Production

Initial public release.

Initial public release.

This is the first public release of the Kineme Axis Camera Patch.

This patch provides a video stream from an Axis network camera. A few different models have been successfully tested with this patch.

This patch was championed by Marco Tempest, and some test equipment was furnished by Erie Plating Company.

Hardware Compatibility

See the VideoTools Compatibility Chart

This update to GLTools adds a couple new patches, and adds support for proper alpha blending (as found in GLTools v0.4).

The new patches:

• Kineme GL Polygon Offset -- useful for creating wireframe overlays (example composition included)
• Kineme GL Torus -- a new primitive that renders a torus.

Updates:

• The Triangle and Quad Structure patches now have position and rotation inputs, allowing for easier positioning.

A word about blending:

In Quartz Composer, blending is typically controlled by an input port called "Blending", which traditionally has the following values: Replace (no blending), Over (pre-multiplied overlay), and Add (Source + Destination). In GLTools 1.0, we transitioned from using our own manual blending to using QC's built-in ones. This meant less code, and more consistent behaviour with other QC patches. Unfortunately, as many have noted, the Over blend mode simply wasn't useful with line and point antialiasing, because it expects pre-multiplied colors, which OpenGL doesn't naturally provide when performing antialiasing. This lead to the ugly halos around objects, and improper transparency, especially around splines. (Secret: The built-in line patch doesn't have a Blending input for exactly this reason -- it manually controls blending itself to work around QC's limited implementation, just like we did on a much larger scale in GLTools 0.4)

This put us in a difficult position -- on the one hand, relying on QC's built-in functionality means less code for us, more reliability, and seamless feature compatabilty. On the other hand, having beautiful output is important, and having happy users is even more important.

Thus, we worked some more kineme magic, and Modified QC's Blending Port to add proper Alpha-blending support to anything with a Blending Port. Along with the standard Replace, Over, and Add inputs, you'll now see a fourth option, called "Alpha". This sets the blend mode to a proper unpremultiplied alpha blend, as found in GLTools v0.4. To enable pretty blending for your compositions, you simply have to locate your renderers, and change their blend input to "Alpha".

This release of GL Tools includes several new patches and refinements of existing patches.

Current patches include:

• Kineme GL Blend Equation
• Kineme GL Clear Depth
• Kineme GL Color Mask
• Kineme GL Context Info
• Kineme GL Depth Buffer Alpha Threshold
• Kineme GL Field of View
• Kineme GL Line
• Kineme GL Line Structure
• Kineme GL Load Matrix
• Kineme GL Logic Op
• Kineme GL Matrix Mult
• Kineme GL Ortho
• Kineme GL Point
• Kineme GL Point Structure
• Kineme GL Polygon Mode
• Kineme GL Quad
• Kineme GL Quad Structure
• Kineme GL Scale
• Kineme GL Shade Model
• Kineme GL Spline
• Kineme GL Triangle
• Kineme GL Triangle Structure
• Kineme GL Viewport
• Kineme Super GLSL Grid

(New patches since GL Tools 0.4 are flagged above.)

This release improves performance and stability when using motion blur. It also allows more freedom in selecting the motion blur amount.

A fix for Motion Blur for the OS X 10.5.5 update is also included now.

Additionally, Sparkle was added to make staying up to date easier.

This is the first public release of File Tools, a patch set for loading and saving data to files.

[ More info on this patch set ]

This version includes the Checkerboard Bug fix, numerous memory leak fixes, some performance improvements, some code reduction improvements, and some usability bug fixes for the structure input/output patches over the latest beta.

This plugin supersedes the File Type and Text File Writer Plugins; please remove those plugins when installing this one.

This update of our "Directory Scanner (Blocking)" patch adds several new file types (Audio, Folders, and All Files).

It also contains some internal code cleanup, some minor bug fixes and memory leaks, and some performance enhancements.

This patch was initially commissioned by CoreMelt

This release adds some new features, and some performance improvements over 1.0.

Additional Features:

• Temporal Supersampling
• Image Sequence support
• Localizations for French, German, Italian, and Japanese

This is an update of our Apple Remote patch for Leopard.

This patch indicates when the user holds a button, unlike the built-in Apple Remote patch.

Like the Tiger version, it's based on the Martin Kahr's Remote Control Wrapper.

Development for the Leopard version of the Apple Remote Patch was commissioned by dimitre.