1.17 Stable

Change since Release Candidate 5

Interface

• Add hotkeys slot for several dialogs and controls.
• [Menu Panel] Window control buttons (exit, minimize, fullscreen) now can be triggered without focus (interactable without closing another dialog first).

Node

• [HSV Color] Change hue range back to 255.
• [3D Mesh] Loading model without any material data will auto-generate default material.
• [VFX Override] Now use the connection to determine overriding.
• [VFX Override] Output array of only active particles.
• [Flood fill] Add multiply blend mode.
• [Posterize] Add color space setting.

Bugs

• Fix button stay interactable in color picker mode.
• Base particle object now has a drawing method.
• [Inspector Panel] Fix the color picker showing up when holding alt.
• [Preview Panel] Fix scrollbox font and sprite scaling error.
• [Textbox] Fix text not updating its x position.
• [3D] Preview surface size is now adjustable in preference.
• [3D] Fix crash when using texture array.
• [3D Mesh] Fix rotation manipulation error in Euler unit.
• [3D Mesh] Angle unit is now Euler by default.
• [3D Mesh] Fix crash when loading node?
• [3D obj] Fix error when refreshing object.
• [3D obj] Fix preview not showing.
• [3D obj] Fix some imported model missing x axis.
• [Export] Fix animation array export not working.
• [Flip fluid] Fix wall axis not working properly.
• [Outline] Fix render error in blend mode.
• [Slope blur] Fix slope sampling artifact.
• [Image Array] Fix node always updates if one of the paths is not a valid image.

Change since 1.16

Features

• Add project working range.
• 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.
• Pixel Composer now comes with CLI application `PXC.exe` which allows for executing PXC project, modifying global variables, and executing functions from the console (`PXC.exe` use the same arguments as the `PixelComposer.exe` but with extra arguments).
• Update sample locale and localization guides.
• Updated default collection and getting started projects.

Interface

• [Add node] Add a preference option to remember and restore previous page and scroll position (on by default).
• [Add node] Node subaction alias now shows up when searching.
• [Animation Panel] Add button for hiding node label.
• [Animation Panel] Add context menu for expanding, and collapsing all properties.
• [Animation Panel] Automatically hide the view control button when overlapped with animation tools.
• [Animation] Now display frames index beyond the frame limit.
• [Color Panel] Add alpha slider.
• [Color, Palette panel] Now react to the tool color in the canvas node.
• [Color, Palette, Gradient selector] Add a right-click option to set the palette as a project palette.
• [Color, palette, gradient selector] Add keyboard hotkeys.
• [CurveBox] Add curve presets on right-click menu.
• [Dev mode] Add a console with some basic functions.
• [Graph Panel] Allows nested frames to be selected.
• [Graph Panel] Entering group now uses Shift + Double click.
• [Graph Panel] Improve interface performance.
• [Graph, Animation, Inspector] When selecting custom color for a node or junction, the color selector dialog will now be set to the current color.
• [Graph, Inspector] Add the ability to connect from a junction in the graph to a value in the inspector.
• [Graph] Add a right-click menu to remove individual connections.
• [Group IO order] Improve interface.
• [Inspector Panel] Improve several widgets.
• [Inspector Panel] Make compact mode more compact.
• [Inspector] Add dropping target for global attributes.
• [Inspector] Convert some boolean properties to group toggle.
• [Inspector] Improve color, palette, and gradient visual.
• [Inspector] Now showing properties of all selected nodes (up to 10).
• [Inspector] When selecting multiple nodes of the same type, the inspector action now runs on all selected nodes.
• [Palette selector] Improve color rearranging.
• [Preference] Add a "restart recommended" banner when modifying the UI scale.
• [Preference] Add option to disable version warning notification.
• [Preview Panel] Add preview node lock.
• [Preview Panel] Add real fps display
• [Preview, Graph] Toggle fullscreen now center the preview.
• [Preview] Now use 1-indexing.
• [RangeBox] Now show the proper label.
• [Rotator, Rotator range, Rotator random] Hold CTRL while dragging the textbox will snap the value by 15 degrees.
• [SurfaceBox] Improve UI, add hover tooltip.
• [TextArea] Add a scrollbar for overflow text in popup mode.
• [TextBox, Slider, Rotator] Add right-click while sliding to cancel and revert value.
• Add edit widget for path anchor.
• Add hotkey in some tooltips.
• Add icon to several enum scroll data.
• Mappable parameters now use rangeBox instead of vectorBox.

Node

• Introducing FLIP free surface fluid simulation.
• Angle is now a floating value.
• Automatic group IO now uses the same IO node for the same junction.
• 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.
• Add file watcher to several input nodes.
• Add MK Delay Machine node
• Add RigidBody Wall node
• New Array rearrange node.
• New Bake Path node.
• New Bend node.
• New Blobify node.
• New Bridge Path node.
• New byte IO nodes for reading/writing buffer to a file.
• New cmd argument node.
• New Delay node.
• New Diffuse node.
• New Fold noise node.
• New Gamma Map node
• New Graph Preview node.
• New GUI in/out nodes.
• New Image Grid node.
• New keyframe driver.
• New Kuwahara filter node
• New Map Path node.
• New MIDI In node.
• New MK Blinker node.
• New MK Brownian node.
• New MK Fall node.
• New MK Lens Flare node.
• New monitor capture node.
• New Offset node.
• New Override Channel node.
• New Path from Mask node.
• New Profile node.
• New Project Data node.
• New Quasicrystal node
• New Reaction-diffusion node.
• New Shape blur node.
• New Shape map node.
• New Slope Blur node.
• New smear node.
• New Smooth Path node.
• New Spherize node.
• New Spout output node.
• New Stagger node.
• New Strand noise node.
• New VFX triangulate node.
• New Vignette node.
• [Supporter] New Pythagorean/herringbone/random tile generators.
• [Supporter] New Bubble noise node.
• [Supporter] New flow noise node.
• Add "Black" oversample mode.
• Add mappable value for some properties.
• Add support for alpha value in colors, palette, and gradient.
• Area mode is now an array member.
• Convert all specialized groups into inline groups. (VFX, RigidSim, SmokeSim, StrandSim, Array loop, Array filter, Array sort)
• [3D Camera/ Camera Set] Add additive blend mode option.
• [3D Cylinder] Add option to disable end caps.
• [4 Points Gradient] Add option to normalize weight.
• [Anisotropic Noise] Add waterfall render mode.
• [Array Range] When the start and end are the same value, will output an array of repeated value "step" times.
• [Blend, Sample, Trim, Reverse, Wave Path] Improve UI overlay.
• [Cache] When the cache node finds an uncached frame it will enable all nodes in the cache group automatically.
• [Camera] Complete rework, will not be compatible with the previous version.
• [Camera] Parallax and depth of field is now a separate value per element.
• [Camera] Remove background data, all surfaces will be connected to the elements section.
• [Camera] Replace fix position toggle with positioning mode supporting 2 modes: fix to space or fix to camera.
• [Canvas] Add ability to add, subtract selecting area by holding Shift, Alt key.
• [Canvas] Add entire surface fill mode for bucket fill and magic selection.
• [Canvas] Add line slope consistency check.
• [Canvas] Add mirror line.
• [Canvas] Add pen pressure setting.
• [Canvas] Add the ability to copy/paste selection inside and between canvas nodes.
• [Canvas] Applying selection now won't be affected by channel property.
• [Canvas] Filled shape now also draw the border.
• [Canvas] Hold ctrl + scrollwheel to change brush size.
• [Canvas] Improve default brush shape.
• [Canvas] Improve line pixel placement.
• [Canvas] Magic selection now cancel selection whgen clicking outside the canvas.
• [Canvas] Move brush color, size, and fill threshold to tools settings.
• [Canvas] New brush tool converting current selection to a brush.
• [Canvas] New curve tool.
• [Canvas] New freeform shape and selection tools.
• [Canvas] New mirror tools. Mirror the current brush stroke by the center of the canvas/selection.
• [Canvas] New node tools allowing nodes to be loaded and rendered on the selecting area.
• [Canvas] Outline tools can now be applied to the selection mask by holding the shift.
• [Canvas] Tools will only apply to the area inside a selection (if exists).
• [Cellular Noise] Add a tiled pattern (set as default), the previous "uniform" pattern will imply no tiling.
• [Cellular Noise] Cell types now have consistent colors.
• [Cellular Noise] Crystal type is now tilable.
• [Cellular, Flow, Fold, Gabor, Simplex, Perlin, Extra Perlins Noise] Add rotation property.
• [Checker Board] Add smooth, AA rendering properties.
• [Composite] Add blend mode and alpha properties per surface.
• [De-corner] Add iteration, different corner detection types, and mask properties.
• [De-stray] Add iteration, strict, and mask properties.
• [Diffuse] Internal rework.
• [Directional Blur] Add single direction mode.
• [Displace] Add gradient mode.
• [Displace] Add separate axis option for vector and angle displace mode.
• [Draw Gradient] Add a uniform aspect ratio option for the circular, radial gradient.
• [Draw Gradient] Add pingpong mode to loop property.
• [Draw Text] Add line width property.
• [Draw text] Add wave effect.
• [Fill Region] Add inner fill, color map mode.
• [Glow] Add a property to not draw the original surface.
• [Glow] Now use pixel distance instead of blurring.
• [Gradient] Add oklab. sRGB blending mode.
• [Grid, Hex/Tri grid] Add truchet option for texture grid mode.
• [Grid, Tri/Hex Grid, Pythagorean/Herringbone/Random Tile] Add texture rotation properties.
• [Grid] Separated truchet flip axis properties.
• [Group output] Now show surface content.
• [Hex grid] Texture grid now uses cartesian coordinates.
• [HSV Combine] Add alpha input.
• [Image] Now support path array.
• [Level Selector] Add the option to keep the original color.
• [Level] Add output range properties.
• [Lua] Lua nodes now auto-compile.
• [Mesh Transform] Anchor point is now relative to the center of mass.
• [Mix Color] Add oklab color space.
• [MK Rain] Add lifespan, size, alpha over lifespan, and alpha fading properties.
• [Non-uniform Blur] Add gradient effect.
• [Normal] Smoothness is now a slider.
• [Particle, VFX Renderer] Add default particle when no sprite is provided.
• [Particle, VFX] Add line rendering mode.
• [Particle] Add background property.
• [Particle] Add path follow properties.
• [Particle] Add scale to index mode for sprite array.
• [Perlin noise] Improve noise shader.
• [Pixel Expand] Add scan mode (Does 2 passes, horizontal and vertical instead of scanning the surrounding area in a circle shape).
• [Polar] Add tile property.
• [Region Fill] Add texture map mode.
• [Region fill] Draw original action is now an enum button with "above" and "behind" settings.
• [Render Sprite Sheet] Node is now updated in normal playback.
• [Repeat] Convert to array processor.
• [Replace Color] Add an option to disable automatic palette refresh.
• [Replace Colors] Now automatically refresh the palette on connect.
• [RGB Combine] Swap sampling type to match the RGBA extract node.
• [RGB/HSV Combine/Extract] Add option to use an array of surfaces as inputs/outputs.
• [RigidBody group] Add gravity control.
• [Scatter] Add an option to sort sprites by Y position.
• [Scatter] Add animation support for array input.
• [Scatter] Add direct control over uniform distribution.
• [Scatter] Add exact property.
• [Scatter] Add index, direct data, texture mode for array index selector.
• [Scatter] Add maximum blend mode.
• [Scatter] Add position shift property.
• [Scatter] Add position wiggle property.
• [Scatter] Add scale over radius, and angle range properties for uniform circular mode.
• [Scatter] Improve performance for static distribution map.
• [Shape] Add 2 new position modes; Separate Center + Scale and Full image.
• [Shape] Add angle property to a crescent shape.
• [Shape] Add crescent shape and tiling.
• [Shape] Add donut shape.
• [Shape] Add level property.
• [Shape] Add shape rotation property (There isn't one before?).
• [Simple Blur] Renamed to Non-Uniform Blur.
• [Stack] Add padding properties.
• [StrandSim, SmokeSim] Now use inline collection.
• [Stripe] Add AA option.
• [Stripe] Add palette render mode.
• [Stripe] Add progress property.
• [Text File In] Now accept every file type.
• [Text] Add trim text properties.
• [Transform] Add alpha property.
• [Transform] Add echo property.
• [Warp] Add custom output dimension.
• [Warp] Add warping guide.
• [Wave Path] Add wiggle and amplitude over length properties.
• [Zigzag] Add smooth, AA rendering properties.

Bug

• [3D Camera] Fix depth map render incorrectly.
• [3D Mesh] Fix transform tool not update when dragging.
• [Add node dialog] Fix collection does not show up in search if the Collection panel is not initialized (Another victim of thoughtless optimation).
• [Addon] Fix crash with addon drawing sprite.
• [Animation Panel] Fix graph rendering glitch.
• [Animation Panel] Fix lines and frame numbers clipped incorrectly when panning.
• [Area wrap] Fix crash on create.
• [Armature Bind] Fix error when using bind data.
• [Armature Pose] Fix the preview editor not to scale and rotate the bone properly.
• [Ase File In] Fix aseprite file not showing up in the open file dialog.
• [ASE File In] Fix static file render every frame.
• [Bevel] Improve accuracy on larger surfaces.
• [Blend] Fix stretch and tiled mode not working.
• [Canvas] Fix background drawing mode with selection creates results with the wrong color.
• [Canvas] Fix content disappear when resizing the surface.
• [Canvas] Fix ellipse drawing.
• [Canvas] Fix ellipse selection sometimes gives low-res circle shape.
• [Canvas] Fix error when selecting unsupported node in node tool.
• [Canvas] Fix flood fill diagonal mode not filling correctly.
• [Canvas] Fix line overflow when using a custom brush.
• [Cellular noise] Fix contrast option does not apply to crystal type.
• [Cemera] Fix node display content over the previewing surface.
• [Color Adjust] Fix reducing alpha brighten the color.
• [Color selectors] Fix selector not scale with UI scale property.
• [Color, Palette, Gradient Selector] Fix enter and escape keys register when another widget is selected.
• [Colorize] Fix gradient alpha not applying.
• [Contrast Blur] Improve algorithm.
• [Dither] Fix contrast value reset to zero with a surface refresh.
• [Draw Text] Fix font resetting when using UI font (Noto Sans).
• [Draw Text] Fix rendering error.
• [Export] Fix exported gif leaves a ghost when viewing on some applications.
• [Feedback] Fix connection line draw incorrectly.
• [FLIP Apply Force] Fix crashes when adding the node in the middle of the timeline.
• [FLIP Collider] Fix crashes when moving the collider very fast.
• [FLIP Domain] Add a check to prevent particle size from getting lower than one.
• [Globalvar] Fix range type error.
• [Graph Export] Fix error on create (again?)
• [Graph Panel] Fix "copy to canvas" not working with image array.
• [Graph Panel] Fix crash when grouping nodes.
• [Graph Panel] Fix duplicating nodes inside an inline group creates a new node outside the group.
• [Graph Panel] Fix invisible inline group selectable.
• [Graph Panel] Fix key press not registered after selecting a new node while focusing on a textbox.
• [Graph Panel] Fix node duplication can't be undone.
• [Graph] Fix error when duplicating inline groups.
• [Graph] Fix the error when clicking on the feedback line.
• [Group] Fix separator render with toggle.
• [HLSL] Fix widget overlapping when expanding the value group.
• [HLSL] Flip the v texture axis.
• [Image Grid] Fix error when using multiple inputs.
• [Inspector Panel] Fix collapse/expand all not working when selecting multiple nodes.
• [Inspector Panel] Fix edit widget disappeared when resetting mappable value.
• [Inspector] Fix button interactable with mouse release without pressing first.
• [Inspector] Toggling expression now updates the node.
• [Line] Fix error when enabling round cap.
• [Line] Fix the "Span width over path" option does not work with pre crop path.
• [Line] Fix the line not drawing with a polygon shape.
• [Local Analyze] Fix effect applies to surfaces in other nodes.
• [Lua] Fix error on deletion.
• [Menu] Fix nested menu not focus automatically.
• [Menu] Fix title overlapping with version number.
• [Mesh warp] Fix error on creation.
• [Mesh warp] Fix mesh generation error on load.
• [Mesh warp] Fix pin data not loading.
• [Mk Rain] Fix rain drop rendering issue.
• [Normal light] Fix rendering error.
• [Notification] Fix crashes when clicking on an interactable notification.
• [Outline] Fix glitch when enabling anti-aliasing with inner mode.
• [Palette to Gradient] Fix incorrect key distribution in the output gradient.
• [Panel] Fix panel gets rendered twice when entering fullscreen mode.
• [Particle] Fix cache persists when changing dimension from an external source (e.g. global dimension).
• [Particle] Fix error when rendering dynamicSurface.
• [Path] Fix error when undo anchor insertion.
• [Path] Fix error when using the move tool.
• [PCX] Fix globalvar evaluation error.
• [Perlin] Fix the result change randomly.
• [Pixel Expand] Fix scan mode glitch with half transparent pixels.
• [Pixel Expand] Fix the artifact when the surface is larger than 64px.
• [Point Affect] Fix freezes when reconnecting initial and final values.
• [Preference] Fix typing UI scale directly not applying.
• [Preview panel] Fix error when previewing atlas data.
• [Preview Panel] Fix mouse becomes inactive lower than the top bar.
• [Preview Panel] Fix panel not responding when open multiple panels at the same time.
• [Preview Panel] Fix preview gizmo jump around when using fractional units.
• [Preview Panel] Fix the toolbar menu disappearing when not inspecting any nodes.
• [Preview Panel] Improve preview gizmo rendering.
• [Preview Panel] Surface array with size 1 won't display the array selector.
• [Preview] Fix the color picker preview not showing the correct alpha value.
• [Pytagorean Tile] Fix render error when enabling truchet.
• [Pytagorean, Herringbone, Random Tile] Fix gradient evaluation glitch.
• [Render Spritesheet] Add a warning when connecting surfaces of different sizes.
• [Render Spritesheet] Fix dimension warning shows up even when using surfaces of the same sizes.
• [Render Spriteshett] Fix array packing misses the last surface.
• [Rigidbody Spawner] Fix error on click.
• [Rotator range, random] Fix multiple controllers can be hovered at once.
• [Scatter] Fix a stupid bug that causes a massive performance drop when using scatter map.
• [Scatter] Fix uniform scattering in full image mode not working.
• [Splash] Add check for invalid thumbnail for Steam collection, project loading.
• [Splash] Fix nonuniform project thumbnail overflowing.
• [Splash] Fix project thumbnail scale incorrectly.
• [Sprite Stack] Fix preview hovering active outside the panel area.
• [Stack] Fix spacing not included in the dimension calculation.
• [SteamUGC] Project metadata is now saved as a separate file which should improve load time.
• [Stripe] Fix color not applying in blend mode.
• [Surface Extrude] Fix object not reset when removing height map.
• [Text Area] Fix the bug that makes the enter key not responsive after setting the cursor position.
• [TextArea] Fix autocomplete dialog not appear on top.
• [TextArea] Fix code editor not set to monospace font.
• [TextArea] Fix comment stop highlighting with text wrap.
• [TextArea] Fix crashes when displaying value with implicit conversion.
• [TextBox] Fix sliding not work with pen input.
• [Transform] Fix echo effect render incorrectly.
• [Transform] Fix tile mode not aligned with preview gizmo.
• [Transform] Fix tile mode with a small surface causes performance drop.
• [VFX] Fix error on creation.
• [Warp] Fix preview gizmo prioritize sides instead of corners.
• [Wav file in] Add a warning when the loading file has a different size than the defined package header.
• [Wav file in] Fix playback not resetting when the timeline is looped back to the beginning.
• Add check for invalid panel layout.
• Add click delay when closing dialog to reduce misclick.
• Dimension value will be clamped between 0 - 8192 automatically.
• Fix area type error on non default modes.
• Fix color with an alpha value less than 128 not stored properly (Note that this may reset the alpha value of a project created in 1.16.3).
• Fix crash when trying to create a notification on program start.
• Fix error when duplicating group.
• Fix error when duplicating node.
• Fix error when exporting surface atlas.
• Fix error when interpolating between gradients with only 1 key.
• Fix error when triggering animation on the trigger data type.
• Fix error when undoing intermediate keyframe creation.
• Fix errors when modifying 3D material.
• Fix errors when using expressions.
• Fix inline group background rendering error.
• Fix mask invert not working.
• Fix performance drop massively when adding more nodes.
• Fix several trigger-related bugs.
• Fix some inspector action triggers not showing up in the graph.
• Fix the color dropper not appearing with the alt key.
• Fix the color picker to give color with 0 alpha value.
• Fix the error with undoing node deletion.
• Fix the hotkey not working when using the tab key on the node with custom inspector widgets.
• Fix the mouse button stuck when using a pen tablet.
• Fix the multiline vectorbox background not showing up, and use the wrong label.
• Fix unmodified color value to become transparent when loaded.
• Prevent misclick when a menu item is created under the mouse position.