Release Notes for v0.7.3 and Highlights of v0.8.0-beta-1

Fuller notes to follow on beta-1

After a long wait, I am releasing not 1, but 2 versions today.

v0.7.3 is a true bugfix release and contains at least these fixes:

• AMD Compatibility mode for out of support cards. If you can get a new driver for your card, do not use this mode, but if your last driver is 2016-2017, you will need to turn this on. (In Preferences)

• Fix multiple crashes due to removing sliders while an image is loaded

• Fix crash on resizing beyond your triangle limits

• Time based autosave added (to a separate file that can be recovered on HueForge startup)

• Fix bug when using Split Image - true blacks now properly invert

• In Color Aware using Split Image, the lowest color range properly inverts to display the correct brightness order for the color

• Undo Fixes on removing/adding sliders

• Add Ctrl + +/- for Zoom on the Preview.

• Better support for TD-1 Errors and added new allowed files and options for TD-1

• Fix for Power slider values when the default value of Adjust Amount is not Medium and you change CA Presets

• Added Split Image Color Pop demo Projects

• Remove invalid OpenGL calls

• Allow all Filament Sets to be loaded regardless of number of sliders and adjust slider count when more are needed

• Fix multiple issues around changing layer height, mesh height and others causing bad slider height values.

• Fix issue when replacing an image file with an SVG and saving, not correctly replacing the image file for the project with the SVG file.

• Fix bug when undoing a new filament

• Fix dialogs popping up on another monitor for multi-monitor systems

• Fixed bug on image files with no / in their name

These Known Issues Remain:

• Linux has some graphical issues with Mesa v24.x. Hopefully this will be sorted out in the Mesa library.

• Turning borders on and off can lead to display errors in the mm height of sliders originally in the border region

Color Match Beta - v0.8.0-beta Highlights

• Add Color Match Luminance Method

  • Buttons that are not currently active in Color Match are disabled

  • Combo Slider on the far right controls a weighting of where you want the mesh to pick. 0.5 is neutral, higher is a weight toward higher mesh core locations, less than weights towards lower ones.

  • Multiple options - for lower power GPUs, Dot Product should be the fastest.

• Added Preference for loading images by their implied size (by resolution and DPI)

• Added Preference to load to your original Default size so that images don’t get suddenly small or very large.

• Add Active Color Cores with draggable slider flags

• Added separate Mesh Core for Color Match

• Added deferred rendering for Color Match calculation

• Added ability to apply Brightness Compensation and Bright Adjust to the image, not the mesh to support Color Match but it can also be used in regular mode.

  • These edits by default are NOT the same as Brightness Compensation but are more easily controlled.

• Edit Image can also use Alternate Edit which more closely matched the original Mesh Compensations.

• You can invert any of the Color Aware regions by right clicking on the region indicator on the Color Core.

• You can zoom in on the source image.

• Slider buttons moved to the bottom for space.

• Added Clear Slider History button to clear the memory of other Brightness Compensation or Luminance modes so the sliders don’t adjust when checking between them.

• Added Autosave (version specific so it won’t overwrite v0.7.3 autosaves)

• Added Step Brightness Compensation which acts like a pseudo Luminance Posterize/Quantize

Known Issues:

• Same Linux Mesa 24 issue

• Abort on exit in Linux

• Color Match does not always work exactly the way you expect and can be confusing/frustrating, especially at first.

• Work-along tutorial videos are coming, hopefully by Friday August 9th.