Updating release notes and Readme for 6.0.3.1. (#457)

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,67 @@
 # Change Log
 
+## [6.0.3.1]
+
+### Build
+
+- **Testing the Scene Format:** The testsuite now includes tests for the Scene format plugin. (#157)
+- **Hiding symbols:** Weak symbols are now hidden in the Procedural on Linux and MacOS. (#409)
+- **Lambert for the Tests:** The testsuite is now using the lambert as the default shader. (#416)
+- **Overwriting the C++ standard:** The C++ standard can now be overwritten for builds on Linux and MacOS. (#446)
+- **Google Test:** Google Test can now be used to write tests. (#311)
+
+- Fixed an issue with the "resave" test parameter. (#402)
+- Fixed an issue with test 62 and 68. (#414)
+
+### Procedural
+
+- **UsdGeomCamera:** The UsdGeomCamera schema is now supported in the procedural. (#345)
+- **UsdSkel:** The UsdSkel schema is now supported in the procedural. (#329)
+- **Image uvset:** The built-in uvset is used now when a UsdPrimvarReader for st/uv is connected to UsdUvTexture. (#428)
+- **Textured Mesh Lights:** Textured mesh lights are now supported. (#366)
+
+- Fixed an issue when using multiple Procedurals. (#400)
+- Fixed issues with Nested Procedurals when using the Procedural Viewport API. (#408 #435)
+- Fixed a crash with empty node names. (#380)
+- Fixed an issue with reading namespaced primvars. (#382)
+- Fixed an issue when reading Light color and intensity parameters. (#364)
+- Fixed several issues when reading primvars. (#333)
+- Fixed an issue when reading RGB arrays. (#325)
+
+### Render Delegate
+
+- **Filters for AOVs:** Filtering parameters are now read from the aovSettings map for RenderVars. (#319 #426 #437)
+- **LPE RenderVars:** LPE RenderVars are now supported. (#317)
+- **Primvar RenderVars:** Primvar RenderVars are now supported. (#318)
+- **SourceName for RenderVars:** The sourceName aovSetting is now supported. This allows renaming Arnold AOVs and writing a single AOV to multiple Render Buffers with different filters. (#425)
+
+- Fixed an issue that prevented using the GPU on Windows. (#398)
+- Fixed a crash when running the Render Delegate in Solaris on Windows. (#394)
+- Fixed a bug related to marking ignored Render Buffers as converged. (#431)
+- Fixed an issue related to using incorrect LPEs. (#430)
+- Fixed a crash when deleting an active RenderVar in Solaris. (#439)
+- Fixed an issue when the USD Preview Surface is used as a Displacement shader. (#448)
+- Fixed an issue with how the dataType parameter is interpreted. (#450)
+
+### Scene Format / Writer
+
+- **Roundtripping Node Names:** Node names are now preserved when roundtripping scenes from Arnold to USD to Arnold. (#396)
+- **Per-channel connections:** Per-channel connections are now written using adapter nodes. (#351)
+- **Motion Keys:** Motion keys are now written to the USD file. (#334)
+- **Motion Blur:** Motion blur is now supported. (#346)
+
+- Fixed an issue when writing Toon light lists. (#374)
+- Fixed an issue when writing linked ramp parameters. (#375)
+- Fixed an issue when writing AI_TYPE_NODE user data. (#371)
+- Fixed an issue when writing motion ranges. (#368)
+- Fixed an issue when writing ginstance parameters. (#362)
+- Fixed a crash when writing empty arrays. (#360)
+- Fixed an issue when the number of motion keys for normals did not match the number of motion keys for positions. (#356)
+- Fixed an issue when writing custom Matrix parameters. (#354)
+- Fixed an issue when writing polymesh.subdiv_iterations.(#349)
+- Fixed an issue when writing curves.num_points. (#324)
+- Removed warnings when writing the displayColor primvar. (#312)
+
 ## [6.0.3.0]
 
 ### Build

README.md

@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ The render delegate currently supports the following features:
         - Rect Light
         - Cylinder Light
         - Dome Light
+        - Shaping Parameters
+    - ExtComputation
 - BPrim Support
     - Render Buffer
     - OpenVDB Asset
@@ -53,6 +55,15 @@ The render delegate currently supports the following features:
 - Motion Blur
     - Deformation
     - Transformation
+- Rendervar support
+    - Raw Rendervars
+    - Primvar Rendervars
+    - LPE Rendervars
+    - SourceName parameter
+    - DataType parameter
+    - Setting up Arnold filters via "arnold:filter_type"
+        - Filtering parameters via "arnold:param_name"
+        - Filtering parameters via "arnold:filter_node_entry:param_name"
 - USD Skel support
 - HdExtComputation support for polymeshes
 - Render Settings via the Render Delegate
@@ -66,7 +77,6 @@ The render delegate currently supports the following features:
 **Limitations**
 - Crash on linux at startup with usdview : Currently, the arnold library needs to be ld-preloaded to avoid the crash, e.g. `LD_PRELOAD=/path_to_arnold/bin/libai.so usdview scene.usda`
 - No motion blur support for the Point Instancer attributes
-- Can’t preview arbitrary primvar AOVs
 - No basisCurves
 - No field3d volume grids
 - Not all the parameters are accessible through the render settings
@@ -78,7 +88,6 @@ The render delegate currently supports the following features:
 - No coordsys support
 - No per face material assigments
 - Can't open textures from usdz files
-- Only 8 bit precision for the rendered buffers
 
 ## Node Registry Plugin
 
@@ -100,7 +109,7 @@ The Node Registry plugin supports the current features:
 
 The procedural supports the following features:
 
-- USD shapes
+- USD Geom primitives
     - UsdGeomMesh
     - UsdGeomCurves
     - UsdGeomBasisCurves
@@ -111,19 +120,22 @@ The procedural supports the following features:
     - UsdGeomCylinder
     - UsdPointInstancer
     - UsdVolume
+    UsdGeomCamera
     - primvars are translated as user data
-- USD Lights
+- USD Lux primitives
     - UsdLuxDistantLight
     - UsdLuxDomeLight
     - UsdLuxDiskLight
     - UsdLuxSphereLight
     - UsdLuxRectLight
     - UsdLuxGeometryLight
-    - Support for textured lights (dome and rectangle)
+    - Support for textured lights (dome, rectangle and geometry)
 - USD native shaders
     - UsdPreviewSurface
     - UsdPrimVar*
     - UsdUVTexture
+    - Per channel connections via adapter nodes
+- UsdSkel support
 - Arnold shaders supported as UsdShade nodes (where info:id gives the shader type)
 - Support for any additional Arnold parameter in USD nodes (e.g. attribute `primvars:arnold:subdiv_iterations` in a UsdGeomMesh)
 - Support for any Arnold node type (e.g. USD type ArnoldSetParameter gets rendered as arnold `set_parameter` node)
@@ -132,8 +144,6 @@ The procedural supports the following features:
 **Limitations**
 Currently unsupported:
 - Nurbs
-- Cameras
-- Connections to input attribute channels
 
 ## Testsuite
 Running the arnold-usd testsuite requires the latest version of Arnold, that can be downloaded at