-Add a progress bar for sequence previews.
--Bug fixes
-Attempt to prevent crash when dragging in a new file while the previews from the current file are still rendering.
-Remove the Type field from the variations tree and instead just put the type indicator icon next to the variation name.
-Double clicking to toggle variation parameter spinners now resets the value to the default if there is one, else it uses zero. If it is already using the default, it is toggled to 0.
-Add a new button to toggle xaos on and off.
-When duplicating a flame, insert it immediately after the one being duplicated instead of at the end of the file.
-When switching between flames in a file, keep the same xform index selected rather than resetting it to the first xform each time.
-Create a threaded writer for the final render and EmberAnimate so the rendering process does not get delayed by file saving which may take a long time.
-Remove warning which said "Frames per rot cannot be greater than one while Rotations is zero" when generating a sequence.
-Add the Circle_Rand variation from Chaotica.
-Add tool tips to clarify the following items:
--Auto Unique Filenames checkbox in the options dialog.
--Xaos table headers.
--Bug fixes
-Generating sequences using the following variations would be done incorrectly: circletrans1, collideoscope, crob, curlsp, glynnsim1, glynnsim2, hypercrop, julian, julian, mobiusn, nblur, waves2, wavesn.
-Adding/removing nodes from the color curve had accidentally been disabled.
-The applied xaos weight table was not showing normalized weight values.
-Changing the size of a flame was not observing the Apply To All checkbox.
-Do not clamp the Rotate field to +/-180, because this causes the rotation to switch from CW to CCW during sequence generation. Instead, leave it exactly as the user entered it so the rotations proceed in the same direction.
-Add new preset dimensions to the right click menu of the width and height fields in the editor.
-Change QSS stylesheets to properly handle tabs.
-Make tabs rectangular by default. For some reason, they had always been triangular.
--Bug fixes
-Incremental rendering times in the editor were wrong.
--Code changes
-Migrate to Qt6. There is probably more work to be done here.
-Migrate to VS2022.
-Migrate to Wix 4 installer.
-Change installer to install to program files for all users.
-Fix many VS2022 code analysis warnings.
-No longer use byte typedef, because std::byte is now a type. Revert all back to unsigned char.
-Upgrade OpenCL headers to version 3.0 and keep locally now rather than trying to look for system files.
-No longer link to Nvidia or AMD specific OpenCL libraries. Use the generic installer located at OCL_ROOT too.
-Add the ability to change OpenCL grid dimensions. This was attempted for investigating possible performance improvments, but made no difference.
This has not been verified on Linux or Mac yet.
--User changes
-Allow users to set the Exp value when using the Exp temporal filter type.
-Set the default temporal filter type to be Box, which does not alter the palette values at all during animation. This is done to avoid confusion when using Gaussian or Exp which can produce darkened images.
--Bug fixes
-Sending a sequence to the final render dialog when the keyframes had non zero rotate and center Y values would produce off center animations when rendered.
-Temporal filters were being unnecessarily recreated many times when rendering or generating sequences.
-Exp filter was always treated like a Box filter.
--Code changes
-Add a new member function SaveCurrentAsXml(QString filename = "") to the controllers which is only used for testing.
-Modernize some C++ code.
-Allow for specifying linear or smooth interpolation when generating a sequence in the Library tab (was formerly hardcoded to smooth). This has the effect of exposing the --unsmoother option used in EmberGenome in the GUI.
-Clarify tool tips of the sequence interpolation fields in the animation group on the Flame tab.
-Change caption of the Bounds tab to be Bounds & Log.
--Bug fixes
-File saving was broken.
--Code changes
-File saving and opening dialogs were shared between a single object which was causing trouble. Make them all use their own objects.
-Add a button to swap the pre and post affine values for all selected xforms.
--Bug fixes
-Remove the ability to change spinner values with +=-=, it was conflicting with other things and added no real value.
-All file dialog opening in Linux would freeze. No longer using native file dialogs, they are broken.
-Set default open path to the desktop if there is no settings file present, which will be the case on the first run.
-Amphibole_Supergroup.ugr palette had an invalid character in two of the palette names.
--Code changes
-Change some table header padding styles to work with new Qt. Qss reload is required.
-Ensure the open folder path setting always has a valid string in it before opening a folder.
-Add two new variations, hyperbolic and hypershift2.
-Allow for animating final xforms.
-More detailed diagnostics when any action in the OpenCL renderer fails.
-Allow for creating an OpenCL renderer which does not share a texture with the main window, and instead manually copies its final output image from GPU to CPU then back to GPU.
--Bug fixes
-Text was not properly being copied out of the Info | Bounds text box.
--Code changes
-Remove Renderer::AccumulatorToFinalImage(v4F* pixels, size_t finalOffset), it's no longer needed or makes sense.
-Controllers no longer keep track of shared status, it's kept inside the renderers.
-Make getter functions in FractoriumOptionsDialog be public.
-Support 4k monitors, and in general, properly scale any monitor that is not HD.
-Allow for a spatial filter of radius zero, which means do not use a spatial filter.
-Add new variations: concentric, cpow3, helicoid, helix, rand_cubes, sphereblur.
-Use a new method for computing elliptic which is more precise. Developed by Discord user Claude.
-Remove the 8 variation per xform limitation on the GPU.
-Allow for loading the last flame file on startup, rather than randoms.
-Use two different default quality values in the interactive renderer, one each for CPU and GPU.
-Creating linked xforms was using non-standard behavior. Make it match Apo and also support creating multiple linked xforms at once.
--Bug fixes
-No variations in an xform used to have the same behavior as a single linear variation with weight 1. While sensible, this breaks backward compatibility. No variations now sets the output point to zeroes.
-Prevent crashing the program when adjusting a value on the main window while a final render is in progress.
-The xaos table was inverted.
--Code changes
-Convert projects to Visual Studio 2017.
-Change bad vals from +- 1e10 to +-1e20.
-Reintroduce the symmetry tag in xforms for legacy support in programs that do not use color_speed.
-Compiler will not let us use default values in templated member functions anymore.
--Bug fixes
-Strips renders crashed.
-Better handling of large memory allocations by forcing a free of previous allocations.
-Final render dialog did not properly save last used extension setting.
-Density filtering progress bar in final render dialog did not update if only log scaling was being used.
--User changes
-Add many tooltips to help clarify functionality.
-Select multiple flames in library for del/move. Still only one allowed to be set as the current.
-Show checkbox for current flame. Remember this is not necessarily what's selected.
-User can now drag a square to select xforms, which keeps in sync with checkboxes.
-Remove --nframes from command line. Replace with new params: --loopframes, --interpframes, --interploops.
-Add two new options to EmberGenome: --cwloops --cwinterploops to specify whether rotation should go clockwise instead of the default counter clockwise.
-Add these to Fractorium as checkboxes.
-Apply All now also works for toggling animate flag on xforms.
-Options dialog now allows user to set whether double click toggles spinners, or right click does.
--Bug fixes
-Selecting final and non-final xforms, and then dragging the non-final did not drag the final with it.
-Selecting all xforms when a final was present, then deleting crashed the program.
-Remove support for ppm files in the command line programs, it's an outdated format.
-Switching between SP and DP kept reapplying the palette adjustments.
--Code changes
-Move build system to Visual Studio 2015 and Qt 5.6.
-SSE used during addition of points to the histogram.
-Remove last remnants of old flam3 C code and replace with C++.
-Remove unused code involving tbb::task_group.
-Make settings object a global shared_ptr singleton, so it doesn't have to be passed around.
--User changes
Thread image writing in EmberAnimate and when doing animation sequence in final render dialog.
Add total time output for verbose mode in EmberAnimate to match EmberRender.
--Bug Fixes
Fix incorrect parsing of legacy "symmetry" xform Xml element.
Fix incorrect iters ran/requested percentage in EmberAnimate to match EmberRender.
Fix motion blur being disabled when doing animations in final render dialog.
Allow for boolean command line options which default to true to be set to false.
--Code Changes
Add resource files for Ember and EmberCL.
Capture work since the last release in VersionHistory.txt.
Add Curves.h, and CurvesGraphicsView.h/cpp to support bezier color curves.
Add Curves member to Ember.
Add curves capability to EmberCL.
Remove some unused variables in the kernel created in RendererCL::CreateFinalAccumKernelString().
Use glm namespace for vec classes if GLM_VERSION >= 96, else use glm::detail.
As a result of using glm namespace, all instances of min and max had to be qualified with std::
Split ComputeCamera into that and ComputeQuality().
Reduce the amount of ComputeCamera() and MakeDmap() calls on each incremental iter that doesn't use temporal samples.
Fix clamping bug with DE filter widths.
Provide functions to return the kernels from RendererCL to assist with diagnostics and debugging.
Prevent extra newline in EmberRender when only rendering a single image.
Add the ability to delete an ember at a given index in EmberFile.
Allow deleting/focusing ember in library tab with delete and enter keys.
Reorder some code in Fractorium.h to match the tabs order.
Add and call ClearFinalImages() to clear buffers in controller to fix bug where previous CPU render would be shown for a split second when switching from OpenCL back to CPU.
Refactor ember library pointer syncing to a function SyncPointers().
Add the ability to save ember Xmls to an unique automatically generated name after the first time the user has specified a name.
--User changes
Thread image writing in EmberAnimate and when doing animation sequence in final render dialog.
Add total time output for verbose mode in EmberAnimate to match EmberRender.
--Bug Fixes
Fix incorrect iters ran/requested percentage in EmberAnimate to match EmberRender.
Fix motion blur being disabled when doing animations in final render dialog.
Allow for boolean command line options which default to true to be set to false.
--Code Changes
Minor changes to enable a Mac build.
Double the memory required for the final output buffer in RendererBase::MemoryRequired() when threading image writing.
Reuse same buffer for RgbaToRgb() in EmberRender and EmberAnimate.
Only resize in RgbaToRgb() if the two vectors are not the same.
Add a final output buffer ping-ponging mechanism to facilitate threaded writes in controllers.
