Release Notes/2021.10000/next

Build 2021.16960 - Jul 11, 2022

New Palette

• Palette:stoner - Fixed bug where bottom left key could not be reset individually.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Actor COMP - In Bullet Solver simulations fixed a collision shape bug when 'Update Collision Shape' and 'Infinite Mass' are both enabled.
• Engine COMP / TouchEngine - Fixed issue which could cause TouchEngine to select the wrong GPU on multi-GPU machines.
• Engine COMP / TouchEngine - Fixed a crash which could occur on some hardware setups.
• Engine COMP - Fixed a crash which could occur deleting an Engine COMP.
• Layout TOP - Fixed align mode bug with 'Right to Left' and 'Bottom to Top'.
• Layout TOP - Fixed calculation for 'Fit' parameter.
• Movie File In TOP - Fixed memory leak that can occur in some cases.
• Movie File Out TOP - Fixed H.264/H.265 encoding issues at some resolutions.
• NDI In TOP - No longer cooks when the 'Active' parameter is off.
• RealSense TOP - Max Depth should be enabled in 'Depth Aligned to Color' mode.
• Text TOP - Improved kerning for bitmap fonts on Windows for english text.
• MIDI Out CHOP - Fixed crash when sending invalid midi commands.
• Alembic SOP - Fixed crash when importing certain alembic files with vertex color data.
• SOP - Fixed cases where In/Out/Null and other reference SOPs would not render correctly on startup.
• Allow wiring of nodes to components more directly.
• Fixed use of passwords in nested External COMPs.

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.

The Graphics Processing Unit. This is the high-speed, many-core processor of the graphics card/chip that takes geometry, images and data from the CPU and creates images and processed data.

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

OP Snippets is a set of 700+ live examples of TouchDesigner operators. You can access snippets via the Help menu, or by right-clicking on network operators, or r-clicking on OP Create dialog items.