Release Notes/2021.30000/next
These are the release notes for our upcoming release. Welcome to the "insider club"!
Known Issues
All Builds
- 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.
macOS Specific
- macOS - Texture flickering in floating windows on Apple Silicon Macs.
- palette:particlesGpu - On macOS, no longer crashes but still doesn't work yet.
- USD COMP - Not working yet.
macOS Apple Silicon Build Specific
- 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.
Build 2022.23300 - May 09, 2022
New Features
- 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.
New Python
- 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.
New Palette
- 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.
Bug Fixes and Improvements
- Scalable Display TOP - Upgraded to SDK v8.0
- 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.