the IBL refl/refr overrides. i.e., now the overrides override the lightbox as well.
Core: Fully detached the contribution of IBL reflection/refraction overrides from the main power of the IBL.
Core: Denoiser/glare/bloom/fringe/hotpixel/sharpen no longer happen if 32-bit (floating-point) output is selected. So they can be applied in post.
Core: All HDR AOVs are now denoised (i.e., diffuse, specular, indirect, lightmixer layers/...).
Core: Reintroduced the ior (Complex IOR) map. Maverick Studio only.
UI: Reintroduced the PBR Material importer in the main toolbar.
UI: No extended rollups in the camera node.
UI: Streamlined TRS panel UI (with a frame/shadow like every other panel in the app).
UI: Disabled brute-force displacement in the material swatches to avoid freezes or crashes.
UI: Organized better the mtl/map/mod nodes in the creation popup menus.

Fixed:

Core: Fixed fireflies in the sheen component of materials.
Core: Fixed a little issue with the stability of glare/bloom power when changing attributes in their settings.
Core: Power of the parametric lightbox doesn't get incorrectly altered when changing the global IBL power if the colorspace is not linear.
Core: Wrong warp-around of the bottom-top rows of pixels in the backplate even when clamp was enabled.
Core: Fixed an interference that was making the shadow catcher break curvature maps in metalness.
Core: Mesh lights now notify when a polymesh object is connected to the mesh plug in a light.
UI: Fixed a crash when selecting an assembly of lights in the lights panel.
UI: Adjustments the IBL power are now manifested in the Ambience Composer in real-time.
UI: Fixed light node swatches (which now take the emission color map).
UI: Fixed light node swatches (which now take the sticker mask map).
UI: xform map nodes now trigger a refresh in the swatches of their dependent nodes in the Nodal Editor.
UI: UI toggles (enable/disable) were all enabled in the importer pages until restore defaults was pressed.
UI: Slightly broken UI (reset buttons) in the PBR Material importer.

Release title: 2022.3

Build 548.750: 2022-04-27

Added:

UI: New 3D preview for object nodes for much easier identification of what each item is.

Changed:

Core: Emissive materials are created with their diffuse weight to 0 now.
UI: Name collisions happen per node family and not per node class now.
UI: Reorganized the pages in the importer dialogs, so the preview page comes first.
UI: The search function in the scene explorer now crawls recursively into assembly nodes.

Fixed:

Core: Emissive materials show up in LightMixer (in the ambience channel) now, and not black like before.
Core: Randomize was not working in the flakes and scratches maps.
Core: Fixed fireflies at the boundaries of SSS materials when the object interface was not watertight (closed).
UI: The color and color map 1/2 for map nodes were partially broken and not accepting connections from the UI normally.
UI: Fixed a bug when dragging-and-dropping files from the Windows explorer into Maverick (e.g., into the Nodal Editor).
UI: The node swatches in the tree at the top of the Attributes panel now update just like they do in other panels.
UI: The Cancel button in the TRS panel was broken in the previous build. Now its behavior can be reproduced with UNDO (Ctrl+Z).
UI: Re-dropping of pre-existing stickers was losing their position until surface mode was engaged.
UI: Drag-and-drop of colors from the library.
UI: Turntable renders were rendering repeated frames when batched from python.
UI: Lights preserve (don't reset) their distance to target when using normalight now.

Release title: 2022.2

Build 546.200: 2022-04-22

Added:

Core/UI: Ability to clone nodes from everywhere in the UI (top toolbar, context menu/...).
Core/UI: Clone (single node) and Clone with dependencies.
Core/UI: Shift+Drag to clone in the UI.
Core/UI: Control+Shift+Drag to clone+dependencies in the UI.
Core: New target object. Useful to control the center of rotation in turntable animations.
Core: New origin rotation mode in turntable animations.
UI: New camera composition guides in the IPR.
UI: New make-unique (in addition to explode) feature.
UI: Objects can be ungrouped by dragging and dropping them to the root node in the SX.
UI: The Ambience Composer now supports shift+drag to clone lights.
UI: New ZW3D navigation mode.
Importers: New ZW3D STEP importer.

Changed:

Core: Added a third line to the DOF pre-vis tool so the focal plane is visible.
Core: The Show in Viewport feature for maps now shows/updates in the render views, besides the IPR.
Importers: Massively improved STEP/IGES importer, both in speed and meshing quality.
Importers: New STEP/IGES meshing controls in the Preferences panel.
Importers: Healing of missing normals when importing from STEP/IGES.
Importers: More identificative (better) assignment of colors for assembly nodes after import.
UI: New front page to access the ambiences library from the importer dialog.
UI: The first page in the Import/Merge dialog stays disabled now while the file loads.
UI: Improved Move Tool gizmo colors and translucency for a less obtrusive view.
UI: Now the gizmos are clipped to the margins of the render, so the old situation where the gizmo was painted outside the render and was unclickable, is fixed.
UI: Some inner operations involving AABBs (such as zoom extents, etc...) are multi-threaded now.
UI: Improvements in the navigation system - New origin orbiting mode.
UI: Improvements in the navigation system - Ambience nodes and lights are excluded from orbiting, so the select/move tool better focus on the user model.
UI: Improvements in the navigation system - Camera dollying now sees through light objects, which are often transparent.
UI: Improvements in the navigation system - Improved/fixed pan and orbit.

Fixed:

Core: Support for humongous filetex images (e.g., 20000x10000 HDR IBL maps).
UI: Fixed issues when saving/loading the UI layout.
UI: Now the app auto-creates the My Materials, My Ambiences/... directories on first run.
UI: Explode/Make-unique transfer the swatch in those cases where there is one (e.g., materials).

Release title: 2022.1

Build 527.220: 2022-01-30

New features:

UI: Added a new "SAFE MODE" to open scenes, by holding the SHIFT key pressed, that disables all memory-hungry features such as subdiv/disp. Extremely useful to quickly trouble-shoot out-of-memory situations.

Fixes:

Core: The Render window (still/turntable) now outputs images with proper print_size (e.g., dot-per-inch) metadata.
Core: The Render window (still/turntable) now outputs PSD files with proper print_size (e.g., dot-per-inch) metadata.
Core: Fixed the align-to-normal (scatter) feature, which did not work as expected with extreme angles.
Core: Fixed the combination of scatter sources when both groups and individual objects were mixed.
Core: Fixed PSD output, which was partially broken in 2021.6.
UI: The counters panel correctly displays Out-Of-Core memory (in blue) now.

Improvements:

Core: Increased the maximum resolution supported by 2x.
Core: Adjusted the Bloom/Glare algorithm so now it works for resolutions beyond 4K.
Core: Improved the memory usage in the average case for Bloom/Glare at resolutions below 4K.
Core: Slightly faster load of scenes with many nodes.
Core: Vertex colors now show up in the IPR Views.
Plug-Ins: The Rhino-to-Maverick plug-in now updates bidirectionally, so deleted objects in Rhino get also deleted in Maverick on update.
Plug-Ins: The Rhino-to-Maverick plug-in now groups-by-material on import.
Plug-Ins: The Rhino-to-Maverick plug-in displays its own version on execution (helpful to diagnose possible issues).
UI: Lowered the minimum IPR SL in Preferences to SL1, for people not liking their GPU to be active more than strictly necessary during editing.
UI: The counters panel displays memory usages in floating-point now.

UI:

Undo: Operations that clone nodes now support undo/redo.
Undo: Operations that clone node trees now support undo/redo.
Undo: Connect/disconnect operations now support undo/redo.
Preferences: The hardware panel displays the display drivers currently installed.
Preferences: Detached importer-specific settings to a separate page.
Preferences: Fixed a bug that was occasionally making the Preferences panel freeze if started before the changelog was downloaded by the application.

Importers:

3DM: Support for Bitmap (Picture) textures and their uvmap transforms.
3DM: Support for Rhino uvmap projectors.
3DM: Better and more organized import of materials/colors per object/colors per layer.
3DM: Proper colors for block instance objects.
3DM: Proper transfer of camera positions on update from Rhino to Maverick.
UI: The preview in the importer dialog displays double-sided faces now.

Python:

Python: Completed the documentation, which can be accessed with MK_api.help().
Python: Added a shorter help reference, which can be accessed with MK_api.quick_help().
Python: Added some new functions, as described in the inline documentation.
Python: UI actions that accept multiple nodes, such as MK_api.clone_node now accept python lists of cuids (e.g., [30,31]).
UI: The quick python command at the statusbar now automatically raises the console panel.

Benchmark:

Driver certification displayed in the console. Also displayed in RenderWarrior.
Made the benchmark window show up in the taskbar and come to the background from the console.
Pause and close on the IPR is inhibited now.
Fixed the cancel/apply buttons in the preferences panel.