Vuo releases

With this release came numerous new nodes and example compositions, as well as many bug fixes and usability improvements. New features include:

• 3D object filter nodes to warp 3D objects
• Stereoscopic rendering nodes for 3D imaging (premium)
• A mesh warping node for rendering on planetariums, domes, and other surfaces (premium)
• A barcode scanning node that finds barcodes within images
• Window and screen nodes to control a composition’s fullscreen status and other window parameters
• Audio output for the movie player node
• A Cocoa API to make it easier for developers to integrate Vuo into their Mac applications

This release adds many new nodes and other features, including:

• Nodes for audio input/output, useful for music visualizations, sound effects, and audio playback
• Nodes for keyboard input, useful for adding keyboard controls or text input to graphics windows
• Nodes for iterative graphics, useful for drawing multiple 2D or 3D objects at a time
• Improved support for UI design
  • Nodes for animation
  • Nodes for interaction with layers
  • Nodes for layers with shadows
• Improved support for using Vuo compositions as plugins in 3rd-party applications
  • Ability to create a composition whose published ports match a protocol (Image Filter or Image Generator), providing an interface between the composition and the application
  • Reduced Vuo framework size by 25%
• Added an “event throttling” setting to help prevent compositions from slowing down when events are firing faster than the user’s computer can process them

This release fixes a couple critical issues in Vuo 0.6.0:

• Fixed issue causing exported apps to crash. (Thanks to @bareimage1 for reporting this issue.) [#7620]
• Fixed issue where the output of the Change Wrap Mode node might flicker between the original and changed values. [#6523]

This release introduces many new nodes — lighting in 3D scenes, cameras that look at points, image filters, and more. We’ve added the ability for 32-bit applications to build, run, and control a Vuo composition, making it possible for more VJ applications to integrate Vuo. Also we’ve made many, many Vuo Editor improvements, for improved usability and a smoother experience, and implemented several bug fixes and features requested by the Vuo community.

This release fixes a critical issue with generic nodes, and a few other issues:

• Fixed Vuo Editor crashes when opening compositions or instantiating generic nodes on some systems (systems where Xcode Command Line Tools was not installed). (Thanks to @cermaerd, @architek1, @bareimage1, and @pixelnoizz for helping us track down this problem!) [#7237]
• Fixed crash that occurred when publishing the input of a drawer, then publishing the input “list” port of the drawer’s host node. [#7243]
• Fixed editor hang after publishing a generic port, specializing the port, and then Undoing. [#7138]
• Fixed Display Scene example composition (its scene filename had been corrupted). [#7240]