what a month!

you may want to make yourself comfortable before diving into this. summertime is over and everyone is back patching in their cavvvves. a lot of beautiful things happened in the past month. here we go:

vvvv/vl wise

our main focus is still getting beta36 out, which will include the new and trivl way to develop nodes for vl as already mentioned here last time. just still not happy with all the details. we’ll get there eventually.. but meanwhile also a few other things happened that are ready for you to test in latest alphas:

• the VL.Experimental package now includes reworked UDP nodes that will soon leave experimental status and are already being used under the hood now in the ArtNet (Network Sender/Receiver) nodes in vvvv which makes them faster.
• also new in experimental: RS232 nodes for vl which will power the FirmataBord (Devices) in vvvv soon to also make it faster.
• Custom Dynamic Buffers allow you to fill textures for DX9 and DX11 and DX11.Buffers directly in vl for later use in vvvv. this should have quite some potential…
• work is under way to wrap the DigiCamControl library for vl which allows you to control quite a wide range of cameras
• we’ve resumed our work on wrapping Skia for vl which will provide us with its first rendering engine. 2d only but already looking promising..we hope to be able to show you something soon.

  pin editors landed in vl

• if you want to get started with vl as a longterm vvvv user, please read vl for vvvv users as an explanation to how it should be understood and an introduction to usecases it can help you with
• vvvv got a nice feature on Hackaday, thanks!

• we had some recent changes to the website
• fixes for the I2C firmata nodes: firmata-updates-and-fixes
• HTMLTexture can now talk to vvvv via javascript, see girlpower\IO\Web\10_JavascriptToVVVV

Contributions

woeiuser once again went totally overboard with 3 new contributions:

• StableFluidsbeta-contribution which also is a great resource for using c++ code in plugins
• FindRelated (VVVVbeta-contribution)
• WindowHandler (VVVVbeta-contribution)

tobykuser shares two of his developments powered by vl:

• SlotManagerbeta-contribution
• Interloper Configbeta-contribution

and sebluser updated ReadBack DX11beta-contribution for vvvv b35.8 and dx11 > 1.0

Gallery

also a large number of great projects this time. keep them coming!

• Second Litany by StiXuser
• Falls the Shadow Dance Performance by lasaluser
• Vilhelm week 33 by sunepuser
• Captain Longbow’s recursive sexship by evvvviluser
• https://vimeo.com/228214734 by moovel lab in cooperation with http://meso.net

and a new twitter user to follow: vvvvmotions

Teasers

a couple of interesting teasers…

• https://discourse.vvvv.org/t/interpole/15566
• openvr-tracking-without-headset
• https://twitter.com/vvvv_jp/status/919223251061981185

Upcoming

and some vvvv action coming up:

• in belgium: vvvv at KIKK 2017
• and milan: Patcher Kucha in Milan 2017

enough already. anything to add? please do so in the comments!