-Make stagger a double instead of a bool.
-Save stagger values to settings.
-Random stagger was being set in the wrong place.
-Save rotation values as double rather than int.
-Add animation sequence creation to Fractorium.
-Add two new options to EmberGenome which are used when generating an animation sequence.:
--startcount: Add this number to the filename of each flame.
--padding: Override the automatically calculated amount of padding zeroes added to each filename.
--Bug fixes
-Prevent filenames in command line programs from using scientific notation when rendering a large number of frames.
-Fix tab orders to match newer GUI items which were overlooked in previous releases.
-Re-render previews if transparency value in the options dialog was changed. Re-rendering was previously only done if early clip or y axis up was changed.
-Use transparency when rendering thumbnail previews.
--Code changes
-Wrap EmberCommon.h in a namespace called EmberCommon.
-Move FormatName() from EmberGenome to EmberCommon.h/cpp
-Add a prefix parameter to EmberFile::DefaultFilename() to allow for creating a default filename for sequences.
-When showing the final render dialog, allow specifying where it came from: the toolbar or the render sequence button.
-Refactor all preview rendering code out into its own class hierarchy with overrides for the main window and the final render dialog.
-Remove all preview render cancelling functions, they are now built into the new class hierarchy and a new render will not start until the previous one is stopped.
-Add two new function ConstrainLow() and ConstrainHigh() which wrap constraining two min/max spinboxes to each others' values.
-Add a bool to FractoriumEmberControllerBase::CopyEmberFile() to specify whether to copy the main file or the sequence file. This is somewhat of a hack and was done in a rush.
-Add a bool to FractoriumEmberControllerBase::SetEmberFile() to specify whether to move the file rather than copy. This is used in FinalRenderEmberController and improves efficiency.
-Add wrapper functions for variations filter dialog settings.
-Add a new option --statevars to EmberGenome to list the variations which change state.
-Allow for filtering in the Variations Dialog based on the same types listed in the EmberGenome options.
--Code changes
-More correctly populate VariationList::m_ParametricVariations and VariationList::m_NonParametricVariations to account for variations which have params only used for precalc.
-Consolidate some of the code in VariationList which searches by name.
-Add new options to EmberGenome to better help assess which variations have certain characteristics. The options are:
--sumvars: Display the names of all regular variations which have the default behavior of summing their outputs and exit.
--assignvars: Display the names of all regular variations which have the non-standard behavior of assigning their outputs and exit.
--ppsumvars: Display the names of all pre/post variations which have the non-standard behavior of summing their outputs and exit.
--ppassignvars: Display the names of all pre/post variations which have the default behavior of assigning their outputs and exit.
--dcvars: Display the names of all variations which use direct coloring and exit.
--parvars: Display the names of all variations which have parameters and exit.
--nonparvars: Display the names of all variations which do not have parameters (weight only) and exit.
--Code changes
-Make VariationList vectors have const elements since no callers should ever change them.
-Add new function to VariationList to retrieve a const ref to the parametric variations.
-Move some search functions out of EmberTester and into EmberCommon.h.
-General code cleanup.
-Remove --time option for EmberAnimate, it was redundant with --frame.
-Make --enable_jpg_comments and --enable_png_comments just be bools that when present mean true, rather than having to specify =true.
-Add a new argument --ts for EmberAnimate to allow the user to specify the temporal samples value to use for the entire animation. Useful for testing.
--Bug fixes
-Properly seed rands in EmberAnimate when specifying --isaac_seed and using more than one device with --opencl.
--Code changes
--Small cleanup to flatten/unflatten all code.
--Make EmberOptionEntry<T>::operator() return a const reference instead of a copy.
-Highlight power is now on by default.
-Allow for adjustments on the Flame tab to apply to all open flames in the file.
-Add two new buttons to the color tab to randomize and toggle the xform color indices.
-Remove the --strip option from EmberGenome. It was useless and was likely just a carry over from flam3 during its early debugging stages when testing strips.
-Make randoms in EmberGenome have default dimensions of 1920 x 1080.
-Prevent --inter and --rotate in EmberGenome from rotating backward before the first flame since it doesn't really make sense.
-Ensure every loaded flame has at least one xform in it.
-Change dark.qss to hide dotted selection outline around checkboxes. Users must reload it to take effect.
--Bug fixes
-The saving of last.flame during editing was appending the file when it should have been replacing.
-It was impossible for EmberGenome to create a random flame. It can now be done by specifying no arguments: EmberGenome.exe
-Crossing in EmberGenome was not logging the performed actions to the edit Xml tag.
-Apply sub batch size and fuse count to template files used on the command line.
-Use new default filter types with template files.
--Code changes
-Use cerr in SheepTools instead of cout.
-Set m_SubBatchSize and m_FuseCount to default values in Ember::Clear().
-Clean up some command line options text formatting.
-Always force times of each flame to increase from zero when saving a file.
-Remove check for times when doing a sequence in EmberGenome because the original times are never used there.
--Bug fixes
-Multi-GPU synchronization was not actually thread safe and was likely doing less iters than requested. It is now properly synchronized.
--Code changes
-Optimize Interpolater by making it a non-static class by adding some members used for caching values during interpolation.
-Cache values in SheepTools as well, which was already a non-static class.
-General cleanup.
--Bug fixes:
-Fix crash when using smooth interpolation in EmberGenome.
-Print error and exit EmberGenome when sequencing if times are not
sorted.
--Code changes:
-Another attempt at Singleton. This reverts the design to what it was
before with a fix to the code that was causing it not to behave like a
singleton should.
-crackle is now 5-10 times faster as a result of using cached values as is done on the CPU. These were previously omitted due to a bug elsewhere in the code that was erroneously attributed to the crackle caching mechanism.
-Report precision in command line programs.
-Edits will not save back to the file in memory on render completion when preview renderer is running.
--Bug fixes
-dc_perlin was crashing on Nvidia when using SP.
-Duplicate images were randomly getting added to the file in memory.
-Crash when opening an Xml with less than 2 flames in it.
--Code changes
-Use raw array of floats in OpenCL for perlin noise, rather than float3/double3.
-Add some default cases to dc_perlin.
-Redo singleton pattern yet again. Deriving from a templated Singleton<T> class was creating a separate instance per module. Now only one instance of each type will ever be created and it will be wrapped in a shared_ptr which guarantees its deletion as main() exits.
-The concept of "saving back to file in memory" has been removed. The current ember is saved back to memory whenever the render completes and the thumbnail will be updated each time.
-Command line programs now default to using double precision.
-The --bits argument has been removed and replaced with --sp to specify single precision. If omitted, DP is used.
-Remove the --seed option, it was never used.
-Remove the --sub_batch_size option, it has been part of the Xml for a long time.
-Remove --hex_palette argument for EmberRender, it only makes sense in EmberAnimate and EmberGenome.
-Set enable_jpg_comments and enable_png_comments to false by default. It was a very bad idea to have them be true because it reveals the flame parameters used to render the image which many artists guard closely.
--Bug fixes
-Continuous update was broken.
-Undo list was broken with new Library tab design.
-Force repaint on xform checkbox change to ensure circles are immediately drawn around selected xforms.
--Code changes
-Remove save to back to file in memory icon, document-hf-insert.png.
-Remove the option --intpalette to format the palette in the xml as ints. If they are not hex formatted, then they should always be float. This option was pointless.
-Cleanup some options text for the command line programs.
-Allow for dragging around flames in the library tab. This is useful for setting up the order of an animation.
-Make the opening of large files in Fractorium much more efficient when not-appending.
-Make the opening of large files in all EmberRender and EmberAnimate more efficient.
-Better error reporting when opening files.
--Bug fixes
-Get rid of leftover artifacts that would appear on preview thumbnails when either switching SP/DP or re-rendering previews.
-Filename extension was not being appended on Linux when saving as Xml, thus making it impossible to drag that file back in becase drop is filtered on extension.
--Code changes
-Move GCC compiler spec to C++14. Building with 5.3 now on linux.
-Use inline member data initializers.
-Make a #define for static for use in Utils.h to make things a little cleaner.
-Make various functions able to take arbitrary collections as their parameters rather than just vectors.
-Make library collection a list rather than vector. This alleviates the need to re-sync pointers whenever the collection changes.
-Subclass QTreeWidget for the library tree. Two new files added for this.
-Remove all usage of #ifdef ROW_ONLY_DE in DEOpenCLKernelCreator, it was never used.
-Add move constructor and assignment operator to EmberFile.
-Add the ability to use a pointer to outside memory in the renderer for the vector of Ember<T>.
-Make a lot more functions const where they should be.
-Better handling of crossed min/max DE filter values on the GUI.
-Changes to spatial and density filter values will no longer restart the entire render.
-Support reading cam_zoom from xml as zoom since JWildfire uses cam_zoom.
-Change drag n drop behavior: the default is now to append, hold Ctrl to overwrite.
-Set max value of zoom to 25 because it will crash with values around 28 or 29 due to numeric overflow when scaling quality.
-Update links in About Dialog.
-Rename some controls in Options Dialog.
-Move the color curves control to the Palette tab.
--Bug fixes
-Remove extra space in info tree text when dealing with a linked xform.
-Update summary xform name field whenever xform name changes.
-Get rid of selection border on summary tab xform tree cells.
-Only add variations from Xml that have a non-zero weight. There seemed to be spurious flattens coming from Apo with a weight of 0.
--Code changes
-Gutters are now a fixed size of 8 * supersample.
-Use stl data() member to get pointer to first element instead of &vec[0].
-Eliminate extra calls in renderer to ComputeBounds(), CreateSpatialFilter() and CreateTemporalFilter() to only be done at the start of a render.
-Another attempt at vectorizing LogScaleDensityFilter(). Vectorizes, but not sure if it helps.
-Some other loop optimizations in Renderer.
-No longer check temporal samples in response to some control changes, they are always 1 in the interactive renderer.
-Remove some warnings about interpolation type on first and last flames.
--Code changes
-Make DE block size always be 16x16, this should help stability on some Nvidia cards. No changes for AMD cards since they were that size already.
-Since the block size is now so small, do not reduce it further when supersampling.
-Clean up some variable names and documentation around OpenCL DE to be more clear.
-Make the default interpolation type be smooth.
-Correctly label interpolation types in the combo in the animation table on the Flame tab.
--Set the default combo index to be smooth.
