Releases in 2021

• Fixed build issues on Windows which often caused the 2018 build to be defect.
• Added Storing the matte colour to Presetto and Second Unit

• Fixed an issue with Second Unit where the settings for a camera were not removed when the camera was deleted, causing them to be re-used when a new camera was created afterwards.
• Fixed, various issues with the item presets in Presetto. The respective pop-ups are now also en✔disabled depending on the type of item that's selected.

• Fixed an issues with Second Unit which caused it to detect the wrong camera as being selected after loading.

• Added Item flags to both Presetto and Second Unit - please check the documentation to see what is supported
• Changed the location of the Presetto presets from Presetter to Presetto

• Added the initial version of Presetto
• Added an update to the db&w menu branch config, which now contains Presetto as well.

• Added Limited Region and Buffers support to Second Unit

* Fixed a GUI layout issue in Second Unit

• Added “After IK” as an option to the spline motion modifier.
• Fixed an issue in the spline motion modifier where it wouldn't evaluate knots attached to nulls properly.
• Add the first build of the Second Unit master plugin. Please get back to use with ideas of which other settings you'd like to store per camera. Render buffers will be coming next.

• Fixed an issues with the Spline Tools (and possible other items) due to changes made in the Animation Channel support code for the Spline Morph Deformer.

• Fixed an issue in the Spline Morph Deformer where 100% in a non-closed spline looped
• Now the Spline Morph Deformer is included in the Mac build as well. D'oh.

• Fixed an issues in the Spline Morph Deformer where it would crash when added to an item without points (such as a null object).
• Deactivated the Preview by default for the Spline Morph Deformer.

• Finally got the preview release of the Spline Morph deformer done. There is also a sample scene in the content.
• Worked on fixing issues with the distribution script when patching non-ascii characters into the Windows binaries.

• Fixed an issue where the (hidden) Instance Picker Master Plugin would disable all other gizmos used by LW, such as those used to move items.

• Fixed an issue where the settings of the Multi-Variable node weren't copied.
• Fixed the channel path for the Channel Reference Node
• Tried to make the channel picker for the Channel Reference node resizeable - but LightWave 3D said: No!

• Added the first version of the Channel Reference node.

• Fixed an issues with the scale not being evaluated properly in the Transform Deformer once the strength was added.
• Changed the order of transformations in the Transform Deformer to meet expectations.

• Added a Strength % to the Normal map output of the PBR Set node
• Fixed an issue of the code signed .plugin crashin on macOS. Unfortunately this also removes the personalised thank you message from the about panel. Basically, patching the .plugin to insert the patron name after the plugin has been code signed caused the issue.

• Various additions and fixes for the Transform Deformer:
  • Added a Strength value for the transformation as well as the components.
  • Fixed the transformation in world coordinates.
  • If no weight map is applied to a vertex, the weight is set to 0% for evaluation purposes.
  • Fixed the transformation order on local coordinates (rotation and translation were swapped).

• Added the preview build for the Transform Deformer. It can be considered feature complete except for interactive handles missing completely.

• The last build destroyed the GUI for the Triplanar Texture mapping node. This build restores it.
• The Triplanar mapping for the Texture Repetition node was never saved properly. Now it is.

• Added the initial implementation of the Projection Ex system: Projection Ex
• Added a Normal Multi-Mixer node.
• Fixed an issue where spline control points wouldn't follow nulls in world coordinates.

• Fixed an issue where the Wheel Rotation node wouldn't rotate the wheel without a cache
• Fixed an issue in the Material Multi-Mixer, materials weren't mixed properly
• Made sure that no negative numbers can be entered for the S-Tk spline display steps.

• Updates to the Scratch node:
  • On macOS, it always assumed it was on a scratch.
  • Added the Variation inputs and controls.
  • Made various scratch parameters even more random™
  • Tweaked the Rotation output to allow for full rotations.

• Includes the first build of the Scratch node, out Plugin of the Month for Februrary 2021

• Small GUI clean up in the Wheel Rotation GUI.
• Changed the link to the wiki for the Wheel Rotation Control generic plugin.
• Added the first version of the Texture Repetition node.
• Updated the documentation for the Wheel Rotation plugins, added docs for the Texture Repetition node.

• The first release for 2021 - yay!
• Finally for the updated Wheel Rotation node to work and it's been a struggle. Please consider this as a preview build.
  • add Align option - this requires the wheel to be build so -Z is forward and the axle is along the X axis.
  • Align works if the wheel moves forward as well as if it moves backwards.
  • add a cache (needs to be updated manually if anything that would influence the wheel position changes)
  • add saving and loading of the cache (optionally, equivalent to baking it)
  • added a generic plugin to control all Wheel Rotation plugins in a scene
  • updated the included menu branch to include the “Wheel Rotation…” generic
  • still needs testing, the Motion Modifier and Channel Modifier versions will follow.