2.0.0

• New state-of-the-art OpenGL draw system. Agent type settings for OpenGL LODs.

• Katana 3 support.

• Cache Exporter is interruptable.

• New agent randomizer tool.

• New agents helper tool.

• New Kill module.

• New ProximityMetadata module.

• New FollowAgent module.

• New ArrowEmitter module.

• Variation tables can store a look file per agent type and preview images for each geometry group.

• FBX exporter exports attribute with the "atoms_" prefix by default, but can be deactivated in the FBX exporter UI.

• The clip being played by the state machine and clip reader modules can be displayed when activating the debug checkbox.

• New expose curve and mesh metadata nodes.

• Documentation for Atoms Crowd nodes available.

• Added progress bar to Variation builder.

• Automatic render instancing and frustum culling.

• New python plugins systems.

• New python hooks: variation filter and custom file browser.

• Mesh loader can be extended.

• Skeleton loader can be extended.

• Added alembic support for reading meshes.

• Added pole vector locator when tagging a foot root.

• Added import, load and save buttons to all tabs in the Atoms UI.

• Foot down data can now be edited directly in the Atoms UI.

• New network nodes for getting and setting joint matrices.

• New network nodes for getting and setting Maya attributes (Maya).

• Cloth Setup now support the wrap deformer (Maya).

• CFX Sim Exporter supports "First" cloth caches when exporting groom cache and dynamic curve alembics (Maya).

• DG node for reading cloth caches (Maya).

• Added blend shape support to CFX simulation exporter (Maya).

• New agent group widget for module list metadatas (Maya).

• Added percentage sliders for point layout UI (Maya).

• Drag and drop attributes from the outliner to connect them with the module metadatas (Maya).

• Multiple selection is now supported in the module list (Maya).

• Support for more than one xgen collection per description (Maya).

• Support to serialized groom data inside the variation table

• Added mesh filters to the variation table

• Added path filters (C++ only)

• Added support to Arnold 5.1.1.X

• Added renderman 22 procedural

Bug Fixes:

• UV coordinates are not being re-evaluated for each follicle when building the CFX scene (Maya).

• Atoms UI does not break if the event name contains white spaces in GUI mode.

• Houdini skeleton animation exporter used to fail if a ground mesh was not used as input.

• State machine editor now only display the registered animation clip events.

• Fixed an issue with alembic sub-sampling and xgen.

• Fixed an issue with katana when expanding all agent geos.