Pixel Composer v1.13

This version comes with the release of Steam version of Pixel Composer! Steam release also means 20% launch discount on both platform.

You can check out Steam version here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2299510/Pixel_Composer​

General

• Gradient data is changed to array.
• Improvement to undo system
  • Action history dialog
  • More stability when undo/redo group operation.
  • More stability when deleting group.
• “Node” junction type now can’t be connected to “Any” junction type.
• Add button to execute every export nodes.
• Executable file name, and app data directory renamed to from “Pixels Composer” to “PixelComposer”
  • The old directory (%APPDATA%/Local/Pixels Composer) will not be removed.
  • This means all custom collections, assets, palettes, gradients, fonts, presets have to be move manually.
• Autosave system.
• More palette sorting types.
• Disable connection from surface to:
  • Area
  • Kernel
  • Vector range
  • Puppet control
  • Padding
  • Curve
• add option to use legacy exception handler.
• [Steam] Steam workshop support.
  • Collection
  • Project
• [Add node] Search now use automaton matcher.

Interface

• Gradient dialog now update while editing.
• Reworked menu bar, borderless fullscreen.
• Add node dialog size now save between session.
• [Notification] Same notification (and warning) now collapse into one with counter.
• [Notification] Improve performance on large number of notification.
• [Inspector] Show metadata of the current context.
• [Inspector] Now show outputs as well (Can’t interact, but can copy, access dialog).
• [Preview] Add horizontal, vertical tiling mode.
• [Scroll menu] Value preview when mouse hover.

Nodes

• New SDF (signed distance field) node.

• New find pixel node.

• New path operator nodes.

  • Path remap
  • Path transform
  • Path shift
  • Path trim
  • Path wave

• New Loop Array node which allow a “for each” operation to each member in an array and output a new array.

• New sort palette node.

• New cache array node.

• New trail node with sub-frame blending.

• New gradient shift node.

• Number of nodes changed to array processor.

  • 3D transform
  • HSV color
  • RGB color
  • Gradient
  • Palette

• [Array get] Now accept array in “index” property.

• [Path] Now accept array in “path progress” property.

• [Palette extract] Improve performance, add option to deal with animated surface.

• [Render Sprite Sheet] Setting sprite set to “image array” will make the node runs automatically.

• [Render sprite sheet] Manually execute the node will now execute all Render sprite sheet nodes.

• [Composite] Improve preview gizmo.

• [Blend] Add hue, saturation, luminosity blend modes.

• [Blend] Add no tile mode with alignment options.

• [Repeat] Option to spread surface array into repeated output array.

• [Export] Now work in loop.

• [Splice sprite sheet] Now work in loop.

• [Colorize] Now works with HSV gradient.

• [Palette extract] Now skip transparent pixel.

• [Composite] Multiply alpha by default.

• [Line] Add round cap.

• [Grid] Shifting now scale with tile size.

• [Scatter point] Add option to fix point position and use area to enable/disable points.

• [Scatter point] Now output value of each point.

• [Scatter] Random value now use positional based seed for stability.

• [Scatter] Can use value from scatter data to control scale.

• [Particle] Improve performance, caching.

• [3D nodes] Option to not fixing view to dimension. (Should allow changing dimension without affecting image scale.)

• Option to deactivate node from render tree.

• More accurate render time calculation in loop node.

Bug

• Fix memory leak caused by blurring in Gaussian blur, Glow, Shadow, and Bloom nodes.
• Fix memory leak caused by average node.
• Fix line in text area not breaking properly.
• Fix duplicating group not copying the content, connections.
• Fix crash when change gravity in preference.
• Fix crash when open, create new project while opening dialog.
• Fix cloning gradient value gives unexpected color.
• Fix decimal precision can’t go lower than 0.01.
• Fix infinite looping when executing array loop.
• Fix file not found error not remove when destroyed.
• Mix property now works without mask.
• [Image array] Fix images not loaded properly when create node from add node dialog.
• [Image array] Fix images path dialog not accept multiple images.
• [Array] Last value is now hidden.
• [Loop] Add warning notification when try to connect output directly to input node.
• [Evaluate curve] Fix crash on create.
• [Color data] Fix crash on create.
• [Wiggler] Fix crash when supply array value.
• [Frame] Fix frame selection bug.
• [3D Obj] Fix parts of the model not loaded.
• [3D Obj] Fix flip UV create duplicate texture and shift UV in the x-axis.
• [Shadow caster] Fix crash when selecting the node.
• [Composite] Fix error when disconnecting surface.
• [Blend] Fix crash when blend mode is set outside available blend types.
• [Inspector] Fix crash when right-clicking on a property.
• [Particle] Fix particle alpha not updating.
• [Grid noise] Shift value now act like grid node.
• [Repeat] Fix error when set column to 0.
• [Scatter] Fix seed not apply on custom distribution map.
• [Radial blur] Fix effect not applying.
• [Ase in] Fix importing error.

Upgrading note

When loading 1.12 save file/collection to 1.13, these are properties that have to be updated:

• Gradient data : Node with gradient need to be update to be array type.
  • Colorize
  • Repeat
  • Particle
  • VFX spawner
  • Pixel cloud
  • Gradient
  • Draw gradient
  • Stripe
  • Scatter
  • Line