Feature requests / wishes

[gaspode]

-import svg or any other vector-format.
-boolean 3d-manipulations on the fly
-animation-curves with different colors in the timeline
-reading audio-data in realtime for equalizer-effects
-move operators and annotations together at one go
-when combining operators with annotations move them as well into the new operator
-unjoin operators from the nodetree without losing their timeline-animations

[pixtur]

per project settings (as described in gaspodes thread: )

I have to look at this thread again.

reworked lighting settings (radius, intensity - it's very hard to tweak)

I know, we're working on it

Proper looping function (in the player) that does not create short but noticeable gaps

@lx an you elaborate?

import svg or any other vector-format.

At first I thought this is impossible, but webkit probably offers some rendering-functionality to converted it into a texture. Live-Rendering/updating it would be hard though.

boolean 3d-manipulations on the fly

I would love to have this too, but it's VERY hard. Maya can't even do it properly in non-realtime. Did you try SDF? It's amazing how far you get with raymarching.

animation-curves with different colors in the timeline

Done -> v2.5.2

reading audio-data in realtime for equalizer-effects

Already implemented. See FFT-example. Sadly this only supports the microphone data. But it shouldn't be hard to extend it to the music-buffer.

Move operators and annotations together at one go

This should work out of the box. That's what Annotations are for. Did you try dragging the annotation at the header?

When combining operators with annotations move them as well into the new operator

Yep. That's actually a horrible bug.

unjoin operators from the nodetree without losing their timeline-animations

Ahhh... Excellent point. I have to look into this.

[K-OZ]

wishmop:

• force viewer dimensions (or maybe displayed area) to an aspect ratio (16x9 fav i guess)
• when changing operator values by mouse: shortcut for very precise changes like 0.001 or so.
  in "nuke" there is a really nice way for this, maybe it´s inspiring: you can navigate to a decimal place and change its value with up/down arrow keys or with mouse+shortcut. so you can quickly animate big or precise.
• disabling an operator should not "disable" the rest of the tree
• "find unused ops" for lazy people or when deadline arises

[pixtur]

@K-OZ

force viewer dimensions (or maybe displayed area) to an aspect ratio (16x9 fav i guess)

Did you try the [CameraMaskOverlay] operator?

when changing operator values by mouse: shortcut for very precise changes like 0.001 or so.in "nuke" there is a really nice way for this, maybe it´s inspiring: you can navigate to a decimal place and change its value with up/down arrow keys or with mouse+shortcut. so you can quickly animate big or precise.

Try using ALT+MouseWheel

disabling an operator should not "disable" the rest of the tree

Well. That's tricky. We discussed a long time about the implementation of that feature. But in the end it would have resulted in an if-condition that is 99% false but still has be evaluated. Performance won on that one. Sorry.

"find unused ops" for lazy people or when deadline arises

Can you elaborate? You mean unconnected Operators to delete them? Unused ops are not evaluated and don't affect performance (well, the progress-bar might take a bit longer to compile unused op types). But besides that its doesn't take any resources. Why would you want to sort them out before deadline?

[K-OZ]

@pixtur

Did you try the [CameraMaskOverlay] operator?

oh, pretty convincing - sry for that "wish".

Try using ALT+MouseWheel

sometimes i experience this as "not precise enough"

Performance won on that one. Sorry.

ok, right decission!

Can you elaborate? You mean unconnected Operators to delete them? Unused ops are not evaluated and don't affect performance (well, the progress-bar might take a bit longer to compile unused op types). But besides that its doesn't take any resources. Why would you want to sort them out before deadline?

please don´t take this wish too serious. i just didn´t want to leave a mess behind in the release, but there was no time to clean up...

[pixtur]

please don´t take this wish too serious. i just didn´t want to leave a mess behind in the release, but there was no time to clean up...

Haha, you should try working with @lx then

But yes, having a function "select unconnected operators" would be indeed useful and quiet easy to implement.

[K-OZ]

Haha, you should try working with @lx then

i would love to, when can i start my "praktikum"?

[gaspode]

Oh, another one.

BlendImages-operator with parameter controlling the amount/ratio of alpha taken from the two incoming images.

Something like 0.1 to 0.9 would mean first image 10%, second image 90%.

This have to be tweenable of coure.

[pixtur]

why not just use a [Layer2d] ?

[Group__________]
[Layer2d][Layer2d]
[Image]  [Image]

And animate the alpha of the second parameter?

But I can add an option to the [BlendImages] op, too. Sounds like a good idea.

[lx]

@pixtur: if you create a demo and then start it with the looping function tooll won't properly loop it but play it with a gap. Very noticeable if you create a perfectly fine looping sound and then try to use it in the demo...

New feature request: If you duplicate something as new type, it would be handy if it would also copy the animations.

@K-OZ: Concerning the "praktikum"... when are you able to start?

[gaspode]

When you use the "after curve"-setting at the timeline, it would be great, if there was a possibility to stop the repeating with a special keyframe, so that you can animate other stuff from this point on.

[lx]

this is a great idea!

I think most 3d software can only do this when you use some sort of containers within the curve editor. But it would be a really cool feature.

Also I want to have: Metaballs!

[FlashyTheCreeper]

lx: Mine too!
I also want to have: Sphere Mapping with only 1 texture!
like in this one: http://www.reindelsoftware.com/Documents/Mapping/images/gl_spec_teapot.gif

[pixtur]

Why not quickly write a new [SphereMapping] operator? Should be straight forward. You can even use the normal-deflection-code from [GlassShader]...

[pixtur]

@gaspode: keyframe-range is probably not going the happen. The keyframing code is already pretty heave and it would affect all animation-curves. You could build something like this by combing two animation-curves like this:

[Curve]
[Curve]

The lower one would look like this

     ____
____/

You could also do something like...

[Curve ]
[Clamp]
[Time]

Of course heaving the keyframes inside the curve-editor would be more convenient, though.

[h0ffman]

Not sure if I missed it in the UI, but is there a way to change the automation time scale to beats and measures by setting the BPM of the track?

[gaspode]

Hi h0ffman.

You cannot change the BPM-value in the UI but you can edit it directly in the file "ProjectSettings" in the folder "Config". Search for "Soundtrack.BPM".

Hope this helps.

And: If nothing changes in the UI after saving a new BPM-value it could help to restart your computer.

[FlashyTheCreeper]

I wish geosphere operator was added.
geosphere operator can add some abstract looking sphere, like in this:

[FlashyTheCreeper]

i also want operator that loads video files.

[pixtur]

@FlashyTheCreeper writing a GeoSphere operator is actually not the difficult. You could easily do it yourself by cloning the [Cylinder]-Operator and replacing the Mesh-Code. This c# code would be a good reference.

We had to remove the Video-File loading because of License-Incompabilities. (ffmpeg has a GPL component which violates our MIT license). Eventually I would love to have a hap-codec integration, though.