3.0.0

Downloads: https://atoms.toolchefs.com/downloads/

This version of Atoms Crowd contains the following bug fixes and improvements.

Features and improvements:

• NVidia Physx integration
• Ragdoll support (kinematic, ragdoll, motor ragdoll, partial ragdoll)
• AtomsMaya: interactive caching
• Agent layout tool improvements (selection, move, rotate, scale, duplicate, time offset, variation mode, social layouting) (ACS-64)
• AtomsHoudini: draw system refactoring
• AtomsHoudini: Vellum support for cloth cache exporter
• Gaffer support
• Maya 2019 support
• Vray Next support
• AtomsMaya: rigToAgent module, for converting live animation rigs into an Atoms cache
• Curve pair layout module
• Added velocity threshold to agent avoidance
• sync module: fixed ground adaptation
• cacheReader module: automatic add sync operator with agents with sync data
• arrowEmitter module : fixed ground adaptation added physx support
• CopyMetadata module
• AddForce module
• Rendering procedurals: added objectid override
• xgen control shading attributes with metadata
• new license checkout system
• New mesh format: hierarchies are now stored inside the geo files
• Fixes to agent avoidance and separation behaviour modules for better direction alignment (BREAKING CHANGE - simulations using these modules will change)
• Override dialog now works with specific widgets such as clipName, agentType, etc
• Changed agent helper to work with the new viewport widget
• Skeleton exporter improvements (ACS-46)
• Skin and geo groups are now tagged with an attribute by the skeleton exporter (ACS-76)
• Exposed mesh, skeleton and anim factories in python
• Hold outs feature in Maya works with crowds (ACS-128)
• Support for multiple diffuse preview textures (ACS-129)
• Atoms UI improvements (ACS-25, ACS-24, ACS-22)
• Improved progress output while caching an agent group (ACS-72)
• Skeleton is now used for evaluating bounding box instead of skin mesh (ACS-70)

Bug Fixes:

• AtomsMaya: Registered height field as soon as it is added in the height field manager
• Changed foot down disc size in animation clip preview widget
• Write out agent type files even when caching is aborted
• Fixed stack name in Houdini FBX animation exporter
• Empty UV sets don't break VRay renders any more.
• Fixed blend angle in state machine
• AtomsMaya: variation builder now expots child groups if the top group is added to the render layer
• Fixed a crash when a file with wrong file format was provided for a skeleton in the Atoms UI
• AtomsHoudini: skeleton exporter does not crash anymore when bind pose attributes are not set
• Fixed slowness in variation randomizer when there are many items
• When a cache is exported via the cache exporter, the cache is removed from the cache manager if it was already loaded
• AtomsMaya: Variation Builder now skips intermediate nodes when looking for materials (ACS-140)
• Unable to do partial scene export if state machine does not exist (ACS-91)