10.5

Safe Audio Input is a duplicate patch of Audio Input, designed to work in otherwise "safe-mode sandboxed" applications. [Please read the warning before using this plugin!]

There are some applications that don't load "unsafe" patches from compositions. Keynote and QuickTime are two notable ones. This plugin is functionally identical to the Built-in Audio Input patch, but it poses as a Safe patch to get loaded along with the others.

Warning: Circumventing the "Safe Mode" restriction introduces some privacy issues — for example, malicious compositions can attempt to record audio from your PC and transmit them to remote listeners. The audio quality from such an exploit is probably very poor, but the risk exists none the less. As such, you should only use/install this plugin when you need this functionality.

This GL Tools beta adds support for line stippling (no line texturing yet), and adds a new patch, Read Pixels.

Read Pixels reads the QC Viewer's output when it's evaluated, and outputs what the viewer would display. This means it won't read from higher layers if it's attached to a low-layer consumer.

Currently it's pretty limited: It reads the whole frame, and only the Color data. In upcoming betas I'll include inputs to control where it reads from (x, y, width, height), and I'll probably add Depth-Buffer reading too.

This is a public beta of our updated WiiMote control patch. Since there isn't one for Leopard yet, I figure this will at least help you get started before it gets to production. This patch adds support for the nunchuk, and partial support for the Classic Controller. It also adds raw IR output support. All of these options are available under the inspector panel. Some of the classic controller buttons don't work or report bogus values. This is due to the underlying framework in use; I'm looking into this.

It's not stable, but I've made considerable efforts to make it stable. Please supply me with crash reports, as well as any other noticed odd behaviour.

Normally I'm not a fan of public betas, but we'll see how this one goes :)

Beta testers: This is identical to the 20080105 version, so you don't need to upgrade.

This version of GL Tools contains several enhancements over version 0.3. There are both Leopard and Tiger Versions available.

• GL Logic Op Patch
• Faster GL Spline
• A Field of View patch (not the built-in one)
• Depth Buffer Alpha Threshold
• GL Points can now be attenuated by distance

GL Logic Op allows you to control which logic operation is used when drawing pixels to the frame buffer.

Depth Buffer Alpha Threshold allows you to disable writes to the depth buffer for transparent pixels. This helps when you have depth checking enabled and images with transparency.

GL Point attenuation doesn't work on Intel GMA950 Video cards (found in MacBooks and MacMinis). This is a driver bug; please file a bug report with Apple, not us :)

There was one report of invalid patch names for the Tiger build, but we've been unable to reproduce this after testing on several machines. If you experience this, please let us know; we're interested in solving this.

Thanks to all the beta testers for their testing, feedback, suggestions, and patience while 0.4 was in development. :) Between the last beta and this production release, the only change was some interface text (consistent category names across tiger and leopard now), as well as a small fix to the Field of View patch to multiply against the previous matrix instead of simply overwriting it. This will hopefully ease some FOV + Matrix patch combination issues.

Some minor changes to the GLTools beta, with a Tiger version too.

This version adds control over spline control point size and color, as well as a few cleanups and performance tweaks in preparation for the Production release this Wednesday.

The Grid Generator and renderer probably will not be in the production release, unless you think they should be included. Let me know what you think.