1.3.0

What was supposed to be another small hotfix transformed into a major development endeavor. This major release includes improvements all over the field in the form of many new nodes, QoL improvements, stability improvements, and much-needed DMX & Mapping improvements.

General

• Add current value to Range Control source
• Add right-click menu to Graph input connections, added action to create a timeline track
• Add graph annotations, they can be added freely to the graph or attached to nodes
• Add annotations to many example projects
• Add new edge connecting behavior: click on edge while connecting an edge will replace the clicked edge
• Add Radial Blur node
• Add Frame Delay node
• Add RGB Delay node
• Add Radial map node
• Add Multi-Sampling Anti-Aliasing (MSAA) support to renderer and Layer to Texture nodes (MSAA will be added directly to Renderer node in future releases)
• Add High-Frequency boost option to the Spectrometer node
• Add CPU consumption dial to Prismatic main window
• Add Render loop performance report, now you can check how difficult is your scene to render in Prismatic
• Add new examples RGB Tunnel, Curly Worm, Temposcope, Motion Extraction, Endless Cube, Simple Camera
• Add option to Colorize node to color by gradient
• Add Texture filtering and Wrap mode parameters to many texture-handling nodes
• Add Quad node exact size inputs as an alternative to use preview editor
• Improve overall Prismatic editor look & feel with new icons, tweaked colors etc.
• Improve Button node appearance in Graph
• Improve Create Palette node behavior and appearance
• Videos are now validated before adding to the video list
• Recently opened project limit is now set to 15
• Fix Displace2D node sometimes incorrectly mirroring output
• Fix Subgraph handling input/output
• Fix DnD Prismatic project files onto the Prismatic window
• Fix Gradients (nodes & connectors) handling transparency
• Fix Audio Input/Output connecting/disconnecting/changing device behavior
• Fix Prismatic freeze in a special case while using Selector node
• Fix alpha premultiplication handling across the whole board, please report if you are still running into some weird transparency anomalies while working with Prismatic.
• Fix Step Sequencer node properly invalidating project save
• Fix VideoNode DnD onto graph
• Fix timeline select box behavior
• Fix Range input control group properly invalidating project save
• Fix crash in a Timeline related to Step tracks
• Fix Group renaming
• Fix mouse scrolling in some of the Settings tab
• Fix mouse scrolling in properties view (right bottom corner properties)
• Fix Circle placer properly saving its properties to the project file
• Fix Circle placer rotation input
• Fix default "Save As" action shortcut
• Fix many Video related issues across all platforms, that includes RAM/VRAM memory leaks, decoder stabilities and increase performance
• Fix Particle Generator 2D node alpha channel handling
• Fix Video group "Add files" dialog was missing .mov and .webm file extensions

NVIDIA

• On Linux if NVIDIA GPU is detected, egl is never used
• Improve CUDA video decoder and converter

Windows

• Prismatic installation will now properly clean previous undeleted Prismatic registry entries

DMX

• Implement ArtNet DMX device input & output
• Implement Enttec DMX USB PRO device input & output
• Improve Anyma uDMX device stability and performance, the results still may vary depending on the host platform and USB hub setup
• Add DMX dip switch preview to Fixture objects & nodes
• Added several new fixture presets: American DJ Encore LP12ZIP, American DJ Ultra LB18, Cameo Thunder Wash 600 RGB
• Added blackout switch, upon priming, all DMX interfaces will be reset to all 0 values, disabling the switch will return the original values back
• Add support for 16bit values and 6-byte RGB values
• Add Custom DMX Fixture node with a variable number of user-selected parameters
• Fix properly removing fixtures from universe map
• Add universe map fixture context menu

Mapping

• The mapping tab has now been rename to Stage View
• Stage View supports both Mapping and DMX Fixture previews
• Stage view in default is created without mapping, to create mapping a "Create mapping" button has been added
• DMX Fixtures, Mapping items, and guides have new edit UI, edit modes have been removed in favor of this.
• Please let us know about your feelings about these changes, we believe they are a step in the right direction but they surely needs more love from us.