released on 01 09 05

for a list of the most important changes to this release have a look at the extra beta9 site.

general

• saving patches is always fast
• fixed bug with pin-inspektors not hiding when value was not changed
• when entering a value you can now use both ',' and '.' as decimal seperators
• arguments from Args.txt are now appended to commandline arguments
• windows can now be toggled 'always on top' (Ctrl+T)
• new mainloop mode, with defaults to a new mode where the time is filtered to get smoother animations.
• depth buffer pins are in the Inspector now as enumerations to choose the precision.
• feedback loops with renderer are much more easier now: create one renderer, write its output texture into the Queue texture (frame count of 1 is sufficient) and use the output of the Queue as a texture in the same renderer.

new nodes

• Torus (EX9.Geometry) discrete Render Object, was a module in former versions of vvvv
• DFT (Value) discrete fourier transform
• Perlin (2d): smooth 2-dimensional noise function
• Perlin (3d): smooth 3-dimensional noise function see Perlin Noise
• Cross (3d): creates all combination triplets of the inputs
• MAC (Network): Get the physical MAC address from a given network name or IP (all pins spreadable)
• Normals (Ex9.Geometry Mesh): calculates normals, tangents, binormals for a mesh
• Change (Ex9.Geometry Mesh): outputs 1 when the input-mesh changed in this frame, 0 if the input mesh was equal to the one in the last frame
• Change (Ex9.Geometry VertexBuffer): outputs 1 when the input-vertexbuffer changed in this frame, 0 if the input-vertexbuffer was equal to the one in the last frame
• Count (Node)
• Count (Color)
• Count (Enumerations)
• IO (Devices IOWarrior40): connect IOWarrior40 by code mercenaries to vvvv

• Buffer (EX9.Texture) creates a spread of textures where new images can be written at arbitrary positions (note that texture input and index input not spreadable yet)
• Cons (EX9.Texture)
• AsVideo (DShow9) added: Create DirectShow video stream from texture
• Writer (DShow9): Write a DirectShow video stream to disk
• Compress (DShow9): compress a DirectShow video stream with a chosen codec
• Separate (String): Splits a given string at the selected separator into slices

new nodes for complex math

• + (Complex) addition of complex numbers
• - (Complex) subtraction of complex numbers
• * (Complex) multiplication of complex numbers
• / (Complex) division of complex numbers
• Sqr (Complex) square of a complex number
• Sqrt (Complex) the square root of a complex number
• Power (Complex) raise a complex number to the power of a second
• Cunjugate (Complex) negate the imaginary part of a complex number
• Abs (Complex) the absolute value of a complex number, the length
• Arg (Complex) the argument of a complex number, the angle to the real axis
• Exp (Complex) returns e raised to the power of the input
• Ln (Complex) complex natural logarithm, returns the exponent of e to reach the input
• Function (Complex) all complex trigonometric and hyperbolic functions
• Function (Complex Inverse) all complex inverse trigonometric and hyperbolic functions
• Function (Complex Special) special complex functions, Sinc, Gamma, Bessel I0 and Bessel J0, note: if you use only the real input of a complex node, the result is also real (ecxept for special cases of Sqrt, Ln and Power) go to Wikipedia Complex Number to learn more

changed nodes

• MainLoop (VVVV) deleted IncrementMode pin, added TimeMode enumeration pin with: Raw (old mode), Filtered (default) and Increment
• Gregorian (Astronomy) added Milliseconds output pin
• CreateNode (VVVV), DeleteNode (VVVV): added 'Query Save' pin to only optionally ask for saving when deleting/removing a changed patch
• Effect(Ex9.Effect): EnableSliceWise removed; Enable spreadable
• Optimize(Ex9.Geometry Mesh) now works properly
• Fog (EX9.Renderstate) now works properly
• Switch (Value Output), Switch (String Output) fixed
• Renderers: removed AutoSizeBackbufferPin: a value of 0 now causes autosizing of width and height individually
• Renderers: added Outputs: ActualBackBufferWidth/Height, IsFullscreen
• Renderers: changed Pin: FullscreenOnClient to ordinary fullscreen switch pin (finally)
• TypoSpread: added Spacing pin (1=em). Fixed recalculation bugs. Fixed bug with FillSquare update pin.
• DynamicTexture (EX9.Texture Color), DynamicTexture (EX9.Texture Value) now work with all texture formats and types
• Info (EX9.Texture): is now spreadable and added Input: Level and Outputs: Depth, Type
• Pipet (EX9.Texture) is now spreadable and deals with almost all texture formats, faster
• Writer (EX9.Texture) is now spreadable
• ScreenShot (VVVV) renamed to ScreenShot (EX9.Texture) and fixed some minor bugs

deleted nodes

• 4x4to3x3 is not necessary anymore.