released on 20 12 16

general

• create dynamic plugins using VL: Dynamic VL Plugin Reference
• no longer runs on WinXP since now requires .net 4.6, see: .net-4.6-upgrade-in-alpha-builds
• AudioRecordSelector and AudioMixer were therefore removed
• added MS VisualStudio Redistributable 2015 to setup.exe
• boygrouping: fix for clients sometimes not finding addons
• performance improvement for Raw nodes, see raw-performance-speedup
• upgraded HTML texture node to CEF 3.2840.1513.gf7effc7 (Chromium 54.0.2840.59) htmltexture-update-to-chromium-54
• Stencil Buffer support in EX9: check girlpower/Graphics/DX9/Shader/StencilBufferDemo.v4p

• improved NodeBrowser tag search: now only finds tags starting with capital letter
• show internal nodes in nodebrowser by typing "i "

• fixed a case where CTRL+G failed
• patches marked as readonly now show an error when you try to save them
• nodes now indicate evaluation via textcolor
• locked patches now cannot be scrolled
• increased default size for c# editor
• values, colors (..) can flow over node pins: mixed-data-over-that-same-ol-pin
• enums now less picky. enum iobox now works if only connected on input pin.
• in case a IOBox (Raw) was too small it didn't show anything.
• fixed dynamic plugins not being recompiled when copied to another computer (https://discourse.vvvv.org/t/cant-add-dynamic-plugin-if-i-copy-it-from-one-machine-to-another/14126)
• fixed Reload bar not showing up in C# editor when external editor (like VS) was using a rename to save the file.

fixed nodes

• fixed cloning/copying of certain spread types in generic nodes like Buffer/Queue/QueueStore/RingBuffer (https://discourse.vvvv.org/t/buffer-raw-bug/13445)
• XFile node will optimize the created mesh now. Same as done by Collada node (https://discourse.vvvv.org/t/x-mesh-subsets-count-dropping-performance/13457)
• fixed crash when scrolling the HTMLTexture node
• fixed zoom level in HTMLTexture node (https://discourse.vvvv.org/t/htmltexture-bug-with-zoomlevel/13670)
• each new mouse generated by the MouseStates (Mouse Join) node reported its notifications only to the first subscriber (https://discourse.vvvv.org/t/mousestates-split-bug/13961)

• Resample (Spreads) has its Mirror mode fixed
• Resample (3d Vector) and Resample (Color) have been cleaned up
• Separate (String) fixed Ignore Beetween for all quotes
• RegEx (String) fix for using round open brackets in expression
• Length (String) fixed a bug when it was not evaluated in the first frame
• Ord2Enum (Enumerations) now clamps input to not overflow
• Entry2String (Enumerations) now updates correctly when an enum changes
• Damper (Animation Jump): fix for initialization
• Timeliner (Animation) sometimes did not save correctly
• Grow (2d) now proper spreadable
• WindowLists (Window) has its TopMostHandle output fixed
• FrameDifference (Animation). fix. now starting with 0 for the first frame
• Random (Value). fix for https://discourse.vvvv.org/t/random-value-return-same-value-in-module/13430
• fix for https://discourse.vvvv.org/t/framedelay-critical-issue/13864

changed nodes

• added "Position in PixelXY" and "Client AreaXY" outputs to Mouse (Devices Desktop), Mouse (Devices Window) and MouseState (Mouse Split) nodes
• Leap (Devices) completely reworked
• Renderer (HTML Url) and Renderer (HTML String) now use IE11
• Renderer (EX9): DepthBuffer D24S8 format to enable the Stencil Buffer
• Writer (EX9.Texture) can now save volumetextures

• Processors (System) now async
• IRC (Network Open): added Password and Channel Password
• UDP (Server) and UDP (Server String) now have a Status output that will tell you if the port fails to open
• IOBox Tooltips now show Tags
• String IOBoxes that have an Open button can now be ALT-clicked to open the file in Explorer
• IOBox (Bang/Press) now don't add to UNDO anymore
• DrawVertexID (EX9) is now PointID (DX9 2d/3d)

new nodes

• vastly improved support for Arduino/Firmata, see: arduino-second-service
• new EditingFramework, see: introducing-the-editing-framework which brings vastly improved:
• PointEditor
• BezierEditor
• BezierPatchEditor
• MeshEditor
• Camera (2d, 3d)
• TUIO now with send and receive nodes, see: how-tuio-do
• easy Spout (DX9 Sender/Receiver) modules, see Spout
• easy GIF Rekorder (Windows), see introducing-the-rekorder
• ArtNet (Network Sender/Receiver) now with Net, SubNet and Universe and can be used on any UDP port
• Eyetracker (Devices TheEyeTribe) including calibration mode

• CircularSpread (Spreads 2d): Generates a circle in 2d space
• SpiralSpread (Spreads 2d): Generates a star in 2d space
• StarSpread (Spreads 2d): Generates a star in 2d space
• RectangleSpread (Spreads): Generates a rectangle in 2d space
• GridSpread (Spreads 2d/3d): Generates a grid in 2d/3d space
• HexGridSpread (Spreads 2d): Generates a hexagonal grid of positions in 2d space
• RandomSpread (Spreads 2d/3d): Generates a random point cloud in 2d/3d space

• Distinct (String): Returns a spread stripped of duplicates
• Except (String): Returns a spread containing slices from Input 1 except slices from Input 2
• Intersect (String): Returns all distinct elements that are found in both of the Input spreads.

• Wanderer (Animation 2d/3d: Simulates an easily parameterized random walk
• Resample (2d Vector)
• ArcLength (2d/3d): Lets a curve, specified by a spread of vectors, be sampled at arbitrary positions
• Grow (2d NonUniform): Extrudes a polygon by a given factor nonuniformly for X and Y
• Undo (Value, 2d, 3d, String, Color)

• MJpegStream (EX9.Texture Sender/Receiver)
• ProjectedTexture (EX9.Effects)
• ConstantVC (EX9.Effect): Constant effect that takes VertexColor into account

• Point (DX9 2d/3d)
• Triangle (DX9 2d/3d): Renders a triangle in the DX9 window
• Triangle (EX9.Geometry 2d/3d)
• BezierPatch (EX9.Geometry 2d/3d)
• ViewCone (EX9)

• Select (Transform)
• Homography (Transform 2d Quad) assumes the input points are a quad centered at the origin, very fast
• Reader/Writer (Transform ViewProjection)

• NodeInfos (VVVV): Returns a list of all authors and search paths
• SetExposedPin (VVVV): Allows writing data directly to exposed pins
• UpdateView (VVVV): Allows to disable the vvvv UI to squeeze out some more performance
• Clock (VVVV) let's you implement your notion of time. All time based animation nodes will react to that.
• ADSR (Animation FrameBased/TimeBased) advanced envelopment curves with proper behavior of the enabled input
• Select (2d/3d/4d) performance optimized select nodes for vectors, use instead of Select (Value Vector)
• Gesture (Devices Window): returns windows gesture events zoom-pan-rotate-touchgestures
• Pan-, Zoom-, Rotate-, TwoFingerTap- & PressAndTapState (Gesture Split)
• Pan-, Zoom-, Rotate-, TwoFingerTap- & PressAndTapEvents (Gesture Split)
• Stencil (EX9.Renderstate): set stencil state for ex9 objects

plugin interface

• NuGet packages now usable in AnyCPU build configurations
• added support for byte/sbyte/char types to plugin interface
• fixed enum index reporting wrong value after being updated (https://discourse.vvvv.org/t/enum-index-reporting-wrong-index/13947)
• fixed a sync issue in output stream implementations between unmanaged backing store and managed length property
• whether or not a bin size pin gets created by the plugin hosting layer can now be controlled through the new PinAttribute.BinSizeWrapCount property. By default bin size pins will be created for each dimension.
• added possibility to allow override of plugin in- and output properties (https://discourse.vvvv.org/t/overriding-pinattributes/14334)
• fixed ordering of bin size pins when used in pin groups.
• IHDEHost.EnumChanged: listen to changes of any enum
• you now can accept any data on your input and check for values, colors (..) dynamically: mixed-data-over-that-same-ol-pin
• implement ITimeProvider to provide a low latency clock that implements your notion of time: go-back-in-time-now