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vvvv gamma 2019.1 - preview

Update: The latest preview version is here: http://visualprogramming.net

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:

Her majesty... at your service.

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:

What's new compared to the vvvv beta series

General

Trivial installation via an installer
The overall performance is much improved
All your work is automatically backuped
A help browser: press F1! (and wait for it...)
You have quick access to your recent sketches
By default projects are now handled in one file
There are central settings per user, overridable per project
You can pause and step your patches frame by frame
Extensibility: Write plain C# to extend vvvv with custom nodes
Simply use almost any .NET library available e.g. on nuget.org
Proper scope and dependency handling
Structured documentation for your patches. Add summary, remarks, help to elements

close to .NET use msdn, stackoverflow help

Patching

Patches are now zoomable
You can use frames to structure your patches visually
UI runs in its own thread
Tooltips show help and errors
IOBoxes allow for much faster configuration
You can doubleclick a link to insert a node or finish a link with a doubleclick to create a node
Patch your own pingroups
The color theme is now customizable and defaults to dark

Language

Besides 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:

Define your own datatypes (Classes and Records)
Composed Datatypes (Spread of Spread,..)
No more binsizes needed!1!!
Loops to iterate within one frame
Generics
Delegates
Reactive programming
Async data processing (multi-threading)
Easy caching of expensive operations

Node Library

While 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:

A thorough core library for all your basic needs
State of the art 2d drawing with VL.Skia
Effortless computervision via VL.OpenCV
Support for Midi, OSC, ArtNet, Serial,...

Forum

To accommodate for the fact that from now on we essentially have 2 products, we added two main categories to the forum:

Living together in harmony: beta and gamma

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.

Tutorials

Head over to this forum section to watch some video tutorials:https://discourse.vvvv.org/c/tutorials

Pricing

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.

Download

Here you go: vvvv gamma 2019.1 preview 975

Changelog:

975 26 11 19

works with VL.Audio
Fixed race condition between state disposal and OnNext calls in reactive ForEach regions. Was responsible for an access violation in OpenCV tooltips.

959 19 11 19

equals version included with beta39
can now create a node while linking by simply starting to type (double-click not required anymore)
fixed SVGWriter
fixes on bumpy Damper
removed a few unnecessary Damper versions
fixed time step calculation of Damper (Fast)
Dampers can now be used in loops
fixed image tooltip
fix on tooltip layout
some color operation improvements

930 02 11 19

fixed annoyance with nodes being selected instead of dragged
fixed problem with red nodes not updating after installing VL. nugets
fixed time step calculation of Damper (Fast)

923: 31 10 19

added ToVector2/3/4 (Float32)
fixed Tokenizer (Frame)
fixed register services method called too early
fixed regression that timings wouldn't show up on regions
fixed timings not working on Cache region
fixed serializer not dealing with fields of type object correctly
fixed serializer crashing with a stack overflow when data like vectors or colors stored in an object field were re-interpreted as arrays
fixed IL emitter not picking up type dependencies on fields if the type was a generic type instance (https://discourse.vvvv.org/t/weird-reference-documents-behavior/17949)
added Random implementation for RGBA
fixed hue calculation and minor improvements in color space conversions
added String <-> Array<Char> conversions
shutdown dialog now lists unsaved documents
installer adds windows defender exceptions

827: 09 10 19

setup.exe is now signed and shouldn't trigger "windows protected your PC popup anymore"
added Quad>Windows>Key/MouseDisplay
fixed GrayScale Skia ColorFilter
added Damper/Oscillator 2D, 3D
Packages are now in AppData\Local\vvvv\nugets

703: 16 09 19

tooltip performance improved
ImageReader now returns correct format of images
added FromBytes (SKImage)
added Resize (SKImage)
LinearSpread now has Phase input
added midi ProgramChange node

667: 03 09 19

added IsEven/IsOdd nodes
added Morph node
added MultiFlipFlop node
added ConnectAll node
added CounterFlop
added Random (Centered)
added Sort (FormerIndex)
added OrderBy (FormerIndex)
added IndexOf (KeySelector)
added Search
added Search (KeySelector)
added Resample nodes (Point, Linear, Repeat, Hermite, BSpline)
Switch node can now have more than 2 inputs
Filter node now has TweenerMode exposed
Nodebrowser now also looks for tags in nugets
FromImage (Skia) now has options for the case of R16->R8
FromImage (Skia) now handles 24->32bit conversions
ADSRSettings has optional inputs for Attack, Decay and Release curve settings
ADSR has an input to set a new clock at any moment
fixed AddRange (Array) of SpreadBuilder
updated VL.OpenCV to 0.2.129-alpha

618: 22 08 19

SVG/PDFWriter now deal with background correctly
improved some warnings
increased max tooltip height

615: 21 08 19

more tweaks for tooltips
Ctrl+F now also considers nodes category
updated to VL.OpenCV 0.2.122

573: 08 08 19

pin tooltips now show their infos again when available
copying messages from tooltips is now via ctrl+shift+c
added simpler Mouse and Keyboard (Skia.IO) nodes
skia primitives (rect, circle,...) now come in two versions, instead of as overloads
updated to VL.OpenCV 0.2.121

552: 01 08 19

reworked tooltips
new settings: MouseMiddleButtonOpens to activate middleclick to open patches of nodes
addded node: FromImage (MutableArray)
added skia ColorFilter nodes: Transform, Brightness, Contrast, Grayscale, LUT

411: 12 06 19

Value to bytes nodes now have defaults
Fixed somehow newly introduced crash in patches making use of serialization (like Tilda) or reflection API (like the runtime-model-editor demos)
Fixed accumulators on loops being auto-disposed causing object disposed exceptions in more complex patches (ike Tilda)
Fixed Sampler (Reactive) getting stuck in an endless loop if upstream observable crashed (also seen in Tilda)

406: 10 06 19

Fixed crash when creating IOBoxes in regions while linking
Fixed pin highlights when linking via region border point
Fixed application restart with F8/F5
Skia gradient nodes rework

398: 05 06 19

fixed couple of regressions in compiler introduced between 369 and 380
fixed splash screen flicker
fixed a null exception on startup

380: 01 06 19

fix for Tokenizer (Frame/Postfix) with empty separators

369: 27 05 19

Skia PerfMeter (F2) now measures full paint time
fixed "Countdown" output of Trigger node
fixes in compiler
performance improvements in compiler
added pixel format R32G32F to imaging
fixed a freeze in Tokenizer
added Tab, CR, LF, CRLF nodes
added serializer for Range
theme and interaction improvements
added Skia checkerboard style that can be used as a paint
fixed removing .vl doc references

344: 14 05 19

PerfMeter in Skia renderer (F2) now shows UpdateTime and RenderTime
added checkerboard style that can be used as a paint for any layer
improved scrolling behaviour for sliders
CoreLib improvements
sped up RepellingCircles demo patch
several compiler fixes
compiler performance improvements

318: 09 05 19

frames now let you choose colors from a palette instead of the color chooser
frames now move their content along as you drag on their titlebar
frames now only move elements that are fully contained
frame is now included in the "surround with" context menu
press SPACE to force-include frames in selections
in inspektor changing precision for floateditor now also sets precision for min, max and stepsize.
can now grab border control points on regions properly without interfering with region resize
default culture setting is now invariant

303: 08 05 19

fixed missing dependency for VL.OpenCV

301: 07 05 19

windows timer is set to 1ms on start
mainloop uses less performance and doesn't block windows messages
Skia Renderer has PerfMeter build in, toggle with F2 when selected
fixed dpi problem with text in SymbolFinder
ctrl+T/ctrl+shift+T to bake/clear type annotations on datahubs
fixed "invalid cast in typeunification" error

287: 06 05 19

shortcuts now work with all tabs closed
Renamed action "Assign->Pop" to "Assign->Clear assignment" to make it easier to understand what the action does
Firmata: Tokenizer was stuck in an endless loop
fixed null exception in ResizeSelectedMouseHandler
Typewriter: Shift+PageUp/PageDown - select to the beginning/end of the document, cursor stays at the same column.
OverlayEditor now has minimumsize (again)
ImageEncoder doesn't have the bmp option anymore as skiasharp can't encode into bmp

273: 02 05 19

fixed another problem with editors/tooltips and high dpi settings
fixed "ReguarExpression" typo
AllAtOnceEditor for vectors now sticks to value of first component
fixed problem with enum-editors on pins getting stuck
no more duplicate "Horizontal" entry in IOBox inspektor
inspektor now also shows elementtype properties for Spread<Vector>
serialization for custom types doesn't throw errors for inspektor/defaults
upstream dis/connected iobox no longer looses its settings
added GroupBy (Length) and GroupBy (Count) nodes to split a spread into spread-of-spreads
added Clean node: removes slices with empty strings
added RepellingCircles skia demo

252: 27 04 19

fixed dpi handling for fonts in editors
can now set ApartmentState of BusyWaitTimer to make UI threads
mainloop now has high precision
added PerfMeter to VL.Skia
editing comment/string now keeps size of editor
comments now have correct initial size
StringEditor on pin now has wider fixed width
fixed problem with paddings differing between single and multiline textbox
fixed setting bool pin value via dragging
fixed interaction in signature view of patch explorer
fixed deadlock when implementing interfaces

230: 24 04 19

fix for regions inside operation definitions disappearing
fix for patches with more than 10 operations showing later operations as black
quad icon now works for all themes
previous/next icons now colored correctly in all themes
string editors/comments now have a configurable "Max Visible Characters" to prevent low performance with too long lines

222: 18 04 19

VL.Skia Camera 2d is not experimental anymore
fixed pin interaction in signature view
fixed an edge case when then node browser wouldn't show up
fixed IOBox rendering freezes
added many tags to VL.CoreLib to find nodes faster
VL.Skia is referenced by default for new documents
toggle toggles on every mouse click
IOBox values are not applied while typing anymore

200: 15 04 19

inputs/outputs of definitions/regions and groups can be moved (again)
fixed problem with documents not opening anymore
fixed file path serialization of dependencies when the path couldn't be made relative to the document itself
fixed coloring of pads and region bordercontrol points

191: 13 04 19

a comment that only holds a link can be right-clicked to open in the browser
recent sketches now show in reverse order: most recent is topmost
fix: improved recizing of nodes, regions and ioboxes
fix: input/output indicators on pins and pads are now in sync with tooltip (again)
fix: selected spread ioboxes can now be deleted with backspace when hovered with the mouse

180: 11 04 19

fixed background for definition patches
Skia ButtonBehaviour now lets you specify which buttons to listen to

177: 10 04 19

new setting DocumentAskOnFirstSave sets whether to ask for save location on first document save
added "Show Intro Patch" to quad menu, to recall intro patch even if it's not shown on startup
reactivated play/pause mode visualization
various coloring/theme fixes
active tab is underlined (again)
definition patches now have a hatched background
removed RestructureDocument from patch context menu
default count of a collection pin group can now be configured
Skia Group defaults to 2 inputs (again)

150:

VL.OpenCV now comes with demo patches in Help Browser!
fixes for Skia ImageReader and ImageWriter
added '-m' or '--allowmultiple' command line arg to allow running multiple instances side-by-side
shortcuts are deactivated for patch when Finder box is open
several fixes for IOBox drawing and interaction

139:

fixes various assembly not found exceptions when using nodes of the Midi category, the Script region or binary serialization: a, b, c

137:

fixes problems with pin-editors: a, b, c
enables spread-editors directly on pins

134:

Info.vl in now called Intro.vl
double-clicking .vl files will open with the already running instance
Skia renderer goes fullscreen via F11 or Alt+Enter
many fixes and tweaks

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.

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DirectX11 1.3 Update

And here we are, another fresh DirectX11 release, which gives a nice 1.3 bump.

- Begin Small Update (1.3.1) :

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:

Group (DX11.Layer) and Enabled (DX11.Layer), when disabled and stacked, could cause some upstream nodes to fails, and then preventing render of next groups in line. This is now fixed
TextureFX, with it's latest update, had an eventual issue when patch starts in disabled mode and would not recover from it.

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.

- End Small update 1.3.1

For impatient people, here are release highlights:

Texture FX

Technique is now spreadable (you can now build some really nice effect banks)
Reflection is now performed only on compile (no technique swap penalty), and general better runtime performance.
Now technique can have the annotation : wantmips , this avoids to make your own mip pass (runtime will do it for you, and will only do so if input texture requires it).
New pin "Preserve On Disable" (spreadable). This allows (When Enabled pin is off), to keep last frame result instead of routing input.

For spreadable technique example, see: girlpower\misc\texturefx_technique_spread folder

Render States

Presets internal handling is now less error prone and faster.
New blend state presets : MultiplyAlpha, ReplaceAlpha , BlendDestination
Several new nodes that allow to modify individual parts of a render state without touching the rest (DepthClip, Wireframe, EnableScissor, AlphaToCoverage

Other

New DrawFullScreen (DX11.Layer) : does a standard full screen draw, all ready to go
New texture array routing nodes (Search for GetArray), contributed by sebl
Renderer (DX11) now outputs input device objects, as well as states, contributed by tebjan
Several new convenience Bullet nodes
FrameDelays got a fix which was not releasing memory when deleting the node : Also they now block upstream evaluation when disabled (and have auto evaluate flag on)
New documentation pages inhttps://github.com/mrvux/dx11-vvvv/tree/master/Docs . For now full semantics and annotations reference.

Patreon and Supporting DirectX11 development

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).

Full Changelog

Submodules are now http, which should help for clining entire repository (ssh would fail on forks)
Added About (DX11), which contains version number, contributors and supporters information
Framedelay (2d and 3d) were not disposing resource when deleted from patch.
Framedelay (2d and 3d) now also start render graph (as part of update stage), and do not evaluate upstream anymore when disabled.
New blend state presets (available in Blend and Renderstate nodes) : MultiplyAlpha (only multiplies alpha channel, leave color as it it), ReplaceAlpha (leave color and set new alpha), BlendDestination (uses alpha in the render target instead of pixel shader ouput as factor, for opacity masks).
Add EnableScissor (DX11.RenderState) : Allows to modify state to enable scissor, without touching the rest.
All state nodes now use static enum instead of dynamic string based version, which increases performance for those nodes (no more lookup needed).
Add DrawFullScreen (DX11.Layer) : as in title , a fast version instead of using module
Gesture (Kinect2.Microsoft) : Fix issue when rceiveing frame and no skeleton is reported (which could happen sporadically)
Add GetRigidBodyCustom(Bullet) : Allows to get custom pin of a rigid body.
Add BoxContainment(Bullet Rigid.Filter) : Allows to filter rigid body list if they are inside or outside a bounding box.
Add SphereContainment(Bullet Rigid.Filter) : Allows to filter rigid body list if they are inside or outside a bounding sphere.
GetConstraintDetails(Bullet) : Now outputs related body.
Gesture (Kinect2.Microsoft) : Now allows to specify user index manually, instead of using first found skeleton as before.
Renderer (DX11) : Now has output for events as well as state for user input (mouse, keyboard and touch), contributed by @tebjan)
GetArray (DX11.TextureArray), allows "GetSpread" in texture arrays, contributed by @sebl
GetArray (DX11.TextureArray BinSize): same as above, but with bin size (allows combining), contributed by @sebl.
AlphaToCoverage (DX11.RenderState) : allows to enable alpha to coverage for multisampling in an existing render state (without modifying other options)
AlphaClip (DX11.Effect) : simple effect with texture that discards pixel if alpha is below a certain value
DepthClip (DX11.RenderState) : allows to enable or disable depth clipping (near/far plane) in an existing render state (without modifying other options)
Texture FX Technique pin is now spreadable (means you can now use different effects for different slices, see girlpower\misc\texturefx_technique_spread folder for an example)
Texture FX cache is now more efficient, no more penalty when switching techniques.
Texture FX technique can now use a "wantmips" bool annotation, to build mips before the first pass (only if needed)
Texture FX has a new option "Preserve On Disable" (spreadable), if Enabled pin is off, keeps previous frame texture instead of passing texture In.
Info (DX11.Texture2d) no exception if a texture is null, returns same defaults
New reference semantics (MIPLEVELSOF and INVMIPLEVELSOF) to allow to access input texture mip levels in effects (see girlpower\misc\referencing_miplevels for example)

Download Here :
directx11-nodes

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Directx11 1.0.0 Update

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:

First general shader node internals got reworked, removing some non necessary pipeline calls, and pin system got updated to moved to mave a lower api footprint as well. Also have some new specific optimization if same geometry is renderered several times). So now Layer shader nodes go from faster to much faster.
Shaders also now allow multiple passes: This comes at the restriction that Vertex shader input in every passes have the same signature. See girlpower example (misc/multipass)
Fix 64 bits depth format (even if it is rarely used)
Effect pass can have topology annotation: Since some shaders expect a specific opology and nothing else, this can now be set at pass level (and avoid some subtle bugs) See girlpower example (misc/topology)
New shader semantics (SIZEOF and INVSIZEOF), which allow with a ref annotation, to point to a resource variable. Runtime will auto set this to Resource size. See: girlpower/misc/referencing_variable

New Nodes (or new options in node):

Renderer (DX11 TextureSpread): Allows to render to a spread of texture (so you can use various resolutions and formats for each view/projection slice)
Text (DX11.Geometry) : Don't think I need much explanations for that one
Viewport (DX11.layer Indexed) : Sets a new viewport depending on camera index from renderer.
Zip (TextStyle) + bin version (user:sebl)
Renderer (DX11) : Now has a flip sequential pin, which allows to handle eventual tearing issues, see girlpower/misc/flip_sequential
All platonic solid: Radius pin
World (DX11.Layer) Allows to move a whole layer while preserving Camera (View), this is also set in shaders via new semantics : LAYERVIEW, WORLDLAYER, WORLDLAYERVIEWPROJECTION ...
ViewProjection (DX11.Layer) Spreadable, can repeat a full scene with a different camera.
Anisotropic (DX11 Sampler) : Anisotropic sampler preset
Enabled (DX11.Layer) : Blocks both render and evaluate is disabled. Same as group does, but lightweight.
TextFormat(DirectWrite.Advanced)
Kinect2 (Devices) : Depth Camera Intrinsics pin (user:id144)
PixelData (DX11.Texture) : Reads raw pixel data in a stream, no image conversion (can perform stride copy if wanted though).
DynamicBuffer (DX11.Buffer Raw) : Raw buffer from stream type
DispatcherX DispatcherXY (DX11.Drawer) : convenience nodes for 1d/2d dispatch, which does thread group calculations (avoid to replicate this everywhere)
BufferData (DX11.RawBuffer) : gets raw buffer data as a stream.
TextSettings (DX11.Advanded) Allows to create a different text engine, specially to allow large text (see girlpower/misc/large_text)
InputElement (DX11.Geometry Preset) common input element presets, to use along gsfx and to avoid repeating those over and over again.
TemplateComputeBuffer (DX11.Effect) : Template to quickly get started writing to a buffer in Compute.

Fixed Nodes:

Info (Assimp.Mesh) : spread indexing was broken
Cylinder (DX11.Geometry): Radius issue
Text styles had an issue in spread cases (user:sebl)
GetSlice (DX11.TextureArray) : Fix some potential error on delete
GetSlice (DX11.DepthTextureArray) : Fix some potential error on delete
VideoIn (DX11.DShow) : Fix some potential error on delete
Renderer (DX11) : Accepts key presses again (user: azeno). This was disabled long time ago due to some silly vvvv core Beep issue.
All Readback (StructuredBuffer) can read any structuredBuffer (not only ones from renderers)
Vlc (DX11.Texture 2d) reports file as invalid if they are parsing late, instead of potential crash.
Add DynamicBuffers (structured versions) : Have a different upload mode Dynamic/Default/Immutable, to eventually improve performances depending on usage (for example, a static buffer should be set as Immutable and Apply set to false asap).
Renderer nodes now have a new Depth buffer mode eg: WriteOnly. In case you do not need to read depth buffer, this should be the new default (does not expose an output pin). On newer cards this allows graphics card to improve performances.

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

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The Road to Gamma

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

Introducing vvvv gamma

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:

2d interactive motion graphics using VL.Skia
computervision using VL.OpenCV
controlling devices, ie. everything IO (Midi, UDP, OSC, RCP, HTTP...)

Frankly it will be gorgeous and above all shine through the following features:

a smooth, dark and gray userinterface
tons of examples and thorough documentation
object oriented programming

multithreading
patching with any .NET library
windows executable export

So beta vs. gamma, really?

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:

vvvv 50betaX
vvvv gamma 2019.X

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.

What will gamma cost?

We're still working this out and will update you on licensing early next year.

Wait and what about Xenko/3d?

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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node13 workshop material

here we go.

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.