Release Notes | VENTUZ

V7.01.03

CHANGE	C16410	Director / Configuration: Added reading of Machine Configuration for information about desired logging behavior.
BUG	B16519	Audio Playback: Fixed possible crash when using ASIO outputs.
BUG	B16072	Configuration / Render Setup / Warping & Shaping: Test patterns where not visible until you did hit save. Fixed!
BUG	B16477	Configuration / Warping & Shaping: A new and unsaved render setup did not apply the shaping & warping and test pattern live immediately. Fixed!
BUG	B16215	Designer: Node-Color icon did not scale correctly with DPI settings > 100%. Fixed!
BUG	B16306	Designer: The Project Browser had a wrong aspect with DPI scalings > 100%. Fixed!
BUG	B16234	Designer / Hierarchy Editor: Quad icon for Material preview was only black. Fixed!
BUG	B15561	Designer / Layers / Hierarchy Editor: Compositions with the same name are now also showing the correct error when the Hierarchy Editor is used for layers.
BUG	B16053	Designer / Nodes: PBR lights can now be renamed.
BUG	B15381	Designer / Remoting: Project Data editor is now correctly scalable.
BUG	B16084	Designer / RenderToDisk: Fixed that when starting RenderToDisk from Designer, there is no preview.
BUG	B16490	Designer / RenderToDisk: Fixed audio output when using RenderToDisk from Designer UI.
BUG	B16501	Designer / RenderToDisk: Fixed Crash with RenderToDisk and TIFF output when no alpha is used.
BUG	B16502	Designer / RenderToDisk: Fixed Designer getting slow or stuck after using RenderToDisk sometimes.
BUG	B16525	Designer / Textrendering: If rendered text contained emojis and one disabled emojis in Project Settings Designer crashed. Fixed!
BUG	B16487	Director / Asset Browser: Fixed display of Keywords and ChannelIds values in details view.
BUG	B16506	Director / Asset Browser: Fixed column headers and options from the settings popup to not be updated after language change.
BUG	B16269	Interaction / Nodes: Fixed alpha handling in Touch Paint node with non-additive mode.
BUG	B16183	Multipipe Rendering / Previz: Fixed the automatically generated "<previs screen>" in multipipe scenarios.
BUG	B16432	Nodes: Interpolator nodes could break parts of the scene validation if inputs were NotANumber or Infinity. Fixed!
BUG	B16509	Nodes: AudioAnalysis crashed Ventuz when validated in background thread. Fixed!
BUG	B16366	Runtime / Template Engine: When loading the same scene to multiple ports sometimes not all ports managed to load it. Fixed!
BUG	B16426	Scripting / Runtime: Script nodes did not update source code from external Visual Studio projects when Runtime was in Director mode (started with VZP file). Fixed!
BUG	B16475	TUIO Input Diagnostics: Fixed mapping issue when a screen is split across multiple outputs.

V7.01.02

FEATURE	F16273	Runtime / Presenter: Added -rendersetup command line option so users can override the current RS on launch.
BUG	B16295	CRITICAL / VMS: Fixed severe memory leak in VentuzMS.exe.
BUG	B16119	Configuration / Device Configuration: Fixed wrong output pipe assignment when a pipe gets deleted in the Device configuration
BUG	B16076	Configuration / RenderSetup: In some mixed DPI cases it was possible to see unnassigned pixel boarders inside Designer or Runtime. Fixed!
BUG	B16071	Configuration / Warping & Shaping: When warping, the second warp group was invisible. Fixed!
BUG	B16141	Configuration / Warping & Shaping: Enabling the warping GUI on projectors by pressing 'd' will crash Ventuz. Fixed!
BUG	B16070	Configuration / Warping & Shaping Editor: Pressing 'Solo' button did not switch off other outputs, but flipped them. Fixed!
BUG	B16112	Configuration Editor / Render Setup Editor: Fixed very subtle rounding errors.
BUG	B16212	Designer: Double-clicking on Scene icon in Property Editor crashed the application. Fixed!
BUG	B16235	Designer / Layer / Mask: Fixed loading of SVG files as Layer masks.
BUG	B16247	Designer / Nodes: Fixed Audio Crosspoint groups showing up multiple times in the Volume Control node.
BUG	B16230	Designer / Preview : Fixed Alpha Channel ('Show Key') appearing gray instead of white.
BUG	B16192	Device Config / Runtime: Fixed crash when in Device Config the Preview Window render Gpu is set to a Gpu that does not exit (any more) on the system.
BUG	B16097	Director / Topology: Fixed creation of new Topology in editor to also create equal amount of Channel Slots according to number of Ports.
BUG	B16107	Engine / Movie Playback: Fixed crash when trying to play certain video files with broken timestamps using GPU acceleration
BUG	B16073	Multi-GPU / Runtime: Fixed situations where a computer with multiple GPUs of which only one is configured, but some processing is still done on the unused GPU (often a slow integrated laptop one). This would happen for instance with offscreen rendertargets.
BUG	B16188	Nodes / Runtime: Under certain circumstances the FX node could crash Ventuz. Fixed!
BUG	B16147	Runtime / E2E: Fixed a Ventuz to Notch communication issue in some Multi-GPU setups.
BUG	B16113	Runtime / Interaction: Allow SHIFT CTRL ALT from GPU outputs for the windows keyboard node, not just from the preview window, as it was before version 7.0.
BUG	B16135	Runtime / Layers: Blur Effect on Offscreen Rendertargets when effect bleed was used caused black image as result (since V7.0). Fixed!
BUG	B16245	Runtime / Layers / Live Input: Fixed interlaced live video 2D Layers, when crop or fit mode is used. The aspect was calculated wrong because interlaced sources have twice as many lines as the texture has.
BUG	B16296	Runtime / Movie Playback: Fixed rare, random crash when background-loading scenes with Movie nodes.
BUG	B16106	Runtime / Nodes: Fixed bug when Flipbook Loader needs a buffer larger than 4GB. That is width x height x number of images in Flipbook x 16 bytes per pixel (for internal RGBA float calculation) + 33% for mipmaps.
BUG	B16274	Runtime / SDI: Fixed crash when Ventuz Presenter is started without any monitor on the GPUs (for instance, with only SDI outputs).
BUG	B16198	Video Input / Output: Blackmagic ATEMs were not recognized as video input. Fixed!

V7.01.01

BUG	B16055	Designer / Device Config: If one was using a Device Config which did not match the actual Audio HW, Designer was repeatedly showing an exception popup when selecting Movie Clip nodes. Fixed!
BUG	B16077	Designer / Nodes: Deleting Movie Clip nodes in a scene configured as Layout Scene caused exceptions and the deletion did not completely succeed. Fixed!
BUG	B15994	Designer / Repository / Nodes: Custom icons with alpha for Nodes and Repository items were blended on black. Fixed!
BUG	B16052	Designer / Runtime / Nodes: Ventuz could crash if null or empty string was set to the File property of the Skybox node. Fixed!
BUG	B16047	Designer / Stage Editor: Show Bezel button did not work. Fixed!
BUG	B16020	Designer / Text & Fonts: Bevel icons in 3D Mesh Font Style dialog were too small in DPI settings > 100%. Fixed!
BUG	B16010	Director: Fixed some performance optimizations that could caused crashes in rare cases.
BUG	B16065	Multi-GPU / Movie Playback: Fixed problem with identifying which GPUs need the video when a scene is loaded in background. In rare situations, this caused the movie to be played only on the first GPU.
BUG	B16074	Particle System / Touch: Touch events on Particles were fired even if the mouse did not hit a particle. Fixed!
BUG	B16079	Render To Disk: Fixed wrong alpha mode and blending when rendering from Designer. Now formats without alpha support do not allow changing Alpha option.
BUG	B16064	RenderSetup / Runtime: When using output rotation, the rendertarget resolution was calculated wrong. The output looked correct, but it was scaled up / down. Fixed!
BUG	B16028	Runtime / HDR / Nodes: Fixed wrong gamma when using FX nodes under certain circumstances.
BUG	B16056	Runtime / Multi-GPU / Movie Playback: Under certain circumstances some movie clips were not rendered on a multi-GPU setup because the GPU Masking ('Auto' mode) did not work correctly. This fix applies to the Movie Clip & Movie Frame nodes!
BUG	B16050	Runtime / PBR Skybox: Cubemap generation could cause errors in background thread. Fixed!

V7.01.00

FEATURE	F14406	Configuration Editor / Device Configuration Editor: In the Preview Window Settings you can now select which connected screen will be used in Designer for Fullscreen mode.
FEATURE	F15928	Configuration Editor / Device Configuration Editor: Video Output Devices now have properties to handle newly introduced output of HDR signals.
FEATURE	F15632	Configuration Editor / Render Setup Editor / Layout Mode: A new measurment information box has been added which shows useful information, such as their length in pixels.
FEATURE	F15630	Configuration Editor / Render Setup Editor: Measurement markers are now sticky to the item they reference.
FEATURE	F15223	Configuration Editor / Render Setup Editor / Layout Mode: Implemented copy/paste functionality for Compositions, Screens and Touch areas.
FEATURE	F15631	Configuration Editor / Render Setup Editor / Layout Mode: The measurement line is fixedly resized at an angle of multiples of 45 degrees when "shift" is pressed.
FEATURE	F14888	Configuration Editor / Render Setup Editor / Output Mapping: By clicking on the "Import device configuration" button, a new dialog appears that allows to import (output) streams and TUIO inputs to Output Mapping. If a groupt (cluster) is selected, the import is performed for each active configuration of each machine.
FEATURE	F15286	Configuration Editor / Render Setup Editor / Output Mapping: Added the possibility to rearrange outputs between machines.
FEATURE	F15607	Configuration Editor / Render Setup Editor / Output Mapping: Outputs can now be labeled.
FEATURE	F15560	Designer: Increased the amount of Textures that can be used at the same time. From 8 to 14 for pixel textures and 4 for vertex textures / effects. The order in which vertex effects are applied may be different than in Ventuz 7.00 Check the Usermanual for limitations.
FEATURE	F15760	Designer: We've added more default gradient textures to the respective loaders.
FEATURE	F15506	Designer / Materials: Texture Sampler Property Group now has BorderAlpha in addition to BorderColor. The default is 1.0 (full alpha), which is the old value. Alpha is not pre-multiplied to color.
FEATURE	F15552	Designer / Materials / Normal Maps: can now be inverted on the Y axis
FEATURE	F14776	Designer / Nodes: The Chart Nodes can now evaluate the Y value for a given X value.
FEATURE	F14987	Designer / Nodes: The Chart Nodes can now handle XY value pairs in the format (X0, Y0, X1, Y1, X2, Y2, ...). See documentation for further details.
FEATURE	F15068	Designer / Nodes: Container Info Node now outputs the Composition name.
FEATURE	F15224	Designer / Nodes: The Movie Clip methods Restart, Pause, Play, Seek and the AutoStart can now be synchronized in a multi-machine Cluster (similar to the Cluster Task node). See documentation for further details.
FEATURE	F15668	Designer / Nodes: Introducing new PBR Light Node. The type of light can be changed between Point, Directional, Spot and Ambient. This light Node should be used when working with PBR.
FEATURE	F15762	Designer / Nodes: Introducing new PBR SkyBox Node and Aliases that are optimized for doing the prefiltering required for image based lighting inside Ventuz without external tools. The old Node can still be used even though the new one is much more convenient.
FEATURE	F15846	Designer / Nodes / SkyBox: Added HDRi default textures to the SkyBox and Environment Texture Loader.
FEATURE	F16017	Designer / Runtime: Ventuz now features a high quality physically based rendering pipeline that supports industry standard material workflows.
FEATURE	F15909	Designer / Script Editor: Added possibility to clear the message log via context menu.
FEATURE	F15284	Designer, Runtime / E2E / Notch: Introduced multiple GPU support! Check the documentation to learn how to set it up.
FEATURE	F15236	Designer, Runtime / Logs / Videoengine: Improved Logging "Info" for detecting Window Media Foundation devices (Webcams, etc).
FEATURE	F15523	Designer, Runtime / Output, Engine: Ventuz is now able to output signals in HDR color spaces. Enabling HDR in the project settings will switch all parts of the compositing engine to 16bit float calculations and enable the correct output conversion.
FEATURE	F11572	Designer, Runtime / Remoting 4: the Cluster class was extend by methods to reconnect to running Ventuz Runtimes and to handle backup scenarios where machines have to be added/exchanged to/in a running Cluster. See API documentation for Cluster.TryReconnectAndSync(), Cluster.SynchronizeMachine() and Cluster.SynchronizePreloadedMachine().
FEATURE	F15796	Director: Added filtering capabilities to the Published Scenes dialog.
FEATURE	F15929	Project Properties / Format / Color Space: A project can now be turned into an HDR project in the format section of the project properties
FEATURE	F15511	VMS / Project Scanner: After creating new Project in Designer its folder is added to the project paths in the VMS Config if not already located within a configured folder. VMS then rescans configured folders to take new Ventuz Project into account.
CHANGE	C14802	Configuration Editor: Modified icons for editing and renaming configurations.
CHANGE	C15611	Configuration Editor / Device Configuration Editor: In case the device Icon cannot be obtained for any reason, a default one will be displayed.
CHANGE	C15784	Configuration Editor / Machine Configuration Editor / Logging: Changed the defaults of the "Log File Options" and "Max Number of Backup Logs" options to "Keep Old Logs" and "10" respectively.
CHANGE	C15501	Configuration Editor / Render Setup Editor: Set the "Cancel" / "Create" buttons under "Create new render settings" dialog in the correct order.
CHANGE	C15571	Configuration Editor / Render Setup Editor: Renamed and moved the button for importing compositions to the lower left corner of the Layout mode and also, improved the layout of the button to connect preview scenes.
CHANGE	C15674	Designer / Materials: Renamed "Spherical" to "Spherical Reflection" and "Spherical Simple" to "Simple Spherical Reflection" to avoid confusion with spherical mapping, which would be a globe like projection.
CHANGE	C15847	Designer / Materials: Updated the suffixes to load TextureSets. You can find the extended list in the user manual - Node Color Material - Texture Set section.
CHANGE	C15308	Designer, Runtime / Logs: GPU / monitor debug logging is done only once during startup
CHANGE	C15386	Designer, Runtime / Movie Playback: Significantly reduced load/startup latency for looped videos
CHANGE	C15627	Designer, Runtime / Performance: Performance improvement for very large very high quality blurs. (up to x2 on some GPUs). Blurs with default quality do not take this code path independent of how large they are.
CHANGE	C15170	Videoengine / Configuration: when choosing an output as cluster clock, SDI is prioritized over less precise timing sources like NDI and other streaming. Formerly, the first usable output was chosen, now the outputs are tiered and the first usable output in the best non-empty tier is chosen. The preview window will only be considered if there is nothing else.
BUG	B15831	Notch did not initialize correctly in some cases. Fixed!
BUG	B15677	BREAKING CHANGE - Designer, Runtime / Engine: Gradients now look consistent regardless of layer type or context. This can potentially affect existing projects!
BUG	B15705	Designer: Image postprocessing is no longer applied to internal buffer previews (like the SSAO ambient or normal vector previews)
BUG	B15256	Designer, Runtime / Engine: Fixed wrong gamma in offscreen layers that contained linear content such as gradients

V7.00.04

BUG	B15957	Fixed wrong gamma when using live video inputs in HDR layers
BUG	B15903	Configuration Editor / Device Config Editor: Fixed "Tracking Source" label and tooltip for GPUs.
BUG	B15833	Configuration Editor / Render Setup Editor / Output Mapping: Fixed output conversions (from screen to manual and from grid to manual) when a previs scene is linked.
BUG	B15905	Configuration Editor / Render Setup Editor / Shaping and Warping: When using a render setup that has more than one warped screen per physical output, only one of them was shown. Fixed!
BUG	B15927	Configuration Editor / Render Setup Editor / Shaping and Warping: Fixed Shaping when using manual outputs that map only parts of a screen.
BUG	B15942	Configuration Editor / Render Setup Editor / Shaping and Warping: Fixed some broken user interactions around the Shaping editor (reload prompts, etc).
BUG	B15407	Designer: Adding bookmarks to Content nodes was not possible. Fixed!
BUG	B15874	Designer: When switching Ventuz could crash if Layout scene contained Effect or Mirror nodes. Fixed!
BUG	B15968	Designer / E2E / Nodes: triggering 'Sync Fields' on E2E Data Nodes in the Property Editor caused Exceptions. Fixed (in 6.12.7)!
BUG	B15966	Designer / LayerEditor: Adding Unreal/Notch Layers caused an exception. Fixed (in 6.12.7)!
BUG	B14808	Designer / Nodes: A memory leak could occur if Mirror, Effect FX or Light nodes with shadows were used and the Scene Tree was changed by adding or removing nodes. Fixed!
BUG	B15901	Designer / Nodes: Touch Ripple Node provided wrong XY coordinates in Designer if the Render output had a different aspect ratio than the Renderer window. Fixed!
BUG	B15873	Designer / Nodes / Circle, Cylinder: Ventuz could crash if Circle or Cylinder primitive's input properties Angle or AngleStart were 'NaN' or 'Infinity' Fixed!
BUG	B15837	Designer / Nodes / Script Node: C#/VB Node scripts created in VS with Ventuz 6 did not compile in Ventuz 7 due to referencing Ventuz assemblies from V6 installation. Fixed!
BUG	B15988	Designer / RenderToDisk: R2D dialog threw an error if a Device Config was used that had Video Inputs configured that were not existing anymore. Fixed!
BUG	B15979	Designer / Runtime / Nodes: recovering a WebBrowser node too early after creation could crash Ventuz. Fixed (in 6.16.7)!
BUG	B15960	Designer / Runtime / Text Rendering: 3D text rendering was broken in Drawing Mode: Lines. Fixed!
BUG	B16002	Designer / Text Rendering: TextureFont Style dialog was available in the Fonts section of the Project Properties even though TextureFonts rendering is not support since V7.0 anymore. Fixed!
BUG	B15883	Designer, Runtime / Layers / GPU-Mask: GPU-Mask for Offscreen Layers was not applied hierarchically through Layers. Fixed!
BUG	B15300	Designer, Runtime / VIO, Notch: VIO with Notch didnt work properly, fixed!
BUG	B15840	Designer, Runtime / Videoengine: Fixed rare case when Live Video input reports a framerate of 0/1 during a mode-change, which leads to a fatal division by zero when calculating the frame duration.
BUG	B15964	Director: sometimes a progress popup did not close when 'Reload all Templates' was triggered via Show menu or Director Remoting. Fixed (in V6.11.5)!
BUG	B15977	Engine / Previsualization Scene: fixed matrix issue with uneven scaled Previs Screens, resulting in different lighting
BUG	B15999	Installer / MigrationHelper: It tried to link wrong version of Newtonsoft.JSON.dll and thus may have not worked on some systems. Fixed!
BUG	B15967	MultiGPU / Nodes / Particle System: Fixed problem where with certain timing, some particle nodes and mesh animation would appear one frame early on second/third/fourth GPU. Specifically the Data Emitter, Spline Emitter and Extruder particle nodes were effected.
BUG	B15941	Runtime / Designer: If you had more than 4 GPUs in your computer, Ventuz crashed. Fixed!
BUG	B15761	Runtime / Designer / Shaping and Warping: Rotated Cuts where downscaled in Designer and Runtime. Fixed!
BUG	B16011	Runtime / Nodes: Live Video node did not take Ordinal change into account when this happened in a background validation like in a Preview/Program scenario with Director. Fixed (in 6.12.7)
BUG	B15978	Runtime / Touch / TUIO: Particle System interaction did not work properly with TUIO inputs. Fixed!
BUG	B15368	Runtime / Videoengine: Fixed problem with Decklink / Black Magic output stream queues, which were misclassified (displayed red or green in the performance statistics) and failed to re-align when out of sync. This did not apply to other SDI vendors.

V7.00.03

CHANGE	C15832	E2E: Notch Blocks can now run in Ventuz without the necessity of installing Notch (Changed in 6.12.6)
BUG	B15431	Fixed a problem where when using two distortion effects in a row, the effects would be placed wrong in a Cluster. Distortion effects include lens distortion and tile / kaleidoscope effects.
BUG	B15586	Disconnected VIO outputs were not limited in framerate when the global framerate is set to automatic. Fixed!
BUG	B15593	Fixed an issue where Unreal E2E could cause Intel drivers to crash on systems with integrated Intel GPUs (like laptops).
BUG	B15626	Fixed problem that, when rendering slightly below targeted framerate, caused additional stalls in some configurations.
BUG	B15655	Fixed problems with NDI outputs when global framerate was set to automatic. Now if another output stream that defines a framerate is present (like an SDI output), that framerate will also be used for NDI.
BUG	B15698	Fixed bug when in the same frame, one light with shadows is switched off and another light with shadows is switched on. Ventuz would confuse the shadowmaps.
BUG	B15709	Fixed occasional Designer crashes when previewing an output with warping on.
BUG	B15729	Tracking stopped working for VR Headsets when used with a previs node and no Render Setup.
BUG	B15746	The Shrink2Fit Text FX node could swallow the last line under certain circumstances. Fixed (in 6.12.6)!
BUG	B15747	Certain fonts did not display ligatures. Fixed (in 6.12.6)!
BUG	B15748	Fonts with extremely detailed glyphs may have not been rendered correctly. Fixed (in 6.12.6)!
BUG	B15753	Designer/Runtime does not reject a Device Config anymore because an audio device was not found. Now missing audio devices produce a warning, not an error anymore.
BUG	B15765	Exclusive Fullscreen mode didn't use the right FPS in some scenarios. Fixed!
BUG	B15769	The Spark Text FX node could log errors under certain circumstances. Fixed (in 6.12.6)!
BUG	B15822	Under certain circumstances Ventuz can crash when using InteractionRect node with a VR touch device. Fixed (in 6.12.6)!
BUG	B14155	Device Configuration: Corrected the name of the OpenVr manufacturer.
BUG	B15652	Director: Fixed deserialization of Name property when loading a Playlist from file. (Fixed in 6.12.06)
BUG	B14925	General Configuration: Pressing "Enter" not only enters the new value but also moves the focus away from the inputs to enhance the user interaction with the components.
BUG	B15613	IMPORTANT: Fixed highly SEVERE BUG in handling of arrays in Ventuz nodes which could cause crashes.
BUG	B15730	Render Setup: Tooltip of the link options inside the Output Mapping is displayed on the whole button instead of only on the icon.
BUG	B15781	Render Setup: Fixed a crash after doing undo in some cases.
BUG	B15638	Render Setup / Layout Mode: The Undo functionality takes into account changes in measurements and document scale / resolution.

V7.00.02

CHANGE	C15492	Input received through the back channel of Stream Out outputs is now routed to the correct composition.
CHANGE	C15622	Configuration Editor now disables editing of configurations and shows a warning when the targeted machine has a newer version installed.
BUG	B15546	Remote Render2Disk ignored configured FPS and Resolutions. Fixed!
BUG	B15578	Fixed VioAPI DX11 device creation.
BUG	B15579	Touch paint node did reset on any property change. Fixed!
BUG	B15580	LineChart had invalid UV coordinates if only the first line segment was visible. Fixed!
BUG	B15588	Fixed wrong rendering of skinned meshes with more than 255 joints when imported from GLTF.
BUG	B15589	LineChart had wrong vertices for certain combinations of Value arrays and VisibilityX settings so that the line chart looked broken. Fixed (in 6.12.5)!
BUG	B15590	Notch E2E implementation did not work when started from a VPR. Fixed (in 6.12.5)!
BUG	B15595	Project Browser did not take saved value of 'Show Online Demos...' option into account on initial Designer start. Fixed (in V6.12.5)!
BUG	B15602	Correctly display preview rendering in runtime log window, even when using GPU outputs.
BUG	B15608	In some cases a scene could not be loaded if Layers have been deleted beforehand. Fixed!
BUG	B15610	Fixed layout of Live Video layers not updating when input video resolution changes.
BUG	B15612	Changing the Camera on Layer Root between 'Normal' and 'A/B' for a Layer with enabled Interfacing corrupted the scene and prevented it from loading. Fixed (in 6.12.5)!
BUG	B15616	The Scene Tab icon did not change to yellow Animation State icon when hovering over it. Fixed (in 6.12.5)!
BUG	B15617	Drag&Drop operation with Hierarchy nodes in Content Families failed if the 'Show all members of Node Families in selection' was enabled. Fixed (in 6.12.5)!
BUG	B15635	Fixed NDI sources not showing up in Config Editor when editing while the Runtime is active.
BUG	B15641	Fixed output alpha always being premultiplied despite the AlphaOutput setting in the Device Config.
BUG	B15592	CI Presentation Demo Project: updated String Expression nodes, which caused errors in the log
BUG	B15195	Render Setup: The Add Dialog does not close automatically when the click is released outside of it, only when proper click (down/up) is performed.

V7.00.01

CHANGE	C15387	Per frame Performance Statistic logging was limited to 8192 characters. This limit has been removed, which is especially useful when using the web-interface to view performance statistic.
CHANGE	C15559	Improved error messages around composition names (both tool tip and message log).
CHANGE	C15540	Device Configuration: Actual desktop resolution is used in place of the custom one when "FullScreen (desktop rate)" is selected, the warning was removed.
CHANGE	C15502	Render Setup: If there are no Compositions or Screens created and a new one is added, it will appear with the name "default".
CHANGE	C15517	Render Setup: Changed default screen name from "default" to "Default" for consistency with other elements.
BUG	B15432	Fixed loading of badly formatted radiance HDR files (mostly cubemaps).
BUG	B15437	A Composition Projector in a Previs scene draw red lines in Designer (when enabling "Show non-render object") - these lines do not take into account the "override resolution" property. Fixed!
BUG	B15485	Fixed crash when playing back NotchLC videos.
BUG	B15493	Set Extension causes performance problems and flickering when the design eyepoint changes. Fixed!
BUG	B15500	Set Extension ignores AlignX in screen, causing wrong projection (AlignY worked). Fixed!
BUG	B15508	Fixed movie clips starting without audio after loading a scene.
BUG	B15513	Property value of Shadow Option "Cast" was ignored and always on. Fixed!
BUG	B15514	MigrationHelper tool did not copy .VDC files when 'SOFTWARE LICENSES' was selected for migration. Fixed!
BUG	B15518	MJPEG videos did not play on Nvidia GPUs because an attempt was made to decode them on GPU. Fixed!
BUG	B15519	Re-enabled a CPU optimization that was prevented from happening in V7.0.0 related to using materials.
BUG	B15529	Bounding boxes in Designer preview (white) were not visible in Preview Screen, Preview Output, and Preview All Outputs. Fixed!
BUG	B15533	Fixed that Previs Screens can not be selected in Designer edit mode.
BUG	B15543	Remote Render2Disk did not work as the initialization failed with an unhandled exception. Fixed!
BUG	B15544	Emoji Installer did not work with Ventuz 7. Fixed!
BUG	B15548	Fixed Designer crash when deleting FX node.
BUG	B15565	Minimized Runtime without GPU output had old icon in notification area of Taskbar. Fixed!
BUG	B15574	The Line Chart disappeared if the VisibilityX was reduced such that only the first line segment was visible. Fixed!
BUG	B15516	Designer: Scene Load/Save option 'Check compatibility...' showed wrong major version number. Fixed!
BUG	B14722	Director: Removed Remoting exception log entry that occurred when Director started Runtime.
BUG	B15324	Render Setup: Output Mapping selection is correctly synchronized on undo to avoid sporadic errors.
BUG	B15385	Render Setup: Fixed wording for unassigned output/cut/tile warnings.
BUG	B14971	Render Setup / Layout Mode: The renaming mechanism has been modified, a blank space is now added followed by the generated number to ensure uniqueness (values are trimmed), warning messages have been improved and new names are suggested when adding elements.
BUG	B15451	Render2Disk: Fixed error message when trying to render as QT animation.
BUG	B15545	The Remote Render To Disk device had a default framerate of 24 Hz since Ventuz 7.00.00. This was changed back to what it was in Ventuz 6: 60.00 Hz.

V7.00.00

FEATURE	F8540	A GPU output can be used as "tracking source" to synchronize tracking packets if the GPU is synchronized to house sync.
FEATURE	F11540	The four window layout buttons in Ventuz Designer can now have custom names.
FEATURE	F13004	Performance statistics can now show the NVIDIA Sync board status
FEATURE	F13200	Settings for Performance Statistics and multi monitor options are now saved with the user settings across projects.
FEATURE	F13317	You can now disable the Preview Renderer window in the Designer via the Device config under "Preview Window".
FEATURE	F13595	Allowing preview of Live Video streams. Note that this will enable a live video stream even if it is not used otherwise, potentially slowing down Ventuz.
FEATURE	F13825	The SystemID node can now provide the Project ID Guid.
FEATURE	F14757	Added possibility to measure the distance between Screens and Compositions in the Render Setup Editor.
FEATURE	F15344	Multiple Tracking Devices per Machine! Ventuz now supports multiple tracking devices like camera tracking systems per machine.
FEATURE	F15345	Multiple Touch Devices per Machine! Ventuz now supports multiple Touch Input Devices like TUIO or Windows Touch on one machine.
FEATURE	F15346	Mixed On/Offscreen Outputs! Ventuz now allows onscreen and offscreen outputs in parallel, like Shared Surface and GPU output from a single runtime.
FEATURE	F15347	Multiple output adapters in parallel! Ventuz now addresses output adapters individually. No more Mosaic or Eyefinity setup needed! Output across multiple GPU outputs directly!
FEATURE	F15348	On the fly config changes! Device configurations for Video and Audio can now be changed on the fly while Runtime is running. No Runtime restart needed anymore.
FEATURE	F15349	All new Render Setup Editor! The Render Setup Editor has experienced a full rewrite for extended feature set and to match the new workflows.
FEATURE	F15350	Extended amount of pipes! The amount of pipes that can be used has been increased.
FEATURE	F15351	Configuration Editor overhaul! The Configuration Editor has been overhauled and merged with the WebUI for an extended feature set and newer technologies.
FEATURE	F15352	Mixed DPI support! Adding physical size to the Render Setup, it is now easy to create setups for output devices with different pixel density.
FEATURE	F15353	Screen Rotation! The Render Setup now allows to rotate screens individually at any angle.
FEATURE	F15354	Multi Canvas Workflow! Introduced all new Multi Canvas and Multi Composition workflow for layering and re-using elements on different screens.
FEATURE	F15356	Preview in original resolution in Designer preview window! Preview graphics in original resolution and pan in Designer independent of preview window size.
FEATURE	F15357	Zoom in Designer preview window! Introduced free zoom and pan to Designer preview window.
FEATURE	F15359	The Stage Editor has been improved and extended to the new feature sets.
FEATURE	F15364	Enable additional outputs in Designer: Ventuz now allows to enable outputs other than the preview window.
FEATURE	F13196	Extended Performance Statistics: output labels to identify GPUs and Monitors; detailed timing debugging; some stats are disabled by default as they can cause frame-drops in rendering. These are NVIDIA related stats for Sync boards and GPU frequency / utilization.
FEATURE	F15360	Graphics across multiple output streams: output scenes across multiple SDI, NDI ... streams!
FEATURE	F13283	Improved VMS discovery and Cluster communication for multiple ethernet interfaces: Control the used interfaces from the NetworkConfig.vnetcfg directly. No more Windows routes needed.
FEATURE	F15358	Increased Preview Options in Designer: preview individual screens, canvases, compositions in Designer or preview live video inputs directly in Designer.
FEATURE	F11690	Movie Clip: The OverrideFrameRate property now works for video files as well
FEATURE	F15365	Movie Playback: Support for fully Hardware accelerated Movie Decoding on Nvidia GPUs ([https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-video-codec-sdk NVDecode]). This allows you to playback 8k@60, 4x 4k@60 or 8x 4k@30 per GPU without an impact on the CPU.
FEATURE	F15343	Multi GPU: Cluster in a Box; Ventuz now supports rendering and output on multiple GPUs in parallel.
FEATURE	F11521	Particle System: Added further particle collider geometries like Circle and Sphere.
FEATURE	F12965	Remoting 4: It is now possible to release scenes that have been loaded due to a Cue command afterwards via the Release command.
FEATURE	F12973	Remoting 4: Extended the SceneStatus class with a field to identify the loader of a scene.
FEATURE	F12921	Remoting4: Added estimated CPU & GPU memory usage to Scene Model (Remoting4). E.g. <ResourceCollection CPUMemMBHint="221" GPUMemMBHint="198" Capacity="38">
FEATURE	F15355	Render Setup per project! All new Render Setup workflow: the render setup is now part of the project instead of machine global.
FEATURE	F15361	Stage Previsualization: create an interactive previsualization scene using all new previs nodes. Set up preview screens in a virtual environment, test interaction setups, have the previs scene create your output configuration on the fly.
CHANGE	C12781	Bindings to and from selected nodes are now highlighted by default in the Content Editor.
CHANGE	C13801	SDI option "Input Frame Delay" for Deltacast Boards was removed because it did not work anyway.
CHANGE	C13851	The Windows Mouse, TextField Input, IME TextField Input and Windows Key nodes now filter inputs according to composition layers. These nodes will only receive input if the composition layer they are inside is displayed on the GPU output or preview window the input came from. When the preview window is set to machine preview or display all outputs, input from the preview window is not passed to nodes. SDI outputs can not receive windows input (mouse or keyboard), so the input must come from the preview window, in Runtime and Designer. The DirectInput Key node and the DirectInput Mouse node work globally like before, as this input is not associated with windows handles.
CHANGE	C13855	If the Colorpicker node is not connected to a texture, it will take the color from the first output that is rendered for the content where the color picker is in. The old behavior was taking the color from the output associated to the pipe, but now there are multiple outputs which makes things more complicated. Note that the node does not take the color from the layer it is in, the color is taken from the output after compositing.
CHANGE	C14046	The Touch Marker node now reports TUIO coordinates in their original 0..1 range instead of cluster pixels, as in complex V7 setups pixels don't have a precise meaning any more.
CHANGE	C15174	The state of the Animation Editor monitoring is now saved with the Designer layout like it's already done for the Property Editor.
CHANGE	C15253	Updated Chromium Embedded Framework to version 103.0.5060.134
CHANGE	C15291	In Remoting 4, the response to PipeInfo and VentuzInfo contains a field PipeMode. In Ventuz 7, this response can change when the Device config is changed while Ventuz is running. Please update your remoting code if it relies on this field to never change.
CHANGE	C10977	BREAKING CHANGE: Removed 'Permanent Seal' for Containers. Use Password Seal instead.
CHANGE	C11135	BREAKING CHANGE: Matrix Rotation/Scaling/Translate nodes are now deprecated; they still work in old scenes but have been removed from the Toolbox. Use Matrix Transformation node instead.
CHANGE	C11563	BREAKING CHANGE: The white bounding boxes will now render correctly when rendering the same scene from multiple cameras, but will not render correctly any more when using long-obsolete Ventuz 4 style viewport nodes.
CHANGE	C12569	BREAKING CHANGE: Ranks for external Chroma Keying are now inherited from Layer groups to their children.
CHANGE	C12713	BREAKING CHANGE: Following legacy (<= V4) nodes do not work anymore: RenderTarget, Viewport, Texture, View, Projection, Image Filters & Transforms, TextureGenerator, ImagesToCubeTexture, Html2Image and all hard-coded Shader nodes like VertexNoise or Corona.
CHANGE	C14582	BREAKING CHANGE: The very old TextureText node (deprecated since V4) does not work anymore if present in old scenes.
CHANGE	C15262	BREAKING CHANGE: the bounding box for Text Provider nodes that do not contain any text has zero width & height now.
CHANGE	C12842	Remoting 4: for the PipeInfo response, added GPU Adapter LUID (local unique ID) for more robust identification of GPU on Multi-GPU systems.
CHANGE	C12940	Remoting 4: VMSProjectDetails now also contains the full XML of a Ventuz Project file to retrieve special information like Layout Scenes etc.
BUG	B13496	Fixed stutter when queuing and starting certain movie files.
BUG	B13749	Remoting4 connection sometimes just closed unnecessarily. Fixed!
BUG	B13860	Cluster and Machine size in System Id node makes no sense with the changes in Ventuz 7. Now these values depend on the Layer the node is in. Cluster position reflects the design size of the composition and machine position reflects the currently rendered portion. Machine position will change when changing preview options in Designer. When setting preview to all outputs, Designer preview reflects Runtime values.
BUG	B14728	Imported Meshes and Generated fonts are now stored in Ventuz File Format version 3.0, which can not be read by Ventuz 6.
BUG	B14750	AJA boards will now automatically configure genlock when using internal hardware keying modes.
BUG	B14824	Fixed last few frames not getting decoded properly / slightly wrong duration estimation on some video files.
BUG	B15163	Fixed problem where the Touch Paint node cast a shadow from an invisible rectangle. This was present in V6.x, but only fixed in V7 as it has a complex interaction with the Viewport hierarchy node. As that node was removed in V7 it was an easy fix in V7.
BUG	B15372	Improved floating point precision of some shaders, which may lead to slightly different particle positions, dramatically diverging in simulations with time, like with the "butterfly effect".
BUG	B11550	BREAKING CHANGE: Custom character spacing could cause strange text layouts. Fixed!
BUG	B12534	BREAKING CHANGE: Vertical text alignment was wrong for 'Center', 'LastLine' and 'Bottom' if the LineSpacing property was not 1. Fixed!
BUG	B15457	BREAKING CHANGE: Counter Node had inconsistent behaviour in AutoRun mode depending on which kind of Node was bound to the AutoRun method. Fixed!
BUG	B13204	Director: Improved the check for a running Runtime to warn about an upcoming restart, primarily when opening a Show right after a Topology switch.
BUG	B11668	Movie clip nodes: "No movie" color now also applies when no file is loaded yet.
BUG	B10460	Remoting4: Scenes directly loaded to a different Pipe than 0 could not be released. Fixed!

V6.12.07

BUG	B15947	Designer / E2E / Nodes: triggering 'Sync Fields' on E2E Data Nodes in the Property Editor caused Exceptions. Fixed!
BUG	B15952	Designer / LayerEditor: Adding Unreal/Notch Layers caused an exception. Fixed!
BUG	B15962	Designer / Runtime / Nodes: recovering a WebBrowser node too early after creation could crash Ventuz. Fixed!
BUG	B15996	Runtime / Nodes: Live Video node did not take Ordinal change into account when this happened in a background validation like in a Preview/Program scenario with Director. Fixed.
BUG	B15972	Runtime / Touch / TUIO: Particle System interaction did not work properly with TUIO inputs. Fixed!

V6.12.06

CHANGE	C15830	E2E: Notch Blocks can now run in Ventuz without the necessity of installing Notch.
BUG	B15656	Fixed crash when playing back NotchLC videos.
BUG	B15727	The Shrink2Fit Text FX node could swallow the last line under certain circumstances. Fixed!
BUG	B15738	Fonts with extremely detailed glyphs may have not been rendered correctly. Fixed!
BUG	B15745	Certain fonts did not display ligatures. Fixed!
BUG	B15767	The Spark Text FX node could log errors under certain circumstances. Fixed!
BUG	B15820	Under certain circumstances Ventuz can crash when using InteractionRect node with a VR touch device. Fixed!
BUG	B15651	Director: Fixed deserialization of Name property when loading a Playlist from file.

V6.12.05

BUG	B13112	The Noise Distortion's Amount property on Layers could be set to negative values which did not have any effect anyway. Fixed!
BUG	B15581	The LineChart had wrong UV coordinates in 'Lenghtwise' texturing on partial line segments. Fixed!
BUG	B15583	Notch E2E implementation did not work when started from a VPR. Fixed!
BUG	B15584	Drag&Drop operation with Hierarchy nodes in Content Families failed if the 'Show all members of Node Families in selection' was enabled. Fixed!
BUG	B15585	LineChart had wrong vertices for certain combinations of Value arrays and VisibilityX settings so that the line chart looked broken. Fixed!
BUG	B15591	Scene compatibility check in the Load/Save Options was only allowed up to version 6.9. Fixed!
BUG	B15594	Project Browser did not take saved value of 'Show Online Demos...' option into account on initial Designer start. Fixed!
BUG	B15605	Fixed rare random crashes when switching NDI sources.
BUG	B15609	Changing the Camera on Layer Root between 'Normal' and 'A/B' for a Layer with enabled Interfacing corrupted the scene and prevented it from loading. Fixed!
BUG	B15614	The Scene Tab icon did not change to yellow Animation State icon when hovering over it. Fixed!
BUG	B15624	Movie Frame node had problems with running backwards in a loop. Fixed!

V6.12.04

FEATURE	F15380	Updated the Ventuz Plugin for Cinema4D to work with CINEMA 4D 2023.1.3
BUG	B15056	VentuzEnvironment.ini had duplicated entry for VPRTEMP. Fixed!
BUG	B15297	IME Textflied Input node could sometimes cause crashes. Fixed!
BUG	B15389	Timer node result was always missing the duration of one frame. This resulted in the fact that measuring the duration between two consecutive frames gave 0. Fixed!
BUG	B15410	Movie playback could stutter shortly before loop point. Fixed!
BUG	B15430	In some cases Fonts of same family may swap their glyph mappings and text is just gibberish. Fixed!

V6.12.03

BUG	B15263	Fixed renderer crashes after using Render2Disk on Windows 11
BUG	B15271	Fixed playback of NotchLC videos that have an odd width and length.
BUG	B15274	There were unnecessary limitations when using keying and dual link modes on Decklink 8K Pro boards. Fixed!
BUG	B15278	Fixed a crash when repeatedly re-initializing SDI inputs from Deltacast and Black Magic boards.
BUG	B15315	Rendering failed with "Scene Layer" (Port) set to normal blending. Fixed!
BUG	B15323	Movie Clip node did only fire the Error event on the first file in a sequence of missing File URLs. Fixed!
BUG	B15325	Ventuz could crash if Circle or Cylinder primitive's input properties Angle or AngleStart were 'NaN' or 'Infinity' Fixed!
BUG	B15334	When starting multiple Director instances they could not be stopped properly. Fixed!
BUG	B15362	Shortcuts to Designer/Director documentation did not work from Start menu. Fixed!
BUG	B12604	Director: Fixed "Update Available" dialog on startup to now being displayed.
BUG	B15252	Director: Fixed the activation of the Playlists duration control if a too small number was entered, resulting in "00:00:00.000". The Playlist Item was then skipped immediately.
BUG	B15194	Particle System: Designer crashed when switching to Material Property in Nexus Renderer module. Fixed!

V6.12.02

BUG	B15107	HTTP Remoting was always logging an error when triggering Methods without numeric arguments. Fixed!
BUG	B15109	Auto-Resolve mechanism for old TextureText nodes (deprecated since V4) was missing. Fixed!
BUG	B15113	Double-clicking on a VZS file outside a Project folder kept Designer in an endless error messages loop. Fixed!
BUG	B15125	Could not start Designer via double-click on a VZS file in a Project structure that contained more than one VZP file. Fixed!
BUG	B15130	On a few systems one could not edit property values by double-click in the LayerEditor. Fixed!

V6.12.01

CHANGE	C14871	Assets bigger than 2GB are now supported in scene archives and presentations
CHANGE	C14780	Ventuz Extension API: Now supporting arrays of Color4b as input and output properties.
CHANGE	C14818	Ventuz Extension API: ParameterSets for ICustomResource instances must now implement Equals() & GetHashCode().
CHANGE	C14835	Ventuz Extension API: Added static VxLog class for simpler logging to Ventuz logs.
BUG	B14896	OSC nodes did not allow certain characters in addresses (like -,+,!, etc.) but that was not OSC specification conform. Fixed!
BUG	B14932	In Designer the icon for the 3D Mapping Provider was missing. Fixed!
BUG	B14993	Text scaled in Enriched Blocktext had wrong kerning. Fixed!
BUG	B15006	Fixed an issue where it wasn't possible to manually add fields to E2E data nodes anymore
BUG	B15024	Horizontal & vertical flipping in the Image Layer was swapped (the naming). Fixed!
BUG	B15025	PSD import did not display non-ASCII characters correctly in the LayerEditor. Fixed!
BUG	B15055	Shaping Editor: Undo did not work on new shaping setups, only after you saved them. Fixed!
BUG	B14828	Ventuz Extension API: VX Matrix array conversion to the native Matrix array did not work. Fixed!
BUG	B14883	Ventuz Extension API: VxLegacyNames attribute did not work at all. Fixed!
BUG	B14900	Ventuz Extension API: Attributes like VxCategory or VxLegacyNames were not applied to Node methods. Fixed!

V6.12.00

FEATURE	F5123	Introducing new String Array Analysis node. See documentation for further details.
FEATURE	F8261	Directional Light can have a Shadow Volume now. The Volume can be made visible by using the 'Show non-render Objects' option in Designer.
FEATURE	F10239	The Angle of the Circle and Cylinder primitives can now be opened counterclockwise.
FEATURE	F10517	SystemID node now provides the Machine Tag defined in the Configuration Editor.
FEATURE	F11310	The Text Effect nodes (Alpha, Spark, Scale and Rotate) now support a per-line mode which applies the corresponding effect per text line and not only to the whole text.
FEATURE	F12717	When pasting copied nodes in Content Editor they are now positioned at the mouse location if enough space is available.
FEATURE	F14086	Expression nodes can now additionally handle byte arrays.
FEATURE	F14088	Added PasteFromClipboard method to TextField Input node to paste copied text.
FEATURE	F14105	Integration with ioversel Vertex. Vertex can load and playback Ventuz projects and scenes. See documentation for further information.
FEATURE	F14106	Integration with Notch. Ventuz allows to access the render output of Notch as a new layer. Two way data-communication between the engines is enabled through new Ventuz Nodes. Depth-composition of additional objects into the scene is not supported. See documentation for further information (E2E Nodes and How To).
FEATURE	F14110	The Content Editor now has an option to show all members of a Content Family if at least one member is part of in/direct selection.
FEATURE	F14468	Ticker node now has the AutoStart property to make sure that a Ticker starts on scene load and the Restart method to force a restart when Ticker is stopped.
FEATURE	F14543	The Extended IO license option now additionally enables the use of AWS CDI video format.
FEATURE	F14744	It's now possible to have up to 4 Offscreen Surface outputs configured in the AV Config.
FEATURE	F13342	Director: new Button in Playlist Control to add an "All Out" item which performs a Take Out of all items on the current channel.
FEATURE	F14115	If starting a VPR and having multiple outputs configured (Multi-Pipe) the corresponding scene is activated on all Pipes. Starting Runtime in Director Mode allows activating different default scenes per Pipe with the -default<NM>: startup option - see documentation for details.
FEATURE	F13409	Introducing Ventuz Extension API (Alpha 0.9): Ventuz Extension API enables programmers to extend the functionality of Ventuz Designer and thus solve tasks that are impossible or difficult to implement with the built-in capabilities.
FEATURE	F12422	Particle System: We included the Sine Function into the Math Module. Function is : sin((valueA + valueB ) * 2 * 3.14159265)
FEATURE	F14119	VIO API: The Ventuz Video I/O API now supports VIO OUT.
CHANGE	C12385	The AutoSave popup does not steal focus from other applications anymore.
CHANGE	C13578	We updatet to the latest 12.4 Blackmagicdesign Drivers for Video in and out!
CHANGE	C14198	Designer is now able to run if user does not have Admin rights.
BUG	B14683	Fixed documentation for meshes in Ventuz file format (VFF).

V6.11.05

CHANGE	C14982	Page Editor Plugin: The list of available Publish Contexts is now sorted alphabetically by title.
BUG	B15338	Fixed a memory leak in the VMS MOS module.
BUG	B15494	BoundingBox provided by the Block Text nodes for empty strings ignored the LineAlignment property. Fixed!
BUG	B15028	Director: Fixed the activation of the Playlists duration control if a too small number was entered, resulting in "00:00:00.000". The Playlist Item was then skipped immediately.
BUG	B15333	Director: Remote Playlist dialog could crash with empty list
BUG	B15948	Director: sometimes a progress popup did not close when 'Reload all Templates' was triggered via Show menu or Director Remoting. Fixed!
BUG	B15327	PageEditor: Fixed rare freeze of plugin while loading a Show.
BUG	B14827	Render2Disk: Fixed XDCAM-MXF output files not being completed correctly

V6.11.04

CHANGE	C14618	Log node now writes to log file in WriteToLogFile mode even if Performance Statistics are not enabled.
BUG	B14503	Some fonts did not display ligatures like 'ft' correctly because reading the GSUB table of the font file failed. Fixed!
BUG	B14586	Arrange node could cause a crash after updating a Repository item that contained Arrange nodes. Fixed!
BUG	B14607	Fixed occasional audio clicks when loading a movie clip in paused state.
BUG	B14617	Under certain circumstances the Audio Clip node could crash Ventuz if an invalid file URL was specified. Fixed!
BUG	B14650	Fixed Movie Clip error when seeking to the end (or beyond) of certain video files like possible in the Animation Editor.
BUG	B14654	Fixed some unreplaced tooltip placeholders in the AV configuration stream properties in the Config Editor.
BUG	B14688	Fixed rendering of controllers for Occulus Rift S.
BUG	B14725	StringSplitter node allowed a recursive binding between IsNullOrWhitespace and Input properties and also outputs were already invalidated only if separators changed. Fixed!
BUG	B14765	Fixed Designer hangs when Render2Disk fails to start
BUG	B14775	Director could not load Pages if these had numeric values stored which exceeded the 'decimal' range. Fixed!
BUG	B14651	Designer: Memory leak could occur if Mirror, Effect FX or LIght nodes with shadows were used and the Scene Tree was changed by adding or removing nodes. Fixed!
BUG	B14796	Director: Fixed restoring of default duration when loading a playlist from file.

V6.11.03

BUG	B13287	The Exists output on the URL node did not work correctly for Scheme Ventuz. Fixed!
BUG	B14413	It was not possible to drop Expression nodes on bindings (except 'Expression (dynamic)'). Fixed!
BUG	B14446	Fixed NDI outputs getting stuck after about two weeks on some machines.
BUG	B14467	Ticker node did not start the crawl on Scene load automatically and one had to change the Data Property in Single and Loop mode to make it run. Fixed!
BUG	B14498	Fixed rare Runtime crashes with a invalid texture access in RenderSetup code.
BUG	B14500	Fixed bug in SVG import that caused exceptions with certain files.
BUG	B14445	Director: Fixed a special case where the check of the red "changed" indicator of the PropertyEditor could lead to an exception.
BUG	B14529	Director: Fixed "Flatten Folders" option of Asset Browsers not showing any assets when in a subfolder.
BUG	B14540	Director: Fixed missing grouping and sorting options of an Asset Browser if the current folder was empty when loading the Show.
BUG	B14520	Particle System: Module Data Emitter, in mode "Multi", the channels Aux0 to Aux3 were not written correctly. Fixed!
BUG	B14530	Particle System: Data Emitter Module in Multi-Mode, the data array was not completely used. Fixed!

V6.11.02

BUG	B13381	Popup for the Default property of an Asset Data Channel was displayed at wrong location if multiple AssetPools were enabled. Fixed!
BUG	B14118	Fixed mathematical instability with Anchor Arrow node when two points lie perfectly superimposed on the XZ-plane.
BUG	B14131	To-String conversion of arrays on corresponding properties did not work in PropertyEditor if the arrays were shorter than 500 elements. Fixed!
BUG	B14172	Merging materials did not work when importing certain 3D models. Fixed!
BUG	B14179	The FX Effect node in combination with enabled SSAO on the Layer root could cause rendering problems. Fixed!
BUG	B14201	Fixed crash when extracting material as content that had a projection texture.
BUG	B14228	Worked around an issue in the NDI SDK that let Ventuz crash with certain 3rd party NDI sources when changing resolution.
BUG	B14251	Fixed the display of Live Options for the SDI Software Chroma Keying mode.
BUG	B14266	In the Layer-Processing (IPP) debugging of the Performance Statistics, some shaders were mislabeled. Fixed!
BUG	B14287	Adding a Touch Ripple node to Hierarchy Editor caused an exception and the corresponding node tree was not created correctly. Fixed!
BUG	B14341	Fixed Render to Disk clips sometimes having the wrong duration when rendering DNxHD/HR out of Designer.
BUG	B14365	Particle System: setting negative values to the Rate property of the Source Emitter froze the renderer. Fixed!

V6.11.01

BUG	B13966	Remoting4 client can't set data item of type double array (as binary). Fixed.
BUG	B13999	The "Look at" version of the Camera node created an invalid camera when target and position where the same. Now a camera looking towards Z is chosen when camera and target are (almost) identical.
BUG	B14060	Emojis of some Emoji sets where not displayed in text. Fixed!
BUG	B14067	Ventuz 6.11.0 came with the Hockey demo project where the LayoutScene could not be loaded. Fixed!
BUG	B14079	MovieFrame node could freeze Ventuz with certain HAP movies. Fixed!
BUG	B14084	Multi Switch node could not add Texture and Event type properties. Fixed!
BUG	B14087	Array properties with huge number of elements significantly degraded Designer performance if PropertyEditor's monitoring was enabled. Fixed!

V6.11.00

FEATURE	F6666	Introducing new RamDiskWrite node which allows to write byte array streams to memory and access these via a special Uri from the resource loader nodes like TextureLoader. See documentation for details.
FEATURE	F8413	Expression nodes are now able to handle DateTime and Array types as input and output properties.
FEATURE	F8664	ClusterData and ValueBuffer nodes can now be dropped on supported binding types.
FEATURE	F13467	Scene Statistics dialog can now filter for Repository referencing Containers and those that have a reference to a newer version in the Repository.
FEATURE	F13479	The general Repository Item page now shows the items Generation value. For a Interface Container referencing a Repository item the tooltip now also shows the Generation value.
FEATURE	F13482	Added "MuteAudio" property to WebBrowser node to mute the corresponding node.
FEATURE	F13483	It is now possible to update all Interface Containers of a scene that have the same Repository reference via context menu.
FEATURE	F13490	The ClusterData node can now handle values of type Double.
FEATURE	F13675	Added FreeD Tracking Input Device to receive camera postion and orientation data using the FreeD protocol. An additional lens calibration file can be loaded for further calibration.
FEATURE	F13827	HTTP node now provides ResponseBody as byte array.
FEATURE	F13906	Added support for Unreal Engine 4.27.2.
FEATURE	F13907	Improved the Material node merging during a 3D Import to reduce the size of the imported Hierarchy Tree.
FEATURE	F13912	Introducing the forward and reverse full OpenCV lens distortion model as a Layer Effect.
FEATURE	F13923	The Interaction Rectangle node received a further TrackingMode 'NonCapturedWithAllKeys' which allows to always capture all keyboard events.
FEATURE	F13988	A Companion module has been created to control the Director through Stream Deck using the commands described by Director Remoting, this implementation includes the use of actions, presets, custom variables, and feedbacks.
FEATURE	F13986	Added preliminary E2E support for Unreal Engine 5.0. NOTE: check documentation for known issues.
FEATURE	F13936	Director Remoting: "show.cue" and "show.can.cue" can now be performed by Template or Page display name.
FEATURE	F7735	It's now possible to navigate to the Repository item referenced by a Interface Container: use the 'Find Reference' context menu entry. Search is performed on all open Repositories.
FEATURE	F13785	New Machine Configuration option: Disable the Presenter's preview pane when outputting over SDI/NDI/etc.
FEATURE	F10998	The Directory node is now able to handle the 'ventuz://' URI Scheme. This allows e.g. to list items in the project folder without the need of specifying the absolute project path.
FEATURE	F15720	VPE: Make Timecode Control more useable and introduce a new MOS plugin configuration value that controls how the Timecode control reads and outputs the entered value, e.g. {{{hh:mm:ss}}} to omit the frames/fractions part.
CHANGE	C13520	Ventuz now requires .Net Framework 4.8.
CHANGE	C13790	Updated the .Net connector Dlls for the case that the Database node wanted to access a MySQL DB.
BUG	B13577	The following A/V stream options did not work since Ventuz 6.8 : FrameRateMultiplier, EncodeBitrate, EncodeConstQP, TrackingCameraId, TrackingStudioId, TrackingScaling, TrackingLensDistortion, YUV clamping and Chroma Keying Parameters.

V6.10.04

CHANGE	C13831	Documentation was wrong. The Delta-h4k2-elp 20 board can capture HDMI with audio.
CHANGE	C13840	Loading many images asynchronously and in parallel via TextureLoader node could cause severe stalls in the whole application. Fixed!
BUG	B10844	String Expression node logged a Cast Exception that could occur if a non-string input property was null. Fixed!
BUG	B11547	Binding indicator in Property Editor was not shown on bound PropertyGroups like the Material node is using. Fixed!
BUG	B13041	Fixed an issue which could lead to closing of other applications in rare cases.
BUG	B13117	Fixed a bug where the E2E aspect ratio was inconsistent if the layer's layout was adjusted manually.
BUG	B13883	Could not delete certain bindings between two nodes if they had more bindings than fit inside popup - popup now shows scrollbars in such a case. Fixed!
BUG	B13915	Boolean Expression node did not clone the input arrays and therefore may have modified them in the compiled expression. Fixed!
BUG	B13952	In Animation Editor it was possible to drag&drop (with CTRL key) a channel sub-folder inside itself and that resulted in application crash. Fixed!
BUG	B14032	The HTTP node did not work with string arrays bound to RequestHeader properties that contained null elements. Fixed!
BUG	B13217	3D Import: create a single Material Node for a single material, if the Material is used multiple times it will create a Material Reference Node.
BUG	B13967	Remoting 4 returned wrong Project ID via VentuzInfo in VPR mode: it was the ID of the exporting project and not the unique ID created during export. Fixed!

V6.10.03

CHANGE	C13449	Ventuz does not stop rendering anymore if Windows goes into Lock Screen.
CHANGE	C13535	Text Editor in Designer could only handle 32K of text - increased to ~10MB.
BUG	B5800	Tooltip popups on Repository items sometimes flickered extremely. Fixed!
BUG	B13415	Changing the Live Option "Gpu Info" did not update the checkmarks in the Performance Statistics options of the Designer. Fixed!
BUG	B13428	The Unreal Engine Layer had an degrading effect on the performance even if no UE Layer was used in a scene. Fixed!
BUG	B13445	Under certain circumstances VMS could crash. Fixed!
BUG	B13682	Materials AlphaValue property was not taken into account with Particle System Renderer and Extruder. Fixed!
BUG	B13688	Referenced Particles / Extruder Nodes with embedded materials did not render correctly with Effect nodes and other situations. Fixed!
BUG	B13708	Sometimes Designer could crash when working in Script Editor and an IntelliSense popup should have been shown. Fixed!
BUG	B13727	Fixed Render2Disk hangs when using embedded audio.
BUG	B13735	Fixed problems with interlaced DNxHD codec during Render2Disk.
BUG	B13739	A blocked Web Browser node reacted on mouse & touch inputs and also continued playing audio. Fixed!
BUG	B13742	The Shrink2Fit node could cause exceptions with empty strings which resulted in wrong output. Fixed!
BUG	B13751	Director could crash on asset drag&drop operations. Fixed!
BUG	B12706	C4D plugin: fixed issue where splines sent over live-link would sometimes be incorrectly open/closed
BUG	B13647	Director: Fixed a specific crash when changing data in the Property Editor.

V6.10.02

BUG	B13437	Secured concurrent access on network sessions. Unsecured access could result in termination of the Ventuz Machine Service.
BUG	B13435	CRITICAL: Fixed memory leak in renderer which was introduced in V6.10.0 that was present with every scene.
BUG	B13417	Director: Fixed an issue were plugin windows were only displaying "unsupported" after switching layouts.

V6.10.01

CHANGE	C13141	Unreal plugin now supports Unreal Engine V4.27.
CHANGE	C13309	The UE4 plugin now supports the experimental UE4 setting "Allow alpha through tonemapper"
CHANGE	C13310	Empty overridden Tabs of exposed properties are now handled the same way as default empty (inherited) Tabs.
BUG	B13273	Fixed several issues around interlaced NDI video and improved interoperability with certain 3rd party solutions
BUG	B13306	Binding indicators in Property Editor used wrong color for Animation, SceneData and ProjectData bindings. Fixed!
BUG	B13322	Runtime could crash in multi-pipe rendering due Particle Systems in the scene. Fixed!
BUG	B13337	Sometimes navigating to a node of a scene loaded via ScenePort could crash Designer. Fixed!
BUG	B13338	Asynchronous scene loading and validation could sometimes crash Ventuz. Fixed!
BUG	B13348	ShrinkToFit Node did not work with Emojis in LayoutAndScale mode. Fixed!
BUG	B13353	LFOs on properties sometimes did not work if Scene was opened via the automatically displayed Scene Open dialog on Project change. Fixed!
BUG	B13360	It was possible to encounter false 'License Exceed' warnings in AV Config Editor when trying to configure a remote Ventuz 6.09.x or older installation from a Ventuz 6.10.0 machine. Fixed!
BUG	B13388	Director: Fixed missing underscore characters in generated main menu items (mnemonics).
BUG	B13390	WebBrowser node: Bugfix 13138 from version 6.9.4 was missing in Ventuz 6.10.0. Fixed!

V6.10.00

FEATURE	F7743	The Shrink To Fit text effect node is now able to re-layout text to fill the target bounding box more effectively by using "Layout and Scale" as ShrinkMode.
FEATURE	F12352	Introducing Simple HTTP Node, to asynchronously send GET, POST, PUT and DELETE requests to a HTTP server. See user manual for more details.
FEATURE	F12913	InteractionRect node can now filter captured touches to only send non-captured, similar to the Touch Ripple node Tracking mode property.
FEATURE	F12935	Added new SwapRGB IPP effect on the Layer.
FEATURE	F13121	New Depth Keyer feature on the Layer Root nodes of all 3D Layer types, keying out parts of the scene based on the depth buffer.
FEATURE	F13134	Added a better quality Depth Of Field method which is using an aperture based physical approach for DOF size calculation. In Designer it is now also possible to visualize the focus planes.
FEATURE	F13147	Log Node got a new property "Write to log file" which lets the user write messages to the Ventuz log files.
FEATURE	F13181	Increased the 4K resolution limitation in Community & Core Edition to 4096 x 2160 pixel (4K DCI).
FEATURE	F13226	Updated Cinema 4D Live Link plugin to work with Cinema 4D R25.
FEATURE	F13238	We now allow the Community & Core Edition to run on ordinary Virtual Machines like VMWare, VirtualBox or Hyper-V. Restrictions for Cloud solutions like AWS are still active!
FEATURE	F3731	Director: Recent Shows displayed on start screen can now be removed by clicking the upper right button on the show icon.
FEATURE	F9760	Director: Added new Asset Browser filters "Data", "Geometries" and "Sounds/Audio".
FEATURE	F10463	Director: Added a new column for thumbnails of items to Playlist window.
FEATURE	F11424	Director: Added new dockable window for Macros list, so they can be executed without shortcut via double-click.
FEATURE	F12657	Updated the Assimp library used for geometry import to the latest stable release. Imported Cameras will be set as active upon import. Materials will be connected to one Material Reference Node if multiple materials of the same type are found. Chains of Axes that are not animated and have only one child will be collapsed to one single node (CollapseTransformChains property) Set "NoLighting" (No Color) shading for imported geometry as default for Prebaked Environments. AutoNormalSmoothAngle can be defined for imports which don't include any smoothing or normals. Additional supported Format: STL. Error Messages and Warnings will now appear in the Log Message Window instead of a pop up. For further details see documentation.
CHANGE	C13072	Audio gain for AV inputs and outputs can now go up to 16.0 (+24dB)
CHANGE	C13162	NDI SDK updated to version 5.0.3
CHANGE	C13187	Substance Engine for complex material imports updated to Version 8.08

V6.09.04

CHANGE	C13183	Director: Improved texts of items in Remote Playlist Browser in case playlist is empty.
BUG	B11173	Mover node with Random function did not stop on Reset when in Infinite mode. Fixed!
BUG	B11220	Binding indicators did not work for properties exposed over more than one container level. Fixed!
BUG	B12321	Creating bookmarks in Designer did not mark scene as modified. Fixed!
BUG	B13048	Fixed problem where changes in the Layout Scene dialog (project properties) did not update the Designer Scene Tree dialog.
BUG	B13085	Touch Excluder node was showing output properties that did not have any functionality. Fixed!
BUG	B13103	Fixed a bug where the camera projection offset wasn't applied correctly in E2E layers.
BUG	B13138	WebBrowser node stalled for long time on re-activation of it's parent scene. Fixed!
BUG	B13193	When loading scenes in Designer to a Layout Scene where the first Port was locked, the user was not informed about the reason why the scene was not rendered. Fixed!
BUG	B7527	Director: Plugin windows now reconnect when re-enabling a plugin in dialog.
BUG	B13136	Director: Fixed wrong label for Asset Type condition in Channel Rule dialog.
BUG	B13139	Director: Fixed missing underscore characters of template names in Published Scenes dialog.

V6.09.03

CHANGE	C12988	Director: Increased Remoting performance for several commands, e.g. for "show.cue".
BUG	B12959	Unreal Engine Layer instances had some issues when running in Multi-Pipe rendering mode. Fixed!
BUG	B12987	Validating WebBrowser Node in background crashed Ventuz. Fixed!
BUG	B13049	Fixed bug in a VMS dependency which has broken some HTTP communication.
BUG	B13071	NDI outputs can now handle audio that goes over 0dB peak without distortion
BUG	B13076	Unreal Engine preview quality could changes after loading different Scenes. Fixed!
BUG	B13105	For certain (complex) RenderSetup/Shaping files the Save button in Shaping Editor was not enabled on modifications. Fixed!
BUG	B13102	Alpha Blending of sRGB textures in HDR Layers can lead to grayish results. This can be compensated by a new shader option : Alpha Target = PMAlphaHdr. This will not change behavior in SDR. The new option is slightly slower.
BUG	B12993	Director: Fixed an issue where the Playlist caused a refresh at an invalid time, leading to a missing control in playlist window.
BUG	B13104	Director: The GPIO receiver could miss GPIO commands. Fixed!

V6.09.02

CHANGE	C12909	Increased receive buffer of UdpReader to make OSC message reception more reliable.
CHANGE	C12978	The SceneTab tooltip in Designer shows the last version that was used to write the scene.
BUG	B11154	Webbrowser node did not display PDF documents after load. Fixed!
BUG	B12843	Scene Optimization did not work with some new E2E Nodes. Fixed!
BUG	B12878	Some Vio modes were broken. Fixed!
BUG	B12897	The User Manual link of the Configuration Editor now opens in users default browser.
BUG	B12907	In some very rare cases Text was not displayed in a VPR. Fixed!
BUG	B12908	File Open dialog in Designer automatically checked 'Reference' checkbox when loading assets from outside current project folder. Fixed!
BUG	B12917	Interaction Rect was sending wrong touch release position when touch was released outside geometry. Fixed!
BUG	B12941	VMS could crash when receiving messages of a new format. Fixed!
BUG	B12912	Director: In very rare cases a running Playlist just stopped taking new Templates. Fixed!
BUG	B12920	Remoting and Template Engine: The Release flag did not work under certain circumstances. Fixed.

V6.09.01

BUG	B12849	Fixed some input events getting lost when an E2E layer was in the scene.
BUG	B12850	Fixed UE4 instances not shutting down correctly when Ventuz is stopped from the Config Editor.
BUG	B12853	CRITICAL: Fixed a wrong license issue warning when using SDI outputs which made the SDI outputs effectively unusable.

V6.09.00

FEATURE	F11682	Added support for AV1 encoded video playback.
FEATURE	F12664	The Texture Saver node now has a checkbox to unpremultiply the saved image file.
FEATURE	F12803	Integration with Unreal Engine 4. An new Unreal plugin is provided that enables Ventuz to access the render output of Unreal as a new layer. Depth-composition of additional objects into the scene is supported on the Ventuz side. Two way data-communication between the engines is enabled through new Ventuz nodes, Unreal Blueprints and Unreal Components. See documentation for further information.
FEATURE	F12806	Added Matte Choker properties to the Color Difference Keyer to allow fine tuning of the key to grow/erode it.
FEATURE	F12666	Director: Added DisplayName property of Channel interface to Director API.
FEATURE	F12681	Director: Improved Plugin API by extending Playlist, Channel and Drag & Drop capabilities.
FEATURE	F12804	Director: Introducing Remoting API (Websocket and REST). See Director Remoting documentation for further information.
FEATURE	F11898	Movie Stream: Added support for the SRT protocol
CHANGE	C12707	The PLE Edition is now allowed to run on Virtual Machines.
CHANGE	C12757	Updated FFmpeg library to revision 4.3.2.
CHANGE	C12784	Help Browser now also searches the tags of a Page to improve search results.
CHANGE	C12820	Updated the underlying CEF/Chromium code to make the WebBrowser node compatible with the latest web technologies.
CHANGE	C12573	Director: Added label for thumbnail size slider in Asset Browser settings popup.
CHANGE	C12653	Director: Added Take count to Status of cued Playlist items and accumulated its value.
CHANGE	C12623	Effect FX Node: Changed the alpha-handling of the Lift parameter of Color Correction effect (which is wrong) to be consistent with the Color Grading effect (which is correct).

V6.08.04

BUG	B11787	InteractionRect node did not work correctly with touches coming via TUIO if a TouchArea was defined in the RenderSetup. Fixed!
BUG	B12763	Fixed potential memory leak in Director.
BUG	B12796	6.8.3 introduces a bug that prevented the Director to connect to a Runtime that is using SDI or NDI, not Shared Surfaces. This was fixed.
BUG	B12802	Fixed a resource leak when playing back DNxHD/DNxHR videos!
BUG	B12809	Movie and Audio nodes copied without controlling Animation did not reveal Control Methods in Property Editor. Fixed!
BUG	B12817	Since Ventuz 6.8.0, in HDR Layer3d, Live Video inputs were using the wrong gamma and looked too bright. Fixed!
BUG	B12821	InteractionRect node did not send a 'Touch Removed' message if the touch was released outside the rectangle bounds. Fixed!
BUG	B12827	Fixed an NVidia related performance issue that had added a constant, low overhead and more seriously, could cause spikes of overhead.
BUG	B12838	Sometimes Deltacast HDMI capture boards stopped working after mode changes. Fixed!
BUG	B12769	Director: Fixed an issue when newly saved Shows were not displayed in the "Recently opened Shows" list on Director main screen.

V6.08.03

CHANGE	C12730	Director: The "Preload All Templates" command now respects the configured Channel Rules and skips Templates which are now allowed. This reduces some load and duration of the operation.
BUG	B12739	Permanently cueing and taking Templates with movies in a dual-pipe setup could crash Ventuz. Fixed!
BUG	B12747	Fixed problem with autodetect HDMI capture on Blackmagic/Decklink boards.
BUG	B12748	Ventuz 6.8.0 introduced incompatibility with DirectX11 graphics cards from before 2012 when using SDI / HDMI capture. This has been fixed.
BUG	B12756	Active bindings to ProjectData were not listed in the Performance Statistic. Fixed!
BUG	B12766	Config Editor could crash if a Help page was not found in the local installation. Fixed!
BUG	B12777	Fixed problems with BMD Decklink Quad Capture when trying to capture YCbCr 422 and RGB 444 at the same time (on different inputs). The Color Sampling board property is not needed for modern BMD hardware anymore.
BUG	B12778	DMXFromTexture node could crash Ventuz if the bound texture source was not valid. Fixed!
BUG	B12788	Visual Basic Scripts created before 6.8 did not compile in 6.8 due to a missing assembly reference. Fixed!
BUG	B12789	Default unmodified Scripts created before Ventuz 6.8 did not show any source code when opened in 6.8. Fixed!
BUG	B12758	Director: Added Save and Restore methods to IPlaylistItem interface to allow serialization of modified data.
BUG	B12762	Director: Fixed possible deadlock when using the Auto-Follow feature of the Playlist while Timeline is enabled.

V6.08.02

BUG	B12704	Using TextureSaver node in background thread (via Remoting or async Ports) crashed Ventuz. Fixed!
BUG	B12715	Validating Live Video nodes in background (via Remoting or async Ports) crashed Ventuz. Fixed!
BUG	B12719	Validating Web Browser nodes in background (via Remoting or async Ports) crashed Ventuz. Fixed!
BUG	B12720	VMS Project Scanner always returned an empty project Guid for Presentation exported with versions >= 6.8.0. Fixed!
BUG	B12724	Project Guid changed when Project settings were opened from Project Browser. Fixed!
BUG	B12727	Updating WebBrowser node in background thread could cause an exception and break the functionality of the node. Fixed!
BUG	B12728	Continuously disabling & enabling WebBrowser node caused memory leak.Fixed!
BUG	B12722	Director: Fixed an issue where macros with action "Take", "TakeOut" and "Clear" ignored their configured channels and always operated on all channels.

V6.08.01

CHANGE	C12662	Updated NDI to version 4.6.1
CHANGE	C12692	VS Scripting: Paths to Project Assemblies are now written as relative Uris for easier deployment.
BUG	B12414	Fixed the Texture output of the Effect FX node's changing every frame.
BUG	B12593	Fixed Effect Bleed was not functioning correctly in some cases. Fixed!
BUG	B12644	Fixed problems configuring Deltacast SDI boards when accidentally mixing drop-frame and non-drop-frame frame-rates.
BUG	B12663	Fixed NDI video frame rate glitches, especially with NDI\|HX sources
BUG	B12675	Fixed problem when loading AV configs that contain Tracking devices that were created with Ventuz 6.7 or earlier.
BUG	B12680	Improved search results in Help browser when using too common words.
BUG	B12694	Fixed hang when using Render2Disk from Designer
BUG	B12697	Audio Clip: Fixed Position property going beyond the Duration under some circumstances.
BUG	B12693	Director: Fixed crash when assigning a special GPIO input shortcut to a Macro.
BUG	B12691	VS Scripting: Script nodes tried to update from referenced VS projects even though UpdateOnLoad was disabled. Fixed!

V6.08.00

FEATURE	F8338	A selection box for the Hierarchy Editor was added. Holding the CTRL key adds children to the selection. SHIFT adds to an existing selection.
FEATURE	F8874	Added async. save functionality to Texture Saver node. For details see documentation.
FEATURE	F11124	Event Filter node has now an event called Rejected which is fired if the filter did not match on incoming events.
FEATURE	F11151	You can now use Visuals Studio to edit code of the C# & VB Script nodes. See documentation for further details.
FEATURE	F12245	OSC Input nodes can now optionally reset output values on scene load.
FEATURE	F12382	Introducing new Texture source for generating simple QR Codes.
FEATURE	F12439	Property Editor now accepts simple expressions as value, example "7 + 3 * PI".
FEATURE	F12591	Scene Statistics dialog now allows to highlight node filtering result in Hierarchy and Content Editor.
FEATURE	F12621	Added Newtek SpeedHQ decoding to the movie player nodes.
FEATURE	F12658	Improved SDI and Capture boards performance and increased range of supported boards. See documentation for further information.
FEATURE	F11842	Director: Added new shortcuts "Preload all Templates", "Preload all Templates in Playlist", "Preload all Templates on Timeline" and "Reload all Templates".
CHANGE	C9110	When importing VZA files multiple times, you will be asked for an alternative filename for the scene if it already exists in the current project.
CHANGE	C10166	Updated Script Editor to cope with new C# (VB.net) language features.
CHANGE	C11260	Excel Cell nodes now reset values if Excel Workbook is not available.
CHANGE	C11508	Updated Script Node compiler to Roslyn so that new C# 7.0 (VB.net) features can be used now.
CHANGE	C12624	Deltacast deprecated most HD and DVI boards, including the HD-e-key 22 and DVI-e 20. The last driver that supports these boards is Deltacast 6.13.1. As of Ventuz 6.8 we continue to support legacy 6.13.1 drivers as well as recent 6.15.1 drivers. For the foreseeable future, including Ventuz 7 releases, we will continue to use more recent Deltacast drivers, but the old 6.13.1 driver support will stay frozen to remain compatible with legacy boards. Please note that Ventuz can only work with one Deltacast driver at a time, so all boards must use either the recent driver or the legacy driver. Mixing boards that require legacy support, like the HD-e-key 22, and new boards that require later drivers, like the DELTA-12G1c-hmi10-elp, is not possible. You should avoid using legacy drivers as they run at lower speed and are less well tested with Ventuz.
CHANGE	C12625	Support for DVS SDI Boards (Atomix and Centaurus) has been removed.
CHANGE	C12656	Stream Out when using NVENC now always outputs at the specified frame rate regardless whether Ventuz rendering can keep up.
CHANGE	C12594	AV Config: removed unnecessary options from Tracking devices.
CHANGE	C12600	SDI : AJA boards accidentally set the "Tracking Source" option for all inputs by default.
BUG	B12410	The initially created help search index was not used. Fixed!
BUG	B12413	The search bar of the build-in Help Browser contained a '+' character when searching for multiple words at the same time. Fixed!

V6.07.09

FEATURE

F12679

Added UpdateRequestTimeout to Assetmanagement Config

V6.07.08

BUG	B12632	User manual could not be opened from Config Editor due a wrong path. Fixed!
BUG	B12637	Fixed issues in NDI buffer handling resulting in occasional stutters or excess memory usage
BUG	B12639	Fixed audio speed and stutters when using Ventuz to Ventuz audio crosspoints
BUG	B12641	Fixed diagnostics appearing on screen when WebUI diag page was open
BUG	B12652	Binding a null value to a Font property of the EnrichedBlockText node could break the scene validation. Fixed!
BUG	B12630	Director: Fixed the problem that the Timeline did not run when playing it after creating a new show.
BUG	B12640	WebUI: fixed a few number inputs that didn't accept numbers over 999

V6.07.07

CHANGE	C12328	Increased default Annotation size in Hierarchy and Content Editor for easier use.
BUG	B3669	Input properties exposed to an Interface Container stayed bound on interface level when exposing was deleted (disconnected from Interface). This also affected Interface Container exchange. Fixed!
BUG	B12225	Fixed Color Picker and DMX Texture nodes taking too much CPU time
BUG	B12565	In External Chroma Keying mode with FG/FK/BG/GM a 2D Layer where the Rank was set to default was visible in all channels - not only in background where it should. Fixed!
BUG	B12566	Fixed accidental reset of network configuration for VMS.
BUG	B12571	Corrected rounding issue in color space conversion for some SDI modes.
BUG	B12602	Sometimes Designer UI was not refreshed correctly when loading scenes with only 2D Layers. Fixed!
BUG	B12611	AV Config refused to create new stream after deleting a stream. Fixed!
BUG	B12613	Fixed missing load of network configuration for VMS Session Service.
BUG	B12312	Config Editor: The Networking Mode in the Cluster Networking section could show a license warning even with a sufficient license. Fixed!
BUG	B12445	Director: fixed crash that happened when Director tried to inform about available update.
BUG	B12603	Director: fixed crash caused in the Timeline control due invalid time codes.
BUG	B12583	IME Textfield Input: The property CompositionPreview now shows the correct pinyin composition preview instead of the wrong commit preview.
BUG	B12584	IME Textfield Input: disabled the CAPS LOCK key for any pinyin IME processing, since the state of the key is not handled accordingly in Cluster and other network situations.

V6.07.06

BUG	B12402	glTF importer when set to "Sort by Materials" did not import meshes with no material set. Fixed!
BUG	B12408	In some fonts text with ligatures was not rendered correctly and characters were missing. Fixed!
BUG	B12421	Fixed glTF importer failing when a file contained skins but no associated animations.
BUG	B12463	File Open dialog now navigates to Project/Repository folder if one selects View->Repository->Open menu entry in Designer.
BUG	B12467	Names of Node Properties that were identical to their Category were not displayed in Property Editor. Fixed!
BUG	B12468	Fixed crash when certain buggy ASIO drivers are installed.
BUG	B12500	Repository browser color did not change until app restart when Designer UI Theme was changed. Fixed!
BUG	B12435	Movie Clip: Fixed validation issue with the ErrorCode property
BUG	B12477	Movie Stream Node: Fixed certain RTSP streams not playing if based on TCP.

V6.07.05

CHANGE	C12340	Added Cinema 4D plugin for version R23.
BUG	B12337	Repository item from a Layer could be dropped into Content Editor but not into Layer Editor. Fixed!
BUG	B12338	Could not add Containers to Repository via CTRL-C + CTRL-V. Fixed!
BUG	B12343	Freeflight Camera help text in Renderer was not displayed. Fixed!
BUG	B12362	Check For Update crashed Designer. Fixed!
BUG	B12384	Designer could not save scenes if Watermark symptom due license exceed was active. Fixed!
BUG	B12393	Implemented missing VMS1 commands OPT, INST and GETCFG in the VMS1 emulation layer. (TCP Port 20405)
BUG	B12333	Director : Remote playlists were sometimes not displayed in an open show. Fixed.

V6.07.04

CHANGE	C12327	Improved buffer handling for the Movie Stream node to reduce stuttering in cases where frames do not come continuously enough.
BUG	B11554	Pressing CTRL-A or CTRL-B in Hierarchy Editor did not mark scene as modified. Fixed!
BUG	B12319	Fixed bad formatting in AV statistics.
BUG	B12324	Animations on top level of scene were not displayed in Animation Editor. Fixed!
BUG	B12325	Fixed NDI live video not working under certain conditions
BUG	B12326	Fixed another rare crash in the Movie Stream node
BUG	B12320	Director: Fixed a crash that sometimes occured when dropping external data into a show.

V6.07.03

CHANGE	C12246	Increased the number of possible shadows to 8.
BUG	B11986	Scene Optimization did not handle Layer Switcher correctly. Fixed!
BUG	B12310	Merging Runtime Lite and Designer Only Enterprise licenses could fail on Runtime start and the License Manager was presented. Fixed!
BUG	B12313	Fixed crash when opening a video file with 16 mono audio tracks and the merge option enabled.
BUG	B12314	A few emojis like 'Bear' were not displayed in some Emoji Sets. Fixed!
BUG	B12315	Fixed occasional crash in the Movie Stream node when a stream cuts out and comes back in a different resolution
BUG	B12316	Fixed the Movie Stream Layer not updating layout when the stream's aspect ratio changes
BUG	B12318	Binding MovieStream texture to Interface property caused Cast Exception on copy or save. Fixed!

V6.07.02

BUG	B11289	Some Emojis were not displayed even though they existed in the configured Ventuz Emoji set. Fixed! Additionally we released new Emoji sets with more emojis for download from out website.
BUG	B12199	Fixed certain video streams failing to play in the Movie Stream node
BUG	B12202	In some rare cases the VentuzMS_Systray6.exe would not start and the VMS taskbar icon was not displayed. Fixed!
BUG	B12215	Fixed wrong version displayed in an error message dialog when no valid license could be found.
BUG	B12221	Fixed NullReference Exception caused by Property Editor and exposed properties on Scene Ports.
BUG	B12224	Double-clicking Ventuz Project file could present an error message in Designer about missing default.vzs file. Fixed!
BUG	B12239	A bad URI at the ScenePort node could cause an Exception and break the validation of other nodes. Fixed!
BUG	B12248	Assigning null to Array input property in Script node caused exception in Scripts base class and broke validation. Fixed!
BUG	B12249	Online Dongle for CORE and COMMUNITY editions was not able to activate license on Spanish version of .NET Framework. (Other localized versions may have been also affected.) Fixed!
BUG	B12250	The Movie Stream node now follows a stream's resolution changes properly
BUG	B12232	Director: When "take out with recue" was requested, the Director ignored the "recue". Now this error is fixed.
BUG	B12243	Director: "Ventuz Technology" appeared instead of the show name. Fixed!
BUG	B11102	Expression Nodes: Couldn't add an additional property after bound 'A' was renamed. Fixed!
BUG	B12212	Remoting: Cluster.Snapshot() always provided the render output of Pipe with index 0 regardless of the pipe IID parameter. Fixed!

V6.07.01

CHANGE	C11709	Windows Explorer can now Open a scene in Ventuz Designer or Play it in Ventuz Runtime. Scene must be located in its corresponding project folder.
BUG	B12146	Fixed problem where the Vio node had blurry video.
BUG	B12149	Fixed visible borders around PLE watermark.
BUG	B12186	Fixed issues in Script Editor that prevented adding new assemblies in the References tab. Also fixed template code generation for methods when they were double-clicked.
BUG	B12190	Discord and YouTube entries were not visible in Help menu of Designer. Fixed!
BUG	B12191	Fixed some issues in the Licenses Manager in combination with very old licenses.

V6.07.00

FEATURE	F11863	Added small helper EXE to start Ventuz web-based configuration.
FEATURE	F11888	Introducing new NDI Receiver and NDI Source List nodes in order to use NDI streams in Ventuz without configuring NDI Inputs in the Audio Video Configuration. See User Manual for more information.
FEATURE	F12140	New Ventuz Community Edition (FREE) and Ventuz Core Editions released! See https://www.ventuz.com/whats-new-in-6-7
FEATURE	F10929	Particle System: Data Animation module has new option that enables it to be used with a source emitter, and also allows indexing of the data based on other channels.
CHANGE	C8272	In image based lighting, the roughness feature can now be disabled. This is useful for realtime cubemaps, as they are not correctly filtered. Also, the option "no prefilter" has been renamed to "linear".
CHANGE	C11807	Retired iVGA support.

V6.06.03

BUG	B11072	Fixed blending options of Scene Layers (they where mostly ignored).
BUG	B11692	Fixed Audio Clip node firing extraneous Complete events when controlled by an animation
BUG	B11735	Fixed a minor bug with Rim Lighting that would sometimes cause black pixels/rectangles.
BUG	B11788	Expose Dialog in Designer was not DPI-aware. Fixed!
BUG	B11824	Cinema4D plugin installer now supports Cinema4D S22
BUG	B11951	Fixed heavy glitching when using really big blur radius with image based lens flares.
BUG	B11955	A too high (via binding) Ordinal property value on the AudioStream PropertyGroup could crash Ventuz. Fixed!
BUG	B11998	Some texts were not displayed in the correct language in Director. Fixed.
BUG	B12023	The Log Windows in Runtime and Designer where missing some early log messages. Fixed!
BUG	B12038	Sometimes the AV config crashes when editing a machine with different Ventuz version. Fixed the crash, but still editing compatibility may be limited between different versions.
BUG	B11968	Director: Fixed an issue where the "-nosplash" command line argument could cause a crash.
BUG	B11987	Director: Fixed an issue when loading a Topology with missing Pipe information for View (unconnected View).
BUG	B11995	Director: Fixed the error that appeared when playing the Timeline after a Channel was deleted.
BUG	B12053	Director: Could not open Runtime after switching Topology. Fixed!
BUG	B12061	Director: When closing a show without save, the insertion or deletion of Timeline Items was ignored, causing the loss of these changes. This problem is now fixed and a window that asks to save changes will pop up.
BUG	B12063	Director: Channel slots were not reassigned correctly after deleting channel. Fixed.
BUG	B12076	Director: Fixed the problem with some buttons from the Timeline after a Channel was deleted.
BUG	B11599	Particle System: Fixed crash when loading a scene with a Data Emitter and the stream had "DisableComputation" checked when saving.
BUG	B11965	Particle System: When switching "DisableComputation", things are not always correctly re-enabled. Fixed!
BUG	B12043	Particle System: scene with Particle nodes loaded via ScenePort/Layer could crash Ventuz. Fixed!
BUG	B11952	Web-UI Config: Fixed event triggers only working once in web scene/project data views.

V6.06.02

CHANGE	C11849	Improved error message text when opening old AV configs.
BUG	B11872	Deleting WebBrowser node could sometimes crash Designer. Fixed!
BUG	B11873	Fixed crash when using Live Video Node mixed with Movie Clip Node.
BUG	B11882	Null Device was not visible in AV Config Editor. Fixed!
BUG	B11895	Fixed crash caused by Draw Touch Ray node.
BUG	B11896	Shaping did not activate in Runtime until changing Machine ID via Live Options. Fixed!
BUG	B11874	Deltacast I/O configuration : Changing the input/output config did only update genlock options after starting Designer / Runtine.
BUG	B11878	Director: The shortcut that allows going to the end of the show through the Timeline works correctly again.

V6.06.01

BUG	B11865	Some scenes could no longer be loaded. Caused crashes. Fixed.
BUG	B11868	Fixed crash related to tracking devices, introduced in 6.6.0.

V6.06.00

FEATURE	F11700	Added HEVC (H.265) decoder to the Movie nodes.
FEATURE	F11793	The new "IME Textfield Input" node allows keyboard input with IME (Input Method Editor) for Far Eastern languages.
FEATURE	F11800	It is now possible to group Properties/Events/Methods in tabs in the Expose Dialog to keep better overview on Containers with a lot of exposings. See Property Editor documentation for further details.
FEATURE	F11808	Introducing new node "CC" Chinese Character conversion to convert traditional Chinese into Simplified, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japanese Kanji standards and vice versa.
FEATURE	F11846	Updated drivers for Deltacast, AJA, DeckLink and Datapath; thus supporting new boards. See the 'Supported Hardware' page in the documentation for details.
FEATURE	F11847	Updated NDI SDK to version 4.5 for better performance and image quality.
FEATURE	F11854	SDI driver info is now displayed in Ventuz log.
FEATURE	F11866	Introducing webbrowser based Configuration Editor which adapts many features of the standalone Config Editor and even provides some new features. Use following URL scheme in your webbrowser: http://[Machine's IP Address]:20404 - for further details read the according Ventuz 6 Configuration Editor section in the documentation.
FEATURE	F11840	Movie Stream: Added OverriderBufferSize property to customize the size of the receive buffer.
FEATURE	F11696	NDI: Added option for naming the NDI output in the 'Advanced Settings' of the output configuration.
CHANGE	C11714	Remoting4: Querying a color data item now always yields an (A)RGB tuple instead of a named color.
BUG	B11828	User Manual: Fixed some broken links in several tables of contents.

V6.05.02

CHANGE	C11850	MigrationHelper can now optionally overwrite files.
BUG	B11778	Removed NvEncodeApi related error messages when you're not actually trying to encode the output
BUG	B11839	Auto Scene Open Dialog on first Project start in Designer made DateTime node cause an exception and prevent scene loading. Fixed!
BUG	B11848	MigrationHelper used wrong destination folder for autostart.json and vms_persistence.db.
BUG	B11786	Remoting4 over HTTP/Websocket: Fixed setting DataItems on non-English locales.

V6.05.01

BUG	B11561	Auto-Connect dialog in Animation Editor did not scale correctly with high DPI. Fixed!
BUG	B11711	Fixed some bugs in the Websocket Remoting responses. A response now contains the command address and the request ID.
BUG	B11727	Interaction option 'Intersect higher-level Layer first' did not take Template Layers into account. Fixed!
BUG	B11728	Reset with argument (via Event Binding) did not fully work on SlideManager. The according animation to Present state was not triggered. Fixed!
BUG	B11729	Copy & Paste Layers reverted the order. Fixed!
BUG	B11738	Adding texture to Rim Light Material caused exception. Fixed!
BUG	B11739	Fixed Ventuz crashes with certain ASIO devices.
BUG	B11740	WebBrowser node could sometimes cause long stalls when changing URL. Fixed!
BUG	B11752	Under certain circumstances a Particles System in the Scene could crash Ventuz. Fixed!

V6.05.00

FEATURE	F10094	Ventuz now supports ASIO audio devices. See documentation for details.
FEATURE	F11150	Introducing 'Interaction Rectangle' node to grab the interaction events (mouse/touch/keyboard) on the rectangle and send it via UDP or an ANC channel of a live video source (currently only VIO). See documentation for further details.
FEATURE	F11423	It's now possible to disable video metadata reading for disabled Movie Clip nodes via options.
FEATURE	F11462	Movie Clip/Frame/Stream nodes now have a new property to specify the output color in case the File/URL is not available.
FEATURE	F11528	Ventuz now support Remoting 4 via Websocket. See documentation for further details.
FEATURE	F11559	Introducing Snapshot Framebuffer node that provides the texture that contains the rendering as it is done before / above the node.
FEATURE	F11607	Movie Clip, Movie Stream and Audio Clip nodes can now use multiple audio streams and mix and match them to multiple outputs
FEATURE	F11655	Added the "MultiPlay" property from the Sound node to the Audio Clip node, too.
FEATURE	F11659	The ContainerInfo node now also works inside Slides and provides the index via the LinkIndex property.
FEATURE	F11669	The Audio and Movie nodes in Ventuz now support audio channel configuration for multi-channel audio content. See documentation for details.
FEATURE	F9840	Director: Added Macros capabilities, which allow triggering of predefined actions via shortcuts, like cueing a specific Template or modifying a Project Data value.
FEATURE	F11390	Director: Added "Reload all Templates" option to menu which forces the Runtime to first unload and then load all templates of current project.
FEATURE	F11393	Director: Added name of current Project to window title.
FEATURE	F11400	Director: Added import and export of window layouts to the Layout Manager.
FEATURE	F11442	Director: Shotbox will now add a selected item when Enter key is pressed to the Playlist which was active at the time the shotbox was opened.
FEATURE	F11443	Director: Added possibility to disable a Channel Rule using the Channel property window.
FEATURE	F11451	Director: Added some improvements to the Playlist like scrollbar buttons, font scaling, freely dockable toolbar panel and tweaked scrolling during drag operation.
FEATURE	F11452	Director: Added some interface improvements for the Asset Browser, like the possibility to sort the items descending and scaling the thumbnail images in all views.
FEATURE	F11454	Director: Added possibility to change the layout orientation of the elements in the Property Editor to be either "Automatic", "Horizontal" or "Vertical".
FEATURE	F11666	Director: Added "Treat errors as warnings" option to keep the Topology in an operational state, even in the event of errors (e.g. a broken machine in a Cluster).
CHANGE	C11396	Director: Sub-Templates now ignore the Channel rules when applied to a template in the Property Editor to spare the effort to set the same meta data as its parent.
CHANGE	C11426	Director: Improved behavior when removing and reading a Ventuz License Dongle
CHANGE	C11433	Director: Improved German localization, especially sorting and grouping options of the Assetbrowser.
CHANGE	C11441	Director: Changed sorting of Asset Browser to use natural sort algorithm.
CHANGE	C11683	Director: Added scrollbars to Show Control, so the status of each Channel can be observed even when the Show contains a lot of Channels.
CHANGE	C11685	Director: The bottom toolbar of the Property Editor is now always visible.
CHANGE	C11427	VMS: Installer now configures fail action of the VMS windows service to retry starting after subsequent failures
BUG	B8458	Fixed Ventuz.Remoting4.Templates.TemplateCollection.CountAll. The wrong value was returned. Please check your code for the usages of this property.
BUG	B11428	The ShotBox now displays pages for cueing inside Page Editor plugin.
BUG	B11459	Director log file could only be 2 MB large and startup option to set number of log backup files did not work. Fixed!
BUG	B11697	Fixed a bug in the OscMessage.FromStream Method within the Ventuz.OSC.dll, that caused an exception when the given stream was longer than the contained OSC Message.
BUG	B11398	Configuration Editor: Fixed an issue where the VentuzConfig.vcfg got reseted to default after the VMS process was restarted.
BUG	B11391	Director: Fixed "Group By" options of Pages Asset Browser to allow grouping also by Keywords, Channel Ids etc.
BUG	B11394	Director: Fixed default values for NumericUpDown controls in Property Editor after Template was changed.
BUG	B11404	Director: Fixed Templates pre-loading when there are unconnected channel slots in use.
BUG	B11405	Director: Added a log message in case an item gets cued on a Channel which is not connected to a cluster in the Topology.
BUG	B11406	Director: Removed confirmation dialog when trying to delete non-deletable items like Templates from Asset Browser.
BUG	B11409	Director: Fixed threading issue which sometimes caused an exception when trying to cue an item.
BUG	B11410	Director: Added dialog message to ask how to proceed when loading a playlist from file containing items not matching the current channel rules.
BUG	B11412	Director: Fixed missing display name of Pages in Shotbox.
BUG	B11413	Director: Fixed an issue where the Playlist status of content created with a migration Channel Rule was not set.
BUG	B11414	Director: Fixed Asset Browsers sometimes loosing their current folder information.
BUG	B11416	Director: Changing the layout now destroys all current windows to make sure no window configuration value will be carried over from a reused window to the new layout.
BUG	B11418	Director: Fixed saving of Topologies when moved from embedded to local using the Embedded Topology dialog with renaming the topology first.
BUG	B11419	Director: Added an additional check to the "Navigate Up" button of the Asset Browser to disallow leaving the Pages folder.
BUG	B11421	Director: Fixed not-applying migration rules when assets got dropped directly onto playlists.
BUG	B11425	Director: Fixed an exception which may occur inside Asset Browser when constantly switching or reseting the window layout.
BUG	B11450	Director: Fixed re-appearing of deleted shortcut for functionality which have default shortcuts.
BUG	B11456	Director: Fixed an issue with inconsistent thumbnail scaling after scrolling a bigger collection of assets in the Asset Browser.
BUG	B11457	Director: Fixed crash due to some unescaped format strings during transformation from data model to UI element.
BUG	B11686	Director: Fixed toolbar button status of Property Editor to get re-enabled when e.g. a Take is done.
BUG	B11440	VMS: Fixed resource leak caused by calling missing endread and endwrites on pipestreams

V6.04.04

CHANGE	C11684	Adding new machines in RenderSetup Editor (Production View) now places the machine at top right corner of Cluster border instead furthermore to the right with every new machine.
BUG	B11592	SVG Loader did not load certain files. Fixed!
BUG	B11593	SVG Loader in Async mode did not always update Width and Height outputs. Fixed!
BUG	B11650	If the first Expression node property with default name was bound and then deleted it was not possible to add new properties anymore. Fixed!
BUG	B11657	Cascaded and linked Arrange nodes did not work correctly. Fixed!
BUG	B11693	Fixed playback stutters with certain Hap and NotchLC video files
BUG	B11695	Designer could crash if one clicked on the Scene Tab icon to e.g. take Templates. Fixed!
BUG	B11845	relaxed driver version checking for deltacast to allow usage of old version of DELTA-3G-ELP-KEY 4k
BUG	B11698	License Manager showed wrong text about highest available version when Maintenance was expired: e.g. when maintenance expired after release of 6.4.0 and the user started Lic. Manager version 6.4.1 the warning text stated that highest available version is 6.3.x. Fixed!
BUG	B11702	Particle System: Fixed rare crash with Sprite Renderer.
BUG	B11590	SDI: Fixed problem when using External Chroma Keying without foreground Layer but with Effect Bleed.
BUG	B11596	SDI: Fixed problem with External Chroma Keying when using Offscreen Layers with Rank filters.

V6.04.03

CHANGE	C11570	Ffmpeg messages in level 'Info' and 'Warning' are now also redirected to log level 'Debug FFmpeg' to allow filtering to prevent gigantic log files.
BUG	B11558	ContainerInfo node could kill performance if used in deep ScenePort hierarchies. Fixed!
BUG	B11562	NDI functionality is no longer initialized when no NDI inputs or outputs are used.
BUG	B11569	The MeshLoader PropertyGroup for the GeoRenderer node did not load geometry on scene load if the GeoRenderer was blocked. The old MeshLoader node did this pre-loading to prevent stalls when such a node got unblocked. Fixed!
BUG	B11571	If a 'Not For Resale' and PLE license was present none of the Ventuz applications except License Manager started. Now the NFR license is prefered!
BUG	B11585	Custom Fonts in Enriched Blocktext node did not show usual dropdown in Property Editor. Fixed!
BUG	B11579	Remoting: Some methods in the Cluster class did not compare Machine responses correctly for congruence. Fixed!

V6.04.02

BUG	B11548	Designer options were not fully loaded if the Compatibility Check was enabled. Fixed!
BUG	B11546	CRITICAL Bugfix: Project Fonts were not exported to VPR and VZA!

V6.04.01

CHANGE	C11510	Director: Increased size of clear button of Asset controls.
BUG	B11499	Fixed sprite rendering (from both particles or mesh) in mirrors.
BUG	B11502	Ventuz crashed when a Scene Port was unblocked that loaded a scene with Arrow nodes. Fixed!
BUG	B11506	Data View of the Animation Editor never showed a horizontal scroll-bar. Fixed!
BUG	B11511	Memory usage rose for scenes with Touch nodes when Windows was locked. Fixed!
BUG	B11512	Fixed occasional crash caused by shader cache after downgrading from 6.4.0.
BUG	B11514	Reference Layer with Layer Mask produced incorrect result. Fixed!
BUG	B11518	Ventuz could crash when unblocking a Scene Layer with certain scenes loaded. Fixed!
BUG	B11532	Deltacast 3G-elp-d 4c stopped working after killing Ventuz without proper deinitialization. Fixed!
BUG	B11534	Ventuz in Touch Client configuration crashed with NullReference Exception. Fixed!
BUG	B11509	Director: Fixed a Shotbox input focus issue.
BUG	B11501	Substance Material: Material options don't get reset anymore after saving and loading a scene.

V6.04.00

FEATURE	F861	Introducing Scene Optimization section in the Scene Statistics dialog to detect and remove unnecessary nodes in the scene tree.
FEATURE	F4776	Introducing new GetBoundingBox node to retrieve the bounding box of a subtree.
FEATURE	F8177	In the Assets tab of the Scene Statistics it is now possible to replace assets for the whole scene or single nodes; additionally it is possible to start an automatic search for missing assets.
FEATURE	F11109	New option in the Z Test options to disable writing normals. This is useful when doing transparencies and SSAO.
FEATURE	F11129	Ventuz comes now with a Remoting4 Dll for .Net Standard and .Net Core. See Remoting documentation for further information.
FEATURE	F11157	The Reset event of the SlideManager now accepts an argument to make the SlideManager jump to the Slide with the specified index.
FEATURE	F11326	Introducing new Substance Loader node that generates textures from .sbsar files. The new Substance Material node additionally creates Material Stages based on these textures. See documentation for more information.
FEATURE	F11478	SlideManager node now provides a string array with the names of the Slides.
FEATURE	F11493	New option for Movie Clip node: OverrideFramerate defines playback framerate for image sequences (ignored for movie clips).
FEATURE	F8013	OpenVR: added vibration (haptic feedback) to Vive controllers (only Vive for now).
FEATURE	F11474	Video: Added NotchLC video decoding
CHANGE	C9041	Increased the support for VentuzVS extension to up to Visual Studio 2019 (Version 16).
CHANGE	C11055	ffmpeg decoding was limited to 16 threads. Increased the limit to 64 threads (a windows limit) and add statistics over cpu threasd used.
CHANGE	C11155	The order in which render-targets and post-processing is done is now less likely to lead to a one frame delay.

V6.03.04

BUG	B11020	In Designer, when changing the size of the render window, the Effect node did not update its resolution. Fixed! The Effect Mirror node was not effected by this bug.
BUG	B11301	Layers that should not be culled (Offscreen, Referenced, PortLayer) were culled nevertheless if they were children of a culled Layer Group. Fixed!
BUG	B11306	Framerates like 60 / 1 and 60000 / 1000 were not considered as equal in a Cluster.
BUG	B11313	Automatic Update Check could extremely delay application start-up if network connection was present but no internet connection. Fixed!
BUG	B11317	Layer Mask Resources were not exported to VZA and VPR. Fixed!
BUG	B11319	Not all shaders were warmed up when runtime started. Fixed!
BUG	B11327	Empty string for Channel IDs of scene template caused exception on scene load. Fixed!
BUG	B11332	On Deltacast boards that required reconfiguration, setting genlock format caused audio to fail. Fixed!
BUG	B11350	Line rendering with animation produces wrong index buffers. Fixed!
BUG	B11386	Fixed problem with genlock and Deltacast 4c/8c configuration.
BUG	B11468	Arrow node with Path Source did not export custom SVG files to VZA and VPR. Fixed!
BUG	B11473	Under certain circumstances working with Particle System could crash Designer. Fixed!
BUG	B11483	Designer could crash under certain circumstances if one was exposing properties from an Interface Container. Fixed!
BUG	B11484	On Chinese Windows a checkbox in the Intersection tab of the Project Settings dialog was hidden by text label. Fixed!
BUG	B11379	Director: Fixed grouping criteria for Pages browser.
BUG	B11279	Rendersetup Editor: After canceling the 'Create New Setup' or 'Add Machine' dialog one could not add any machines to the setup anymore. Fixed!
BUG	B11352	VIO: fixed problems with memory transfer and Depth Buffer using DX11 (only VioApi.dll has changed)

V6.03.03

CHANGE	C11246	UpdateCheck in Designer now informs about new Ventuz versions that are not under maintenance anymore and about the highest available update that is still under maintenance.
CHANGE	C11261	Web Browser: Chromium updated to version 74.0.3729.157
BUG	B11177	Fixed crash that happens sometimes when unblocking a scene port with a SkyBox node in it.
BUG	B11180	Far and Center aligned text with trailing spaces was not lay out correctly. Fixed!
BUG	B11181	Touch intersection test for Volume node was incorrect and detected it as always in front of all other objects. Fixed!
BUG	B11182	Fixed most of the occasional discontinuities in animation curves when importing FBX/Collada/etc files with animation.
BUG	B11183	The visibility of some properties on a deserielized Geometry Import node was incorrect (especially ImportAnimation was missing). Fixed!
BUG	B11185	Fixed bug in VIO SDK example program (no rotation).
BUG	B11225	Deleting parent node of a linked subtree deleted every node of the linked tree except the first. The copies of the linked tree now remain unmodified!
BUG	B11233	Deleting first node (selected without children) of a linked subtree gives completely illogical result. Fixed!
BUG	B11247	On machines with DPI scaling > 125% the Split dialog in the RenderSetup Editor did not show up and the application got unresponsive. Fixed!
BUG	B11249	Under certain circumstances Enriched Blocktext did not update text correctly if color properties changed. Fixed!
BUG	B11255	VMS Systray did not take NetworkConfig.vnetcfg settings into account. Fixed!
BUG	B11257	SplinePath module for Particle System could crash Ventuz when loaded via ScenePort. Fixed!
BUG	B11262	Fixed Web Browser not being able to access cached data and cookies in some situations.
BUG	B11274	Xml and Excel files did not auto-update in async mode when changes happened faster than re-loading the according file. Fixed!
BUG	B11276	Certain pixel formats could crash Designer when trying to preview an according image in the file browser. Fixed!
BUG	B11277	Fixed bounding box calculation for directional shadows if the first mesh rendered was not transformed with an axis.
BUG	B11283	During Runtime start error popups could be occluded by splash screen. Fixed by hiding splash screen if popup has to be shown.
BUG	B11297	Fixed image distortion with SDI SD NTSC Anamorph on Deltacast boards (other boards do work).

V6.03.02

BUG	B11149	Designer could crash when trying to unlock Repository. Fixed!
BUG	B11153	Repositories saved with Ventuz 6.3.0 or 6.3.1 could not be opened with older versions. Fixed!
BUG	B11158	Text was not displayed if it contained an Emoji ZWJ Sequence which was incomplete. Fixed!
BUG	B11159	Ventuz could crash on input signal change with Datapath cards. Fixed!
BUG	B11161	Some emoji code sequences were not parsed correctly and thus according emojis where not displayed in text. Fixed!
BUG	B11162	WebBrowser node had some problems with cookies. Fixed!
BUG	B11163	Input stream from Datapath cards did not start if rendering and capturing frame-rate differed significantly. Fixed!
BUG	B11165	Fixed bug that sometimes detected a wrong display frequency and thus led to a wrong timing in Ventuz.
BUG	B11171	Wrong touch order in Z within single Layer with 'Intersect higher-level Layer first' enabled. Fixed!
BUG	B11156	Particle System: NVidia drivers around 4.19.67 broke an optimization in particle sorting. Disabled that optimization for NVidia.

V6.03.01

CHANGE	C11106	Improved Repository performance for some cases.
CHANGE	C11111	Updated Emoji Modifier Sequence definition to be up-to-date with Unicode definition.
CHANGE	C11119	Improved video playback quality when playing streams with Movie Stream node.
BUG	B11013	Fixed crash when switching very specific property groups in the material, for instance from "Rim" to "Cell".
BUG	B11032	Touch nodes let objects jumps at the end of the reset animation if the reset target was changed during reset animation. Fixed!
BUG	B11038	Fixed crash when loading damaged Ventuz mesh files.
BUG	B11066	Fixed various bugs in the glTF importer
BUG	B11067	Output properties on Containers were not marked as bound and one could not navigate to the binding target via context menu. Fixed!
BUG	B11075	Fixed movie playback struggling to get into sync again when encountering a buffer underrun in cluster scenarios and added a warning when the disk drive can't keep up with the bitrate.
BUG	B11081	Watches for exposed Methods and Events did not show all information in Renderer Window. Fixed!
BUG	B11085	'Auto-set' mode (ChangeSourceOnSet disabled) of Video Source Selector node did not work if Ordinal or SourcName were bound. Fixed!
BUG	B11086	Fixed Movie Streams not auto-playing properly after loading a scene
BUG	B11107	Fixed rare crashes caused by audio decoding when receiving video streams with Movie Stream node.
BUG	B11110	Some Emojis in text rendering were followed by a 'Unknown Glyph' rectangle character which was a Variation Modifier code (0xfe0e & 0xfe0f). Fixed!
BUG	B11118	ValueBuffer node always fired Passed event on Pass even if value did not changed. For object types the Changed event was fired if Bypass was enabled even if value did not change. Fixed!
BUG	B11120	Receiving NDI and changing source via Video Source Selector node caused memory leak. Fixed!
BUG	B11125	Fixed Deltacast board option "Preserve EDID".
BUG	B11127	Some nodes (e.g. Material) logged unnecessary 'Duplicate Property Name detected' warnings in Designer. Fixed!
BUG	B11133	WebBrowser node could cause crashes and freezes when the URL was changed too fast. Fixed!
BUG	B11134	In Animation Editor the Connection of an embedded Animation did not show the name when the duration was set to 100%. Fixed!
BUG	B11137	Fixed Designer crash when deleting light-sources with shadows.
BUG	B11095	Designer: Fixed Animation Data editor not rendering properly under certain circumstances
BUG	B11098	Designer: Fixed preview pane in Open File dialogs on high DPI screens
BUG	B11023	Particle System: DisableComputation property did not work in Content Node Stream. Fixed!
BUG	B11024	Particle System: Nexus Renderer and Nexus Random were not in Module List of Content Stream Node. Fixed!
BUG	B11083	Particle System: Negative values on some modules crashed Ventuz. Fixed!

V6.03.00

FEATURE	F10793	The Cinema 4D plugin now supports Cinema 4D R20.
FEATURE	F10829	MigrationHelper.exe now supports UI-less mode and startup options.
FEATURE	F10947	It is now possible to successively 'uncollapse' nodes in Content Editor with the 'Uncollapse All' command.
FEATURE	F10952	It's now possible to import Dlls to Script from the 'Local Assembly Cache' in the Ventuz installation and from the 'Scripts' folder in a Ventuz project. See documentation for further details.
FEATURE	F10967	In the Project menu it is now possible to open the project folder in Windows Explorer.
FEATURE	F11009	Improved password handling for locked Repositories.
FEATURE	F10955	Updated the Web Browser node: Now using Chromium 71; Rendering is now fully hardware accelerated and way faster.
CHANGE	C11019	NDI updated to version 3.8
CHANGE	C11001	glTF loader: "Merge Subsets" now actually merges subsets with the same transform and material.

V6.02.03

CHANGE	C10322	Updated Emoji sets that can be used in text. See https://www.ventuz.com/emoji
BUG	B11010	Fixed Font Properties window not showing correctly with high DPI settings
BUG	B11026	In very rare cases VMS could crash. Fixed!
BUG	B11031	Sometimes Export warning was shown twice when opening Scene Statistics. Fixed!
BUG	B11042	Fixed default alpha hint for Hap A / Hap QA videos.
BUG	B11015	Designer: Newly added stops in the Gradient Editor showed up at the wrong place on high DPI displays. Fixed!
BUG	B11005	NDI: Fixed animation running too fast when using an interlaced output

V6.02.02

BUG	B10989	When using 3D Reference Layers as offscreen render targets, under certain conditions Ventuz did crash. Fixed!
BUG	B10991	Fixed crash when adding NDI inputs to video config
BUG	B10995	ValueBuffer node did not work with Objects. Fixed!
BUG	B10997	Datapath input capture boards did not report signal loss. Fixed!
BUG	B11000	Fixed Project Maintenance window looking wrong on high DPI screens

V6.02.01

BUG	B10931	Removed unnecessary Error logs when adding Material stages 'Normal Map -> None' or 'UV Distort -> None'.
BUG	B10978	In Script Editor the shortcut for Double outputs was wrong. Fixed!
BUG	B10980	Fixed Animation Editor showing nested animations with wrong height.
BUG	B10979	NDI: Fixed input timing that was sometimes unstable.

V6.02.00

FEATURE	F7407	ShrinkToFit Text Effect node now provides the resulting bounding box of the manipulated text.
FEATURE	F7786	Added Audio Balance property to MovieClip and MovieStream nodes.
FEATURE	F8828	Port Layer now have a new property to disable Layer culling. This was introduced to prevent problems with Template Engine (Take not processed) caused by blocked Port Layers outside the view frustum.
FEATURE	F9949	It's now possible to enable Touch/Interaction for Offscreen Layer. But this only works correctly if the Layer has fullscreen size!
FEATURE	F10231	In Content Editor it's now possible to highlight bindings to & from selected nodes (Option 'Highlight bindings of selected nodes').
FEATURE	F10394	It's now possible to invert the Layer traversal for touch intersection via Project Settings (Interaction) to make it easier to build a touchable UI Layer on top of a touchable 3D content Layer. See documentation for further details.
FEATURE	F10484	The Excel Range Array node now additionally provides the cell values as string array.
FEATURE	F10662	Array and Array Indexer node now have Custom Verbs in the Property Editor to add and remove array elements.
FEATURE	F10672	Path Axis and Eval Path nodes can now evaluate the path with constant velocity.
FEATURE	F10722	Performance Statistics now displays the number of active bindings per frame (separated in Properties and Events) to help identify performance problems.
FEATURE	F10730	Audio Volume Control can go up to 400% to boost. No UI, binding only.
FEATURE	F10769	Added Spout Receiver Node to receive video frames via Spout 2.006
FEATURE	F10803	Container can now be sealed with a password.
FEATURE	F10826	Added support for Mo-Sys tracking protocol V 1.70 (including lens-distortion) and Mo-Sys over Ethernet.
FEATURE	F10832	Added support for skinned glTF meshes with the new Animation Rig node
FEATURE	F10848	NDI updated to version 3.7!
FEATURE	F10922	Added further Behavior Setting parameter for Transformation 3D node to get more accurate motion simulation when using VR Controllers. See documentation for further details.
FEATURE	F10925	Added High DPI support for Ventuz Designer UI.
FEATURE	F10962	Updated Deltacast SDI from V6.00 to V6.08.01 (patched). Please update using the Deltacast drivers that come with Ventuz, do not use the official drivers from the webpage. This adds support for most current SDI, DVI / HDMI and FLEX boards from Deltacast, see documentation for details and limitations.
FEATURE	F10966	Unloading large number of scenes at once in Designer is now significantly faster.
FEATURE	F10675	Line Rendering: New option for rendering planar geometry / paths with line rendering. This will avoid distortions with large field of view / aspect ratios, but perform worse when disentangling 3d curves.
FEATURE	F10875	Material, Shadow Options: added a Cast option (default on) next to the Receive option. Disabling casting is useful for transparent materials.
FEATURE	F10184	Particle System: Added option to disable particle streams without resetting the particle system.
FEATURE	F10878	Particle System: Added Data Animation module to use a float array not as emitter but to modify existing particles.
CHANGE	C10688	Limited Specular Power to a minimum of 1.0, because the value 0.0 causes problems on some GPU's.

V6.01.04

BUG	B10635	With linked Particle Systems, only the original would work when setting a material in the particle system renderer node. Fixed!
BUG	B10758	Shadowmaps with the SimpleShadowReceiver option turned off will now correctly apply alpha testing. Before, there was an additional alpha cull when alpha falls below 50%.
BUG	B10772	Alpha Value of Material added to the Tip Mesh of an Arrow Node did not fade the Tip Mesh. Fixed!
BUG	B10886	Fixed problem in ImageSequenceTexture node (deprecated) when loading scene in background.
BUG	B10901	Dual touch transformation nodes behaved incorrectly if scale limit was reached. Fixed!
BUG	B10930	Fix SSAO half resolution mode not working with odd target sizes
BUG	B10971	Fixed rare crash/hang when using multisampled Rendertargets
BUG	B10888	Image Loader : some non-square textures with FastMipmap option caused assertion. Fixed!

V6.01.03

BUG	B10710	After an Effect FX node, bounding boxes and transformation gizmos were not visible. Fixed!
BUG	B10746	Fixed Designer window sometimes rendering borders incorrectly when maximizing.
BUG	B10782	The internal ClusterClock did not work correctly if a VR HMD was configured. This resulted in slow animations when rendering did not reach full framerate. Fixed!
BUG	B10789	Director crashed if one clicked on the Project icon in the Show Properties dialog. Fixed!
BUG	B10795	Watches of Methods & Events displayed wrong trigger order. Fixed!
BUG	B10799	Sometimes a texture in a movie player would not update. Fixed!
BUG	B10831	An animated Particle System could make the Text Editor unusable due continuous refreshes. Fixed!
BUG	B10835	Renderer stopped when you pressed F10 or Alt key. Fixed!

V6.01.02

CHANGE	C10692	Designer, Runtime & Director now write their start-up arguments to log.
CHANGE	C10721	Animation Editor: Slightly enlarged the mouse-over area for keyframes and spline handles to make it easier to hit them with the mouse pointer.
BUG	B2101	Copy and Paste of multi-selected Hierarchy nodes gave strange results with linked nodes. Fixed!
BUG	B10227	In Animation Editor Shift+Click on Timeline background deselected all keyframes and you had to start over. Fixed!
BUG	B10355	Some log entries on Ventuz start were not written to the according log files. Fixed!
BUG	B10422	Clicking on the Scene-Tab now also displays the Scene template if it requires data.
BUG	B10553	Fixed Designer window not maximizing correctly with certain multi monitor configurations and overlapping the Windows taskbar.
BUG	B10679	Some SVG paths could have doubled points and this resulted in strange behaviour when animated on the path. These duplicates are now removed.
BUG	B10681	Property Editor did not accept both . and , as decimal separators for Double values. Fixed!
BUG	B10690	DirectInput Mouse node did not invalidate their RelativeXYZ outputs correctly. Fixed!
BUG	B10691	The VisibilityX value on the Chart nodes could interrupt scene validation (due an exception) if the value was very close to 100%. Fixed!
BUG	B10700	Auto-save for auto-generated geometry import scenes saved in geometry source folder. Fixed!
BUG	B10701	VZAs were not saved to 'Archives' folder by default but to location of exported scene. Fixed!
BUG	B10709	WebBrowser was unable to add Methods and Events for JavaScript. Fixed!
BUG	B10711	Sometimes special textures were not updated correctly. Special textures are Shadows, Incident Lighting, Hatching and Cell Shading. Fixed!
BUG	B10714	Fixed Ventuz crash when creating a scene screenshot with a thumbnail area that was not the default one.
BUG	B10720	Fixed Ventuz crash when playing some videos with 16 channel audio.
BUG	B10727	Exposed Gradient Property within Interface Container prevented serialization. Fixed!
BUG	B10728	3D Reference Layers did switch off when the referenced 3D Layer was not rendering (due culling) on the current machine in a Cluster. Fixed!
BUG	B10729	When a 3D Reference Layer did not reference anything, rendering stopped. Fixed!
BUG	B10737	Fixed rounding error that could cause very small layers to crash Ventuz.
BUG	B10745	It was possible to paste Hierarchy content to Layers (when displayed via Hierarchy Editor) and vice versa. Fixed!
BUG	B10747	Warping enabled itself automatically even if it was disabled in Warping/Shaping Editor. Fixed!
BUG	B10757	On Windows 7 machines with SDI / Offscreen / stream outputs, the framerate of the output could have been limited by the framerate of the Desktop. Fixed!
BUG	B10433	C4D plugin: Fixed occasional crashes when plugin was installed but Ventuz was not.
BUG	B10756	Director: Fixed typo in Plugin Manager which led to incomplete log messages.
BUG	B10735	Remoting: When loading very high numbers of scenes via Remoting 4 in a multi-machine setup the Cluster class could lose track of some loaded scenes and trying to access them resulted in a ServerException. Fixed! IMPORTANT: You need to compile your client application with the new version of the Ventuz.Kernel.Remoting4.dll!

V6.01.01

BUG	B10677	Various glTF2 import bugs fixed (materials, animation splines).
BUG	B10682	Deployed demo projects were not up-to-date but in version of Ventuz 5.
BUG	B10671	Remoting4: Scene command "Scenes" didn't work anymore. Fixed!

V6.01.00

FEATURE	F9863	Introducing new Array Ease & Array Ease Morph nodes to provide the possibility to interpolate between float & double arrays.
FEATURE	F10244	Drag & Drop to Content Editor now works with audio files.
FEATURE	F10343	String Splitter node now has IsNullOrWhitespace output property to signal that Input is null, an empty string or only contains whitespaces.
FEATURE	F10344	Scene Statistics Dialog can now filter Hierarchy nodes for being manually blocked or inactivated.
FEATURE	F10476	Geometry import node now supports import of glTF2 files
FEATURE	F10486	Point-Sprites are now properly lit, and there are billboarding options to change the normals for lighting effects. Also updated billboarding options when rendering meshes as sprites. Disabling the "set normal" option in the billboarding settings gives the old behavior, for compatibility or effect.
FEATURE	F10559	Design Eyepoint is used in 3D Projection mapping to set an eyepoint for which specular highlights and other reflective material properties are correct. Normally this is the camera position, but in projection mapping this is wrong.
FEATURE	F10585	Added support for Samsung Odyssey VR HMD
FEATURE	F10592	Sprite Renderer in Particle System and Sprite Render Mode of the Material now support culling options of Front- and Backfaces.
FEATURE	F10612	Added new Material Stage "Texture Component". It maps single channels of a texture to different channels of the material. This is useful for packed textures.
FEATURE	F10660	Improved Particle Systems compilation and background scene loading, especially from Director in dual-pipe mode.
FEATURE	F10551	Effects, 2d Displacement: added option to use absolute displacement maps in the 0 to 1 range. These displacement maps must be in floating point precision and loaded as DDS.
FEATURE	F10380	NDI: Output resolution is now freely definable!
FEATURE	F10472	NDI: Update to NDI 3.5
FEATURE	F10258	New Layer Effect : invert R/G/B/A.
FEATURE	F9258	Particles: Added new modules capable of 3D rotations. See the User Manual for more information on the Rotate by Euler, Rotate around Axis and Rotate Randomly modules.
FEATURE	F9322	Particles: Sprite and Mesh Renderer now have option to order particle rendering by Depth, Distance from Origin or Age.
FEATURE	F9735	Particles: Order Preserving simulation when the particle count is constant. This is enforced through a new simulation node (SimCC - constant count). During the simulation, no particles may die or be emitted. This helps with nodes that need particle order, like path rendering.
FEATURE	F10154	Particles: Extended already existing Box, Sphere and Bubble by Disk and Ring shapes emitters. Also added possibility to have the same random number for speed and position.
FEATURE	F10382	Particles: Added Touch module to get feedback from clicking on particles.
FEATURE	F10395	Particles: Ability so swap color channels (Swizzle) and ability to replicate one color channel to all channels (Broadcast).
FEATURE	F10531	Particles: Improved Lissajous up-vector calculation in cases where amplitude was different for x, y and z.
FEATURE	F10550	Particles: Double vertices in Mesh Vertex Emitter are now eliminated by default. You can turn that back on e.g. for correct UV Mapping.
FEATURE	F10591	Particles: Created Modules to create Triangles, Edges and Points from particles - Nexus Random Emitter and Nexus Renderer. See User Manual for more details.
FEATURE	F10593	Particles: Added new Renderer module to render particles of Mesh Emitter as the original mesh, allowing to do mesh deformation with the Particle System (only in function and constant count simulations).
FEATURE	F10594	Particles: Added Flag "Same Random" on Source and Secondary Emitters to use the same number for the Position and Speed of a Particle.
FEATURE	F10595	Particles: Data Emitter now has two more Data Sources: Random and Range, that map randomly or evenly distributed values in a given range to a target Particle Attribute.
FEATURE	F10613	Particles: New options for Property Group "Target Position". They allow mapping values to the local position of a particle.
FEATURE	F10641	Particles: In Animation module added new property "LoopTime", to switch animation from 0..infinity range to a looping 0..1 range. Default is true, which is the previous behavior.
FEATURE	F10318	The Performance Statistics provide more information: GPU name, number of cores and their granularity as well as the base clock freqency and the current clock frequency.

V6.00.03

CHANGE	C10659	When deleting a Geo Import or Geo Import Live node, everything that was connected to it will be automatically unlinked.
BUG	B10603	In Shaping/Warping Editor Auto-Edge UI was enabled even though no necessary overlaps existed. Fixed!
BUG	B10614	Fixed crash when moving Runtime or Designer window from one screen to another and switching between fullscreen and windowed mode.
BUG	B10615	Reference Layer did not resolve referenced camera if scene was loaded in Runtime (Director mode). Fixed!
BUG	B10620	ColorPicker node crashed Ventuz when a scene with this node was validated in background. Fixed!
BUG	B10626	AudioAnalysis node no longer takes more CPU when audio is off on some processors.
BUG	B10642	Auto-generated scenes from e.g. Geometry Import were saved outside project folder structure. Fixed!
BUG	B10644	In a Particle System with Secondary Emitter certain combinations of 'StepsPerFrame' and 'Rate' could cause discontinuity in particle emission. Fixed!
BUG	B10652	OpenVR / Vive : fixed problems with Steam Updates destroying VR Controller detection.

V6.00.02

CHANGE	C10604	Warping/Shaping: Edge blending is now automatically enabled when editing the edge blending parameters.
BUG	B10455	Flipbook Loader for image sequences will now work if the image sequence does not start with 0. Also improved string parsing for filenames.
BUG	B10480	Preventing negative values for Width & Height in BlockText nodes to avoid exceptions in DirectWrite layout engine.
BUG	B10481	In very rare cases a Project Font could not be loaded and DirectWrite logged an 'Unspecified Error'. Fixed!
BUG	B10513	Fixed missing textures in Geometry Import when the path only partially matched.
BUG	B10519	Some Interpolator nodes could fire the Reached event delayed by one frame due floating point precision issues. Fixed!
BUG	B10547	Convert to Text node could not be dropped on bindings. Fixed!
BUG	B10610	DMX nodes could cause crashes when validated in background. Fixed!
BUG	B10309	CrashZoom post effect: fixed problem with extreme aspect ratios
BUG	B10515	Director: Fixed a crash caused by an invalid Uri when creating a new Asset Browser window.
BUG	B10522	Director: Data items of type double[] were not displayed in the Property Editor. Fixed!
BUG	B10524	Director: Preventing crash when loading an inaccurate Show file.
BUG	B10516	Particle System: Fixed problems with deleting content streams (not in-lined streams).
BUG	B10363	Web Browser: fixed problem with switching off lighting and rendering the web-browser.

V6.00.01

BUG	B10337	DMX In node had some issues with output property invalidation. Fixed!
BUG	B10388	Certain bindings coming from Input Properties of Value Generator nodes like Mover or Movie Clip invalidated bound nodes even if these Input Properties did not change. Under certain circumstances this could decrease performance of scenes significantly. This is fixed now!
BUG	B10389	Under certain circumstances the Movie nodes could log an 'Internal Movie Error' even though the according VideoPlayer was not created yet. Fixed!
BUG	B10390	Async resources have been stored as sync when generated in background thread and needed to be re-created in renderer thread when according node was validated again for some reasons. This could generate render stalls! These resources are now stored with the right Async property value!
BUG	B10391	Some debug log message have not been written in Runtime even if log level was set to 'Debug'. Fixed!
BUG	B10427	Fixed Problems with shadows and particles. Mesh-Particles are fully integrated with shadows, sprite particles can cast shadows. Sprite particles do not interact with light so they can not receive shadows. When working with directional lights, the particles are not part of the bounding box calculation so you might need to place dummy objects to extend the bounding box for directional lights.
BUG	B10436	Fixed problem with Particle Systems where multiple streams have different maximum particle count.
BUG	B10437	Fixed problem when using Render Cubemap node or the Effect node with SSAO or DOF enabled. The cubemap and effect rendering will have this disabled.
BUG	B10438	GPU Memory used by Particle System buffers was not included in the GPU memory statistics. This memory depends on the maximum particle count, so be conservative about those!
BUG	B10445	The Config Editor now does not allow config file imports and RenderSetup creation when local VMS is not available to avoid crashes.
BUG	B10446	Config Editor did not show anything if the local VMS was not running. Now after a certain timeout another available machine is selected and the user is informed about the missing local VMS.
BUG	B10447	Directory node did not update Uri output (with disabled AutoUpdate) if files that match the search pattern were added later to directory and Update was triggered.
BUG	B10448	Custom JavaScript output properties have not been updated on the WebBrowser node. Fixed!
BUG	B10392	Director: Fixed crash that occurred when a Template could not be loaded from an incompatible SceneModel.
BUG	B10275	Geo Import: Displacement maps now get imported
BUG	B10284	Geo import: Fixed missing embedded textures in certain FBX files.

V6.00.00

FEATURE	F7551	Audio Clip node now has output properties for loaded/playing state and current position.
FEATURE	F8176	Designer now shows progress bars when scenes are saved.
FEATURE	F8257	Added nodes to support for DMX & ArtNet. See user manual for details.
FEATURE	F9097	Introducing new Content node Geometry Provider and a Geometry Renderer which can exchange geometry primitives as PropertyGroup.
FEATURE	F9191	Float properties can now be easily animated with integrated LFOs (low frequency oscillator). See user manual for details.
FEATURE	F9196	Introducing new Analyze Audio node to replace the FFT node.
FEATURE	F9202	Introducing nodes and functionality to handle numeric type 'double'.
FEATURE	F9268	Added possibility to watch properties and events in Renderer and dedicated Designer window.
FEATURE	F9494	It's now possible to extract certain PropertyGroups (like TextureLoader, Mapping, etc.) to a separate node. Click the 'Extract' button right to the PropertyGroup.
FEATURE	F9514	In EffectFX and Mirror Nodes you can now use 2D Displacement, Polar, Kaleidoscope and Color Difference Keyer.
FEATURE	F9530	When the content of a PropertyGroup is changed (like 'Effect' on a Layer) the property values are migrated if they have the same semantics.
FEATURE	F9534	Scene Statistics now also shows an overview of the used PropertyGroups.
FEATURE	F9792	Designer now contains a Container Outliner to visualize scene structure and to improve navigation.
FEATURE	F10007	Colors in Enriched Blocktext can now define an alpha value to render parts of the text with different transparency.
FEATURE	F10009	Animation Channels for Color type now support alpha.
FEATURE	F10108	In the AV Config, Deltacast boards are now displayed with the full product name. Instead of e.g. "Deltacast hd key" it now is "Deltacast hd-e-key 22".
FEATURE	F10120	Introducing extensive and versatile Particle System. See user manual and demo scenes for further details.
FEATURE	F10121	Introducing possibilities to import and render 2D/3D paths. Paths can be imported via C4D Live Link or from SVG files. See user manual on Path and Arrow nodes for details.
FEATURE	F10123	Added Flipbook Loader as Texture Loader for a Material Stage which can load a movie and automatically animates through the frames.
FEATURE	F10137	Depth of Field effect now supports alpha channel processing
FEATURE	F9103	Animation Editor: Staggering mode for moving multiple keyframes on multiple channels. See user manual for details.
FEATURE	F987	Geometry import: Errors during importing now get written into the Ventuz log and will result in way more descriptive error messages.
FEATURE	F1287	Geometry import: Added option to invert material opacity
FEATURE	F6612	Geometry import: SRT animations are now imported either as one animation for everything or as one per scene graph node.
FEATURE	F9204	Geometry import: can now read embedded textures from formats like FBX, etc.
FEATURE	F9394	Geometry import: it's now possible to import Light and Camera parameter.
FEATURE	F10122	Introducing new draw modes: Sprite, Path, Line as part of the extended Material System.
FEATURE	F9975	Ventuz now comes with a utility to migrate settings, configs and caches from Ventuz 5 to Ventuz 6: VentuzMigrationHelper.exe
CHANGE	C8372	Changed the way bounding box calculations are done for directional lights and objects that only receive but do not cast shadows.
CHANGE	C9081	Nodes which create random values (Mover, Spreader, TextEffects, RandomPoints) are now Cluster compatible and create the same random values on all machines.
CHANGE	C9187	Property & Layer Editor now list PropertyGroups horizontally and allows multi-selection.
CHANGE	C9213	Hierarchy Container can now be inactivated in Designer.
CHANGE	C9273	GPU & Rendering details now have its own Performance Statistics option.
CHANGE	C9595	Animation nodes as well as Scene and Project channels do not push changes to all connected node anymore. Now only real value changes are forwarded to dependent nodes. This improves performance of scene with a lot of animation or data channels.
CHANGE	C10039	Shadows of Pointlights now use Percentage Closer Filter like all other light types, giving a much better filtering quality.
CHANGE	C10125	Custom Model Editor has been merged into the Property Editor for a simplified workflow.
CHANGE	C9779	BREAKING CHANGE: Trackmen Camera Tracking : in Ventuz 5 the Center Shift Y was inverted and this had to be compensated by setting the Trackmen configuration to inverted center shift Y. Ventuz 6 has this corrected and you do not need to invert it in the Trackmen configuration settings. Please update your Trackmen configuration accordingly when switching from Ventuz5 to Ventuz6.
CHANGE	C10017	BREAKING CHANGE: Depth of Field and SSAO effects now work with multisampled scenes.
CHANGE	C8808	C4D Live Link: can now disconnect multiple selected nodes.
CHANGE	C8878	C4D Live Link: Fixed broken behavior when copying+pasting tagged objects.
BUG	B7532	Editing PropertyGroups in multi-selection mode did not work but only affected one single node. Fixed!
BUG	B8772	Fixed bug with AntiAliasScale of shadow maps which have been scaled incorrectly for non-fullscreen layers.
BUG	B9144	Fixed problem with 3D Reference Layers when either the original or the referenced layer where not fully on-screen, and screen aligned UV mapping was used (like the background texture node does implicitly).
BUG	B9716	Project Browser did not show online content on very first start of Designer. Fixed!
BUG	B9726	Having a scaling axis in front of a camera node broke lighting and clipping under certain circumstances. Fixed.
BUG	B10022	Fixed problem with Offscreen Layers in Render Once mode where one black frame was generated.
BUG	B8798	BREAKING CHANGE: Nodes bound to SystemID had wrong validation dependencies. Fixed!
BUG	B9036	BREAKING CHANGE: Fixed Lens Flares / Glare highlights not being visible when color correcting a layer with an alpha channel.
BUG	B8039	VR: Bounding boxes and selection highlight are now displayed correctly on both eyes.