Sean Meighan

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Title: 2016.43 released. Mostly bug fixes. Can now have layers on strands
Post by: sean on August 04, 2016, 08:58:38 AM

release 2016.43, mostly bug fixes. Multiple layers on a strand now works besides multiple layers on a model. The next release ,2016.44, may have Keith's new color gradients, stay tuned ...

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XLIGHTS/NUTCRACKER RELEASE NOTES:
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   -- bug (gil)     Fix PolyLine not working with single channel nodes.
   -- enh (gil)     Increase Fan radius parameters limits.  Fixes #640.
   -- enh (gil)     Improve effect selection and updates when vertical scrolling.  Fixes #638.
   -- bug (gil)     Prevent crash when custom model background image does not exist. Fixes #639.
   -- bug (gil)     Remove Previews from Menus when switching show directories.
   -- enh (gil)     Add ability to scale PolyLine models.
   -- enh (gil)     Add effect alignment options.
   -- bug (gil)     Prevent PolyLine point deletion unless there are 3 or more points.
   -- bug (gil)     Fix PolyLine selection hotspots and selection with yellow bounding box.
   -- enh (gil)     Account for malformed XML in the new version 6 format of SuperStar files.
   -- bug (dkulp)   Fix crash when matrix type models have a single node and a Model/Strand render style is used
   -- enh (dkulp)   Allow multiple layers for Strands, strands blend onto the model level effects

Title: Re: 2016.43 released. Mostly bug fixes. Can now have layers on strands
Post by: Phrog30 on August 04, 2016, 12:24:53 PM

What exactly is this,
"Allow multiple layers for Strands, strands blend onto the model level effects"?

James

Title: Re: 2016.43 released. Mostly bug fixes. Can now have layers on strands
Post by: dkulp on August 04, 2016, 12:58:23 PM

Quote from: Phrog30 on August 04, 2016, 12:24:53 PM

What exactly is this,
"Allow multiple layers for Strands, strands blend onto the model level effects"?

If you expand a model to see the strands, you can right click on the strand and the Add layer option is there, just like for models.   Thus, the strands can now have multiple layers.  (previously only allowed a single layer, Nodes are still a single layer).   For Node/Strand effects, the blending setting for the bottom most layer now controls how is is blended onto the model level effects.  Previously they would always override whatever was on the model level.

This is kind of a starting point for submodels.   We needed to get the rendering code able to process multi-layers on stuff other than the top level models and allow the blending onto stuff that is already there.   That is now working.   Strands are basically just "default" sub-models.   We're hoping to be able to provide a way to define your own sub-models, just not sure how yet.

Title: Re: 2016.43 released. Mostly bug fixes. Can now have layers on strands
Post by: Phrog30 on August 04, 2016, 01:04:40 PM

Yes, makes sense. Sorry, for the life of me I just couldn't figure out what that meant.

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