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R4.7 released!
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R4.7 released!
It´s time for an update! R4.7 is available for download in the user area.

Have fun,
Your Ventuz Team!


Releasenotes of Ventuz 2006 Professional Edition

FEATURE F287 Added channel selection for the drop-on-binding functionality. If you drop a node like Damper on a binding between two nodes and it consists of more than one binding, a dialog appears where the desired binding can be selected.

FEATURE F333 MySQL native .net connector for the DataBase node.

FEATURE F337 The Chart Nodes were extended by output properties which indicate the minimum and maximum values of the chart.

FEATURE F338 Added Float Array Offset Node. It calculates an offset to the values of a float array.

FEATURE F339 Added a Float Array Fill Node. It creates a float array of specific length and fills it with a default value.

FEATURE F340 Added Float Array Analysis Node. It provides information about a float array like Min/Max values.

FEATURE F341 The Chart Nodes were extended by the Input property StopFlag. If this value is found in a float array the Chart is only generated up to its position in the array. Use this to let a chart grow on new additional values.

FEATURE F342 Added Matrix Morph Node which provides linear interpolation of two input matrices.

FEATURE F343 It is now possible to toggle a selection in the Hierarchy Editor by clicking on an already selected Node.

FEATURE F344 Collada Importer now supports the import of cameras and animations.

FEATURE F347 Scene Remoting via .Net Remoting and CLI works now in the Presentation mode (.vpr files) as well. All the scene management calls like VentuzRemoteHelper.LoadScene() certainly do not work for Presentations.

FEATURE F349 It is now possible to receive events in CLI. ventuz.event (or v.event) enables receiving of events sent by the Ventuz scene. ventuz.noevent disables it.

FEATURE F350 .Net Remoting offers now the possibility to load scenes asynchronously and to get a progress status of the loading. See VentuzRemoteHelper.LoadSceneAsync() in the .Net Remoting documentation for further information.

FEATURE F351 If enabled in Tools->Options->General the Designer additionaly writes the current scene in Runtime scene format every time the scene is saved via Save or Save As. This makes it possible to easely use the Project folder as Director folder.

FEATURE F352 Introducing Timeline Control Node! It works like the Simple Control but now you can control the animation time-based.

FEATURE F355 Introduce new XSL node. Use this node to transform XML instances to Text, HTML or XML

CHANGE C138 The Bounding Box calculation for imported meshes is now subset sensitive. You now get the correct bounding box for the selected subset and not only the bounding box for the complete mesh.

CHANGE C146 The String Expression Node Replace now accepts an empty string as replacement.

CHANGE C147 The Multisampling selection algorithm was revised and unified. This makes it possible to use 8x and higher multisampling on Nvidia 8800 graphic cards.

CHANGE C149 The Overlay Rectangle has now one more Alpha mode: PreMultipliedAlpha. This is very useful to achieve better results in combination with the Blur Texture node for glow and bloom effects.

CHANGE C153 The Direct3D configuration (Project Properties) has now a 'Backbuffer Count' option in the Advanced tab. Using multiple backbuffers can result in better rendering performance and less frame drops on heavy scenes. The display quality of live video and AVI playback might be improved as well.

CHANGE C154 IMPORTANT: Due to B201, F347, F349, F350, C158 the Ventuz.Kernel.Remoting Dll changed and has to be updated in your Remoting Projects!

CHANGE C155 MouseOver node got an additional property 'SubsetSensitive' to enable mesh subset-sensitive functionality.

CHANGE C156 Significantly improved the performance of the Text Effect Nodes!

CHANGE C157 The Shape Surface Node now has a default name to make it immediately available in the Remote Shape Tool.

CHANGE C158 The Snapshot call via remoting has now optional size parameters to reduce the image size.

CHANGE C160 The enhanced Scene Statistics tool displays all nodes and can navigate to them by double-clicking on the desired entry.

CHANGE C161 Icons in the Content Editor can now be scaled down to a small version. Some Nodes are displayed in the Content Editor in a small version by default if dragged from the Toolbox. Toggle: Ctrl-T. Turn off small Icons in the Designer Options menu.

BUG B191 Unexpose/Unexternalize via RMB did not work for Methods and Events in the Property Editor. Fixed!

BUG B193 Ventuz sent invalid IP addresses in the MachineSignature structure (this happened on computers with more than one network adapter). This structure can be received on clients with the MachineSignatureReceiver class from Ventuz Remoting.

BUG B195 The Switch Node did not provide correct bounding boxes if the complete Switch Node or any of its Case-Subtrees was blocked via Alpha value of the Alpha (Color, Material) Node. Fixed!

BUG B196 Mover did not work in Avi Playout if the playout was animation-based. Fixed!

BUG B199 Fixed some bugs in the Collada import.

BUG B201 MachineSignature structure in .Net Remoting is missing the Name property. This is fixed now!

BUG B202 Changing Font Culture Set in the Project Properties crashed rendering because the new font resources were not created properly. Fixed!

BUG B204 Animations which were controlled by SimpleControl node or other Animations produced stuttering if events were fired in the scene. This was caused by a wrong validation hierarchy. Fixed!

BUG B205 The renderer did not update if keyframe values were changed in the Position and Value fields of the Animation Editor. Fixed!

BUG B206 Dropping a appropriate node, like Expression, on an Animation binding killed all channels except the lucky one which had the Expression node inserted. Fixed!

BUG B207 Fixed Bugs in the Image Loader Advanced which could abort the loading of an image or even crash Ventuz.

BUG B210 All windows get closed now if closing a project in the Designer.

BUG B212 When RMB clicking on Nodes in the Content Editor no bindings are selected anymore if there were any below the Node.

BUG B213 Thumbnails for scenes (*.vzs) are displayed correctly under Windows Vista

BUG B214 Saving a scene with the name of an already open scene is now handled correctly.

BUG B216 Some Value-Generator Nodes (like Keyframe Animation, Timer, Math Effects) did not produce continuous values if a running movie was present in the scene. Reason was a wrong timing. This is fixed now.


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