Vuo 1.2.6-alpha2

Vuo 1.2.6 adds 11 community-requested features, fixes 13 community-reported issues, and improves performance and stability. It’s free for people who purchased Vuo 1.2.x.

• Many Vuo Editor workflow improvements, including:
  • Duplicate cables by holding ⌥ (Option) and dragging — now use ⇧ (Shift) to create event-only cables
  • Reorder published ports by dragging
  • Find nodes on the canvas by pressing ⌘F
  • Edit subcompositions without having to close and reopen compositions that use them
• Added 72 nodes, including:
  • 31 nodes for working with tree (XML, JSON) and tabular (CSV, TSV) data
  • 14 image filter nodes
  • 3 nodes for boolean operations on 3D objects
• Added a workaround for a bug in Apple’s AMD X4000 drivers causing system-wide hangs while performing certain intense rendering operations

Read on for all the details.

Built-in Nodes, Types, and Input Editors

• Added 16 nodes for working with tree data (Thanks to @joeladria for requesting this!)
  • Fetch trees from XML and JSON files, including Apple XML Property Lists such as the iTunes Library
  • Get values from and change values in trees
  • Search trees using XPath
  • Format trees as XML and JSON
• Added 15 nodes for working with tabular data (Thanks to @joeladria for requesting this!)
  • Fetch tables from CSV and TSV files
  • Get values from and change values in tables
  • Format tables as CSV and TSV
• Added 14 image filter nodes:
  • Apply Liquid Resizing and Apply Liquid Mask nodes (Pro)
  • Measure Sharpness (Pro)
  • Outline Image
  • Make Grayscale Image
  • Make Sepia Image
  • Ripple Image Radially
  • And several new image filter nodes based on Brad Larson’s GPUImage library (Thanks to @MartinusMagneson for his work on these!) —
    • Make Crosshatch Image
    • Reduce Haze
    • Solarize Image
    • Make Cartoon Image
    • Pixellate Image Radially
    • Make CGA Image
    • Adjust Image Colors — new Vibrance, Temperature, and Tint ports
• Added 27 other nodes:
  • Union, Intersect, and Subtract 3D Objects (Pro) (Thanks to @ajm for requesting this!)
  • Record and Play Values (Thanks to @jersmi for requesting this!)
  • Open Document and Open URL in Browser (Thanks to @marioepsley for requesting this!)
  • Merge XYZW Lists (Thanks to @Kewl for requesting this!)
  • Step Movie Frame
  • Compare Texts
  • File Exists
  • Get ASCII Code
  • Make Transform List (TRS)
  • Flatten 3D Object (Pro)
  • Image → Width/Height type converters
  • List of 2D/3D/4D Point ↔︎ Real type converters
• Added 10 example compositions:
  • Color My World
  • Compare Ripple Types
  • List Countries
  • Look Up Country
  • Look Up Sister Cities
  • Move Seagulls Closer Together
  • Operate on 3D Objects
  • Pixellate Image Radially
  • Record Mouse Clicks to JSON File
  • Remove Parts of Photo
• Made 9 other community-requested improvements:
  • Fixed issue where some Vuo compositions wouldn’t run if Vuo Editor was on a case-sensitive filesystem (Thanks to @timwessman for reporting this issue!)
  • Added support for reading PLY meshes with texture_x/y-style property names, such as those from trn.io (Thanks to @marioepsley for reporting this issue!)
  • Added support for uniform width (screen-space) lines and antialiasing to Shade with Wireframe (Thanks to @tivonrice for requesting this!)
  • Fixed issue where Make Noise Image was blurry at extreme aspect ratios (Thanks to @bLackburst for reporting this issue!)
  • Fixed inaccuracies when converting between Euler and quaternion rotations (Thanks to @Pianomatic for reporting this issue!)
  • Fixed issue where Receive Live Video wouldn’t start receiving video again after being stopped (Thanks to @cwilms-loyalist for reporting this issue!)
  • Fixed issue where the Make Radial/Linear Gradient Image nodes didn’t use Vuo Coordinates (Thanks to @unicode for reporting this issue!)
  • Added a workaround for a bug in Apple’s AMD X4000 drivers causing system-wide hangs while performing certain intense rendering operations (Thanks to @alexmitchellmus for reporting this issue!)
  • Fixed issue where the Sort Points nodes, and the Leap Motion Sort Hands and Sort Pointables nodes, didn’t properly order some lists (Thanks to @Philip for reporting this issue!)
• Changed Receive Live Video to output timestamps starting at 0, instead of using the camera’s arbitrary timestamp
• Added support for data: URIs
• Added support for finding Mac PICT files
• Renamed Ripple Image to Ripple Image Directionally and gave it a “Displacement” port
• Improved overall event-handling performance
• Improved performance of the Sort Points, Sort Hands, and Sort Pointables nodes
• Improved performance of and fixed memory leak in Fetch Data and Convert Data to Text
• Improved performance and increased maximum possible depth when rendering 3D object hierarchies
• Improved performance when rendering graphics to a window
• Added added a workaround for an AVFoundation bug where it reports that a movie has a certain number of audio channels but actually decodes a different number
• Added support for the new Console logging system in macOS Sierra (10.12)
• Fixed issue where exported apps wouldn’t prompt to save screen recordings if you quit while still recording
• Added more 3D object validity tests, and info on OpenGL drivers and connected displays, when debug mode is enabled
• Improved performance of many list nodes
• Improved performance of Change All Shaders when the object has no child objects
• Fixed memory leak when playing movies
• Fixed issue where VuoMidiNote summaries showed the wrong octave for note numbers 0 – 11
• Enabled dynamic GPU switching, which should improve performance if you switch displays while a composition is running
• Added “Preserved Brightnesses” and “Show Images” ports to Make Image by Brightness, and added several brightness types
• Added “Include Children” port to Get Rendered Layer Bounds
• Added “Coordinate Space” port to Shade with Vertex Attribute
• Added “Activate” port to Launch App
• Added “Range Mode” port to Make Noise Image and Make Spherical Noise Image
• Added “Center” and “Height” ports to Vignette Image
• Added triangular and hexagonal modes to Pixellate Image
• Enabled using index variable i in the Calculate List node’s expressions
• Fixed issue where Change All Shaders and Change Shaders with Name would cause objects to stop rendering if no shader was provided
• Fixed issue where Change Shaders with Name would do nothing if NULL text was provided (instead of changing all shaders as expected)
• Fixed issue where where Make Text Layer was sometimes blurry when the anchor was left or right
• Fixed issue where Ripple Image didn’t respect the image’s aspect ratio
• Fixed issue where several scene and layer copying nodes didn’t copy the blend mode
• Fixed a hang when passing a negative number to the “Copies” or “Items per Group” ports on the ‘Copy List Items’ and ‘Copy List Item Groups’ nodes
• Fixed memory leak when rendering multiple copies of the same text
• Fixed memory leak when showing list port popovers
• Fixed memory leak when listing Syphon servers
• Fixed crash when pressing some keys while the composition’s About dialog is focused
• Fixed rare crash when quickly switching OSC devices
• Fixed rare crash when stopping a composition that uses Art-Net
• Fixed issue where Combine 3D Stereo Images produced incorrect output for the stripe/checkerboard modes when on the AMD Radeon R9 M370X GPU
• Fixed issue where Wave would output incorrect values when Time decreased while changing the wave type
• Added workaround for Cocoa bugs when rendering very small windows

Vuo Editor

• Multiple improvements to published ports:
  • Added ability to reorder published ports by dragging (Thanks to @2bitpunk for requesting this!)
  • Fixed issue where the canvas didn’t scroll when dragging a cable past the published port sidebar (Thanks to @Bodysoulspirit for reporting this issue!)
  • Added more ways to connect cables to published ports (e.g., by dragging a cable from one published port and dropping it on another published port or an internal port)
  • Disabled resizing the node library while published port sidebars are displayed, so it doesn’t interfere with published cable drags
  • Stopped copying published ports when copying nodes
  • Fixed issue where published cable drags didn’t track correctly with the cursor after redocking the node library
  • Fixed issue where deleting a published port via the context menu could leave a stranded collapsed type converter on the canvas
  • Started using the Share Value node’s customized name (instead of the nondescript “Value”) when publishing its ports
• Made 4 other community-requested improvements:
  • Added ability to duplicate cables by holding ⌥ (Option) and dragging — now use ⇧ (Shift) to create event-only cables (Thanks to @MartinusMagneson for requesting this!)
  • Added smooth scrolling in the node library (Thanks to @Bodysoulspirit for requesting this!)
  • Fixed issue where backslashes in node titles would duplicate when the composition is reopened (Thanks to @Pianomatic for reporting this issue!)
  • Fixed issue where certain structures of feedback loops would cause the composition to freeze (Thanks to @casdekker for reporting this issue!)
• Added ability to find nodes on the canvas by pressing ⌘F
• Added ability to edit subcompositions without having to close and reopen compositions that use them (however, for now, those compositions still need to stop and restart)
• Added templates for image, layer, and scene compositions
• Made it easier to connect cables to published ports by making the drop zone larger
• Added ability to double-click on or drag a node from the node documentation panel onto the canvas to create a new instance of that node
• Added ability to cancel an in-progress cable drag by pressing Esc
• Repositioned port popovers so they’re always within the visible canvas area
• Repositioned input editors to avoid going behind the dock or off the left side of the screen
• Changed keyboard focus to the canvas when opening a composition, so you can use spacebar-drag scrolling without having to click first
• Stopped offering Get Child Layers and Get Child Objects as type converters since they’re rarely useful in that context
• Stopped offering Summarize Value as a type converter for VuoData since it’s rarely useful in that context
• Made the Fire on Start node the default “Re-fire Event” source when creating a new composition
• Added Allow First Event node to protocol template compositions
• Enabled “Snap to Grid” and “Show Grid Lines” when running Vuo Editor for the first time
• Changed port popover layout to use columns for improved readability
• Enabled word-wrapping in port popovers, and increased the amount of text shown
• Enabled the numpad Enter key to open input editors (just like the central Return key already does)
• Improved performance when compiling the cache
• Added Minimize and Zoom items to Vuo Editor’s Window menu
• Fixed issue where some keyboard shortcuts only worked when at least 1 composition window was open
• Fixed rare crash when closing a composition while it is running in “Show Events” mode
• Fixed rare crash when toggling dark mode
• Fixed rare crash when resizing a list while a protocol composition is running
• Fixed issue where the “Save Changes” dialog would sometimes appear multiple times while quitting Vuo Editor
• Fixed issue where using “Save As” on a subcomposition would fail to reinstall the subcomposition

Documentation

• Made 3 community-requested improvements:
  • Clarified functions in the Calculate node documentation (Thanks to @Kewl for reporting this issue!)
  • Fixed incorrect documentation in the Make Parametric Grid Mesh node (Thanks to @unicode for reporting this issue!)
  • Added information about GPU acceleration to the Image and Scene node set documentation (Thanks to @manuel_mitasch for requesting this!)
• Corrected documentation about which image is where in the Combine 3D Stereo Images node’s stripe/checkerboard modes
• Added more keywords to many nodes, to make them easier to find in the node library
• Added more guidance on choosing a video codec
• Updated instructions for downloading Vuo

SDK

• Added VuoGlContext_perform() which enables nodes to perform operations on the root OpenGL context (as opposed to using a shared context)
• Simplified the VuoImageRenderer API (it no longer requires per-node state)
• Added a README to the root of the SDK archive
• Added more built-in documentation to the command-line tools
• Added ability to use menu input editors without having to create a new type (menuItems port detail)
• Added ability to call VuoDefer() with a NULL argument
• Fixed various minor typos and rendering issues in the API documentation
• Added backtraces when debug mode is enabled and a node fails to restore OpenGL context state
• Added menuItems port detail for the VuoAnchor type, so 3rd-party host apps don’t need to implement a special input editor for that type
• Added an API to access controller names in the BCF2000 nodes
• Added a default step for Real, Integer, and Point ports that don’t explicitly provide one