Foundry has announced a new release of Mari, its 3D painting software. New features of version 4.1 include:
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A new WYSIWYG workflow for colour picking by implementing support for a single OCIO colour-picking colourspace to define all saved colours and colour-picking tool colorspaces.
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The Colourspace toolbar has been refreshed and renamed to the View Transform toolbar. Labels have been replaced with tooltips, controls have been combined, and there is now a visual indicator of the data type being viewed. The Color Manager controls are now hidden when OCIO colour management is enabled.
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A new scalar monitor colourspace to the View Transform, enables users to view scalar data perceptually linear. In a scalar channel, a linear ramp will now appear in a similar fashion as other 8-bit based imaging applications, rather than displaying the raw data like Nuke does. The information as used by Mari is still in the expected data format, providing the best results with the most artist-friendly workflow.
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Visual indicators are added to the Channels palette, to define whether a channel contains colour or scalar data and to display the channel’s bit-depth. This lets users manage channel configurations at a glance.
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A new OCIO Colorspace filter allows users to convert paint target and buffer’s colours to another colourspace within the currently loaded OCIO config, without affecting any channel settings. See Filter Functions.
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Colourspace processing has been optimized. This results in faster project load times.
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The existing GPU accelerated colour management system has been extended for paint data to work with procedurals as well.
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New OCIO role names have been introduced to enable Mari to recognize and use to configure the project’s colorspace defaults.
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When a new object version is added, Mari now attempts to match selection group’s membership across to the new version. This allows you to define selection groups once and have them applied across all subsequent object versions.
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Selection Groups containing selection members that are not present in any active object versions shall now show as grey in the palette.
Mari is available for £1,064 for a perpetual license with one year of maintenance or is available to rent for £499 annually or £49 monthly. Find out more about the new release on Foundry’s website.
