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2019.33840

New Limit TOP, Blackmagic Design and AJA audio support, improved .exr file handling, improved Kinect Azure support, bug fixes and improvements.
Release Notes 
Nov 13, 2019
New Features
  • Limit TOP - New TOP based on the Limit CHOP that can clamp, normalize and quantize images. Uses spacial (position) quantization.
  • Kinect Azure TOP - Added parameters for available color controls exposure, brightness, white balance, etc. (Note: There appear to be SDK bugs with exposure and gain settings).
  • Kinect Azure TOP - Added option to use the CPU for body tracking (Note: very slow).
  • Kinect Azure CHOP - Added new hand, handtip and thumb joints now available via Microsoft's SDK update.
  • Kinect Azure CHOP - Added new parameter 'Bone Confidence' to enable bone confidence channels.
  • Kinect Azure TOP / Kinect Azure Select TOP - Added support to capture both live and body-synced video streams at the same time.
  • Audio Device In CHOP - Added support for audio capture from Blackmagic Design and AJA devices.
  • Video Device Out TOP - Added support for audio out using AJA devices.
  • Point File In TOP - Added 'Active' menu option to create a mask of which pixels are valid points. Active is now the default for the alpha channel.
  • Point File In TOP - .exr files are now loaded in RGBA order so that they match files loaded with the Movie File In TOP.
  • Movie File In TOP / Movie File Out TOP / Point File In TOP - Channel order is now saved in the .exr header so that channels can be reloaded in the same order they were saved. Uses a non-standard header attribute.
  • Movie File In TOP - Added support for loading Pixel Aspect Ratio for .exr files. See also OpenEXR.
  • Movie File Out TOP - Added support for saving Pixel Aspect Ratio in .exr files.
  • Movie File In TOP - Added support to load .exr files with arbitrarily named channels.
  • Movie File Out TOP - Added parameters to give custom names to the RGBA channels in an .exr files.
  • Web Server DAT - Parse parameters from URI and add them to a dictionary stored under the 'pars' key in the request dictionary.
  • Engine COMP - Added Info DAT support to get the path to the TouchEngine binary being used.
  • Line MAT - "pscale" attribute added for points.
  • OP Execute DAT - Added new callback onCreate() which is called when the monitored operator is first detected.
New Palette
  • Updated most palette components to improve parameter naming and organization, network cleanup, and Binding to top level parameters.
New Python
  • SysInfo Class - Added rootTime, cpuBits, mainMonitor, numCPUs, numMonitors, xres, yres, tfs.
  • Movie File In TOP - Added python functions to access header data.
  • Movie File In TOP - Added python function that returns a tuple with the available channel names in the file.
  • WebclientDAT Class.request() - Added authentication capabilities to .request() method via keywords.
  • WebclientDAT Class.request() - Added an uploadFile keyword that has the same functionality as the 'Upload File' parameter.
  • Optimized Expressions - OP.fetch() is now optimized in some cases.
Bug Fixes and Improvements
  • Kinect Azure TOP - Added frames and timestamps to the Info CHOP channels.
  • Kinect Azure CHOP - Added frame and timestamp channels.
  • Movie File Out TOP - Renamed additional input parameters from inputred0 to inputr1, inputgreen1 to inputg2, etc.
  • Light COMP - Viewer now uses 'Best Fit' to display the projection area without distortion.
  • Line MAT - Fixed flashing "width" attribute issue.
  • Line MAT - Fixed unexpected changing of points after changing the 'Near' parameter in a Camera COMP.
  • Line MAT - Node's viewer now uses the fixed near and far distances and does not get affected by "Distance Near/Far" parameters in Camera COMP.
  • Point File In TOP - Large point files will now load in cropped rather than distorted when using Non-Commercial licenses with the resolution limitation.
  • Point File In TOP - Now defaults to opening in 'normalized split' mode.
  • Numerous improvements to Point Cloud features and handling in viewers, homing and display etc.
  • Web Server DAT - BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY ISSUE Request['data'] will always come in as a python bytes object instead of a string.
  • Web Server DAT - Fixed some freezes that could occur and other numerous small issues sending data.
  • Web Client DAT - Added an 'Upload File' parameter for the HTTP PUT requests.
BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY
BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY - Web Server DAT request['data'] will always come in as a python bytes object instead of a string.
BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY - The 'uri' key in the request dictionary will now only contain the uri path.