Whats New - Version 8.0.0

April 1 2019

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• RenderMan Python Docs
• Accessing Maya Python Docs
• Accessing RenderMan Ri Docs

RenderMan Python Docs

The RenderMan python docs that deal with scripts intended for use with RfM's RunProgram node can now be conveniently access by Alt + double clicking. For example, Alt + double clicking on the module name "prman",

will open the "PRMan for Python" documentation. Likewise, double clicking on the name of a prman.Ri method such as Sphere,

will open, in Cutter's interanl web browser, a complete listing the Ri method bindings.

Right-mouse clicking will raise a popup menu that will open Pixar documentation on the appropriate section of the Rib and 'C' language bindings.

Accessing Maya's Python Docs

When editing a pymel script the python documentation can be conveniently accessed by Alt + double clicking. For example, doubling clicking on listRelatives of,

    shapes = cmds.listRelatives(sel, s=True)

will open the appropriate documentation in Cutter's internal web browser. Alt + shift + double clicking will open the documentation in the external browser.

Accessing RenderMan Ri Docs

When scripting 'C' language procedural primitives (RiProcedural but not RiProcedural2) the documentation for the 'C' and Rib bindings can be conveniently accessed by Alt + double clicking. For example, Alt + double clicking on "RiTransformBegin",

will open the "Graphics State" documentation.

Right-mouse clicking anywhere in the script will raise a popup menu that will enable a rib file to be generated so that the procedural can be tested without the need to use it in Maya.