What's New in 4.2

Major Performance and Productivity Improvements

• OpenGL display frame rate (viewport 1) in Miarmy 4.2 is 6X-8X faster than that of Miarmy 4.0
  • This gives us smooth viewport experience even if we have tens of thousands of agents, which used to make Miarmy 4.0 very difficult to work with
  • We are on track to enhance the display performance even further later in Viewport 2.0

• Miarmy internal node communication method (EDT) upgraded and on average this gives us 15% speed up for most simulation logic

• 2X performance improvement for static action based crowd simulation, the static behavior can greatly benefit scenes such as stadiums and squares

• Speed up 5X when exporting Arnold and V-Ray render contents, now we can easily render crowd scene filled with tons of thousands of agents without long wait

• Placement is 6X faster; placement anti-overlap is now 3X-10X (depending on the number of agents) faster, placement node gets optimized and it automatically disables anti-overlap when unnecessary

• Transition map is now more user-friendly and easy to work with
  • Auto selection tool switching
  • Real time update when dragging nodes in transition map window
  • Mouse right click menu

• More friendly agent information feedback mechanism
  • UI will always facing to viewer
  • HP/MP attribute, agent and brain attributes. And more to come

• Blendshape render expanded to Arnold/V-Ray DSO Mode

• Blendshape is more stable now with some feedback

• Layer Cache is more flexible and multiple placement can be cached at the same time with marking dead working

Miscellaneous Upgrades

Compatible with Maya 2016 in Windows, Linux & Mac

• V-Ray for Maya 3.1 Support (Maya 2014 – 2016)

• V-Ray 3.2 3DS Max Support (3DS Max 2014 – 2016)

• V-Ray render offset frames

• V-Ray bounding box bug fixed

• V-Ray batch mode is now more friendly

• Renderman weight file bug fixed

• Aim placement now supports random orientation

• Arnold/v-ray deforming shape adding flag issue fixed

• Auto active decision, action, and

• Added scale in input language

• Easier brain share selection tool

• IK lock with scale now working

• UV pin bug fixed and is now more accurate

• Action can stop in story list if we mark it "final action"

• Aim language can now be inverse direction

• 3ds max rendering, bounding box preview support

• cct + missile crash bug

• Auto ik can work with scene without terrain

• Auto avoid tool can prevent agent from pushing forward/backward