What's new in 4​.4​.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 4.4.0 release.

• XR Viewer Portable WebASM emulation target environment has been added into XR Studio. This viewer runs an XR project inside a browser using the new WASM target.

• Extended VR options by the addition of the support for OpenVRSensor standard.

• Added new RVM to Popmesh and PopMesh Copy importers.

• Provisioned new functionalities to restore Graphic Context Editor Parameters to their defaults.

• Added support to select 2D nodes with area selection.

Modified nodes

These nodes have been modified or enhanced in this release.

• AnnotationBase and derived nodes - Support for line borders and improve touch management.

• Rect2D, Button2D, DropdownList2D, RectShape2D, ButtonShape2D, Slider2D - New image filter functionalities to blend image and colors.

• Inactivitytimer - New fields and functionalities to better track activity and inactivity.

• Global - New mouse lock functionality (only for windows target).

• Viewport, Scene, and several 2D nodes have better support on portable platforms.

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.

• Upgraded ARF_WPF to v143 .

• Enabled secure source code hashing in XRUtils solution.

• DotNetZip replacement from Importers SDK (retarget version 1.4.0)

• Removed MD5 from pop importer SDK.

• Usual libraries update in line with AVEVA standards.