1.16.9 beta

• Improve project loading time.
• Improve rendering performance.
• Introduce compressed project file (.cpxc) extension for saving large projects. It should work like a normal save file except the content is non-human-readable.
• Updated default collection and getting started projects.

Interface

• [Preview Panel] Add real fps display
• [Graph Panel] Improve interface performance.
• [Graph Panel] Entering group now uses Shift + Double click.
• [Animation Panel] Add context menu for expanding, and collapsing all properties.
• [Animation Panel] Add button for hiding node label.
• [Animation Panel] Automatically hide the view control button when overlapped with animation tools.
• [Group IO order] Improve interface.
• [Rotator, Rotator range, Rotator random] Hold CTRL while dragging the textbox will snap the value by 15 degrees.
• [RangeBox] Now show the proper label.
• Mappable parameters now use rangeBox instead of vectorBox.
• Update sliders in popup dialogs.
• Add hotkey to tooltips.
• Add er... settings.

Node

• Rework group IO order (again). Order now based on group order setting and remove input priority.
• Some Area data now use fractional units by default.
• Angle is now a floating value.
• [De-stray] Add iteration, strict, and mask properties.
• [De-corner] Add iteration, different corner detection types, and mask properties.
• [Stripe] Add AA option.
• [Stripe] Add progress property.
• [Stripe] Add palette render mode.
• [Checker Board] Add smooth, AA rendering properties.
• [Zigzag] Add smooth, AA rendering properties.
• [Cellular, Flow, Fold, Gabor, Simplex, Perlin, Extra Perlins Noise] Add rotation property.
• [Cellular Noise] Add a tiled pattern (set as default), the previous "uniform" pattern will imply no tiling.
• [Group output] Now show surface content.
• [Camera] Complete rework, will not be compatible with the previous version.
• [Camera] Remove background data, all surfaces will be connected to the elements section.
• [Camera] Parallax and depth of field is now a separate value per element.
• [Camera] Replace fix position toggle with positioning mode supporting 2 modes: fix to space or fix to camera.

Bugs

• [Preview Panel] Fix the toolbar menu disappearing when not inspecting any nodes.
• [Preview Panel] Fix panel not responding when open multiple panels at the same time.
• [Preview Panel] Surface array with size 1 won't display the array selector.
• [Preview Panel] Improve preview gizmo rendering.
• Fix the multiline vectorbox background not showing up, and use the wrong label.
• [Animation Panel] Fix lines and frame numbers clipped incorrectly when panning.
• Fix area type error on non default modes.
• Fix errors when using expressions.
• Fix mask invert not working.
• Fix error when duplicating group.
• [TextArea] Fix comment stop highlighting with text wrap.
• [Group] Fix separator render with toggle.
• [Particle] Fix cache persists when changing dimension from an external source (e.g. global dimension).
• [Armature Bind] Fix error when using bind data.
• [Armature Pose] Fix the preview editor not to scale and rotate the bone properly.
• [Area wrap] Fix crash on create.
• [Cemera] Fix node display content over the previewing surface.
• [Wav file in] Fix playback not resetting when the timeline is looped back to the beginning.
• [Wav file in] Add a warning when the loading file has a different size than the defined package header.