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Initial release.

This update to KinemeCore provides numerous enhancements and bug fixes. This update is recommended for all users of KinemeCore 0.2 to fix a potentially critical bug that could prevent QC from launching.

• We've fixed the error in KinemeCore 0.2
• SafetyNet -- intercepts Quartz Composer crashes, and attempts to save your open compositions to the desktop.
• CrashReporter -- automatically finds QC-related crashes, and allows you to submit them (with notes) when you start up QC.
• Sleep prevention -- menu item to prevent system sleep (useful if you're using QC editor as a visualizer)
• Fixed infinite recursion crash with some display setups
• Fixed full screen editor "don't display again" check box
• Fixed editor windows sometimes getting resized to 0x0 when toggling full screen editor

KinemeCore 0.2 had a bug with modified scroll bars. Either through error or accident, a portion of one of the functions that performed this was erased, without triggering any errors while compiling. This was discovered (with the help of a few submitted crash reports, rather coincidentally) and subsequently corrected in this version. Deepest apologies to those affected.

This update to KinemeCore provides numerous enhancements and bug fixes.

Note: We've been notified of some big problems with this release and have temporarily removed it. Updated version coming soon.

• SafetyNet -- intercepts Quartz Composer crashes, and attempts to save your open compositions to the desktop.
• CrashReporter -- automatically finds QC-related crashes, and allows you to submit them (with notes) when you start up QC.
• Sleep prevention -- menu item to prevent system sleep (useful if you're using QC editor as a visualizer)
• Fixed infinite recursion crash with some display setups
• Fixed full screen editor "don't display again" check box
• Fixed editor windows sometimes getting resized to 0x0 when toggling full screen editor

• New Colliders:
  • Added "Collider: Kineme3D Object" patch — collides against the surface of a Kineme3D mesh
  • Added "Collider: Quad" patch — collides against a single quad; easier to use than the "Collider: Triangle Structure" patch
• New Renderers:
  • Added "Render: Structure" patch — outputs a structure suitable for GLTools
  • Added "Render: Kineme3D Objects" patch — renders a Kineme3D Object at every particle
  • Added "Render: Textured" patch — simple renderer which adds support for a single texture
  • Added "Render: VBO" patch — renders points, lines, triangles, or quads
• New Objects:
  • Added "Object: Boid" patch — implements the Craig W. Reynolds boid algorithm
  • Added "Object: Gravitate" patch — implements particle-to-particle inverse-square gravitation
• Added "Backface Culling" option for all colliders
• Some performance optimizations
• Fixed compatibility with PerformanceInspector
• Fixed "Motion: Shear" setting when using "Render: Standard"
• Fixed ports to allow publishing and use with "Input Splitter" and "(De)Multiplexer" as a Virtual Port
• Fixed crash related to updating Settings panels while the composition is stopped
• Fixed crash related to removing a live object from the Scene or an Emitter
• Fixed crash related to removing a live object from an Emitter of Emitters
• Fixed rendering of collision meshes when using "Render: Standard"
• Improved force rendering — more forces now honor the Color property
• Renamed most patches to be more intuitive and to take up less space in the composition editor

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