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Hello,

sIBL_GUI 4.0.3 is out!

While the minor version has only been bumped by a digit ( 4.0.2 to 4.0.3 ) this is actually an important major build code wise.
A lot of stuff have been reworked under the hood, sIBL_GUI is faster, cleaner and better.

Improvements have been introduced here and there making it more user friendly:

• New slick Ui theme.
• Yes / No To All for various dialogs.
• Ability to purge the Database from invalid entries.
• Views default message.
• Wizard when no Templates are found.
• Support for multiple concurrent instances ( Although it's not recommended for Database integrity ).
• Exceptions reporter.

sIBL_GUI can now act as a TCP server and / or client and be remote controlled or remote control other TCP servers through the new TCP Client Ui and TCP Server Ui Components, for instance I use it at work to communicate with Katana and Maya.

An exceptions reporter that will keep us informed whenever the application encounters an unhandled exception using https://www.crittercism.com/ has been implemented.

sIBL_GUI is now also a proper Python Package available from here:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/sIBL_GUI.

If you have Python, PyQt and pip, you can install it issuing:

Code:

pip install sIBL_GUI 

Now for the fun stats, this release represents:

• Around 580 commits over 5 repositories ( Not accounting the various tests not version controlled or discarded ).
• Around 275000 lines changed.
• Took around 6 months to complete ( Although I had a quieter rhythm compared to the 4.0.0 release ).

Here is the complete Change Log:

sIBL_GUI - 4.0.3 - Stable:

sIBL_GUI 4.0.3 - Stable - Milestone: https://github.com/KelSolaar/sIBL_GUI/issues?milestone=4&state=closed
Umbra 1.0.4 - Stable - Milestone: https://github.com/KelSolaar/Umbra/issues?milestone=4&state=closed
Umbra 1.0.3 - Stable - Milestone: https://github.com/KelSolaar/Umbra/issues?milestone=3&state=closed
Umbra 1.0.2 - Stable - Milestone: https://github.com/KelSolaar/Umbra/issues?milestone=2&state=closed
Manager 2.0.3 - Stable - https://github.com/KelSolaar/Manager/issues?milestone=2&state=closed
Manager 2.0.2 - Stable - https://github.com/KelSolaar/Manager/issues?milestone=1&state=closed
Foundations 2.0.4 - Stable - Milestone: https://github.com/KelSolaar/Foundations/issues?milestone=2&state=closed
Foundations 2.0.3 - Stable - https://github.com/KelSolaar/Foundations/issues?milestone=1&state=closed

• Implemented an unhandled exceptions reporter connected to https://www.crittercism.com/
• Ensure that sIBL_GUI frozen version doesn't require administrator rights on Windows.
• Overall Ui style update ( ScrollBars, Icons, etc... ).
• Add wizard for case when no Templates were found.
• Loader Script Component now uses TCP Client Ui Component interface.
• Implemented mechanism to flush invalid / missing Database entries in Database Operations Component.
• Implemented Yes to All / No to All buttons in relevant dialogs.
• Implemented Trace Ui Component.
• Reloading a Component will reload its dependencies in Components Manager Ui Component.
• Implemented command line support for modules execution tracing through -t, --traceModules parameter.
• Implemented support for per instance logging file.
• Views display user friendly default message.
• Rename Db Component to Database.
• Rename Database Browser Component to Ibl Sets Outliner.
• Add support for Python 2.6.
• sIBL_GUI is now a distributable Python package: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/sIBL_GUI
• Dropped support for XSI_Arnold_Dome_Light, XSI_Arnold_Standard and XSI_MR_Standard Templates.
• Dropped support for 3dsmax versions prior to 3dsmax 2010.
• Dropped support for Maya versions prior to Maya 2011.
• Disable mentalrayGlobals.passAlphaThrough attribute in Maya_MR_Standard and Maya_MR_Lightsmith Templates.
• Fixed various widgets classes, implemented small ui test cases.
• Fixed inconsistent Ui startup verbose level.
• Components are properly displayed in Components Manager Ui Component.
• User Templates are properly imported into the user Collection.

Cheers!

KS

Hi!

The Crittercism reports are working quite well and allowed me to iron out another batch of issues for sIBL_GUI 4.0.5! Hopefully you should see the reporter popping less and less.

Here is the complete Change Log:

sIBL_GUI - 4.0.5 - Stable:

sIBL_GUI 4.0.5 - Stable - Milestone: https://github.com/KelSolaar/sIBL_GUI/issues?milestone=6&state=closed
Umbra 1.0.6 - Stable - Milestone: https://github.com/KelSolaar/Umbra/issues?milestone=7&state=closed
Foundations 2.0.6 - Stable - Milestone: https://github.com/KelSolaar/Foundations/issues?milestone=4&state=closed

• Implemented a better version rank calculation definition allowing to properly compare various version formats.
• Ensured Reporter is not initialising the Crittercism Client API 2 times.
• Handle Templates with no attributes sections.
• Fixed onlineUpdater Component exception when trying to install the Templates in an user defined directory.
• Fixed templatesOutliner Component exception when selected Template has no help file.
• Fixed Search And Replace dialog patterns related exception.
• Fixed Softimage_MR_Standard Template issue related to mia_physicalsun shader intensity being affected by sIbl_Feedback rotation.

Cheers!

KS

Hello!

If you grabbed sIBL_GUI_For_Maya from source you will have some more files that you can ignore ( gatherFiles.sh is the file I use to package the helper script, and the .gitignore file and .git directory are used for version control: http://git-scm.com/ )

The difference between the Stable and the Nightly ( Not really Nightly since I don't do a daily build ) are that the Nightly build is much more unstable and less tested than the Stable.

Voila!

KS

Hi,

Same problem here.
It was working perfectly fine but today I launched the program and nothing happened.
I reinstalled the sIBL again but the issue is still there.

Any ideas?
Thanks.

Kel Solaar wrote on 01/13/13 at 15:31:38:


Hey,

I tried that but it didn't work. sIBL doesn't respond at all.

Thanks.

Yes, it's a very strange thing.
I've been using sIBL over the years and it worked fine all the time on my computer(s).

I tried to uninstall sIBL, re-install it again and tried to launch it specifying a custom preferences directory, but it didn't work.

Where can I find the original preferences directory? So I can delete that folder, maybe that one is causing the issue.

Thanks!

Hi,

After some tests my sIBL is working again
The problem: My antivirus "Avast" was blocking the software.
Why? I have no idea, but this antivirus is all the time updating from the net so, probably it got some unwanted updates which were causing the issue.

Thanks for the support!