ArtMatic Designer Changelog

What's new in ArtMatic Designer 6.0

• New features:
• Compiled Tree nesting!!! Compiled trees can now be nested without limitation, and they can be created on the fly from selected tiles. This feature unleashes vast new potential which includes looping of looped structures.

• Live ArtMatic Voyager previews when working in ArtMatic on an element used by Voyager without needing to save the ArtMatic file!!!!
• Up to 16 simultaneous tasks for improved rendering performance on multi-core machines.
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One-pixel resolution animation preview option for non-pixellated real-time previewing. Copy/Paste new features. Copy/paste of tiles and tile parameters and compiled trees is now possible.
• A fourth parameter slider has been added and many components have an additional controllable parameter.
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New Bump Gain setting for Geographic and RGB Bump. An icon for adjusting the bump gain appears when these modes are active.
• Parameter control popup when control-clicking parameter sliders.
New parameter grid options.
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Improved Keyframe Parameter editor.
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Indexed Gradient. A gradient editor appears below the parameter sliders when relevant to the component (such as when indexed gradient is a parameter option).
• Indexed Gradient. Gradient palette saved with files that use Indexed Gradient. Frequency option added to many components
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New tiling options and components. Inspired by a trip to the Middle East, Eric has implemented some staggering new possibilities for tiling geometries and architecture: both 2D and 3D. These new possibilities make ArtMatic one of the most complete tools for creating decorative tessellation. Both regular and irregular tilings are possible.
• New primitives for architecture modeling. The new primitives and options allow for thousands of new basic 3D object profiles.
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Many new components and component algorithms. The possibilities are staggering: especially for DFRM object design.
• Generic color space now used to improve matching of screen and rendered colors. Add Skin Option for user interface. Plain Gray option should be used if you encounter random crashes in CoreGraphics.

• Automatic left/right centering of the structure tree.
• Name of selected tile displayed in Tool Tips when clicking on tree tiles.
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Add multi-format audio save that supports 16, 24 and 32-bit audio in a variety of audio formats: Sound Designer, AIFF, WAVE, Core Audio File.

• New input movie/pict mode, Rate:Still which turns off ArtMatic’s interpretation of photo sequences as movie sequences.
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Current palette library is now saved in the ArtMatic application package’s /Contents/ Resources/Palettes file.
• Fixes and smaller user interface changes:
• New primitives for architecture modeling. The new primitives and options allow for thousands of new basic 3D object profiles.

• Many new components and component algorithms. The possibilities are staggering: especially for DFRM object design.
• Generic color space now used to improve matching of screen and rendered colors. Add Skin Option for user interface. Plain Gray option should be used if you encounter random crashes in CoreGraphics.

• Automatic left/right centering of the structure tree.
• Name of selected tile displayed in Tool Tips when clicking on tree tiles.
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Add multi-format audio save that supports 16, 24 and 32-bit audio in a variety of audio formats: Sound Designer, AIFF, WAVE, Core Audio File.
New input movie/pict mode, Rate:Still which turns off ArtMatic’s interpretation of photo sequences as movie sequences.
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Current palette library is now saved in the ArtMatic application package’s /Contents/ Resources/Palettes file.
• Icon in interface to turn on/off hot-linked communication with ArtMatic Voyager. Improved the randomizing of components that have subfunctions (algorithm choices) Keyframe parameter envelope dialog improvements: dialog scalable, improved readability, vertical zoom for parameter curves.
New ‘pi’ divisions for the parameter grids.
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Angles in Degrees is now the default parameter option when it is available.
• Control-click on parameter slider or label to reset has been replaced by control-click on the able to pop up a menu of useful shortcuts: Reset to default, Send current value to all KF (keyframes), Ramp full range, Ramp from first to end, Reverse time, Smooth. Added support of extension .MOV (as opposed to .mov) for input movies.
• ArtMatic shouldn’t crash when an input movie used in sound mode
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Angles in degrees is now the default option for parameters where it is an option

• When randomizing the tree, tiles with subfunctions (such as algorithm options) will be randomized better than before. The algorithm id may be randomized also.

• Frequency options made more consistent across components

• Many components fine-tuned

• When rendering QuickTime movies, ensure that rendering is consistent with whether or not the ArtMatic tree uses an alpha channel.
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The RGB Bump color shader now uses blue shades where the alpha channel has negative values. This change is useful for DFRM object design as it helps when visualizing the surface boundary, and it looks cool. Note that when alpha is being used as transparency values = 0.
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Icon to control ‘bump level’ for geographic and RGB Bump shading modes.
Packed values can be reliably sent out of compiled tree outputs.

• Added Escape key when editing compiled trees to escape back to the top-level tree. This is very useful when editing a nested compiled tree.

• Fixed problems when looping input movies and with rounding errors when frame rates were different in the input and output movies. When ArtMatic time is used, input frames are mapped to the output frame time one-by-one.

• Super-fine mode added for making adjustments to the parameter sliders. Hold down command-option to have super fine control (1/2000th). Option-dragging continues to offer fine control (1/20th).