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Dear Clarisse users,

We're releasing this new build of Clarisse iFX 1.5 SP4 that includes a few fixes.
As always, you can get this build from your download area.

What's new since build 1.5 SP3

General

• Fixed a display glitch when Tools widget was too small to display icons.
• Improved application refresh rate during an evaluation.
• Fixed a bug where $PNAME value had project extension appended.
• Fixed a crash that was occurring when blending images that had no RGB channels.
• Removed wrong error message when editing channel layers.
• Hidden items now display a faded icon in the User Interface.
• Enhanced 3D View display: it is now using 32bit color depth.

Image

• SXR file format is now supported by the File layer, MapFile and StreamedMapFile textures.
• In File layer, added Output Layer attribute to load a specific channel layer into the RGBA layer.

Rendering

• Fixed a crash that was occurring when combining displacement and SSS.
• Fixed a glitch in 3D View where lines where drawn as dotted on ATI based graphics card.
• Fixed a bug in Shading Layers where newly inserted rules where skipped.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when creating new a geometry while a Shading Layer was applied.

Alembic

• Fixed an instant crash that was occurring when importing ABC defining geometries without UVs.
• Fixed a bug where $PDIR variable value was incorrect when saving a project containing ABC items.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when Clarisse was pulling out geometries from several threads at the same time during an evaluation.
• Importing geometries, using File > Import > Geometry, is now working properly.

Python/SDK

• Fixed a crash that could occur when inspecting an object that has attributes of type reference without a class filter set.
• Clarisse now provides a C++ API to declare AOVs in Materials. A working example is provided in module.material.csdk.
• The version of the Boost headers provided in the SDK is now correct.