Release Notes/2020.20000/next

Build 2020.28110 - Dec 23, 2020

New Features

Floating Cloud Licenses are now a new option for licensing. Floating Cloud licenses allows any internet connected machine to access a group of floating licenses on an account. Great for running TouchDesigner on cloud instances, with multi-office teams, for remote working, and easier management of many computers or users. For pricing and purchasing, please contact us at sales@derivative.ca (and coming to the store soon).

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Engine COMP - Additions and improvements.
  • Added 'Match Component Rate' and 'FPS' parameters to Tune page to help control the Engine COMP's playback rate.
  • Added 'Unload' pulse parameter.
  • Fixed crash which could occur after changing the loaded .tox file.
  • Faster loading when .tox file changed.
  • Some issues with CHOP inputs and dropping samples fixed.
  • For Engine COMP and TouchEngine, fixed bad UTF-8 strings through DATs, parameter names and values, channel names, and file paths.
  • Fixed some potential crashes.
• Actor COMP - Fixed visual bug when updating scale parameters.
• Constraint COMP / Actor COMP - Fixed crash when changing an actor with constraints while the simulation is running.
• Script TOP - copyNumpyArray() now works when stride[0] doesn't match the width byte-stride of the image exactly.
• Substance TOP - Fixed use of exposed string parameters in .sbsar Substance files.
• Substance TOP - Fixed bug with input TOP changes not triggering a re-render of the Substance textures.
• Video Device In TOP - Flir (previously called Point Grey) cameras using the Spinnaker SDK now work again. Upgraded to Spinnaker version 2.2.0.48.
• Clock CHOP - Fixed bug where milliseconds channel would fall out of sync with seconds channel when 'Hour Adjust' parameter had enough precision to shift by milliseconds.
• Web Client DAT - Fixed handling of utf-8 in XML content-type.
• Web Client DAT - Fixed handling of utf-8 text in DAT output.
• Web Server DAT - Fixed crash when WebSocket connection is not closed cleanly on the client side.
• WebSocket DAT - Fixed onConnect/onDisconnect callbacks being triggered when there is no WebSocket connection.
• WebSocket DAT - Fixed Info DAT not reporting connected=0 when server not cleanly shutdown (ie. no close message sent).
• XML DAT - Fixes for UTF8 support including standard entities, output, and recent hangs.
• Privacy - Fixed Text TOP/Field COMP not working in protected components.
• Fixed crash when entering/exiting Perform Mode that caused panels to re-clone.

Backward Compatibility

BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY -

A built-in panel in TouchDesigner that contains a library of components and media that can be dragged-dropped into a TouchDesigner network.

An Operator Family that contains its own Network. There are sixteen 3D Object Component and ten 2D Panel Component types. See also Network Path.

The Frames-per-Second that TouchDesigner's Timeline runs at. Set with project.cookRate.

An Operator Family that contains its own Network. There are sixteen 3D Object Component and ten 2D Panel Component types. See also Network Path.

TouchDesigner Component file, the file type used to save a Component of your TouchDesigner project.

An Operator Family which operate on Channels (a sequence of numbers (Samples)) which are used for animation, audio, mathematics, simulation, logic, UI construction, and data streamed from/to devices and protocols.

An Operator Family that creates, composites and modifies images, and reads/writes images and movies to/from files and the network. TOPs run on the graphics card's GPU.

Each SOP has a list of Points. Each point has an XYZ 3D position value plus other optional attributes. Each polygon Primitive is defined by a vertex list, which is list of point numbers.

An Operator Family that manipulates text strings: multi-line text or tables. Multi-line text is often a python Script or GLSL Shader, but can be any multi-line text. Tables are rows and columns of cells, each containing a text string.