Change Log - vvvv33beta9

released on 01 09 05

for a list of the most important changes to this release have a look at the extra [beta9](TODO INTERNALLINK:beta9) site.

general

saving patches is always fast
fixed bug with pin-inspektors not hiding when value was not changed
when entering a value you can now use both ',' and '.' as decimal seperators
arguments from Args.txt are now appended to commandline arguments
windows can now be toggled 'always on top' (Ctrl+T)
new mainloop mode, with defaults to a new mode where the time is filtered to get smoother animations.
depth buffer pins are in the Inspector now as enumerations to choose the precision.
feedback loops with renderer are much more easier now: create one renderer, write its output texture into the Queue texture (frame count of 1 is sufficient) and use the output of the Queue as a texture in the same renderer.

Torus (EX9.Geometry) discrete Render Object, was a module in former versions of vvvv
DFT (Value) discrete fourier transform
Perlin (2d): smooth 2-dimensional noise function
Perlin (3d): smooth 3-dimensional noise function see Perlin Noise
Cross (3d): creates all combination triplets of the inputs
MAC (Network): Get the physical MAC address from a given network name or IP (all pins spreadable)
Normals (Ex9.Geometry Mesh): calculates normals, tangents, binormals for a mesh
Change (Ex9.Geometry Mesh): outputs 1 when the input-mesh changed in this frame, 0 if the input mesh was equal to the one in the last frame
Change (Ex9.Geometry VertexBuffer): outputs 1 when the input-vertexbuffer changed in this frame, 0 if the input-vertexbuffer was equal to the one in the last frame
Count (Node)
Count (Color)
Count (Enumerations)
IO (Devices IOWarrior40): connect IOWarrior40 by code mercenaries to vvvv
Buffer (EX9.Texture) creates a spread of textures where new images can be written at arbitrary positions (note that texture input and index input not spreadable yet)
Cons (EX9.Texture)
AsVideo (DShow9) added: Create DirectShow video stream from texture
Writer (DShow9): Write a DirectShow video stream to disk
Compress (DShow9): compress a DirectShow video stream with a chosen codec
Separate (String): Splits a given string at the selected separator into slices

- (Complex) addition of complex numbers
- (Complex) subtraction of complex numbers
- (Complex) multiplication of complex numbers
/ (Complex) division of complex numbers
Sqr (Complex) square of a complex number
Sqrt (Complex) the square root of a complex number
Power (Complex) raise a complex number to the power of a second
Cunjugate (Complex) negate the imaginary part of a complex number
Abs (Complex) the absolute value of a complex number, the length
Arg (Complex) the argument of a complex number, the angle to the real axis
Exp (Complex) returns e raised to the power of the input
Ln (Complex) complex natural logarithm, returns the exponent of e to reach the input
Function (Complex) all complex trigonometric and hyperbolic functions
Function (Complex Inverse) all complex inverse trigonometric and hyperbolic functions
Function (Complex Special) special complex functions, Sinc, Gamma, Bessel I0 and Bessel J0, note: if you use only the real input of a complex node, the result is also real (ecxept for special cases of Sqrt, Ln and Power) go to Wikipedia Complex Number to learn more

MainLoop (VVVV) deleted IncrementMode pin, added TimeMode enumeration pin with: Raw (old mode), Filtered (default) and Increment
Gregorian (Astronomy) added Milliseconds output pin
CreateNode (VVVV), DeleteNode (VVVV): added 'Query Save' pin to only optionally ask for saving when deleting/removing a changed patch
Effect(Ex9.Effect): EnableSliceWise removed; Enable spreadable
Optimize(Ex9.Geometry Mesh) now works properly
Fog (EX9.Renderstate) now works properly
Switch (Value Output), Switch (String Output) fixed
Renderers: removed AutoSizeBackbufferPin: a value of 0 now causes autosizing of width and height individually
Renderers: added Outputs: ActualBackBufferWidth/Height, IsFullscreen
Renderers: changed Pin: FullscreenOnClient to ordinary fullscreen switch pin (finally)
TypoSpread: added Spacing pin (1=em). Fixed recalculation bugs. Fixed bug with FillSquare update pin.
DynamicTexture (EX9.Texture Color), DynamicTexture (EX9.Texture Value) now work with all texture formats and types
Info (EX9.Texture): is now spreadable and added Input: Level and Outputs: Depth, Type
Pipet (EX9.Texture) is now spreadable and deals with almost all texture formats, faster
Writer (EX9.Texture) is now spreadable
ScreenShot (VVVV) renamed to ScreenShot (EX9.Texture) and fixed some minor bugs