User guide

RELEASE NOTES FOR MARI 2.0v1

Mari 2.0v1

The Foundry

Feature Enhancements

• Add Channel, Remove Channel, Duplicate Channel, Merge Channel, and

Convert Channel,

• Bake Attribute and Bake Shader,

• Alpha to Mask and Mask to Alpha,

• Export Modified,

• Save Shader, Load Shader, Duplicate Shader, Add Surface Shader, and

Remove Surface Shader.

A few actions have also been moved within the action tree in the same

dialogs. These actions include: Lock Channel and Unlock Channel.

UI improvements

•The Duplicate Channel menu option has been removed.

•The Copy Shaders menu option has been removed.

•The Match Channels menu option has been removed from the right-click

context menu for objects in the Objects palette.

Miscellaneous improvements

• After converting a project to Mari 2.0v1, the previously selected shader

in the 1.6 project is now the shader that’s selected.

• The lighting mode has been removed from Quick Projections.

• BUG ID 11213 - The Palettes menu now displays the palette names in

sorted order.

• BUG ID 13363 - The performance and frame rate for the Pinup tool has

been improved.

• BUG ID 23073 - Tokens used in file templates, such as $CHANNEL and

$UDIM, are now replaced using whole word matches, in upper case only.

This allows you to use custom tokens with common sequences, such as

$TEST and $TEST2, at the same time.

• BUG ID 23402 - You can now use $CHANNEL in turntable file names.

• BUG ID 27691 - You can now change the file filter to show all files in the

Open Archive dialog box. If your archive doesn’t end with .mra it can be

selected once the wildcard filter is selected.

• BUG ID 28138 - The depth buffer rendering has been moved to the start

of the deferred rendering chain in order to improve painting frame rates.

• BUG ID 30609 - The default lighting mode when a project is first loaded

has been changed from Flat to Full (with diffuse and specular lighting).

• BUG ID 31245 - The Mari<>Maya script has been updated to use layers

instead of image sets.

• BUG ID 32707 - Mari and Nuke now calculate grading without the minor

dissimilarities that sometimes appeared before.