Tooll 3.8.1 Update

New Features

• InfinitySlider for value manipulation
• We added our new shader-based particle system. Check the [HowToUseParticles] and other examples to get started.
• We aligned PBR rendering and material settings with Blender.
• Fullscreen can be toggled with F11.
• Focus Mode can be toggled with F12.

https://github.com/tooll3/t3/releases/tag/v3.8.1

Documentation and Help

We understand that documentation and help are essential to getting the most out of Tooll3. That's why we spent significant time on this release improving the situation:

• Comments can be added to operators. We completely reworked all howtos and added hundreds of comments that explain in more detail what's going on and what to pay attention to.
• Operators can have external links to tutorial videos or documentation.
• We made a new introduction video and tweaked a lot of usability features on the fly.
• Cleaned up documentation for all [HowTos] tutorials.
• We implemented an exporter to utilize machine learning-based spelling correction on all description and documentation texts.
• We aligned the namespaces and names of many operators to make them more accessible.

Working with Graphs...

We spent a lot of time perfecting the graph workflow:

• Clicking operators in the Symbol Library will insert them into the graph.
• Operator inputs can be clicked to open the symbol browser.
• Scroll canvas to avoid the open browser close to the edge.
• Console log now shows startup messages.
• Improved tooltips for many data types (show buffer size, types, and other details).
• Improved design of annotations.
• Improved font scaling of operator nodes.
• Operators with string, Vec2, and Vec3 can be bypassed.
• Tweak visual design of interactive operators such as Gradient, Value, String, SampleCurve.
• Connected values are now correctly displayed.
• Parameter values, curves, and AnimValue shapes are now correctly displayed on the graph before the first update.
• Add a user setting to (disable) suspend rendering when the editor window is minimized.
• Update Roboto font files to improve font rendering in the editor and tweak font sizes.
• List keyboard shortcuts in settings.
• Improve switching of focus mode.
• Show playback speed multiplier when pressing L or J multiple times.

Further Improvements

• Improve the layout of Settings windows to make it easier to navigate and scan.
• Clicking a parameter resets to default and removes animations.
• Drastically (10x) improve video export performance with the BRGA format converter.
• Show helpful warning messages if Windows Diagnostic Tools are not installed.
• Show a warning if "T3Editor.exe" is started instead of "StartT3.exe."
• Add a popup editor for sample curve.
• Add a user setting to reset playback position after stop.
• Clear the parameter name after adding with the parameter dialog.

Fixes

• Fix saving after "Fix files."
• Fix 20+ crashes and exceptions reported by crash reports.
• Restore window size after toggling fullscreen.
• Fix the visibility of the time marker on 4k displays.

Development

• Cleanup Utilities window and implement asset management with usage and renaming.
• Align consistency of all shaders and folders.
• Cleanup default images and folders.

New Operators

• [ParticleSystem] with tons of forces and examples.
• [MidiOutput].
• [StartGlowStreak].
• [GetBpm].
• [DrawMeshCelShading].
• [DisplaceMesh].
• [CombineMaterialChannels] can be used to combine multiple images for Metallic, Reflectivity, and AmbientOcclusion into packed image for [SetMaterial]

Improved Operators

• [Boolean] features color and improved design and usability.
• [DirectionalBlur] now offers a refine pass for nicer creation of abstract designs. Also, check the new example.
• [ImageLevels] now visualizes negative colors.
• [PairPointsForSplines] computes orientation along the spline.
• [Steps] has improved highlighting and offset.
• [Blob] With improved scaling.
• [SetMaterial], [DrawMesh], [DrawMeshAtPoints] now feature much improved rendering.

Noteworthy New Examples

• [HowToUseParticles].
• [BooleanExample].
• [DirectionalBlurExample].
• [CamPositionExamples].
• [ParticleCollisionExample].

Fixes

• [SSOA] now uses correct default values for new/far clipping.
• [Camera] roll parameter now uses degrees.