1.17.1 Pre-stable

What’s pre-stable?

Pre-stable is a release that will come to a stable branch after some testing in the beta first. Normally stable patches will only contain bug fixes and no new features, but I found some critical bugs after already implementing some features. So I don’t want to wait for the next stable to patch them.

• Color, Palette, and canvas nodes now use global color.

Interface

• Loading the already opened project will close the current project and refresh the file.

• New file explorer panel

• New Histogram panel

• Add version number in the crash report.

• [Color Panel] Improve UI visibility.

• [Color Panel] Add an option to disable the alpha, palette.

• [Color Panel] Add hexadecimal value display.

• [Preview Panel] Increase maximum zoom to x1024.

• [Graph Panel] Dragging a junction from a node inside an inline group will create a new node inside the same group.

• [Graph Panel] You can now connect junctions of the same IO type (output to output, input to input) to transfer the connection from one junction to another.

• [Graph Panel] Ungrouping the node now centers the ungrouped nodes around the original group.

• [Inspector Panel] Add the ability to copy color hex code directly.

• [Inspector Panel] Improve palette and gradient widget.

• [Animation] Hold alt while scrubbing the timeline to use a decimal frame.

• [Add node, palette panel] Use Ctrl + Scroll to resize the item.

Node

• New Directory Search node.

• New Array split node.

• New Normalize node.

• New Cross section node.

• New Atlas to struct node.

• Bilinear, Bicubic, and radsin interpolation now apply alpha compensation to reduce dark edges when blending with an empty pixel.

• Add node annotation.

• All seed values now come with a randomize button.

• Collection-based loop is deprecated, inline loop is now the default way to loop values.

• Dynamic input nodes now use dummy junctions for adding new data.

• [Supporter] New Pentagonal tile node.

• [Glow] Add inner mode.

• [Outline] Add angle filter (works best with widths 0 and 1).

• [Lua] Lua error now shows up as a notification.

• [3D] The Rotation tool will now be disabled in the Euler unit.

• [Dither] Add noise mode.

• [Dither] Add auto palette option.

• [Path builder] Now accept path anchor input (it doesn’t before, huh).

• [Posterize] Improve auto palette algorithm.

• [Equation] Now require explicit variable amount set up.

• [JSON IO] Remove the ability to build, and read specific keys.

• [Shape] Add diamond, trapezoid, parallelogram shapes.

• [Particle, VFX] Add animation stretch setting.

• [Curve] Add alpha curve.

Bugs

• Project settings now persisted between sessions.
• Fix reset value not working with palette data.
• Fix undoing ungroup operation causes the deleted node to not reappear.
• [Graph Panel] Fix auto connection connect wrong junctions.
• [Graph Panel] Fix crash when distributing nodes vertically.
• [Inspector Panel] Fix flashing when clicking on the color button.
• [History Panel] Fix panel resize error.
• [Menu Items] Now show Hotkey as a box.
• [Canvas, Palette] Fix color comparison error.
• [Replace Colors] Fix crash, error with color dropper.
• [Image Node] Fix error when uploading a spliced image.
• [3D Camera] Fix the camera object not showing up without input.
• [Struct] Fix keys overlapping each other.
• [Cellular Noise] Fix radial options show up in the wrong pattern.
• [Dither] Fix custom texture gives inaccurate results.
• [Atlas set] Fix error on update.
• [Posterize] Fix output becomes too dark.
• [ASE File In] Fix tag display, and interaction.
• [ASE File In] Fix crashes when auto-updating the file.
• [Render Spritesheet] Fix crashes when previewing atlas data in animation mode.
• [Render Spritesheet] Fix the error in sprite array mode.
• [Composite] Fix error when previewing nested surface array.
• [Lua Compute, surface] Fix variable type does not apply to the junction.
• [Lua nodes] Fix error when redoing node deletion.
• [Smooth Path] Fix error on render.
• [Struct, Switch] Fix junction not removing when undoing.
• [Particle, VFX] Fix rotation revert back when setting to negative degree.

Addon

• Fix some functions crash when returning nil.