What's new in 4​.3​.0

Limited release: This a limited release of XR. It does not contain all of the features and tools that are described in this documentation.

New features

These features are new or changed in the AVEVA™ XR 4.3.0 release.

• XR studio can now update existing projects using Project Uplift.

• XR Viewer Cloud emulation target environment has been added into XR Studio.

• New 2D nodes contextual actions available in Graphic Context to improve UX interface creation. See 2D nodes that derive from RectBase2D in Features for Specific Node Types.

• Improved Area Selection in Graphic Context.

• New ZGL2POPMesh importer.

• XRS Scripting Language improvements and new functionalities.

New nodes

These nodes have been modified or enhanced in this release.

• POPMesh

• POPManager

Modified nodes

These nodes have been modified or enhanced in this release.

• FgiState - Added new direct light management.

• Avatar - Has new height track features in VR.

Deprecated and Discontinued

Deprecated features

Functionality is marked as deprecated when a specific function or feature is still supported in the current release, but might be removed in a future release. We advise that you phase these features out of your projects and begin to use alternative features.

• CVP3DVSManager node has been deprecated. Use CVSCloudManager instead.

• Camera cave fields - Cave visualization management should now be done through the newly introduced Viewport node.

• Legacy 2D nodes - These legacy nodes are kept because they appear inside some old module scripts.

• setfield and setlocal attributes in Command node and statements.

Removed fields

Due to improvements to direct light management in FgiState node, the fields shadows.position and shadows.target have been removed. When opening old projects, graphic contexts that contain values in these fields will produce an ERROR in the log. The first time the graphic context is saved, the error gets automatically resolved. Please note that this can lead to some shadows issues when running old framework versions.

Security updates

We made the following security updates.

• Updated libexpat to 2.6.3 on ARF 5.2.2

• Updated OPCFoundation.NetStandard.Opc.Ua.Core to 1.5.374.124 on XR Bridge 4.3.0

• Various SCA fixes

• All solutions are now compliant with AVEVA minimum security ruleset