Vuo releases

Vuo 1.2.3 fixes 12 community-reported issues and adds several new features. It’s free for people who purchased Vuo 1.2. Highlights include:

• New Make Quad Layer node for perspective projection and affine warping
• New Convert Real List to Audio node
• New Save Data node
• Added “Loop” port to Play Audio File and Decode Movie Image
• Added “Anchor” port to Make Text Layer
• Added input editors for Art-Net, audio, MIDI, video, and Syphon
• Added support for HSL and CMY color channels when converting to/from DMX
• Added support for Kinect models 1473 (second-generation Xbox 360) and 1517 (Kinect for Windows)
• Added workaround for Leap Motion SDK bug where Z-axis tracking is choppy
• Added workarounds for several Cocoa mouse-related bugs
• Fixed issue where the “Open Composition” dialog didn’t show any results when using the Search widget

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Vuo 1.2.2 is a big update that fixes 34 community-reported issues, adds several new features, and improves performance and stability. It’s free for people who purchased Vuo 1.2.0 or Vuo 1.2.1. Highlights include:

• Improved stability when livecoding with subcompositions
• Improved performance of many nodes, including Resize Image, Decode Movie Image, Fetch Image, Pixellate Image, Split Text, Split Text Stream
• Added support for loading and saving more image formats, including WebP
• Added several new nodes: Measure Length, and 5 new 3D/4D Point → Real type converters
• Fixed many issues with image alpha blending
• Fixed inability to broadcast OSC messages on some system configurations
• Fixed reliability issues when livecoding with Build List and Process List
• Added workarounds for many Mac OS X and GPU driver issues

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Over the last month, we’ve been planning the upcoming Vuo 1.3 release, and we made a few improvements to Vuo 1.2:

• In the Fetch RSS Items node, added support for parsing more data: (Thanks to @Eurotrash for requesting this.)
  • tags/categories
  • images inside the HTML <description> tag
  • CDATA titles/descriptions
• In the Make Audio Wave node, added Set Phase port (and “Synchronize Oscillators” example composition) (Thanks to @alexmitchellmus for requesting this.)
• Fixed a crash when updating Make Text Layer faster than the display refresh rate (Thanks to @MartinusMagneson for reporting this.)
• Renamed the Calculate Elapsed Time node to Subtract Times (Thanks to @lov for suggesting this.)

Vuo 1.2’s biggest new feature is subcompositions: the ability to turn a composition into a reusable node in your Node Library.

This release also makes all-around performance improvements, with large compositions taking less time to start up after you’ve hit the Run button and with complex graphics compositions running more smoothly. And this release adds numerous new nodes, including nodes for beat detection, OSC sending, USB HID, and dates/times.

Since the last alpha release, we’ve added several new features:

• Basic support for subcompositions (!)
• New nodes:
  • Read text files
  • Audio beat detection
  • Launch apps and create folders
  • Date-time / calendar
  • Scale and multiply lists
  • URL parsing

…and made some graphics performance improvements, and fixed quite a few bugs.