Patcher People!
It’s been a while since the b38.1 release. But finally we’re getting ready to release an update to vvvv beta. Here is the release-candidate, meaning it has all we wanted to add for beta39. We only want to give you a chance to test this with your current projects so we have a last chance to squash any new bugs, you may encounter.
 Fancy shading with the new PBR effect contributed by fluxuser
Here are the highlights of the upcoming release:
General
- We get rid of the term ‘alpha’ and replace it with the term ‘beta-preview’ to be in line with gamma and gamma-preview
- Finally we ship an installer! Just a few clicks and you should have vvvv beta running. ** Optionally installs the addonpack for you. ** Still we left good old setup.exe there but renamed it to config.exe, since you don’t necessarily need to run it anymore to set things up ** We’re also planning to offer an offline-installer, but only for the actual release (not every preview) ** We’re also keeping the .zip downloads
- For convenience, by default new patches now save to %User%\Documents\vvvv\beta(-preview)\Sketches. Like this you can quickly find your recently created patches via a new main menu entry: Recent Patches
- We’ve added two shortcuts to the main menu: ** Show Installed Packs: opens explorer pointing to the \packs directory ** Download Contributions: opens a browser pointing to the contributions page
- vvvv beta now supports RCP out of the box, which allows you to expose IOBoxes to control them remotely. See the helppatch of Rabbit (RCP) for details.
New nodes
- WebSocket (Network Client)
- PBR (DX11.Effects), PBRInstanced (DX11.Effects)
- PBRTextured (DX11.Effects), PBRTexturedInstanced (DX11.Effects)
- MaterialPropertiesPBR (DX11.TextureFX)
- Lights (DX11.Layer PBR)
New in VL
If you’re also using VL already, good for you, because here you’ll find even more goodies you will benefit from:
- Shiny Tooltips
- IOBoxes 2.0
- Regular Expression nodes
- Pingroups
- If you’re looking for the Manage Nugets menu entry under Dependencies: this has been moved to the Quad menu
- and quite some more as we’ve listed in the gamma preview changelog
Besides those, it is important to understand that with VL you also have access to numerous more libraries that have been released recently. A lot of new packs these days come as nugets. For an overview, see VL packs on nuget.org and you can use them all in vvvv beta, via VL…
Download
vvvv beta39 x64 RC11 vvvv beta39 x86 RC11
Changelog for Candidates:
RC11
- fixes on bumpy Damper
- fixed SVGWriter
RC10
- fixes issue with girlpower\VL_Basics\ParticleSystem not loading
RC9
- Press IOBox now releases when left button is click while right-pressing
- Fixed a bug in OSC nodes
- Dampers can now be used in loops
- fixed image tooltip
- fix on tooltip layout
- some color operation improvements
- can now create a node while linking by simply starting to type
RC8
- updated to latest VL
- removed a few unnecessary Damper versions
- fixed time step calculation of Damper (Fast)
RC7
- Installer finds path to Powershell.exe on it’s own
- VL close dialog lists unsaved documents
- some minor fixes on VL Damper nodes
- fix for C# node input pins that access an empty spread
RC6
- SaveAs inside VL editor back again - node references in v4p should now get updated correctly
- Fixed a few crashes of VL serializer when dealing with object fields
- PBR nodes should show up in nodebrowser again
- SelectNodesDontScroll added
RC5
- Regions now show timings again
- Node tooltips now show timings for the current instance
- Image download from GPU will again happen in AsImage node to avoid breaking changes and potential crashes in existing patches
- installer adds vvvv folder and process to Windows Defender exceptions
RC4
- changed AppData location for nugets to \beta(-preview)_{architecture}\nugets
- removed AppData location for packs again (to be reconsidered after b39)
- in VL outboxes are working again
- installer checks and installs DX9 and VC++ Redistributables correctly
RC3
- Ctrl+P now creates new patch pointing to active patchs directory
- fixes problem with AsImage (DX11)
- fixes problem with saving a new patch to \Sketches
RC2
- adds options to register .v4p and .vl from the installer
- fixes an issue with the installer popping up config.exe unnecessarily
- fixes Ctrl+G
- fixes Keyboard (Devices Windows) Enabled pin
- fixes global references to .fxh includes for dx9 effects
So please give this release candidate a spin and be sure to report your findings, preferrably in the forum using the “preview” tag, or also just by posting a comment below.
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Hello joreguser
I tried to install the new RC6 and it was a powershell error code:2, the same happened with RC5 as well. Somehow in my system (WIN 10 upgraded pro) was not default set path of the powershell… maybe it’s gona happend with others.
many thanks Zsolt
@joreg I just reinstall again withouth path here are the schreenshots:
what does this mean?
do you mean access by index? as in
afair vvvv always tries to zmod the index with the spread count, so this always failed when the spread count is in fact 0, with an error message as you said (“division by 0”). what’s the behaviour now, if the old behaviour has been “fixed”?
or is this even what you meant?
Awesome! Here are my 2cents…
If you try to Alt+2 on a dx11 renderer vvvv crashes instantly
and when i close a patch that have some vl on it, it always says that some vl files are not saved
@parabola thanks for those:
I really like the new installer and that I can choose to install the addonpack.
Awesome!
But as always, more wants more!
How about having an option to install contributions. A bit like vpm built into the installer. It would be really cool.
very convenient it is, i hope this solves the installation terror in the beginner courses. thanks for this.
from a professional point of view, there is only one question. we ship our projects with vvvv and all dependencies like packs. that’s kinda difficult now since the packs folder is not a part of the vvvv folder anymore. is the intended workflow to add those packs with the root patch ? or would it be possible to have a config file to set the packs folder path ? that would be awesome. maybe even add that to the config.exe to minimize this breaking change.
Great release!
Just a little thing, if I “save as” a patch in a different direction, make a new patch and again “save as”, it would be great that vvvv remember that direction.