What's new in Chaotica HD 1.5.5
Feb 12, 2015
- Updates for Mac App Store
New in Chaotica HD 1.5.1 (Apr 17, 2014)
- Camera key frame animation support
- Real-time image updates render much more smoothly, no more ghosting artifacts
- Opacity can be negative now
- Fixed image scaling showing incorrect scale factor
- Multithreading bug fixes and improvements
New in Chaotica HD 1.1 (Oct 1, 2013)
- New ultra quality rendering mode (always enabled for now, will be toggleable later)
- Initial code (unfinished) for layers support
- Fixed freezing on sandboxed Mac OS when using file save/load dialogs
- Fixed crash when saving large images without alpha on Mac
- Fixed crash when running out of memory for large images
- Fixed crash when trying to save world to dir without permissions
- Fixed various memory leaks, and wasting of memory in batch/animation mode
- Fixed zoom resetting with 0 key not correctly updating zoom state on subsequent zoom
- Disabled mousewheel zooming on Mac OS (buttonless Magic Mouse often accidentally scrolls), added a combo box to select zoom level
- Made backspace key also delete iterators and transforms in the world editor, since Macs register backspace when pressing del key
- Changed world editor shortcut to be Ctrl+E since Ctrl+W closes the application on Mac
- Editor window state (size and location) is now stored persistently
- Added window layout resetting for main window
- Random worlds again tweaked a bit
- Made status text more terse to avoid clipping
- Took out lock image resolution
New in Chaotica HD 1.0.1 (Jun 22, 2013)
- New parameter browser window, used for randomization and built-in example parameters
- Rendering core optimizations
- Improved affine2 editor, uses polar representation
- Improved random selector weights (for greater variety)
- Added online manual and tutorials links to help menu