"Cyber Dive" - from the "Networks" Visual pack
New DLC Pack: "Networks"
Contains 7 new visuals.
- Cyber Dive: Dive into a stream of glowing circuit boards.
- Spectrum Flight: Get a sense of flying above the sound waves.
- Spectrum Pool: A multi colored wave pool.
- Hyperspace Orb: Lightning storm in space.
- Three Body: An art installation in space - 3 energy spheres exhanging energy.
- Dream Pool: Space flowers dripping glowing nectar into a pool
- Gem World: Glittering gemstones set in sphere formations floating around glimmering to the music.
Get it here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1332400/VSXu__Networks/
VSXu Player Improvements
New Localizations
VSXu Player has been translated into:
- German
- French
- Swedish
We would really like more translations.
If you want to help out, please contact any of the devs in the discord, or send mail to [email protected]!
Mouse wheel support
You can now change FX level, Time and Speed with the mouse wheel.
While an arrow is missing here, time is also possible to change, but not with shift key modifier.
Close buttons on dialogs
Settings and Tweak bars now have close "X" buttons to make mouse navigation better.
Exit query
When hitting ESC or closing from full screen mode with X button in the top right corner, you now get an exit prompt. Before one could accidentally hit ESC which was a problem.
Audio device names
Audio device names now list the "sub name" under the primary name.
No sound detected help text
You can now turn off the "No sound detected" warning in the settings bar. It's mostly intended for new users, and sometimes one wants to just view a visual without sound.
Color spectrum on standalone hue sliders
Color spectrum on individual Hue sliders in the tweak settings:
The Hue slider had a gray background in the previous version.
New visuals added to existing packs
Four new spectrums have been added to the "Spectrums and Oscilloscopes" DLC pack. Here's a screenshot from one of them:
Note that only one of them has customizable color, this is because they use a new gradient generator which isn't easy to manipulate.
Bug Fixes
- An audio subsystem related crash (an unhandled exception) has been fixed. The error message will now be displayed in red if such an error is triggered.
- Errors in audio subsystem will now show up in red in the player.
Possible / known bugs
- If a visual looks weird it could be because its tweak values have been loaded in a weird way. We tried to sort this out but could not see a pattern to it. If this happens to you, go to the tweak bar [T] and press the "Reset" button. Should only be needed once. If you have any insight into under what circumstances this would happen, please let us know!
- During testing we saw a rare bug where memory usage would increase a lot. This was possibly fixed, but regardless, being so hard to reproduce it could also not be fixed. If you experience this (memory usage above 2GB, normal memory usage with all visuals from all packs loaded is 900MB), please forward us your log files to [email protected]. Thanks!
Access to the previous version of the player
It is always possible that we have made a mistake in development which can take a while to sort out. Starting with this release, you can access the previous version of VSXu which hopefully works, until we have sorted out the bugs. To do so, go to properties and select "betas" tab, and activate the beta branch "previous version".
What's next?
Our intention is to shift development focus to VSXu Artiste - our visuals editor. We hope to be able to get it up to speed and release it on Steam in the near future (as soon as it's good enough).
If you are not familiar with VSXu Artiste, it's a node-based programming language for creating graphics. You can play around with an old version if you download it from www.vsxu.com. However that version is quite old, and there is a lot of new things in the currently unreleased version.
While there is a lot to be said about this topic, one thing that Artiste creators want is the ability to play back their visuals with the player and that has been rather tricky in the past. So we are going to try to create a way to do that inside Artiste - a player mode if you will. The old player can then be retired.
As always, we're available in our discord for chat and questions!