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Just in time!
Only a whopping 6 years and one and an half months after its first mention during Keynode 13 and to the day exactly 5 years after the release of the The Humble Quad Bundle, you can finally hold it in your own hands. Not exactly as the full release we had planned but as a preview:
To our own surpise we couldn't finish all the things we had planned to release today. Most notably the "windows executable export" didn't make it. We know this is a bummer, but we want to get this right and it just needs some more time.
Apart from that we figured there is no more need at this point, to keep it to ourselves. It is definitely good enough for a preview, definitely good enough to gather some feedback to incorporate into the final 1.0 release for which we take some more time to finish our plans. So let's have a look at what we got:
LanguageBesides staying true to its nature of being a an easy to use and quick prototyping environment, vvvv is also a proper programming language with modern features, combining concepts of dataflow and object oriented programming:
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Node LibraryWhile for now the number of libraries we ship is limited, the fact that you can essentially use any .NET libary directly mitigates this problem at least a bit. Besides there is already quite some user contributions available in the wip forum and here is what we ship:
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To accommodate for the fact that from now on we essentially have 2 products, we added two main categories to the forum:
The existing question, feature, bug, general sections were moved into vvvv beta, and the vvvv gamma section got its own question, feature, bug and general sub-sections. Note that by default the search is constrained to the category you're currently viewing. When you're using vl in beta, still feel free to ask questions in the beta forum. We'll handle that.
Head over to this forum section to watch some video tutorials:https://discourse.vvvv.org/c/tutorials
We've previously announced the upcoming pricing model for vvvv gamma, which we're currently refining and we'll update you on changes to it soon.
Until further notice, the previews of vvvv gamma are free of charge but due to its preview-nature we don't recommend using it in commercial scenarios yet.
Here you go: vvvv gamma 2019.1 preview 975
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Apart from the promised and still missing parts, we're aware of quite some little glitches still and will update the download link above periodically. So please check back often and report your findings!
Yours truely,
devvvvs.
And here we are, another fresh DirectX11 release, which gives a nice 1.3 bump.
Two small issues decided to hide themselves in latest 1.3, and since they are annoying enough they deserved a quick fix and a 1.3.1 bump:
Also since it got implemented, TextureFX shaders that can use "wantmips" now do so (Edge, Blur, BlurDirectional, BlurGlow, BlurPerfector, DistortFlow, DropShadow, UnsharpMask)
.They are all faster in that scenario.
For impatient people, here are release highlights:
For spreadable technique example, see: girlpower\misc\texturefx_technique_spread folder
I of course wanted to say thank you to people who did either a Patreon subscription, or by doing private yearly invoice.
There is now an About (DX11) node, which has the names of all Contributors and Supporters.
http://www.patreon.com/mrvux
For next release, the main aim is to upgrade to latest version of Assimp (and it's c# wrapper).
This will allow to import the newly supported formats (gltf), and use more complete wrapper version (specially for loading options).
Please note that latest Assimp binaries will be incorporated in next alpha build (github).
Download Here :
directx11-nodes
It's been a little while again, but here it is, new Directx11 version.
There are many changes around, so I'm not too sure where to start.
First thing, versioning has been updated, no more alpha/beta, that joke about "software is always beta" made it's time, but as we say, shortest jokes are the best, and for many users that sounds pointless and confusing, so now build is adopting a more formal version naming eg : release, with beta and alpha being used for in between releases.
Second thing, build system has been reworked and now uses a build server, which allows direct update to git releases, so users who want to try out early releases can do so much more conveniently viahttps://github.com/mrvux/dx11-vvvv/releases
No more need to build the pre releases yourself.
This also means that users can expect more frequent releases.
Second thing was in the list for a long time, interface has been changed (basically
IDX11ResourceProvider and friends have been replaced by IDX11ResourceHost version and friends. Removing IPluginIO is necessary as it creates some major issues going forward (and never got used anywhere inb the codebase anyway).
For this release ResourceProvider is working alongside Host (it is now marked as deprecated and will be removed from git version pretty much as soon as I finished this post.
Sadly, LayerProvider could not be made to work alongside Host version, so those have been removed already. From what I know there's no custom plugins using it (or they already move to new interface), so on a user perspective there should be no transition issue.
As usual, I think I should have a ready to paste version, and maybe an auto bot to reply in forums, bugs are to be submitted herehttps://github.com/mrvux/dx11-vvvv/issues
Ok now let's go past those (boring) announcements details and go through what every user wants eg : What's new (and download obviously)
Internals:
New Nodes (or new options in node):
Fixed Nodes:
Examples:
Lot of new examples and help patches (20+ from Assimp, Semantics...)
So for users who did read all and did not scroll hear (or just skipped and went straight into contribution page):
Download here:
directx11-nodes
Holy patchers!
To answer the often contemplated question of "Where the hell is this all going?" we first have to establish that vvvv is different things for different people. Let's have a look at some of these different perspectives:
■ vvvv - a generative designers best friend
■ vvvv - a data visualizers wonder weapon
■ vvvv - an interaction designer's magic wand
■ vvvv - the multiscreen solution
■ vvvv - physical computing covered
■ vvvv - a projectionmapper's dream
■ vvvv - rapid prototyping on steroids
■ vvvv - your procedural lighting desk
■ vvvv - computervision for everyone
■ vvvv - stage? show? control!
■ vvvv - fish feeding for the lazy
■ vvvv - L.A.S.E.R zzzz!1!!
That's all?, we hear you say...and you mumble on, but can I please has:
■ vvvv - a tool for machines to learn
■ vvvv - easy logic for gamers
■ vvvv - visual scripting done right
■ vvvv - klickklickklick your mobile app
■ vvvv - the no-brainer IOT toolbox
■ vvvv - the final webdev solution
■ vvvv - an admin's batching buddy
■ vvvv - robots dig this
■ vvvv - no controller too micro
■ vvvv - from sound to noise in one patch
■ vvvv - any shaders of gray
■ vvvv - scratch that: kids taken seriously
Well, vl, vl, we hear ya.. and that's exactly why at the heart of it all, we have always been, and will continue to work on:
■ vvvv - a multipurpose toolkit
When we started working on VL, we never thought about creating anything different than vvvv. We had our issues with vvvv and wanted to solve those. But mostly we loved it and wanted to keep the good things we still enjoy about it. Essentially we set out to rewrite vvvv to make it better, nothing more.
So it is our great pleasure that we can finally annouce the impending release of what we've so far been referring to as "VL standalone":
For a start, vvvv gamma will focus on 3 main scenarios:
Frankly it will be gorgeous and above all shine through the following features:
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Nope, don't think vs., we prefer to think ♥!
Here is how to read this: Over the past years we've been R&D'ing a next generation visual programming language that we dubbed: VL. And we still call it that: VL is a programming language, just like c#, that now happens to power two of our products:
While for vvvv beta, VL is just another language it supports, for vvvv gamma, VL is the core. As such, both beta and gamma will continue to profit as we progress with VL. We are well aware of the fact that gamma is not going to replace beta for everyone anytime soon. We're therefore commited to support both equally for the foreseeable future.
If you're interested in a few more details regarding how we'll be polishing vvvv gamma for its initial release, please head over to our roadmap.
We're still working this out and will update you on licensing early next year.
As we've previously reported from our lab, our initial efforts of integrating the Xenko 3d engine couldn't have gone much smoother. We have helped realize a complex multiuser VR project within just 4 months besides our research and now know that this is certainly the way for us to go forward. VL.Xenko will complete vvvv gamma to a fancypantsy interactive 3d authoring environment.
We're confident to be releasing an initial public version of VL.Xenko before 2019.Q4 and we have some ideas for a prerelease phase that we'll announce soon.
Thanks for using vvvv, thanks for your feedback on VL, thanks for your patience, thanks for the licenses you buy which makes this journey possible for all of us.
Have a nice holiday, get some rest, because 2019 will be the year of the vvvv desktop!
yours,
devvvvs.
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in an attempt to save the collected wisdom of node13 for posterity this blogpost aims to provide a reference of where all the stuff that was handed out during node13 workshops went.
more is promised...will update this posting as material comes in.
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