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Credits: dottore for testing, helping, m4d for all night support, testing...,devvvvs for fixing bugs and adding features, unc and lecloneur for porting texturefx many other I forget, ping me :)

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DirectX11 rendering for vvvv (update 1.3)

See changes here: directx11-1.3-update

1.3.1 :

  • Adds a small bug fix in case two group or enabled layers are stacked (exception would prevent rest of the groups to process)
  • Adds a small issue if texture FX is in a disabled patch, sometimes would not resume.
  • TextureFX that can use "wantmips" now do so (Edge, Blur, BlurDirectional, BlurGlow, BlurPerfector, DistortFlow, DropShadow, UnsharpMask) . They are all faster in that scenario.

General Changelog here :
https://github.com/mrvux/dx11-vvvv/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

Requires vvvv beta33.7 or newer.

Install Guide:

  • Download relevant version
  • Copy folder into vvvv directory, like you would do for addonpack or any other pack.

Submit bugs:
https://github.com/mrvux/dx11-vvvv/issues

Support development:

Many thanks to people who are currently supporting development :

vux 02/04/2013 - 13:27

Removed that comment, path are on b30 by default.

everyoneishappy 02/04/2013 - 13:58

Let me be the first to say- Yay!
You rock Mr Vux :)

microdee 02/04/2013 - 14:49

all hail vux!

m4d 02/04/2013 - 15:03

everything we know is wrong again \o/

unc 02/04/2013 - 15:03

yay!

Desaxismundi 02/04/2013 - 17:13

un grand merci!

sebl 02/04/2013 - 17:49

+++

circuitb 02/04/2013 - 18:41

c'est cool!

tonfilm 02/04/2013 - 19:00

OMG, its really happening!

lecloneur 02/04/2013 - 19:11

:D

antokhio 02/04/2013 - 19:52

vvvvvvveeeeee!

metrowave 02/04/2013 - 19:54

Cheers...

DuckEater 02/04/2013 - 21:00

Ça envoie du steak ! Merci :)

nissidis 02/04/2013 - 21:11

new tools - new horizons, thank you Mr Vux !

u7angel 03/04/2013 - 10:16

thanks vux ! we owe you so much !

dvj_jenda 03/04/2013 - 19:46

thank you vux vvvvery much! you are great!

colorsound 04/04/2013 - 00:15

yuhuu ;D

vjc4 04/04/2013 - 15:44

i got it working, but my old dx9 nodes are not listed any more
but if i open an old patch, they are there, and they work, i can control c+v and use them,,, is this normal or i made a mistake on the installation ?

and is there a way to convert a dx11 texture into a dx9 texuture to use the old patches ?

colorsound 04/04/2013 - 16:13

for the dx9 nodes not showing it is normal. i would love to have the option to activate them as many times i want to copy paste something from a help patch for fast patching and i have to go to files and search them.

StiX 06/04/2013 - 22:46

all dx11 nodes are red for me :/

m4d 07/04/2013 - 16:06

@StiX:

  • Is your Hardware DX11 compatible?
  • What does TTY say?
vux 07/04/2013 - 20:27

@vjc4 @colorsound : In next release you'll be able to filter normally, so you'll be able to view those nodes again.

@Stix : are nodes appearing in nodelist?

StiX 11/04/2013 - 07:42

i did some tweaking and it works, sorry to rush here so fast -_-

altough is dx11 heavier on performance?

geometrica 12/04/2013 - 01:02

@Stix it performs much more fast in general.... look the pipet example

ft 12/04/2013 - 12:52

"yay" is exactly what I wanted to say too :)

mediadog 15/04/2013 - 05:45

@geometrica: No "pipet" node except for OpenCV now, all DX11 stuff seems to be here fine. Is there a DX11 pipet?

antokhio 15/04/2013 - 06:05

it's in examples from workshop

mediadog 16/04/2013 - 23:40

Sorry to be dense/blind, but I cannot find it in the node13 workshop DX11 rendering techniques I zip. Am I missing it? Thanks!

colorsound 17/04/2013 - 10:47

@mediadog not sure if all the DX11 staff from workshops it,s uploaded, i used DX11 pipet while porting the vvvv.tutorials.mapping.3d so there should be a copy there for now.

ft 17/04/2013 - 16:52

Strange thing on my laptop with AMD Radeon HD 6470M: when I try to set the renderer's input pins AA Samples per pixel to > 2 or AA Quality to > 0 vvvv 'freezes' (the UI gets really really slow), and the renderer stops updating. With some difficulty because of the unresponsive UI, I am able to reset these values, and then everything goes back to normal.

Anyone else experiencing the same issue?

antokhio 17/04/2013 - 20:35

You have to be careful with this two pins. Thouse buggers can brake render.

    • AA Quality always default (not sure it does something at all)
    • AA Samples Per Pixel are only 0,2,4,8
vux 30/04/2013 - 16:46

@ft : I changed AA for next build, so it will be easier to use (Now AA Samples per pixel is an enum, and i removed quality, since it never looked like to make any difference).

Quite decent amount of other fixes in next build, including:

  • Kinect with all textures + Face Tracker
  • Support for IUserInputWindow (Mouse/Keyboard state)
  • DynamicBuffer nodes fix in case of nil input
  • Reflect on shader if geometry layout is invalid (reports missing semantic)
  • ReadBack fix on first frame
  • Memory leak fix on Texture 3D
  • Memory leak fix on dynamic buffer
  • Texture FX does proper cleanup after finishing
  • GeomFX crash fix when attached to Query
  • Image shader has Force Resolution Pin (so it uses size input instead of initial texture size)
  • Quad (Layer) : replicating old quad, with auto batching ))

Also now feraltic is included as submodule, so check out should build out of the box.

metrowave 30/04/2013 - 16:49

Thanks vux... can't wait :)

screamer 30/04/2013 - 17:51

great news vux :)

colorsound 30/04/2013 - 21:11

sounds great thx vux

sansui 28/05/2013 - 18:16

수고하셨어요!

dannielmach 28/05/2013 - 21:53

that beautiful!

screamer 31/05/2013 - 19:46

hi, i'm very happy about the new pack, so finally we can have dx9 and 11 with th same vvvv. I really like and appreciate your hard work ;)

the only thing i'm not able to use is the facetracking of kinect (no dx9 and no dx11).
The node becomes red after i activate rgb, depth and skeleton (but i think they are needed to facetrack).
am i doing something wrong? or it's not working ?

cheers, and big work.
was a pleasure to meet you, vux, in london some days ago :D

hierro 02/06/2013 - 21:01

well, i can say congrats, but i say it everyday :)

 ...did anybody see pinOut for readback node  ? 

Solved : has to be specified layout in inspector, very stylish :D

Alec 08/07/2013 - 09:57

Guys,
where are Kinect nodes for dx11 listed by vux? I can't find them in the nodes browser.

Edit: I resolved installing Kinect SDK 1.7.

u7angel 08/07/2013 - 19:32

in case someone stumbles across this too, vertical sync only works when windows7 runs in aero mode

vux 18/07/2013 - 16:30

Next release on the way, still few bits to sort, but here is little teaser:

  • Option for no mips on texture loader
  • Some dispose issues shoud be fixed
  • Full x86/x64 build, with kinect/text and vlc for each architecture.
  • Cube Texture Renderer (with option for single pass/multiple pass, and of course access to cube depth buffer).
  • Texture Array Renderer (cube is a bit of a special case, but render to texture array allows you to set different cameras per slices, so you can do panoramics easily for example). Same as above, access to depth as well.
  • Finally fixed little quad
  • Some bugfix on render states
  • Preview Node fixed.
  • Some other goodies, stay tuned ;)
microdee 18/07/2013 - 17:20

ouhyeah! great stuff!

u7angel 19/07/2013 - 10:22

looking forward to it

mediadog 23/07/2013 - 00:23

The most recent (30.2) works fine on Win7 x64, but hangs vvvv on startup on both Win7 x32 and WinXP x32. Just sits at the grey splash square. Anyone else see this?

klj3 28/07/2013 - 18:07

Hi this is amazing.
All my DX11 nodes are red. TTY states:

00:00:36 ERR : Exception occured during creation of plugin: Could not load file or assembly 'file:///C:\Program Files (x86)\vvvv_45beta30.2_x64\packs\DX11\nodes\plugins\VVVV.DX11.Nodes.dll' or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.
00:00:36 - : To help us track this error down, enable the ExceptionDialog via the menu or starting vvvv with /showexceptions.

Could you help please.

vux 13/08/2013 - 15:34

Ah seems you use the 64 bits version for vvvv, but i guess you downloaded the 32 bits for dx11. Please note that 64 bits for 30.2 is coming soon, just need couple more sorting around.

pogi 09/11/2013 - 23:19

Thank You)

tmp 14/11/2013 - 12:40

i found a problem in ToSharedTextureNode.cs line 71:

this.FPointer[0] = SharedResource.SharedHandle.ToInt32();

this often fails and the catch clause is fired which sets the pointer to 0.
mr.vux, do you have an idea how to fix this?

sebl 14/11/2013 - 18:00

i saw that one, too. and tried somewhat fix it https://github.com/sebllll/dx11-vvvv/commit/a8f0df8e83342e6bbc7dc5a62f69728ab956e51c

should be related to this thread: assharedtexture-renderer-temptarget

vux 02/12/2013 - 18:01

@sebl ah forgot that, please do a pull request and i'll integrate it

catweasel 02/12/2013 - 19:02

Metaballs is missing dragging and dropping vvvv.dx11.nodes.dll doesn't fix it...

vux 02/12/2013 - 21:17

32 or 64?

catweasel 03/12/2013 - 11:51

32

vux 03/12/2013 - 19:01

can you screenshot and post on github?

tekcor 04/12/2013 - 17:44

hi first of all thanks again for the great work all the time!

Just one problem. When I upgrade to the latest release all connections to quads are missing in my project.

Is it somehow avoidable so that you can smoothly migrate projects over the upcoming DX11 releases? Anyone else had this problem?

Cheers

joreg 04/12/2013 - 18:07

@tekcor: this is actually handled grazefully, if you:

  • only use b31 with its corresponding b31 dx11-pack
  • only use b31.2 with its corresponding b31.2 dx11-pack

the node had some renames and they are reflected in the diffff.xml of b31.2
also i just tested and it works as advertised.

tekcor 04/12/2013 - 18:29

ah okey I checked and you are right I installed b31 dx11 pack in b31.2 vvvv and replaced one day dx9 quads to dx11 quads. So there is no way around doing the same procedure again you are saying?

joreg 04/12/2013 - 18:34

not sure what you mean. anyway this is not a dx11 topic, so please move into forum if still a problem.

seltzdesign 21/01/2014 - 12:17

I keep getting an error in the TTY renderer from one of the DX11 nodes. Not really sure what is happening but this is the error:

Stacktrace:

   at VVVV.PluginInterfaces.V2.Spread`1.get_Item(Int32 index)
   at VVVV.DX11.Nodes.Renderers.Graphics.DX11VolumeRendererNode.Update(IPluginIO pin, DX11RenderContext context)
   at VVVV.DX11.Nodes.Renderers.Graphics.DX11VolumeRendererNode.Render(DX11RenderContext context)
   at VVVV.DX11.Lib.RenderGraph.DX11DeviceRenderer.ProcessNode(DX11Node node)

04:39:39 ERR : System.DivideByZeroException in VVVV.PluginInterfaces: Attempted to divide by zero.

It is logged a few times per second and also makes "ML?" blink constantly in the Perf Meter.

I am using 32.1 64bit with the latest DX11 pack release (05.12.13) and all this is happening while the rendering (using mre.mdmod 2.1) is working fine.

The problem is that its making the TTY render useless for debugging, as this error gets logged so often.

vux 23/01/2014 - 20:13

@seltzdesign : still need a help patch if possible, since giving me exception is not much help (sounds like you send a nil somewhere tho).

And please as mentioned ;)
https://github.com/mrvux/dx11-vvvv/issues?state=open

KX 19/05/2014 - 15:26

Hi,
I wanted to use DX11 videoin in b32 but it missed.
Do you know why?
Thanks
KX

tekcor 15/08/2014 - 20:31

sorry but can i bumb this? its on page 100 or something

milo 09/10/2014 - 17:05

seems that the 64Bit (33.3) version has a problem findig assimp.dll

milo 09/10/2014 - 17:29

alright. you need to install vc2012 c++ redist either 32 or 64bit to make it work

jzzxh 23/10/2014 - 03:49

hi all v4s

I got the problem with "DX9toDx11" node issue, had any one happened?

i got blink effects!!!!
http://youtu.be/KIy4xkCq0-I

thx..^^

ujif 30/10/2014 - 19:00

hi

First time install vvvv 32bit on win8 64, than add DirectX11 Nodes Alpha
Now cant open vvvv. Just grey squer of vvvv opening permonently and nothing .

Never use vvvv befor today. Maybe i`am doing smth wrong?

thnx

joreg 02/11/2014 - 14:52

@ujif: first try starting vvvv without dx11 pack and see if that works. then try troubleshooting#logstartup

mediadog 03/11/2014 - 22:19

@ujif: That's what happens to me if I try and run on a PC that the gfx card does not support DX11, like an older laptop. What graphics do you have?

StiX 14/11/2014 - 01:45

anybody have a flat directional shader lying around? :3

antokhio 15/11/2014 - 09:31

u can do GSFX Per vertex normals from contribs and u will have flat shading on any directional shader

mediadog 04/05/2015 - 22:03

With the new b33.7-x85 vs. b33x-86 pack, I am getting about half the framerate, and frequent system crashes and stacktraces when I have renderers on outputs of two graphics cards (GTX780s). With 33x, I get roughly 70fps, and 33.7 I get about 32fps. But the worst part is the hard system crashes, which can happen in minutes to hours, but almost always within 12-24 hours. While I usually get a crash, sometimes vvvv just starts getting stacktraces:

ERR : Exception caused by node during render :/1000/73/77/0/51
 ERR : SlimDX.DXGI.DXGIException in SlimDX: DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED: Hardware device removed. (-2005270523)
 
 Stacktrace:
    at SlimDX.Result.Throw[T](Object dataKey, Object dataValue)
    at SlimDX.Result.Record[T](Int32 hr, Boolean failed, Object dataKey, Object dataValue)
    at SlimDX.DXGI.SwapChain..ctor(Factory factory, ComObject device, SwapChainDescription description)
    at FeralTic.DX11.Resources.DX11SwapChain..ctor(DX11RenderContext context, IntPtr handle, Format format, SampleDescription sampledesc, Int32 rate, Int32 bufferCount)
    at VVVV.DX11.Nodes.DX11RendererNode.Update(IPluginIO pin, DX11RenderContext context)
    at VVVV.DX11.Nodes.DX11RendererNode.Render(DX11RenderContext context)
    at VVVV.DX11.Lib.RenderGraph.DX11DeviceRenderer.ProcessNode(DX11Node node)
 
  -  : Stack Trace
  -  :    at SlimDX.Result.Throw[T](Object dataKey, Object dataValue)
    at SlimDX.Result.Record[T](Int32 hr, Boolean failed, Object dataKey, Object dataValue)
    at SlimDX.DXGI.SwapChain..ctor(Factory factory, ComObject device, SwapChainDescription description)
    at FeralTic.DX11.Resources.DX11SwapChain..ctor(DX11RenderContext context, IntPtr handle, Format format, SampleDescription sampledesc, Int32 rate, Int32 bufferCount)
    at VVVV.DX11.Nodes.DX11RendererNode.Update(IPluginIO pin, DX11RenderContext context)
    at VVVV.DX11.Nodes.DX11RendererNode.Render(DX11RenderContext context)
    at VVVV.DX11.Lib.RenderGraph.DX11DeviceRenderer.ProcessNode(DX11Node node)

This is happening in a patch that is sending one layer to six renderers, three on each graphics card, using the ViewPort node to map the displays. The above happens for each of all six renderer nodes, not just the second card.

I have updated nVidia drivers, and tried SLI on, off, and activate all displays with no change. By just changing the DX11 pack back to 33x, I do not see the problem (but then see spurious black textures from DX9->DX11 video).

If needed I can try to isolate the problem into a patch, but as it can take hours to see the problem it may take a bit.

This is a total and literal show-stopper - any help greatly appreciated!

milo 05/05/2015 - 10:27

i already started a related post - guess its the same behavior

dx11-33.7-renderer-(dx11)-performance-drop

juan ferrari 26/10/2015 - 19:57

Where can I find c++ 2012 redistributable for Assimp????
I know its a simple question, but Ive been struggling for a long time to find it.. All DX11 nodes are not working, so I hope this could solve it..

joreg 26/10/2015 - 19:59

@juan if you run setup.exe it will tell you if you have that installed and if not you can install it from there. it really only for the assimp nodes though. so if all others are not working, that will not help.

mediadog 28/11/2015 - 03:39

In the latest version (33.7) Text nodes are red on two systems that have never had Visual Studio installed on them, they are OK on systems that have. This is with 33.7_x86 and 34.2_x86, in all cases setup.exe is all green.

Running Dependency Walker on VVVV.DX11.Nodes.Text.dll shows two DLLs as missing: MSVCP120D.DLL and MSVCR120D.DLL. Note these are debug version of the C runtime libraries.

Looks like this package is distributed as a debug build, and should not be?

mediadog 28/11/2015 - 03:45

OK this is weird - I went to check if there was the same problem with 33.7_x64, and there was not. Went back and tried the x86 version, and the problem was gone there too. So after installing the x64 CRTs, the problem with the x86 version went away.

So it looks like the x86 DX11 version of the text DLL is dependent on some DLLs installed with the x64 CRTs.

EDIT

So the important difference was not that VS had never been installed, but the machines showing the red nodes had never had an x64 version of vvvv installed before.

TremensS 04/12/2015 - 21:31

Hey there!

@vux: any chance/plan of a FrameDelay (DX11.Texture 3D) any soon? (...or any smart cheat workaround till then?)
Just started to experiment with 3D textures in shaders but fear I will be stuck until this one little guy pops out! :)

Thanks for the info!

microdee 04/09/2016 - 01:15

for version 0.7 on latest alpha: all layer space nodes stopped working for me and I was using them as crazy. No red nodes no tty. Screenshot:

dafaq?
letoast 19/09/2016 - 17:10

3D text didn't make it to the last update? :(

microdee 19/09/2016 - 23:29

It's on github, but it doesn't work for me yet, probably that's why it's not in release

mburk 07/02/2017 - 11:22

Thanks for this great update!

Text (DX11.Geometry) isn't working for me though.
Renderer in Girlpower is black.
On Windows 10, x64, NVIDIA 1080.

microdee 07/02/2017 - 16:47

vl breaks 3D text. probably because of dll version collision.

ggml 09/02/2017 - 18:47

added the 1.0.1 x64 pack to a clean install of beta5 and v4 wont start anymore. remove the pack and it works again.

kamanlam 17/07/2017 - 21:54

please bear with my beginner's question...
i've tried everything i could (checked nodelist... visual studio installed),
but all DX11 nodes are still red... help please? :(

red nodes
hyunwoo-do 21/09/2017 - 04:38

same problem like kamanlam ㅠㅠ

catweasel 21/09/2017 - 15:11
title

There seems to be a assimp issue with x86 geometry loaders are red

mburk 26/09/2017 - 15:54

hi kamanlam
you should double check, if you downloaded the right version of the pack: x86 or 64.
Also I recommend to use 7-zip for decompression.

synth 02/07/2019 - 14:37

I had trouble playing H265 and ProRes files with the VLC node.

To fix it i went to \packs\dx11\nodes\plugins\vlc folder and removed the following files/folders:

  • libvlc.dll
  • libvlccore.dll
  • plugins folder

Then i downloaded and installed the latest VLC from their site and copied the above files from VLC install folder back to DX11 pack in their respective places.

So far is working fine :)

mediadog 01/10/2019 - 02:24

The Cylinder (DX11.Geometry) node is not acting how I expected; I thought it would follow the behavior of the Segment node, but it only sort of does. When cycles is < 1 and > .5, it closes the edges instead of creating a wedge opening. But when cycles is < .5, the caps form the expected segment, but the edges are directly closed to each other and do not follow the cap edges.

I would expect the caps to follow the Segment behavior, and in all cases where Cycles is < 1, the cylinder faces follow the caps. The current behavior just does not seem sensical. This is with 38.1 and DX11 1.3.1.

Cycles >.5 <1
Cycles < .5
mfan 11/12/2019 - 23:40

Is there any reason why this isn't just included in the core (or at least the addonpack) these days?

u7angel 12/12/2019 - 13:31

@mfan, i totally agree. Especially since beta39 includes PBR shaders which need the DX11 pack. maybe there is a reason for the this but i'd like to see the dx11 pack included in the installer or at least having the option to get it via the installer.

@devs, would this be possible ?

tonfilm 12/12/2019 - 15:55

@mfan and @u7angel since dx11 is not created by us, we don't own the redistribution and selling rights to it. hence we cannot include it in the official download which is sold under the vvvv licensing conditions.

however, i think if @vux would request that we do so, it would be possible. but that needs to be discussed in more detail.

microdee 15/12/2019 - 04:16

may I suggest devvvvs pull their heads out of their own bubble, grow some balls, break this communication and licensing deadlock, stop the fingerpointing and take the first steps writing to vux the following letter: ahem

"
Dear Mr. Vux!

I hope we find you in good health! We noticed after all these years that anyone who downloaded vvvv and wanted to draw more than 15 quads on the screen also needed to install your DX11 for vvvv pack. We also noticed that lately the aforementioned pack didn't receive as much care and update as it used to be. For this reason we would like to request your permission to make your wonderful and irreplaceable contribution an official part of vvvv which means we would continue maintaining it and it would be covered by the vvvv licensing terms. This would also mean we would include the DX11 codebase in the vvvv-sdk repository. We're aware that by this "merger" the DX11 pack would lose its own licensing which is different than vvvv is using, however we're sure we can find an agreement regarding compensation. Especially this became important matter for us when we included our first DX11 shader in the officially endorsed addon-pack.

Thank you in advance, and looking forward to hearing from you!

Best regards:
The vvvv Development Team
"

now copy paste this and send it to Vux. To which he will probably respond

"yeah do whatever you want, I don't care about any of this. Peace!"

and by this minimal amount of social and communication effort the world would become a better place for many.

I know devvvvs attention now is 75% at VL shenanigans but please, after 7 years of legal/personal/philosophical dispute regarding "dx11 becomes vvvvanilla" topic, can you put it behind, and stop playing 3D chess against your own minds, and just do it?

microdee 30/12/2019 - 14:58

any thoughts?

sunep 31/12/2019 - 12:25

@microdee I agree.
In vvvv beta, DX11 is essential and it would be sad to see it stagnate. so a sustainable solution where it can continue to be maintained would be desirable. I just hope that it can be worked out somehow. Unfortunately I am currently not in a situation where I can provide anything other than moral support, so I can just hope that it will work out somehow.

PS happy new year

velcrome 08/01/2020 - 12:42

I believe, that vvvv license sales would have stopped around 2017, if it weren't for vux' and his dx11.
It was always weird to me, that devvvvs never truely appreciated or even properly acknowledged that fact (besides a spraypainted quad).
This had bothered me so much, that I took the opportunity to call for financial reimbursement when I was on stage last NODE. Fortunately, a few users responded, either with one-time-payments to vux, or his patreon.

But again, this relates more to the gnarly relationship between the devvvvs and vux. While devvvvs didn't hesitate to become gold sponsors of Virgile, they never seemed to even consider something similar for vux, even though their product has been heavily depending on this very contribution.

So yeah, I endorse microdee's initiative whole heartedly, and would love to see an improvement to the status quo.

joreg 17/01/2020 - 22:55

@mfan @u7angel: the two reasons dx11 (and other packs) are not included with the core download:

  • core only contains stuff that we can maintain
  • it is important to allow independent release-cycles for libraries (you don't want to always wait for a beta release only to use an updated library). so generally core should stay rather slim.

then of course true, installation of vvvv and its contributions has historically been.. a pain. that is why with b39 we finally added an installer to solve the first part. now, instead of adding more stuff to the installer (again tying it to vvvv releases), we're interested in improving the situation more generally. so we're exploring the idea of a primitive package downloader/unzipper that should heavily reduce that second pain of managing contributions. more on this soon...

@microdee: language! this is not the way we're used to talking around here. but i hope the above answers.

@velcrome: re "never truly appreciated or even properly acknowledged"
it is odd to hear that but if you feel so, it apparently wasn't enough. the mentions of king-of-code vux and his unprecedented contributions to vvvv have never come without a superlative. most notably we've never heard vux himself complain about a lack of appreciation for his work. we had our differences about code and maintenance but i don't believe ever regarding appreciation. in fact, last time we met two months ago at the december meetup he mentioned he wanted to do another release soon..

re "devvvvs didn't hesitate to become gold sponsors of Virgile, they never seemed to even consider something similar for vux"
we obviously talked to vux early on, before the initial dx11 release (and i believe even on stage at node13) as to how he would charge for it and his answer was along the lines (@vux correct me if i'm wrong) he didn't want to maintain it as a commercial library but instead stay more flexible by offering custom services around it (classic opensource business strategy). so instead of supporting him financially, we supported his development of dx11 by adapting the plugininterface for his needs, so that he was able to build his business on top of it.

note how with xenko the situation is quite different: xenko didn't know vvvv. it is an independent opensource project with no special interest in vvvv.

velcrome 20/01/2020 - 19:00

@joreg

You are arguing, that you've highlighted the quality of vux' contribution, but that was never in question. My point was that you never fully acknowledged what an essential cornerstone the contribution was and is to the well-being of vvvv group.
Why would you rather bloat the "slim core" with comatose ex9 for years than just admitting that vux has been providing the gpu features that vvvv group could have but didn't.
Now, vux never asked for anything in return, but it fills me with worry that you seem to think that means he does not need anything. What happened to T.R.U.S.T.?

That's the world we want to live in.
If vvvv-dx11 helps you make a living, then help make vux a living, by providing vvvv-dx11 to you.

Now, you got much better data than anyone to check how many commercial licensees are using dx11 (from your annual surveys), so please doublecheck. But just believe me when I tell you that EX9 does not deliver enough grapic punch that would have justified buying vvvv licenses ever since Instancing, Kinect2, Particles, Noodles, etc was common place. In some cases you gave head nods to that fact (see Spout, PBR, Craftlie).
That should tell you that vvvv group did benefit in an extraordinary way; intellectually, commercially, and financially.

Before you try to lecture David, you could rather look inside his frustration. Sure, draw up your own letter to vux instead of copy and pasting it, but make tabula rasa. Find out how you can help him, maybe it is not even money he needs, but please for the love of tasty vanilla code and streamlined installs, show some earnest gratitude that this man has silently saved your beta sales for the last couple years and will continue for at least another year.

I really hope you end up with a refreshed collaboration, that does not feel like a one-way-road to many around here. Now this was a lot on the interpersonal level of the issue, so let me get back to the factual:

DX11 is the de facto standard gpu pipeline for beta (even including vl), it would only be honest and helpful for everybody if this would be reflected in the vanilla beta as well.

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manuel 21/01/2020 - 19:32

I think the problem people have is that to use vvvv beta commercially, you need dx11 pack. And it looks like the continuity of dx11 is independant of the vvvv group, ergo, vvvv beta depends of outside development to be a valid commercial product.

Dont know about the more acute feelings some of the people express, im in another continent so not really involved in that drama, but at least thats what I get from here.

microdee 22/01/2020 - 17:39

@joreg thanks for your response, that was insightful

my short reaction: my point was making DX11 the vanilla rendering path in VVVV and deprecating DX9 all-together (or at least tag it as legacy) a 1.5 decades old technology, the world moved on since by a landslide, twice even! A package manager will not solve that. Especially because the community already has one, VPM, and many creators are using it for their own packs, and many times I received the feedback "this should be included in the vvvv download" (which is btw under MIT so you do whatever you want, again without any permission, just saying... :P). Sure from hindsight it might have many bad design decisions, and a terrible codebase, but it works so far, and showing some official interest for it, I might jump back onto that band-wagon. But back to the point "you can download it via package manager" != "vanilla"!!!

DX11 for vvvv implementation is under BSD license which implies: You don't need Vux's permission to do whatever you want with it, including using it without credit/association in a closed source commercial application.

After this it's just a case of "yeah but we don't wanna" in which case, I don't even comprehend how you guys imagine making money with that attitude in the coming decade???

Btw, I don't think so Vux needs any help or more grattitude, that'd be too little too late. He moved on, working for Epic now on ray-tracing in UE4, and vvvv is far-far beyond his focus already. That's why I'm also so loud with "DX11 needs to be vanilla" in the first place, because when that repo bit-rots away in the next decade, that's the end-of-life for old-school vvvv too.

For the last 2 years I've been constantly writing these long ass, ranty comments (I also did for this one and figured I will just scrap it, what's the point anyway). It's not great. I'm not doing this because I enjoy shouting at people. But please do not consider this as "ah this soviet-eastern block asshole again is doing a tantrum". There are people who feel the same frustration as me, but instead of causing a fuss (oh god not the fuss, please not the fuss :P) they simply leave without a word, and consider vvvv as a finished episode in their life. You don't get any real feedback from that kind of behavior, until too late.

If I see early signs of shit going down, you can bet, I'll cause a big and loud fuss!

StiX 28/01/2020 - 14:26

Including DX11 "new standard" shader into addons while not having DX11 is one of the strangest software development decisions I have seen. I do not think I used vvvv once last 6 years without using DX11, and having any version included is still better then having none. People who are advanced and need latest dx11 iteration use github anyway.

I do not see any reason to actually include DX9 apart from people in developing countries using vvvv on recycled PCs.

Every time I suggest vvvv in facebook groups focused on live content creation (even posting your showreel video), there is someone who chimes in how vvvv is pain to work with compared to competition, and I think decisions like these are big part of it. And I would even say it is too late to try "solve" any of this when xenko is on horizon, and I hope it will aim to fix issues like these.

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~7d ago

joreg: The Winter Season of vvvv workshops is now over but all recordings are still available for purchase: https://thenodeinstitute.org/ws23-vvvv-intermediates/

~14d ago

schlonzo: Love the new drag and drop functionality for links in latest previews!

~22d ago

joreg: Workshop on 29 02: Create Sequencers and Precise Clock Based Tools. Signup here: https://thenodeinstitute.org/courses/ws23-vvvv-08-create-sequencers-and-precise-clock-based-tools-in-vvvv-gamma/

~29d ago

joreg: Workshop on 22 02: Unlocking Shader Artistry: A Journey through ‘The Book of Shaders’ with FUSE. Signup here: https://thenodeinstitute.org/courses/ws23-vvvv-12-book-of-shaders/

~1mth ago

joreg: Talk and Workshop on February 15 & 16 in Frankfurt: https://visualprogramming.net/blog/vvvv-at-node-code-frankfurt/

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woei: @Joanie_AntiVJ: think so, looks doable

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xd_nitro: Anyone remember who increased projector brightness by removing some components that product the color?

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Joanie_AntiVJ: This looks super interesting (vectors over network) would anyone here know how to implement this in beta? https://github.com/madmappersoftware/Ponk