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Previously on vvvv: vvvvhat happened in May 2021
Helo from the devvvvlabs!
If you look at our roadmap, you can see that we had 2021.4 planned for release in June. Now that didn't happen. Here is what happened instead: Guess what, some things took longer than anticipated. So let's recap the state of currently available 2021.4 previews. Besides numerous bug fixes, here is what you already get:
- Speed improvements for working on larger projects are there, but still with some buggers
- TextureFX are there but will see one more round of polishing
- Spout nodes recently got a final polish
- Some little goodies: Renderer ViewPorts, MeshSplit (Experimental), Pipet (Experimental), a non blocking BufferReadback, Custom material overrides, ShaderFX node factory, automatic ShaderFX input pins for all shader types
- Reworked, convenient Buffer and Texture creation nodes have recently been added
- Explicit Type Parameters have recently been added, see discussion
- The This node can be used inside of Create, see discussion
Still in the works for the release: a UI for Settings, simple shader creation, Entity picking, a TexturePlayer. Other things like the planned NuGet update are currently on hold and may have to be moved to the next release.
As many of you do, you can always help by testing the latest previews and reporting issues in the forum!
Meetup
Missed the 12th online meetup? Here is what you missed exactly:
- hadasi Transforming Skeletons
- baxtan Animating Robotic Arms
- aka-visuals VL.Fresnel and MegaScans Materials
- Max: First semester student project
- Han: First semester student project
- sebescudie VL.MLNet Model Runner
- FUSE team: VL.Fuse update
Contributions
New:
- VL.SettingsReader by ravazquez
- VL.Fresnel by aka-visuals
- VL.Teximp by aka-visuals
- VL.MLNet by sebescudie
- VL.Fuse by the FUSE team
Update your nugets for the following:
- VL.Video.MediaFoundation
- VL.HapPlayer
- VL.IO.PLY
- VL.IO.Firmata
- VL.IO.OSC
- VL.IO.NDI
- VL.Elementa
- VL.Devices.uEye
And takuma released his 6th vvvv gamma learn log!
Gallery
Jobs
- Always keep an eye on the vvvv job board
- There are often some more on dasauge.de
- If you need a vvvv specialist or are one yourself, check out this listing of vvvv specialists available for hire
That was it for June. Anything to add? Please do so in the comments!
Who evvvveryone
When Tue, Jun 22nd 2021 - 20:00 until Tue, Jun 22nd 2021 - 21:30
We're meeting up on June 22nd, 8pm CET to catch up and get insights into what everyone is patching on. How will this work? Something like the last time. So please fill up your bucket of popcorn and invite all your vvvvriends and vvvvamily to join us!
Want to share your work?
Please do! Anything more or less related to vvvv, yourself and your projects. Share some thoughts, share your funny fails. Or just ask some questions...
No sign-up, no line-up! We'll just have this an open call that anyone can join. Surprise!
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88304799231
Any questions? Get in touch via meetup@vvvv.org. See you there!
Dear patchers,
this is vvvv beta 42, with mostly one significant change over the previous release:
- Now includes VL 2021.3.3, which gives you access to all the latest VL libraries and many new features and fixes for VL itself. For full details, see the Change Log of the VL 2021.3.x series
Offline Installers
32bit Version: core addons
64bit Version: core addons
Previously on vvvv: vvvvhat happened in April 2021
What's on and going?
I can tell you that:
We've just released a 2021.3.3 bugfix release including a killer feature: console export. think about it...
Then if you're brave enough to test drive the 2021.4 previews you'll now see the promised speed improvements while patching when working on larger projects. We're still aware of some hoops there, so please be gentle and report all your findings with this.
Coming up next: We're still working on smoothing out issues with TextureFX, building a UI for the settings and improving the NuGet integration for the coming release. Plus, if we're lucky there'll be some surprise goodies ready in time...
Meetup
In case you missed it, you really missed some things. Here are the chapters from the last meetup for you to rewatch:
- Fynn: about the MMODG VVVVarkle he implemented in his 6 week internship with us
- robotanton advertising his (then) upcoming webinar
- lasal showing the multitrack midi composer he's working on
- gegenlicht about his reseach into ShaderFX
- sebl demoing the use of his latest nuget: VL.OpenAI
Contributions
New:
Update your nugets for the following:
And as always have a look at the forums Work-In-Progress section for some more recent goodies...
Gallery
Jobs
- Always keep an eye on the vvvv job board
- There are often some more on dasauge.de
- If you need a vvvv specialist or are one yourself, check out this listing of vvvv specialists available for hire
That was it for May. Anything to add? Please do so in the comments!
Who evvvveryone
When Tue, May 25th 2021 - 20:00 until Tue, May 25th 2021 - 21:30
We're meeting up on May 25th, 8pm CET to catch up and get insights into what everyone is patching on. How will this work? Something like the last time. So please fill up your bucket of popcorn and invite all your vvvvriends and vvvvamily to join us!
Want to share your work?
Please do! Anything more or less related to vvvv, yourself and your projects. Share some thoughts, share your funny fails. Or just ask some questions...
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82649127304
Any questions? Get in touch via meetup@vvvv.org. See you there!
This is the big one!
vvvv has been in development for around 20 years by now. In recent years we were working on a complete re-write. We call it "vvvv gamma" and it saw its first official release in April 2020. Today we're adding a fully-fledged 3d library based on the open-source Stride 3d engine. You can dive right into it:
Bugfix releases:
- 2021.3.3 on May 20, 2021
- 2021.3.2 on April 7, 2021
- 2021.3.1 on February 27, 2021
See Change Log
Then follow this tutorial:
What you get with this release is only the beginning: For now we've focused on a high-level scene graph based workflow. So expect the following:
- Primitives: Plane, Box, Sphere, Cylinder, Cone, Capsule, Donut and Teapot
- Instancing: Via spread of transforms, other entities or buffers
- Lights: Ambient, Directional, Point, Spot, Projector, Skybox
- Shadows: On by default, configurable in quality/resource-consumption
- Materials: Highly configurable PBR workflow through a large set of nodes, incl. easy normalmapping, displacements,...
- Textures: From file, video, Spout, Skia, HTML or renderer
- Texture Feedback: Yes, please!
- Texture Readback: Absolutely, think pipet,...
- PostFX: Highly configurable via a set of nodes, think: depth-of-field, bloom, ambient-occlusion, ...
- Dynamic Meshes: Generate meshes using vertex- and indexbuffers on CPU
- Shaders: Pixel, Vertex, Geometry, Compute. Write your own using full syntax highlighting in VisualStudio with hot-reload
- Assets from file: Load textures and models directly from file
- Assets from Stride Game Studio: Prepare assets and complete scenes in game studio
- Windowing: Easy handling of multiple windows (and cameras)
- Misc: Render Skia and HTML content directly onto the screen (ie. no texture-pass needed)
Experimental
Also available already, but still marked as experimental, ie they still need another round of review:
- Keyboard, Mouse, Touch Input handling
- TextureFX: Basic selection available, more to come
- Physics: Nodes for 3d physics simulation
- VR: Effortless output to VR devices
- Buffers: Nodes to configure gpu buffers
- ShaderFX: Nodes to patch shaders visually
Still to come
And to give you a heads-up, here are a few things you might expect already but are yet to come:
- Loading models does not bring all their materials and animations in yet. To get a model's materials showing automatically, you need to load them as an AssetModel via an extra Stride project. Animations are for now only supported when loading Prefabs
- Simple Text Rendering: for now best done via Skia or HTMLRenderers
- Things you'd do with the most popular vvvv beta contributions InstanceNoodles, DX11.Particles and FieldTrip are currently worked on by the FUSE team
There is more info on that in this dedicated blog post.
Open Source
You read that right: The whole 3d library is entirely open source. This means, should you encounter a critical bug with one of your projects you don't have to wait for a new release but can potentially fix things right on your end.
Further changes
Apart from the addition of VL.Stride this release also features the following notable changes:
- Completely reworked OSC and TUIO nodes
- Image tooltips
- A simple HTTPGet node
- Touch support for the Skia renderer
- MainLoop has incremental mode
- Convenient ways to create Toggle, Bang & Press IOBoxes
Want to know all the details? Check the changelog.
Licensing
As you recall, vvvv has the best software licensing model in the world:
- Free for non-commercial use
- No copy-protection
- No feature limitations
- No mandatory registration
You simply buy a license the moment you start working on a commercial project. We also have monthly options!
End of the earlybird discount
We're happy to announce that we will get rid of the 20% earlybird discount that has applied to all vvvv gamma licenses so far. Starting this April 1st you can finally pay the full price that vvvv gamma is worth. So if you're a pro, you get the vvvv gamma developer licenses for you and your team before that date and save a bunch. Not often it is so easy to make a good decision.
Once again massive thanks to everyone who participated in the early-access program and for all the feedback that helps us enormously to bring vvvv forward.
Good patch!
Who robotanton
When Fri, May 28th 2021 - 14:00 until Fri, May 28th 2021 - 17:00
Where Online, Germany
Another one:
This workshop is for generative artists who start to explore the power of vvvv gamma’s 3D Engine (VL.Stride).
The online Workshop will guide you through the process of creating the title image used for the release of vvvv gamma 2021.3 as seen here.
In the course of 3 hours we’ll create this generative image step-by-step without cutting any corners. Every single topic and technique involved will be covered, only as much as needed. To be honest, we’ll just scratch the surface of what’s possible, but this will give you a good head start into the amazing construction kit that vvvv is.
You will learn how to:
- Create a generative 3d structure
- Render the scene efficiently by using instancing
- Define and assign materials to the instanced objects
- Deal with performance issues while rendering the 4k image
- Split up the patch into separate parts to avoid a mess and enhance performance, even when you are "just" prototyping.
Requirements:
- You should be familiar with the basics of patching in vvvv gamma.
- These videos will help you with that:
Recording:
- This workshop will be recorded. In case you cannot make it on the date of the event, you will have the possibility to purchase a separate access to the recording afterwards.
- By buying a ticket for this live workshop you agree that your image, voice and screenshare are part of the recording and thus will be available for everyone afterwards.
Webinar: https://thenodeinstitute.org/event/shiny-generative-graphics-with-vvvv/
Hi all!
For the 10 people still using VPM these days, today VPDB (or vvvvpm.github.io) the frontend for installing packs via VPM will probably stop working as Github stops supporting the application authentication method that site was using. Unfortunately I don't have time nor incentive to maintain that site anymore. VPM doesn't require this site to work, however it was a key part of installing packs with it. Direct links using the vpm:// or vpms:// URI schemes still work, for example on contribution pages. vpack files uploaded to VPDB are actually safe and sound at https://github.com/vvvvpm/vpdb repository.
In case you desperately need to install something from that repo, you can use the raw content URL of a file from the repo and just replace the http part with vpm. For example
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vvvvpm/vpdb/master/devvvvs/vvvv/latestalpha_auto.vpack
becomes
vpms://raw.githubusercontent.com/vvvvpm/vpdb/master/devvvvs/vvvv/latestalpha_auto.vpack
Or you can clone that repo and just use VPM file associations on .vpack files.
Sorry for the inconveniences and god-speed!
Previously on vvvv: vvvvhat happened in March 2021
So what have we got?!
Releases:
- There was a vvvv gamma 2021.3.2 release and you can now update your vvvv gamma licenses with a 20% discount
- And for vvvv beta latest previews now include VL 2021.3 already as well
We're in full swing working towards vvvv gamma 2021.4 and latest previews already include the promised TextureFX and are shipping with VL.Video.MediaFoundation for super easy VideoIn and VideoPayer nodes! If all goes well, next up we'll merge the improved patching performance branch into the previews...
Meanwhile, we added the following 3 offers to our portfolio:
- Want a quick intro to vvvv? Request a demo
- Want to get started with vvvv: We offer custom training
- Need a hand with a project? We offer custom support and development
Meetup
The last meetup was one continuous 2h and 24 minute long highlight, smoothly operated by baxtan. Here is what you missed (in case):
- Emanuel Gollop about his work with Robots and Machine Learning
- sebescudie about his Gamma Launcher & VL.ColorLovers
- m box about their inhouse toolkit built using vvvv gamma
- Bersun about his architectural synthesizer
- andresc4 about using vvvv for testing a covid ventilator
- gegenlicht about his PBR Utilities
- The FUSE Team about the status of the FUSE development
Contributions
New:
An update:
Update your nugets for the following:
And as always have a look at the forums Work-In-Progress section for some more recent goodies...
Gallery
Jobs
- Always keep an eye on the vvvv job board
- There are often some more on dasauge.de
- If you need a vvvv specialist or are one yourself, check out this listing of vvvv specialists available for hire
That was it for April. Anything to add? Please do so in the comments!
Who sebescudie
When Fri, Apr 30th 2021 - 14:00 until Fri, Apr 30th 2021 - 17:00
Where Online, Germany
Hurray. Another one:
This workshop is for interaction designers who work with vvvv. The online workshop by vvvvamous sebescudie will introduce you to tools enabling you to leverage machine learning capabilities in your own vvvv patches.
As the name of the webinar suggests, we’ll talk about machine learning through the prism of interactive installations. We won’t go into much details inside the math behind it. This is actually the whole point of this webinar: there are some tools out there that can help us leverage the capabilities of machine learning without having to know too much about what’s under the hood.
Through a series of practical examples (and a tiny bit of theory!), we’ll try to understand what machine learning is, and how using it can help us in our everyday patching life, and allow us to do things that would be very tedious to do without it.
You will learn how to:
- What are machine learning and deep learning
- Use RunwayML trained model in your vvvv patches
- Talk to the Wekinator
- Train your own models with Microsoft Lobe
Webinar: https://thenodeinstitute.org/event/machine-learning-for-interaction-designers/
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