released on 15 04 09

general

• S+H & switches optimized for unused inputs. you now can better profile your patches.
• tabbed patches no longer utilize CPU + further speed improvements in large setups with multiple tabbed patches
• new commandline argument: /dontregister: probihibts registration of addflow, directshowfilter and .v4p filetype
• freeframes finally work again without .net2 installed
• resize windows proportionally by pressing CTRL while resizing one of its sides
• Effects Transform Parameters can now deal with arrays + a little fix for initialized Value arrays (as e.g. with VertexNoise effect)
• a disabled windowborder can now be saved (via parent-patch only!)
• no more nasty desktop-reload-flash on vvvv startup

new nodes

• WithinView, WithinProjection, WithinNormaizedProjection, WithinViewport (Transform) for more or less camera and render independent 3d layers
• Billboard (Transform) for 3d layers always facing the viewer
• OneSided (Transform) e.g. for always readable text
• Compare (String) a case-insensitive comparison between two supplied strings.
• HID (Devices), HIDDecode (Devices) and HIDEncode (Devices) should make it possible to send/receive data from HID Devices.
• eNet (Devices ecue Config) sets the Nic IP the ecue nodes should bind to
• Verlet (Spreads Simple) calculates a simple verlet integration chain (translation of c# code originally written by milo)
• Info (Enumerations) returns all Enums with Defaults and all their Entries.

fixed nodes

• Ping (Network) now deals with hostnames and ips
• Select (MySQL) no longer has random dropouts when queried every frame
• XPath (XML) should be faster in some cases, and it shouldn't loose memory anymore
• VideoIn no longer BSODs with logitech qc pro 9000 (could also be relevant for other cams that had this problem)
• Renderer (HTML URL) rewritten. no longer pops up javascript errors. now has an additional WindowHandle output useful if you need to send windowmessages (like mouseclicks) to the webbrowser.
• Separate (String) no longer freezes with large spreadcounts
• Expr (Value) evaluates expressions consisting of only one variable correctly now.
• Changed flag is correctly propagated through io (node) nodes

changed nodes

• MidiController (Devices), MidiController (Devices Relative) and MidiNote (Devices) do not output all combinations of midi channel and controller number anymore.
• Box, Cylinder, Grid, Sphere, Text & Torus (EX9.Geometry) mesh creator nodes are spreadable now
• Tokenizer (String) now can deal with separators that consist of more than one character
• Keyboard (System Global) has a new pin called Buffered Keyboard Output
• Added 4th blend weight and 4 blend indices to VertexBuffer (EX9.Geometry Split).
• Expr (Value) uses new expression parser from JEDI code library.
• (+) Much faster evaluation (about 10 times faster than old Expr node and about 40% faster than equivalent vvvv patch -> at least for tested expression 'sqrt(sqr(a)+sqr(b))').
• (-) Not as many operators available as before. Of course equivalent functions for missing operators were added.
• GlyphInfo (String) has a new output: Position that returns relative positions for all characters in the given string

new modules

• Multiscreen (EX9) and MultiViewport (EX9)
• Damper (Animation Jump)
• Decompose (Transfom Vector)
• NoSymTex (Transform)
• TextureScale (Transform)
• Grid (EX9 Test)

changed modules

• Sprite (DX9) now respects Aspect Ratio of Texture
• fixed ScreenNumber (EX9)

plugins

• now support Enum in- and outputs and Mesh and Layer outputs
• new Text (EX9) plugin
• new ColladaFile (EX9.Geometry) + Mesh (EX9.Geometry Collada) plugins