User guide

RELEASE NOTES FOR MARI 2.0v1

Mari 2.0v1

The Foundry

New Features

For more information on importing and exporting, please refer to the

Exporting and Importing Textures

chapter on page 140, or for more specific

information on importing or exporting channels or layers, please see the

Layers

chapter or

Channels

chapter in the Mari

User Guide

Project conversion

• When converting old projects to Mari 2.0, a dialog appears to warn you

that conversions are permanent and cannot be undone. You cannot

continue with the conversion until you acknowledge that you have read

this warning.

To avoid the risk of a project being permanently converted, regardless of

the result, it is highly recommended that you create an archive of your

project first.

• Mari warns you when converting projects with channels that the

conversion process may take longer than expected, due to the RGB and

RGBA conversion process. This process cannot be reversed.

• When converting old projects, shaders use the Current Channel default

shader.

For more information on project conversion, please refer to the

Project

Conversion

chapter on page 221 of the Mari

User Guide

Mari Preferences Dialog

• The graphics card preferences in the Mari Preferences dialog box have

now been grouped into their own tab labeled GPU.

• The preference option Tessellation Allowed has been added to the new

GPU tab in the Mari Preferences dialog. Disabling this option completely

disables tessellation shader support. Mari then treats any project with

displacement as if the graphics card does not support tessellation.

•The Use HiRes Positions option has been added to the Mari Preferences

dialog box, found by navigating to Misc > Input | Use HiRes Positions.

Turning this off may help users who experience problems using Wacom

devices.

• You can reset the Channel Cache controls to the default settings by

pressing the R button in the Preferences > Channel Cache dialog.

• Renamed the Channels path in the Paths tab of the Mari Preferences

dialog box to Channel Presets to better reflect its purpose.