Release Notes/2021.30000/next

These are the release notes for our upcoming release. Welcome to the "insider club"!

Known Issues

Some TOP networks may display garbage textures on AMD or Intel GPUs.
Some panel borders and buttons elements may not display correctly on hiDPI monitors.

The following operators have not been ported yet
Movie File In TOP / Movie File Out TOP - The Cineform codec does not look like it will be updated for Apple Silicon, so it will not be an option in these builds.

Hap - Add support for new Hap HDR format. A 16-bit movie format that is just as fast to playback as other Hap formats. Slower to encode though.
Added support for 10-bit Window output (using environment variable TOUCH_10_BIT_COLOR=1).
Movie File Out TOP - Added support for encoding Hap R at a much faster speed.

TOP Class.cudaMemory() method is working again.
TextCOMP Class.evalTextSize - Returned text height now includes word wrap and line breaks when the Text COMP 'Type' parameter is set to Multi Line.

Palette:camSchnappr - Fixed a bug in autoblend where blue gamma was not adjusted. Also changed the default for Gamma to 2.0.
Palette:particlesGpu - Complete overhaul removing geometry shaders and making it compatible with macOS. Numerous feature additions for more control over forces and particle attributes.
Palette:SVG - v0.1.4 - Removing a hack that was in place because of an issue in CEF (Chromium).
videoPlayer component - Deprecated and removed. Users should use the Palette:moviePlayer component instead.
Widgets - Improved handeling of relative paths for file and folder selection widget.
- New Relative paths menu
- Use project.paths toggle to allow for customizing how paths are collapsed and expanded relative to the project folder.
- TextArea component now uses the Text COMP. Edit button was removed and a more complete edit mode menu replaces the edit toggle.

Actor COMP - In Bullet simulations fixed a collision shape bug when 'Update Collision Shape' and 'Infinite Mass' are both enabled.
Light COMP - Fixed 'Custom Projection Matrix' parameter not being enabled.
OP Viewer COMP - Turning off 'Interactive' now blocks all panel values from viewed panels.
OP Viewer COMP - Turning off 'interactive' now only affects the viewed panel and leaves the OP Viewer's own panel behaviours active.

Text COMP - Added support for font size, color, skew, tracking and stretch to the specification table.
Text COMP - Added support for a Specification CHOP.
Text COMP - Fixed a bug where word wrap could still be on after switching from multi line to single line mode.
Text COMP - Fixed a bug where the 'Text' parameter value was not updated when deleting text using 'Edit Mode' = Editable (Continuous Update).
Text COMP / DAT Viewer - Fixed a bug with undoing text deletion after a redo.

Movie File In TOP - Fixed bug loading EXR files with partial data windows.
Movie File Out TOP - Fixed incorrect warning message when recording with some codecs.
Text TOP - Improved kerning for Bitmap fonts on Windows when using english text.
Audio VST CHOP - Plugin state crash workaround - Added 'Load Plugin State' parameter to allow for disabling of the feature with unstable plugins (notably Tyrell N6 VST).
Count CHOP - Fixed missing narrow/single sample pulses.
MIDI In CHOP - Option to 'Preserve Pulses' now exposed and fixed bugs causing erratic output.
OpenVR CHOP - Prevent TouchDesigner from closing on SteamVR shutdown.
OP Find DAT - Don't recook unnecessarily when child comment changes.
Fixed issue with panel layout in Palette and OP Snippets. Palette no longer lays out badly when toggling its display on/off.
Performance improvements when navigating networks with a large number of DAT viewers.
DAT viewers are now anchored to the mouse position when zooming with the middle mouse button.