Functionality
- All integrator types are now supported by the Iterative Solver.
- Continuous Collision Detection (CCD) method is now applied to the collision detection phase. The simulation quality is improved through the use of CCD (which interpolates the past and current position of vertices to find contact points) instead of Discrete Collision Detection (which just detects vertex penetration and finds contacts through a closest-point projection to the surface). Each simulation timestep is more expensive due to this change, but the simulation quality becomes better. With the improved simulation quality, the number of substeps needed can be drastically reduced while retaining the same visual accuracy. This reduction in the number of substeps can often lead to faster simulation times, and is available to the user to tweak.
-Curvature stiffnessattribute is added to zMaterial node.
This attribute makes the tissue more resistant to bending (in overall shape or in surface deformations).
-Attachment Damping(check Damping under Physical Effects) is added, which appears as an adjustable attachment-wise parameter called damping under zAttachment. When attachment damping is enabled, oscillatory/unstable behavior in attachments is reduced.
Note: Attachment damping does not support Maya Cached Playback when resuming simulation from anywhere but the start frame. However, this problem is not present in Ziva Simulation Cache(zCache).
- Maya 2023 is now supported.
--logFileQueryand -logFile flags are added to the ziva commands.
The former flag returns the current log file path and the latter flag allows user to set a custom log file.
- zBone/zTissue/zCloth enable attribute is now connectable.
Bug Fixes
- VFXACT-745 Changing zTet.maxResolution attribute value causes zSolver report error.
- VFXACT-1322 Clearing cache for 2 zSolvers at once throws error.
- VFXACT-1350 Changing a tissue fiber to sub-tissue does not draw the fiber.
- VFXACT-1445 Info query about an invalid tet mesh crashes Maya.
ziva-vfx-utils (v2.1.0) updates
- The refresh speed of Scene Panel 2 is improved.
- The zBuilder file format size is decreased by compressing the file.

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