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Capture Student Edition Changelog

What's new in Capture Student Edition 2024.0.36

Apr 15, 2024
  • Texture Generators:
  • Matrix texture generators with 255 or more columns or rows caused project files to not be opened again.
  • Mobile Compatibility:
  • Capture Mobile refused to start on older iOS versions.
  • Drag & Drop:
  • Drag and dropping some types of objects from the library could be problematic, especially into views in plot mode.
  • glTF Export:
  • Nodes with non TRS-decomposable matrices could be exported.
  • Pixel Tubes:
  • Pixel tube visibility did not follow current filter correctly.
  • Mobile About:
  • The about window did not open in Capture Mobile.
  • Fixture Optics:
  • Beams did not update correctly when changing fixture optics.
  • LED Panels:
  • The intensity of LED panels could sometimes follow the luminosity of the material applied.
  • Fill Lighting:
  • Large LED structures built using a single generic LED panel could fall out from the fill lighting effect.
  • Fixtures Tab:
  • The sequential assignment commands in the fixture tab did not always respect selection order.
  • Trim Height:
  • Moving trusses did not reflect automatically in the trim height shown for trusses in plots.
  • Beam Intensity:
  • The intensity of simplified multi-aperture beams was incorrect.
  • Snapshots:
  • Deleting a snapshot caused the snapshots tab to loose focus on Windows, disabling all commands.
  • Accessories:
  • Fixture front mounts and yokes were placed incorrectly when cloned.
  • Accessories:
  • The center arrow also rendered for front mounts and yokes.
  • Narrow Beams:
  • Precision issues could occur with very narrow beams, causing artefacts in the rendering.
  • Symbol Key:
  • Scaling issues could occur in the symbol key when only very wide fixtures were present.
  • LED Panels:
  • LED panels rendered in outline mode, causing individual panels in larger constructions to be invisible.

New in Capture Student Edition 2024.0.35 (Mar 26, 2024)

  • Adding Objects:
  • Performance when adding objects could be slow if the Selected Items category of the Design tab was open.
  • Model Import:
  • Model import could fail sporadically and without any reason.
  • Plot Underlays:
  • Selected plot insets in plot underlays rendered as selected.
  • Model Import:
  • Objects repeated at multiple locations and angles could import incorrectly from DWG.
  • Quick Info:
  • Fixture patch could appear incorrectly in the quick information window.
  • Truss Snapping:
  • Dynamic circle section truss items did not snap with sufficient accuracy.
  • Image Scaling:
  • The drawing unit of images was not reapplied correctly when reopening a project.

New in Capture Student Edition 2024.0.34 (Mar 14, 2024)

  • Multiple Apertures:
  • Fixtures with multiple apertures now visualise as in Capture 2023 again, with the exception of close to square shaped LED strobe lights which now always visualise with a single beam per light source.
  • Selected Items:
  • It was sometimes possible to edit the properties of deleted objects, which would lead to crashes.
  • Transparency:
  • Visualisation of transparent objects did not work correctly on macOS.
  • DWG Import
  • Importing DWG files with multiple block references with varying non-affine transformations could produces broken objects.

New in Capture Student Edition 2024.0.33 (Mar 9, 2024)

  • Licensing:
  • An issue could case cause some older upgraded licence key files to be spontaneously unloaded.

New in Capture Student Edition 2024.0.32 (Mar 8, 2024)

  • Fixture Commands:
  • Fixture related commands did not always enable correctly.
  • Movie Rendering:
  • The option for multi-aperture rendered was not remembered correctly.
  • Plot Adjustments:
  • The switch enabling plot adjustments rendered black.
  • Texture Generators:
  • The input field for the number of rows to use in matrix texture generators was ignored.
  • Media Players:
  • Only the first half of media player entries were selectable with DMX.
  • Animated Objects:
  • Shadows glitches could be observed with animated objects.
  • Asian Characters:
  • Rendering of Asian characters did not function correctly on Windows on lower resolutions.
  • Scene States:
  • Scene states were lost for fixtures and trusses when updated to newer definitions

New in Capture Student Edition 2024.0.31 (Mar 5, 2024)

  • Licensing:
  • An issue could case cause upgraded licence key files to be spontaneously unloaded.

New in Capture Student Edition 2024.0.30 (Mar 5, 2024)

  • The first release of Capture 2024 was version 2024.0.30, the 5th of March 2024.

New in Capture Student Edition 2023.1.9 (Feb 10, 2024)

  • Text imported from DWG could appear offset.
  • Fixture Information
  • The location of fixture information could shift when zooming in wireframe views.
  • Measure Mode
  • Measure mode did not function in views after the Swing Camera to Selection command had been used.
  • Ambient Occlusion
  • Ambient occlusion issues could result in too bright ambient lighting.
  • Aperture Orientation
  • Framing shutters, gobos or any patterns appeared upside down in apertures.
  • Pixel Tubes
  • The shape of pixel tubes did not always update when optics were changed.
  • Laser Beams
  • Laser beams could disappear when other lasers were turned off.

New in Capture Student Edition 2023.1.8 (Dec 14, 2023)

  • glTF Import:
  • Added support for embedded images in glTF files.
  • Plot Editor:
  • Closing the plot editor while editing properties could lead to crashes.
  • Edit Material:
  • CSelecting "Edit Material" for an object's material could lead to a crash.
  • Universe View:
  • Resizing universe views could lead to crashes.
  • Polygon Editor:
  • It was possible to add overlapping points to polygons, resultin in broken geometry.
  • Transparent Panels:
  • Transparent panel rendering could break up at larger distances.
  • Frosted Materials:
  • Frosted materials rendered too bright with ambient lighting.
  • Focus Visualisation:
  • Visualisation of focus did not work unless a gobo, iris or framing shutters were inserted.
  • Saving Files:
  • Including a dot in filenames when saving on Mac could result in the wrong file format.
  • Sequential Patch:
  • Dots in universe names could result in incorrect sequential patch behaviour.

New in Capture Student Edition 2023.1.7 (Oct 30, 2023)

  • Casts Shadows:
  • The casts shadows property of imported objects is now available when in groups and the group is selected.
  • Duplicate Report:
  • Duplicating reports could lead to crashes, both immediately and when closing the project file.
  • sACN Discovery:
  • Spurious crashes could occer when sACN discovery was enabled.
  • Library Updates:
  • Capture could crash after library updates if certain objects had been used.
  • Material Mapping:
  • The specified size of the material was not taken into account correctly while mapping.
  • Colour Options:
  • Changing colours of the user interface could affect the transparency of user interface elements.
  • Eos CSV:
  • Importing patch information using Eos CSV did not work as intended for some patch notations.
  • Paperwork Order:
  • When exporting multiple plots or reports they would not always be exported in the correct order.
  • SSAO Flicker:
  • Screen-space ambient occlusion could cause flickering on objects at great distances.
  • Video Freeze:
  • Video player movie playback could freeze if no live view was open for more than 20 seconds.
  • Licence Uninstall:
  • Licence key files could not be uninstalled if they had not been unlocked.
  • Large Files:
  • Project files larger than 4 GB could not be opened.

New in Capture Student Edition 2023.1.6 (Sep 19, 2023)

  • Motion Fixtures:
  • Assigning motion fixtures in a group to control the group itself could result in a hang.
  • Control Pane:
  • The mouse could jump to odd positions in multi-monitor setups when using the control pane on macOS.
  • Water Jets:
  • Wide water jets did not render well at lower intensities.
  • Motion Fixtures:
  • It was not possible to delete a motion fixture that had been added to a fixture group.
  • Gobo Wheels:
  • The speed of gobo change was too slow in fixtures with very slow variable gobo rotation speed.
  • Emissive Surfaces:
  • Depth precision glitches could be observed in emissive surfaces.

New in Capture Student Edition 2023.1.5 (Aug 21, 2023)

  • Sort Order:
  • The sort order of DMX patch and fixture groups was incorrect.

New in Capture Student Edition 2023.1.4 (Aug 18, 2023)

  • Report Layout:
  • Table content could overflow page boundaries.
  • Rigging Reports:
  • Sorting by rigging coordinate in reports produces unintuitive results.
  • Group Layer:
  • Newly created groups were not assigned to a layer.
  • Gobo Rotation:
  • The direction of gobo rotation, both indexed and spinning, was incorrect.
  • DWG Import:
  • Lines imported from blocks in DWG files ended up at the wrong location.
  • MVR Export:
  • Exported MVR files were missing all but the first fixture types' GDTF files.
  • Panel Reports:
  • Panels did not provide any power rating in reports.

New in Capture Student Edition 2023.1.3 (Jul 4, 2023)

  • Hanging Dialogs:
  • On Windows, Capture could hang temporarily in dialogs that have been open for several minutes.
  • Throws Light:
  • Turning on and off the Throws Light property of fixtures could cause erratic lighting behaviour in other fixtures.
  • MVR Unit:
  • Fixtures' Unit properties could export incorrectly when containing a combination of text and numbers.

New in Capture Student Edition 2023.1.2 (Jun 20, 2023)

  • MVR Import:
  • Support for GDTF 1.2 and GLB geometry files has been added.
  • MVR Export:
  • Trusses are now exported as symbols.
  • NDI Update:
  • Updated to NDI 5.5.4.
  • MA-Net3 NIC:
  • It is now possible to select the network interface to use for MA-Net3.
  • Project Files:
  • Various improvements to verify and ensure the integrity of saved project files.
  • Corrupt Projects:
  • Replacing internal fixture identifier when importing fixture data could lead to corrupt project files.
  • Rendering Glitches:
  • Visualisation on Mac could contain glitches with emissive materials at certain angles and distances from objects.
  • Distracting Edges:
  • Built-in forms such as the cylinder could leave distracting edges.
  • Off-screen Windows:
  • Dialogs and windows could sometimes open partially off-screen on Windows.
  • Measure Units:
  • Measurement units in automatic unit mode now allow mixed imperial units, i.e. 4' 2".

New in Capture Student Edition 2023.0.25 (Jun 5, 2023)

  • Window Resize:
  • Resizing a design view in Live mode to a wide but very low height size could lead to a crash.
  • Pixel Tubes:
  • Using pixel tubes and omnidirectional fixtures could lead to crashes on some Macs with Intel GPUs.
  • Corrupt Project Files:
  • Recording snapshots with missing thumbnails could result in project files that could not be loaded again.
  • Library Download:
  • Automatic installation of library updates downloaded inside Capture could fail with an incorrect incompatibility error.

New in Capture Student Edition 2023.0.24 (May 17, 2023)

  • Open Project:
  • Opening a valid project file could fail under extremely rare circumstances.
  • Save Project:
  • Shutting off the computer forcibly immediately after saving a project could lead to corrupt files.

New in Capture Student Edition 2023.0.23 (Apr 18, 2023)

  • Demo Timeout:
  • The demo version could crash after the demo timeout had elapsed.
  • Movie Rendering:
  • Occasional black frames and glitches could appear in rendered movies

New in Capture Student Edition 2023.0.22 (Mar 31, 2023)

  • Chinese Reports:
  • Capture could crash when displaying some reports in Chinese.
  • Snapshot Recording:
  • Visualisation would freeze when opening modal dialogs on Windows, such as the movie snapshot recording dialog.
  • Layer Key:
  • Plot layer keys could show layers in the wrong order.
  • Snapping:
  • Snapping could malfunction after having used a keyboard shortcut to navigate away from a design view.
  • Transform:
  • The transform dialog did not remember what type of transformation was last performed.
  • Page Setup:
  • The built in page sizes for Letter was incorrect.
  • Slide Projectors:
  • The quality of images projected with slide projectors was very low.
  • glTF Import:
  • Importing glTF files from paths containing international characters failed without an explanation.
  • Symbol Key:
  • Symbols in the plot symbol key were shown mirrored.
  • Fixtures Window:
  • When opening the fixtures window it did not initially reflect the current selection.
  • DWG Export:
  • Exporting imported objects with modified drawing units could get the wrong scale.

New in Capture Student Edition 2022.0.30 (Feb 3, 2023)

  • Recording Snapshots:
  • Causing changes to the list of snapshots while editing the name of a snapshot caused a crash.
  • MVR Export:
  • The UnitNumber field was exported as empty when no number was available.
  • Omnidirectionals:
  • The brightness of omnidirectional fixtures in renders was wrong.
  • MA-Net2:
  • The configuration dialog for MA-Net2 opened up too small.

New in Capture Student Edition 2022.0.29 (Dec 1, 2022)

  • GlTF Export:
  • The glTF asset generator property now includes the full Capture version number.
  • GlTF Export:
  • Control characters in fields in the CAPTURE_model extension were not escaped, causing invalid glTF files.
  • Model Import:
  • File paths in 3DS and OBJ files including folder separators (/, ) needed to match the system standard separator.

New in Capture Student Edition 2022.0.28 (Nov 14, 2022)

  • Administrative Install:
  • Administrative key file installation could crash.

New in Capture Student Edition 2022.0.27 (Nov 4, 2022)

  • Exporting Polygons:
  • Exporting polygons without an extrusion to glTF lead to a crash.
  • Expression Editing:
  • Entering "(1" as an expression when editing dimensions caused a crash.
  • ETC Eos:
  • Exiting Capture while connected to ETC Eos using OSC could lead to Capture hanging.
  • Laser Beams:
  • Laser beams could glitch or disappear under certain circumstances.
  • Media Content:
  • Locally played back or streaming media could freeze up if assigned to both materials and video projectors.
  • Project Export:
  • Exporting projects with plot frames to Capture Argo would fail.
  • Shadow Artefacts:
  • Shadow artefacts could occasionally be seen when zooming.
  • Fixture Annotations:
  • Annotations of fixtures not using symbols could become hidden by the fixture.
  • DWG Export:
  • Exporting objects with names that differ only in case lead to failure.
  • DWG Import:
  • Importing DWG files with scaling block references could lead to inconsistencies.
  • Direction Snap:
  • Setting the direction snap of a fixture to 0 still produced a snapping result.
  • Multi Patch:
  • Changing modes of fixtures with multiple patch modes could produce odd DMX response behaviour.
  • Fixture Strobe:
  • Fixtures with specific strobing behaviour responded incorrectly to the control pane.
  • Imperial Measures:
  • Zero values would be shown in metres when using imperial measurements.
  • View Zooming:
  • When FoV-zooming a view, other views did not update.
  • Donut Apertures:
  • Donut apertures rendered with a small gap.
  • Quick Information:
  • The wattage showin in the quick information window did not include report items.

New in Capture Student Edition 2022.0.26 (Aug 11, 2022)

  • Location Property:
  • Manually entered location information for cables and LED panels was not saved.
  • Emissive Materials:
  • Rendering of objects with emissive materials could appear glitchy under specific circumstances.

New in Capture Student Edition 2022.0.25 (Jul 4, 2022)

  • Colour Picker:
  • The colour picker on macOS has been enhanced with an HSV mode.
  • MVR Import:
  • Importing MVR files with other than 3DS geometry content now warns that this is not supported.
  • Measurements:
  • There were decimal separator inconsistencies between different measurement unit options.
  • Cable Location:
  • The location displayed for cables was sometimes incorrect.
  • Dual Patch:
  • Filters did not apply correctly to dual patch fixtures when only one patch point was in use.

New in Capture Student Edition 2022.0.24 (Jun 7, 2022)

  • Cable Location
  • The location property has been added to cable objects.
  • Movie Rendering
  • Rendering movies to EXR did not work on Mac.
  • Auto Quality
  • Automatic visualisation quality exhibited erratic behaviour on some Windows systems.
  • MVR Import/Export
  • Fixture orientations did not conform to stipulated GDTF fixture orientations when exporting and importing MVR files.
  • Pixel Tubes
  • The whole aperture failed to render for pixel tubes shorter than 1m.
  • Movie Rendering
  • Bitrate options did not adjust properly for other than 25 fps frame rates.
  • Laser Visualisation
  • Artefacts could sometimes be seen in laser projector beams.

New in Capture Student Edition 2022.0.23 (May 20, 2022)

  • Open Project:
  • Reduced the time it takes to open project files with many fixture groups.
  • Annotation Selection:
  • It has been made easier to select annotations using Ctrl/Cmd + drag select.
  • Prism Facets:
  • Increased maximum number of supported prism facets to 72.
  • Video Projections:
  • The resolution of video projects has been increased.
  • Colour Picker:
  • Defining custom colours in the (non material) colour picker could cases crashes on macOS. The system colour picker has been replaced with a new custom colour picker.
  • File Types:
  • Capture c2p and c2s were not correctly associated with Capture on macOS.
  • Fixture Update:
  • Updating effect fixtures with new library definitions caused them to loose some properties.
  • Groups:
  • The Delete and Break Group commands were incorrectly available in groups with only one remaining object.
  • Snapshots Naming:
  • The text input box used for entering new snapshot names was transparent in Dark Mode on macOS.

New in Capture Student Edition 2022.0.20 (Apr 12, 2022)

  • Model Import:
  • Capture project navigator visibility settings are now ignored in model import window.
  • Model Export:
  • Exporting models to glTF or GLB could cause crashes with troubled models.
  • Aperture Rendering:
  • Aperture rendering and bloom could appear broken on Macs with Intel GPUs.
  • Mirroring:
  • Mirroring was enabled by mistake when individual groups in objects were selected, possibly leading to objects disappearing.
  • Equipment Reports:
  • New equipment reports included an invalid column that prevented cables from being shown. (This needs to be removed from existing reports, or have the equipment report recreated.)
  • Windows Locations
  • Window locations were not remembered correctly.
  • Fixture Data Export:
  • The filter option was not applied correctly in fixture data export.
  • View Navigator:
  • Changing the View Navigator option did not always refresh the view.
  • Search Fields:
  • Fixture and library tab search fields did not scroll with entered text.

New in Capture Student Edition 2022.0.19 (Mar 25, 2022)

  • Open Project:
  • Capture could freeze when opening project files with patched cameras.
  • Camera Changes:
  • Capture could crash when triggering camera changes over DMX.
  • View Panoration:
  • It was not possible to toggle panoration on and off while navigating using a touchpad.

New in Capture Student Edition 2021.1.15 (Feb 27, 2022)

  • Movie Rendering:
  • Capture could crash when rendering movie snapshots on Macs with eGPUs.
  • Emissive Materials:
  • Precision issues could be observed with emissive objects in views with cameras with a small field of view.

New in Capture Student Edition 2021.1.13 (Feb 19, 2022)

  • Movie Rendering:
  • Large amounts of memory could be allocated during movie rendering on macOS, causing failures.
  • Presentation Export:
  • Presentations exported with dots in the filename would not open automatically.
  • PosiStageNet:
  • The orientation of motion constructs was mirrored.
  • Property Tables:
  • Property group headings rendered with transparent background on macOS 12 Monterey.

New in Capture Student Edition 2021.1.11 (Dec 16, 2021)

  • MA-Net3 plugins have been reenabled on macOS 12 Monterey. Loading the plugin can now be disabled in the options, in case of problems.
  • Filtering the fixtures in the presence of uncontrollable fixtures could lead to a crash.
  • Pressing enter to edit if no property is selected could cause a crash on Windows.
  • Property group headings rendered with transparent background on macOS 12 Monterey.
  • The wattage of multi-cell fixtures was not calculated correctly.
  • The edges of beams could render incorrectly in some very specific cases.
  • It was possible to set the length of a distance to 0.

New in Capture Student Edition 2021.1.10 (Oct 29, 2021)

  • Auto Quality:
  • Improved automatic quality on Silicon Macs.
  • MA-Net3:
  • MA-Net3 plugins malfunction on macOS 12 Monterey. MA-Net3 has been disabled on macOS 12 Monterey for the time being.
  • Fixture Focusing:
  • Focusing fixtures with more complex constructions could fail.
  • Plot Symbols:
  • Applying a smaller than 100% scaling to plot symbols resulted in text appearing upside down.
  • Continuous Pan/Tilt:
  • Fixtures with continuous pan and tilt could take unexpected shortcuts.
  • Eos OSC:
  • Focusing fixtures with multiple pan and tilt axis could fail.
  • Beam Render:
  • Beams with very specific aperture designs could disappear in renders.

New in Capture Student Edition 2021.1.9 (Oct 7, 2021)

  • Eos OSC:
  • Configurable TCP port for Eos OSC communication.
  • MA3 viz-key:
  • Support for the MA3 viz-key on Apple Silicon / M1.
  • TDR Validation:
  • Option to disable TDR settings validation on Windows.
  • Omnidirectionals:
  • Lighting from omnidirectional fixtures placed behind objects could still be seen under some circumstances.
  • Stuck Iris:
  • When replacing a fixture with an iris accessory with another fixture that does not support an iris accessory, the old iris setting could prevail without a chance to clear it.
  • PDF Export:
  • Exporting plots to PDF failed on Windows if the plot name contained invalid filename characters.
  • Imperial Units
  • The automatic detection of imperial units has been relaxed a bit.
  • glTF import:
  • Importing glTF files with unsupported required extensions could cause a hang or crash.

New in Capture Student Edition 2021.1.7 (Sep 17, 2021)

  • DWG Export:
  • Exporting layers with the apostrophes in the name resulted in an internal error.
  • CTC Visualisation:
  • Some fixtures with CTC channels visualised incorrectly.
  • Blackout Filters:
  • Fixtures with blackout filters caused rendering issues.
  • MVR Import:
  • Focus points were not processed, resulting in loss of focusing information for conventionals.

New in Capture Student Edition 2021.1.6 (Jul 8, 2021)

  • Colour Mixing:
  • Colour mixing fixtures with HSV control could cause Capture to freeze.
  • Colour Mixing:
  • Colour mixing and dimming omnidirectional fixtures was not possible.

New in Capture Student Edition 2021.1.5 (Jul 1, 2021)

  • Beam Resolution:
  • The resolution of beams has been improved when using the "Automatic, favour quality" visualisation quality setting.
  • Colour Mixing:
  • Mixing colours of some RGB and WRGB fixtures with the control pane produced odd results.
  • Ambient Occlusion:
  • The screen-space ambient occlusion was noisy at high ambient lighting levels.

New in Capture Student Edition 2021.1.4 (Jun 15, 2021)

  • MA-Net3:
  • Support for MA-Net3 and the MA3 viz-key.
  • Silicon NDI:
  • Added support for NDI on Apple Silicon.
  • Colour Mixing:
  • Improved control or multi-layer multi-aperture colour mixing fixtures.
  • Fixture Group Report:
  • Added unit and circuit columns to the fixture groups report table source.
  • Windows Integrity:
  • Added verification of Windows TDR registry key integrity.
  • Quit:
  • Cancelling the project save dialog on Quit on macOS lead to a crash.
  • Beam Rendering:
  • The lighting output from rectangular single-aperture fixtures was cut off.
  • Beam Rendering:
  • Beams did not render correctly behind alpha channel textured objects.
  • Luminous Objects:
  • The edges of luminous objects could occasionally be seen through other non-luminous objects.
  • Water Jets:
  • The number of water jets patchable was incorrectly limited in the Solo, Duet and Quartet editions.
  • DWG Export:
  • Exporting project files with layer names ending with underscores and numbers, ie. "_2", could lead to internal errors.

New in Capture Student Edition 2021.0.39 (May 12, 2021)

  • Model Import: Importing objects with partial tangent data could lead to a crash.
  • Reflection Planes: Rendering designs with reflection planes could lead to a crash.
  • 3DS / MVR: Importing mirrored objects lead to rendering issues.

New in Capture Student Edition 2021.0.38 (May 6, 2021)

  • Connectivity:
  • Capture could crash when a console disconnected, as well as on exit if a console was still connected.
  • Fixture Information:
  • The Fixture Information layer property did not work.
  • Reflection Planes:
  • There were various issues with reflection planes when rendering.
  • Materials:
  • There were various issues with emissive and reflective materials, both in visualisation and rendering.
  • Selection:
  • In project with large amounts of objects, some objects could become impossible to select.
  • Dialogs:
  • Several dialogs opened too small for the entire contents to be visible.
  • Demo:
  • Exiting the demo version after it had timed out lead to a crash.

New in Capture Student Edition 2021.0.37 (Apr 22, 2021)

  • General performance improvements in visualisation.
  • Materials
  • Capture could crash when removing or modifying materials.
  • When controlling fixtures with multiple patch points it was possibly to access functionality from patch points that had not been patched.
  • Measurement handles lost their layer assignment when reopening a project.
  • Reflection planes associated with a motion fixtures did not in fact respond to it.
  • In designs with large amounts of objects some objects could become unselectable.
  • When rendering movies, video player and media stream frames could fall out if each frame took too long to render.
  • When moving a camera close to imported objects they could occasionally disappear as specific positions.
  • Plot annotations with the Visibility property set to No became visible in views with the Hidden Objects option set to Yes.
  • The vortex effect available in some fixtures did not render correctly on Mac.

New in Capture Student Edition 2021.0.35 (Apr 1, 2021)

  • Line Weight:
  • The minimum line weight of layers has been reduced to 0.1 pt.
  • Line Rendering:
  • Capture could hang when rendering the new line object.
  • Beam Rendering:
  • Beams could appear degenerate in some quality settings, especially with breakup gobos and wide beams.
  • Effect Rendering:
  • Flame and CO2 effects could render "choppily" if the computer had been on without a restart for long.

New in Capture Student Edition 2021.0.34 (Mar 23, 2021)

  • Rendering:
  • Reduced TDR sensitivity (likelihood of video card timeouts) when rendering.
  • Reports:
  • Viewing reports from old projects files or removing columns in reports could lead to crashes.
  • Presentations:
  • Presentations failed fail to start on macOS.
  • DWG Export:
  • Exporting projects with multiple objects with the same drawing name to DWG could fail with an internal error.
  • MVR Files:
  • Channel information field mapping changed from FixtureId to FixtureID.
  • Special Effects:
  • Control over special effect parameters in the control pane could be lost when changing DMX modes.

New in Capture Student Edition 2021.0.33 (Mar 14, 2021)

  • Visualisation automatic quality and performance enhancements.
  • Changing the extrusion to or from 0 could cause a crash.
  • Material alpha mask cutoff was exported regardless of alpha mode.
  • Fixtures could be patched on the wrong universes.
  • Some fixture types could result in broken MVR exports.
  • The MVR Unit Number field could be exported with non-digit characters.
  • Depth variation artefacts in multi-aperture fixture beams have been reduced.
  • Opening project files saved in Capture Argo could fail.

New in Capture Student Edition 2021.0.32 (Mar 9, 2021)

  • Dependencies:
  • Some software dependencies were not installed correctly, causing Capture to not start on some machines.
  • Student Edition:
  • Saving projects files in the Student Edition lead to a crash.

New in Capture Student Edition 2021.0.31 (Mar 9, 2021)

  • The first release of Capture 2021 was version 2021.0.31, the 9th of March 2021.

New in Capture Student Edition 2020.0.55 (Mar 3, 2021)

  • Open Project:
  • Opening older project files with old fixture definitions could lead to a crash.

New in Capture Student Edition 2020.0.54 (Jan 11, 2021)

  • Mac AMD GPUs:
  • The automatic quality restrictions for Macs with some AMD GPU's have been lifted provided that macOS 11.1 or later is used.
  • Broken Files:
  • Capture could hang when loading broken project files.
  • Plot Snapping:
  • Snapping of plot insets malfunctioned under specific circumstances.
  • Rendering:
  • Glitches in the screen-space ambient occlusion could be seen in lower rendering qualities.

New in Capture Student Edition 2020.0.53 (Dec 3, 2020)

  • Support for Compulite VC as external DMX source for CITP universes.
  • Laser Feeds
  • Support for encrypted CITP/CAEX laser feeds.
  • Snapshot Rendering
  • A DMX frame could occasionally be omitted when during movie snapshot rendering.
  • macOS Stability
  • Capture could potentially crash on startup for users with international characters in their user names.

New in Capture Student Edition 2020.0.51 (Oct 27, 2020)

  • Mac Intel:
  • Lifted restrictions on Intel GPUs on macOS.
  • Video Panels:
  • Improved the quality of video on panels.

New in Capture Student Edition 2020.0.50 (Oct 27, 2020)

  • Lifted restrictions on Intel GPUs on macOS.
  • Improved the quality of video on panels.

New in Capture Student Edition 2020.0.48 (Sep 21, 2020)

  • Fixture Patch:
  • Fixtures patched on invalid DMX addresses could cause crashes.
  • Reflection Planes:
  • Beams could render at incorrect locations in reflection planes under very specific circumstances.
  • Fill Lighting:
  • Fill lighting could not be completely turned off without being set to 0%.

New in Capture Student Edition 2020.0.47 (Aug 28, 2020)

  • Pixel Tubes:
  • The "Throws Light" property has been enabled for pixel tube fixtures so that they can be removed from the fill lighting effect.
  • Windows Resizing:
  • Resizing plot and universe editors could cause Capture to hang on Windows.
  • Emissive Materials:
  • Emissive materials did not render correctly for some GPUs on macOS 10.14.
  • Fixture Focusing:
  • Focusing of some multi-part fixtures behaved incorrectly.

New in Capture Student Edition 2020.0.45 (Jul 3, 2020)

  • Support for CITP CAEX revision F.

New in Capture Student Edition 2020.0.44 (Jun 26, 2020)

  • Shadow Quality:
  • The quality of shadows for multi-aperture fixtures has been increased.
  • Stability:
  • Capture could hang or crash on exit if failing to connect to an Eos console.
  • Capture could crash on exit if another project file was opened in the Explorer on Windows before it had finished exiting.
  • Mapping Regions:
  • It was not possible to input 0 offsets for mapping regions.
  • Console Patch:
  • Patch information could linger across different shows.
  • Console Patch:
  • The position and orientation of fixtures not yet patched could be lost under specific circumstances.

New in Capture Student Edition 2020.0.42 (May 28, 2020)

  • Frame list report contents were incorrect.
  • Commands could become incorrectly available or unavailable in undocked views on macOS.
  • The quick focus (right click) tool always took focus planes into account.
  • The fill lighting effect responded incorrectly to some zooming fixtures.

New in Capture Student Edition 2020.0.40 (May 7, 2020)

  • Reports:
  • Deleting all sources from a report would cause Capture to crash.
  • Reflection Planes:
  • Objects using self illuminated materials could be seen from the wrong side of reflection planes.
  • Colour Mixing:
  • Some types of RGB colour mixing fixtures visualised very dark.
  • Laser Projections:
  • Laser projections could not be seen on transparent surfaces.
  • Plot Editing:
  • Navigating plot view insets was very slow.
  • International Chars:
  • Many international characters did not show on plots on macOS.
  • Shutter Control:
  • Opening the shutter of some multi-cell fixtures using the control pane could cause some cells to strobe.
  • Aperture Vis.:
  • Apertures of large (typically panel) fixtures did not visualise properly at large distances.
  • Fill Lighting:
  • Atmospheric fill lighting from fixtures without beams did not render unless some fixtures with beams were on.
  • Laser Rendering:
  • Lasers did not appear in renders.
  • Fixture Focusing:
  • Focusing fixtures with 3D models that do not tilt upwards when pan is homed caused focusing offsets.

New in Capture Student Edition 2020.0.36 (Apr 21, 2020)

  • Automatic Quality:
  • Quality favouring automatic rendering quality has been adjusted to trade framerate for quality to a higher extent.
  • Art-Net & sACN
  • Art-Net and sACN universes disappearing could cause Capture to hang.
  • HDR Rendering:
  • Rendering to HDR EXR files could cause Capture to crash.
  • Camera Patch:
  • Making project modifications while cameras are patched could cause Capture to crash or hang.
  • Drag & Drop:
  • Certain aborted drag and drop operations could cause Capture to hang.
  • DWG Import:
  • Importing DWG file with broken material references could cause Capture to crash.
  • Movie Rendering:
  • It was possible to render a movie snapshot while playing it back which could cause camera position flickering in the rendered output.
  • Fixture Patch:
  • Patching grouped fixtures using drag and drop could skip the grouped fixtures.
  • Rendering:
  • Some fixtures rendered with incorrect colours and colour banding.
  • glTF Import:
  • The KHR_texture_transform extension was not handled correctly.

New in Capture Student Edition 2020.0.33 (Apr 9, 2020)

  • Panel Location:
  • It is now possible to edit the location property of LED panels.
  • Rigging Points:
  • The maximum weight of rigging points has been increased to 50 tonnes.
  • Render Quality:
  • Offline renders did not force multi-aperture fixtures to render with individual apertures.
  • Model Import:
  • Closing Capture with open model import windows would lead to a crash.
  • Eos OSC:
  • Capture could hang while connected to Eos.
  • Framing Shutters:
  • Changing the external accessory of a fixture with framing shutter cuts would reset the shutter cuts.
  • Report Items:
  • The multiplier property of report items did not reflect properly in reports.

New in Capture Student Edition 2020.0.30 (Mar 26, 2020)

  • Performance:
  • Improved performance of colour mixing fixture visualisation.
  • Beam Quality:
  • Improved quality of beams in lower resolutions.
  • Eos OSC:
  • Shutting down Eos could cause Capture to crash.
  • Model Import:
  • Importing models with textures larger than 8192 x 8192 pixels could cause Capture to crash.
  • Presentations:
  • Keyboard shortcuts did not work for commands in the Edit menu.
  • Intensity Scaling:
  • The intensity scaling property of fixtures only worked in one beam in fixtures with multiple beams.

New in Capture Student Edition 2020.0.29 (Mar 12, 2020)

  • Focus Planes:
  • Deleting a focus plane could cause a crash.
  • SketchUp Import:
  • SketchUp 2020 files did not import on Windows.
  • Eos OSC:
  • Capture could freeze as connections attempts to Eos were being made.
  • View Navigator:
  • The orbit / panoration button of the view navigator did not change its icon based on the global free-flight navigation setting.
  • Patched Cameras:
  • Playing back movie snapshots with camera positions of patched cameras could produce spurious jumps of the camera to origo.
  • Decorative Fixtures:
  • The performance of decorative fixtures in large projects was poor.
  • Translation Tool:
  • The local language could be shown instead of English on the right hand side

New in Capture Student Edition 2019 (2.9) (Feb 18, 2020)

  • Property Editing:
  • A few rare property editing scenarios could cause Capture to freeze.
  • Fixture Snapping:
  • Snapping fixtures to vertical trusses could causes fixture to disappear.
  • Fixture Data Export:
  • The DMX channel count of fixtures was always exported as 0.
  • Control Pane:
  • Some fixtures with dual dimmer channels were not controllable.
  • DWG Import:
  • Fixture orientation was not preserved for block references with block references.
  • Widget Fast Copying:
  • Fast copying widget type objects produced offsets.
  • Small Apertures:
  • Very small fixture apertures could occasionally be omitted.

New in Capture Student Edition 2019 (2.7) (Nov 27, 2019)

  • The keyboard shortcut to hide/show quality information in a live design view collided with a macOS system shortcut and has been changed from Shift + Q to Shift + K.
  • Motion Fixture:
  • Grouping and breaking groups of objects including motion fixtures lead to the motion fixtures being deassociated with objects they were controlling.
  • Object Selection:
  • Drag selecting measures and annotations was not possible on macOS.
  • Video Card Crashes:
  • The video card crash error dialog could cause Capture to freeze on macOS.
  • Transparency:
  • Transparent objects did not render correctly in perspective view plot insets.
  • Measurements:
  • Cloned measurements were incorrectly rotated in the process.
  • Object Properties:
  • Property group headers overlapped properties of objects on macOS.
  • Application Signing:
  • The Capture executable was not propertly signed on Windows.

New in Capture Student Edition 2019 (2.4) (Oct 25, 2019)

  • Model Import:
  • Closing the model import window lead to crashes if a new project had been opened in the meanwhile.
  • Rendering Artefacts:
  • Dark horizontal lines could appear in renderings.
  • Multiaperture Fixtures:
  • Fixtures with more than 128 apertures could fail to visualise correctly.
  • Media Servers;
  • Streaming video input from media server could fail to work when reopening a project.
  • Welcome Window:
  • Filenames containing an ampersand were shown with double ampersands.
  • DMX Mover & Rotator:
  • It was not possible to home DMX Movers or Rotators in the control pane.
  • Object Shadows:
  • Shadows of objects did not update correctly when resized.

New in Capture Student Edition 2019 (2.2) (Oct 9, 2019)

  • Selecting fixtures with the control pane open could lead to crashes under rare circumstances.
  • Edit Material
  • Using the material editing shortcut from the Selected items Design tab category could cause crashes.
  • Repeated Add
  • Repeatedly adding items in the Design tab could cause crashes on macOS.
  • Art-Net
  • The wrong ESTA manufacturer code was used in ArtPollReply packets.

New in Capture Student Edition 2019 (2.1) (Sep 26, 2019)

  • Exporting presentations on macOS now creates a zip archive containing a (protected) version of the project file paired with a presenter app.
  • Texture Rendering:
  • When rendering images and videos, material textures are now rendered using anisotropic filtering, improving the fidelity of textures.
  • Patch Sync:
  • When Capture detects a patch mismatch with fixtures reported by the console, an option has been added to break the patch link for these fixtures, thus treating all mismatching fixtures as new fixtures.
  • Art-Net:
  • In order to support Art-Net controllers dependent on Art-Net polling for transmission, Capture now sends ArtPollReply messages in response to ArtPoll messages using directed broadcast. This allows the ArtPollReply messages to reach the controller if it is running on the same computer.
  • SketchUp Import:
  • The rate of polygon and line progress feedback during import from SketchUp has been reduced. This reduces the risk of the report from reaching its maximum length and the following information to be lost.

New in Capture Student Edition 2019 (1.7) (Aug 29, 2019)

  • Framing Shutters:
  • Framing shutter cuts could get stuck when replacing fixtures with fixtures that don't support framing shutters.
  • Video Rendering:
  • Smoke did not animate in movie snapshots rendered to video.
  • DWG Materials:
  • Materials were not read correctly for objects in blocks.
  • Flatscreens:
  • Changing the material of a flatscreen lead to its frame becoming light gray.
  • Attached Fixtures:
  • Fixtures attached to other fixtures could be left dangling if the host fixture was given a paper adjustment.
  • Line Widths:
  • The line width of lines rendered incorrectly in perspective views.
  • Patch Overshoot:
  • Fixtures patched beyond the limits of a universe could display odd behavior.
  • Fixture Home:
  • Homing a fixture always returned wheels to their first frame even if it was not open.

New in Capture Student Edition 2019 (1.6) (Aug 7, 2019)

  • Pangolin Projectors:
  • The maximum number of projectors supported has been increased to 256.
  • Renders:
  • The top left rectangle of renders was of lower quality than the rest of the image or first video frame if the automatic quality rendering setting was enabled.
  • Animation Wheels:
  • The orientation of animation wheels in the visualisation was incorrect.

New in Capture Student Edition 2019 (1.5) (Aug 1, 2019)

  • Omnidirectional Smoke:
  • Omnidirectional fixtures did not visualise in smoke on macOS.
  • Video Capture:
  • Used video capture devices were not released until Capture quit on macOS.
  • grandMA2 XML:
  • Fixture data exported to grandMA2 XML did not transfer layer names correctly.
  • Plot Printing:
  • Single pixel gaps between printing tiles could be seen in printed plot views.
  • DWG Layers:
  • Attempting to export a model with two layers with identical names in different upper/lower case to DWG would result in an internal error.
  • Broken Positions:
  • Objects with broken positions caused model export to DWG to fail.

New in Capture Student Edition 2019 (1.4) (Jun 24, 2019)

  • Model Import:
  • Capture could crash on Windows when minimizing the import model window.
  • Measurements:
  • The edges of measurements did not snap to the measurement points and could not be positioned exactly using the transform command.
  • Symbol Key:
  • The plot symbol key configuration dialog scrollbar on Windows did not work correctly with high DPI settings.
  • Library Tab:
  • Dragging items from the library tab did not always work if done very quickly.
  • Motion Fixture:s
  • The Select all Motion Controlled command did not selected motion fixtures.
  • Fixture Data Import:
  • Importing CSV files exported by Capture preferred the external identifier column

New in Capture Student Edition 2019 (1.3) (Jun 4, 2019)

  • Reference Manual:
  • The manual command in the menu now links to the new online reference manual.
  • Media Servers:
  • Capture could crash when media servers disappear from the network.
  • Model Export:
  • Exporting the model to DXF/DWG did not work if a layer had an empty name.
  • Animation Wheels:
  • The orientation of animation wheels in the visualisation was incorrect.
  • Illuminated Materials:
  • Illuminated materials could appear fuzzy in the visualisation.

New in Capture Student Edition 2019 (1.2) (May 16, 2019)

  • Control Panel:
  • Control of non-white non-colour mixing emitter fixtures, such as for instance warm and cold white, is now supported.
  • Pangolin Projectors:
  • A settings option to configure the maximum number of projectors supported has been added.
  • Fullscreen Presentations
  • The white border around the view in maximised presentations has been removed (as long as the snapshot pane is not open).
  • Slider Properties:
  • The popup slider editor used for some properties can now be operated and closed with the keyboard.
  • Plot Precision:
  • A precision option like that for distance measurements has been added for truss trim height and rigging point coordinate annotatoins.
  • Library Tab:
  • The layout of the library tab has been improved to work better on narrow screen layouts.
  • Window Locations:
  • Window location memory has been added to plot, universe and report windows.
  • Mac Mouses:
  • A new settings option has been added to disable trackpad panoration.
  • Wide Shadows:
  • The precision of shadows from very wide angle fixtures has been improved.
  • Bloom Strength:
  • The strength of the bloom effect has been increased significantly.
  • Metal Timeouts:
  • Metal driver timeout detection has been improved.
  • SketchUp Import:
  • Support for importing models from SketchUp 2019 files has been added.
  • Fixture Adjustments:
  • New options to adjust the intensity and zoom and iris directions of fixtures have been added.
  • Movie Rendering:
  • Traces of the current state of fixtures when beginning movie rendering could be seen in the beginning of movies.
  • Hidden Fixtures:
  • Lighting from hidden and filtered fixtures could be seen.
  • Vanishing Properties:
  • The values of recently edited properties could become invisible in Dark Mode on macOS

New in Capture Student Edition 2019 (0.24) (May 13, 2019)

  • Visualisation:
  • Capture could crash when adding a laser projector under certain rendering settings.
  • Asymetric Optics:
  • Asymmetric optics of some types would not be visualised.
  • Hog4 Export:
  • Universe indexes for universes above 16 were not correctly exported.

New in Capture Student Edition 2019 (0.23) (May 1, 2019)

  • Presentations:
  • Presentations created on Windows would not start.

New in Capture Student Edition 2019 (0.22) (Apr 30, 2019)

  • Console Link:
  • Capture could crash when closing projects if a console link was present.
  • Snapping Issues:
  • Broken objects could cause snapping to send objects into invalid locations.
  • DWG Export:
  • Distance meusurements of no distance prevented DWG and DXF files from being exported.
  • Camera Focus:
  • The camera focus all and focus selection commands could send the camera to invalid locations.
  • macOS Dropdowns:
  • Dropdown could render incorrectly on macOS Dark Mode.
  • Window States:
  • The fixture and universes floating tool pane windows did not remember their location.
  • Quick Information:
  • Wattage information did not always show in the quick information window on Windows.
  • Plot Focus:
  • Textual fixture symbol information could render twice under certain circumstances.
  • Fixture Optics:
  • Changing the optics of a fixture did not always update the visualisation.
  • Control Pane:
  • When using the lamp on/off and home functions of the control pane with unpatched fixtures their controls did not update.
  • Snapping Inconsistencies:
  • The snapping point of fixtures to truss in front and section views could be unpredictable.

New in Capture Student Edition 2019 (0.21) (Apr 11, 2019)

  • Crash Reporter:
  • When starting Capture on Windows by double clicking a project file the crash reporter could not be found.
  • Laser Visualisation:
  • Beams would disappear in high quality atmospheric resolution if transparent objects were present but no lasers.

New in Capture Student Edition 2019 (0.20) (Apr 11, 2019)

  • Rendering Crashes:
  • Capture could crash when rendering images or videos when using laser projectors or many transparent objects.
  • Property Editing:
  • Slider and material colour property editors could open partially off-screen.
  • Laser Visualisation
  • When lasers were present in the project file, other beams would sometimes not show.
  • Quick Information:
  • The quick information window was unreadable when using Dark Mode on macOS.
  • Automatic Quality:
  • It was not possible to enable or disable the automatic quality rendering setting.

New in Capture Student Edition 2019 (0.19) (Mar 29, 2019)

  • Keyboard Shortcuts:
  • New shortcuts for Replace and Fixture Information were added.
  • External Universes:
  • Capture could crash when external universes were lost.
  • Visualisation:
  • Transparent objects were not always visualised correctly on Windows.
  • CITP Universes:
  • Using sACN universes as external DMX sources for CITP universes did not work.
  • Console Link:
  • Unpatched fixtures would always appear in the console patch list even if they had already been identified.
  • Console Link:
  • The reason for mismatching patch error messages is written to the log file.

New in Capture Student Edition 2018 (24.1.24) (Feb 26, 2019)

  • Large Selections:
  • Selecting very large amounts of objects could cause Capture to crash.
  • Filament Angle:
  • Filament angle adjustments did not visualize correctly.
  • Material Mapping:
  • Manually mapped materials on imported and scaled objects rendered incorrectly.
  • Scrollbars:
  • Horizontal scrollbars on macOS were broken.
  • SketchUp Import:
  • When failing to import a SketchUp file, the wrong version number was indicated as being the highest supported.

New in Capture Student Edition 2018 (24.1.22) (Jan 28, 2019)

  • Donut Apertures:
  • Visualizing fixtures with donut apertures would make Capture to crash.
  • Selection Order:
  • Selected items were not correctly sorted from left to right or top down in other than front views.
  • Fixture Symbols:
  • Fixture symbols and annotations did not render for omnidirectional fixtures.

New in Capture Student Edition 2018 (24.1.21) (Jan 11, 2019)

  • 3D Mouse:
  • Touching a 3D mouse while moving objects sent them into distant positions.
  • Fixture Focusing:
  • It was not possible to right click to focus fixtures on the latest updates of macOS 10.14 Mojave on some Intel video cards.
  • Windows 7:
  • Multiaperture fixtures rendered incorrectly and/or did not throw light on Windows 7.

New in Capture Student Edition 2018 (24.1.19) (Dec 6, 2018)

  • Rendering Engine:
  • The version and date of the video card drivers currently in use can be seen in the About dialog on Windows.
  • Universe View:
  • Text in the universe view was difficult to read.
  • Saving Images:
  • Saving an image from a non-live view produced black images on Windows.
  • Plot Editor:
  • Content of overlapping plot views could leak through to eachother on Windows.

New in Capture Student Edition 2018 (24.1.18) (Dec 1, 2018)

  • Movie Rendering:
  • Aborting movie rendering on macOS could cause Capture to hang.
  • Rendering Stability:
  • Various operations including importing models and rendering images and movies could cause crashes and/or trigger driver timeouts.
  • Snapshot Thumbnails:
  • Snapshot thumbnails could include widgets, fixture and quality information.
  • Replacing Fixtures:
  • The new fixtures when replacing fixtures controlled by motion controllers did not assume the correct location.

New in Capture Student Edition 2018 (24.1.16) (Nov 27, 2018)

  • LED Panels:
  • Semi-transparent LED panels cast shadows.
  • Fixture Replace:
  • Replacing scaled imported objects with fixtures resulted in scaled fixtures.
  • Aspect Ratio:
  • The aspect ratio visualization setting had no effect.
  • Luminous Materials:
  • Objects with luminous materials did not receive shadows correctly.
  • sACN Universes:
  • One fewer sACN universe than the maximum number of universes configured was received.

New in Capture Student Edition 2018 (24.1.15) (Nov 16, 2018)

  • Design crashes:
  • Switching back and forth between live mode in a view could lead to a crash.

New in Capture Student Edition 2018 (24.1.14) (Nov 14, 2018)

  • New Rendering Engine:
  • The new rendering engine has been made default, overriding previous choices in the configuration.
  • Grouping and ungrouping objects with transparent materials could cause a crash.
  • Rendering images and movies without atmosphere could cause a crash.
  • Rotating gobos did not visualize on macOS.
  • Rendering of very wide beams could break down in some angles.

New in Capture Student Edition 2018 (24.1.13) (Nov 9, 2018)

  • New Rendering Engine:
  • All features from the legacy rendering engine are now supported.
  • Library Tab:
  • Some content types did not sort consistently.
  • Plot Views:
  • The selection rectangle in front and section views could appear at the wrong location.

New in Capture Student Edition 2018 (24.1.12) (Oct 18, 2018)

  • New Rendering Engine:
  • The name of the GPU used is shown in the About dialog.
  • Dialog Locations:
  • Some dialogs could open on off locations on macOS.
  • macOS Mojave:
  • The user interface appeared broken, especially in Dark Mode.
  • Focus Camera:
  • Focusing on an object with a plot symbol in plot mode would throw the camera to an off location.

New in Capture Student Edition 2018 (24.1.10) (Sep 25, 2018)

  • Edges of backlit objects appeared fuzzy at lower rendering settings.
  • Using more than one live mode view at once caused glitches and flickering.
  • Negative shadows could appear from cloned objects on macOS.
  • Large green patches could appear when fixture information was enabled.

New in Capture Student Edition 2018 (24.1.9) (Sep 25, 2018)

  • New Rendering Engine:
  • Edges of backlit objects appeared fuzzy at lower rendering settings.
  • Using more than one live mode view at once caused glitches and flickering.
  • Negative shadows could appear from cloned objects on macOS.
  • Large green patches could appear when fixture information was enabled.

New in Capture Student Edition 2018 24.1.8 (Sep 12, 2018)

  • New Rendering Engine:
  • Capture could freeze on macOS when opening the first live view.
  • Various minor beam rendering issues were resolved.
  • LED panels could show artefacts at a distance.
  • Various performance improvements on macOS.
  • The intensity of light from omnidirectional fixtures was incorrect.

New in Capture Student Edition 2018 24.1.7 (Sep 7, 2018)

  • New Rendering Engine:
  • Handling of Windows driver crashes was improved.
  • Shadows rendered incorrectly.
  • Video projectors did not render correctly on macOS.
  • Performance of omnidirectional lights was improved.
  • End marker sizes of motion fixtures rendered incorrectly.
  • Some objects were visible even if they were behind the camera.
  • Image and video rendering rendered too bright.

New in Capture Student Edition 2018 24.1.6 (Aug 31, 2018)

  • CSV Import:
  • Fixture data exported to CSV files from the ETC Eos console are now supported.
  • Rendering Engine:
  • The automatic quality rendering setting has been implemented.
  • Laser projector visualization has been implemented.
  • Objects in locked layers remained selectable despite the global setting for such layers to be unselectable.
  • Edges of printouts could appear stretched.
  • The grid in plot views did not scale and position correctly.
  • Material Visualization:
  • When loading older project files with imported content, objects with a single material application were not converted and the material would not show in the new rendering engine.

New in Capture Student Edition 2018 24.1.4 (Aug 10, 2018)

  • Library Tab:
  • Fixture part number information has been added, making it easier to distinguish between fixture variations.
  • EntTec Devices:
  • EntTec DMX USB Pro devices are automatically set to receive and are listed even if they are not receiving any DMX.
  • NDI Sources:
  • Capture could crash in the event of malformed NDI source names.
  • Fixture Reports:
  • Unpatched fixtures were not included in reports.
  • Art-Net Options:
  • The IP-address option for Art-Net connectivity was missing its options.
  • Projector Dimming:
  • Video projectors with dimming capabilities were always turned on after opening a project.
  • Plot Key:
  • Fixture counts were reset to zero in cloned plot key insets.
  • Video:
  • Video player and capture device contents froze after rendering a movie snapshot.
  • Rendering Engine:
  • Aperture arrangements of multi aperture fixtures rendered upside down.
  • Water Jets:
  • The location of water emitted from water jets was not affected by motion fixtures.

New in Capture Student Edition 2018 24.1.3 (Aug 10, 2018)

  • Rendering Engine:
  • General performance improvements.

New in Capture Student Edition 2018 24.1.2 (Jun 29, 2018)

  • DWG Export:
  • Rotations of objects only slightly tilted off the Y axis exported incorrectly.
  • Rendering Engine:
  • Ambient lighting rendered incorrectly with ambient occlusion enabled.
  • Aperture arrangements of multi aperture fixtures rendered upside down.

New in Capture Student Edition 2018 24.1.1 (Jun 27, 2018)

  • Materials:
  • The ability to apply materials to all surfaces of library forms as well as trusses has been added.
  • Rendering Engine:
  • Visualization of LED panels, materials on all object types and omnidirectional lighting fixtures has been added.
  • 3DS Import:
  • Materials are now fully imported and objects are split by them.
  • Library Tab:
  • Column texts overflow, improving readability of product codes among other things.
  • Plot Symbols:
  • Power location bolt symbol is drawn for all fixture types, not just moving heads and yokes.
  • Trusses:
  • Non-generic trusses that have been edited in previous Capture versions are no longer updated to newer library versions to avoid ruining designs.
  • Connectivity:
  • Art-Net, CITP and sACN IP configuration settings are retained even if the IP address configured was temporarily unavailable.
  • LightWright Export:
  • Fixture location information is now exported as LightWright position information.
  • Rendering Engine:
  • Plot views could crash if a fixture did not have a symbol.
  • Measurement lines and arrows did not appear on plots.
  • Symbols could not be selected in wireframe views.
  • Shadows did not follow objects moved with motion fixtures.
  • Grid origo highlight were not visible on macOS.
  • Fill lighting did not work on macOS.
  • Texture Generator:
  • When cloning a material, texture generators were not included.
  • Fixture Data Import:
  • CSV files with quoted fields containing quote marks did not impomrt correctly.

New in Capture Student Edition 2018 24.0.14 (Jun 8, 2018)

  • sACN Universes:
  • A new configuration property to set the maximum number of sACN universes has been added.
  • Editing Crashes:
  • Switching Design tab categories or closing dialogs while editing numeric or text properties could cause a crash on macOS.
  • Rendering Engine:
  • Plot view inset content could disappear fully or partially.
  • Saving or rendering an image or movie from a view could produce all black results.
  • Fixture Replace:
  • Replacing fixtures with accessories with fixtures that could not hold the same accessories did not remove them.
  • Filter Editor:
  • The editing pane of filters in the Design tab did not sort layers by colour as expected.

New in Capture Student Edition 2018 24.0.11 (May 15, 2018)

  • Focus Sheets:
  • Exporting focus sheets with the legacy rendering would lead to a crash.
  • Universe View:
  • The universe view would not scale on high DPI monitors.
  • View Scroll:
  • Several views would not appear unless scrolled first on macOS.
  • List Sorting:
  • Renaming an item in a sorted multi-column list would not cause it to resort on macOS.

New in Capture Student Edition 2018 24.0.10 (May 4, 2018)

  • MA-Net:
  • The MA-Net configuration option was incorrectly available in presentations and could cause a crash if used.
  • DWG Export:
  • Objects imported with a scale would export in the wrong scale.
  • Report Print:
  • Tables over a certain size could cause unnecessary page breaks when printing.
  • Navigator Cube:
  • The navigator cube was overdrawn or appeared transparent in some view types.

New in Capture Student Edition 2018 24.0.9 (Apr 23, 2018)

  • Console Patch:
  • Drag and dropping console patch fixtures into the design on macOS could lead to a crash.
  • Plot Views:
  • Adding plot views in the Student Edition was not possible and could lead to a crash.
  • Installation:
  • The license key file and library installer did not function on some earlier versions of macOS.
  • DWG Export:
  • The orientation of blocks was incorrect for a few specific types of orientation.
  • Laser Shadows:
  • Laser always went through all objects and never cast shadows.
  • Laser Beams:
  • The variation setting of smoke boxes did not apply to laser beams.
  • Wide Apertures:
  • The apertures of very wide strip lights could render black with spill lighting enabled.
  • Dual Frost:
  • On some fixtures with a frost mechanism implemented using two wheels it was not possible to disengage frost.

New in Capture Student Edition 2018 24.0.8 (Apr 5, 2018)

  • Fixture Update:
  • Capture could crash when updating fixtures if there was any problem with the library installation.
  • Cylinders:
  • The normals of the outer hull of the cylinder shape generated incorrectly for conical shapes.
  • Annotation Connectors:
  • Connectors of annotations could render on top of both the symbol and annotation.
  • Startup:
  • When started by double clicking on a project file rather than through the start menu, all translation support, generation of presentation files and Hog 3/4 connectivity would be lost.
  • New Rendering Engine:
  • Several fixes in the new rendering engine.

New in Capture Student Edition 2018 24.0.7 (Mar 30, 2018)

  • Selection Crashes:
  • Capture would crash when selecting a camera.
  • Student Edition:
  • The built-in shape objects were missing from the Student Edition library.
  • Truss Updates:
  • All non-generic trusses would update every time a project was opened.
  • Rendering Engine:
  • Several fixes to issues in the new rendering engine.

New in Capture Student Edition 2018 24.0.6 (Mar 28, 2018)

  • Native Feel:
  • The resolution of computer screens keeps increasing and 4k monitors are becoming more and more popular. Capture now supports the new per-monitor DPI awareness v2 technology that was introduced with Windows 10 Creators Update. This allows Capture to follow and adapt to the resolution of the system's monitors and deliver a native resolution crisp look that brings out the best of wireframe views on high resolution monitors
  • A revision of the macOS keyboard modifiers ensures that Capture's keyboard behaviour is consistent with the macOS user experience. Multi-selection is now controlled using the Shift and Cmd keys, leaving the Ctrl key free to be combined with left mouse clicks to emulate right mouse clicks
  • New Rendering Engine:
  • We are phasing out the current rendering engine based on OpenGL and replacing it with a new one based on DirectX and Metal. The requirements of the new rendering engine will be DirectX 11 on Windows and Metal on macOS 10.13+, which as a general rule of thumb is available on Macs from 2012 and later.
  • The roll out of the new rendering engine will commence with the release of Capture 2018 and carry on throughout the spring with functionality added as we go.
  • Based on DirectX and Metal, the hardware APIs also used internally to accelerate Windows and macOS, stability and reliability will be much better than with OpenGL. Being a full rewrite, the new rendering engine will be able to take full advantage of the performance benefits of DirectX and Metal, leading to significant performance increases.
  • New Design Tab:
  • The Design tab is one of the most central parts of Capture's user interface. We have redesigned it completely, taking years of user feedback into account in order to create an easier and faster to use Design tab with added flexibility.
  • With a new, larger, category choice on the left hand side that does not have expanding sub-items it is easier to drill down to the project content you wish to work with without the visual clutter of other content.
  • The Views category offers the settings of all views at the same time. This reduced the risk of accidentally changing the settings of the wrong view and makes it easier to compare settings between views.
  • In general all categories make better use of the horizontal screen real estate available, packing more information onto the screen.
  • Most project content categories are based on a list of items accompanied by Add, Delete and More.. buttons. This makes it possible to select, delete and manipulate multiple items at a time, crucial for larger projects.
  • Most content categories use either a property table-style or item list with details-style design. This makes it possible to perform modifications of multiple items at the same time, such as for instance layer colors, material properties or the addition or removal of layers from filters. It also allows for sorting by any property
  • New Design Tools:
  • The Layer Set concept has been replaced with a new and powerful Filter concept. Filters are used in design views, plots, reports and export scenarios to exclude layers and DMX universes. A filter allows you to choose exactly which layers and DMX universes it includes, making it much easier to work with individual aspects of your design.
  • A new suite of functionality dedicated to the concept of Fixture Locations has been added. A new command for selecting adjacent trusses makes it easier to work with truss constructions without the need to group them and a new command for selecting all fixtures located on the selected truss adds the same type of flexibility for fixtures. This leaves you with more choice over when to use grouping.
  • The new project content import command lets you reuse layers, filters, reports, plot styles and plots from other projects.
  • New Universe Tab:
  • The redesigned Universes tab makes naming and sorting universes a breeze. All universe options have been its own column and the way project universes are linked to external universes has been made much clearer. The right-hand side of the tab also features an immediate full function miniature view of the universe, reducing the need to open a separate interfering window
  • New Library Tab:
  • The redesigned Library tab makes it much easier to find the items you are looking for. It loads much faster, provides previews for nearly all library content and remembers the items you have used recently. Rather than a global search as before, the filter function operates only on the selected category, minimizing the risk of finding irrelevant items when search for instance product codes. As a filter rather than a search function it is also more literal than before
  • Empowered Reports:
  • The new report item widget allows you to count any custom object, including weight and rating. It can be added as many times as needed to the project and grouped with any objects to suit your workflow.
  • All reports have received a facelift and start with the drawing information in a fashion consistent with the design views.
  • The equipment report now also includes rating information and counts rigging points as well as the new report items.
  • The fixture report now offers full flexibility in column choice and includes the new fixture location information.
  • The all new fixture locations lists fixture and trusses location, including rating and weight summaries.
  • Several new ladder and triangular truss pieces have been added, along with the ability to update truses from the library. We are also revising the truss library with more detailed model data, including different bracing and mounting types.
  • More Plots Options:
  • Lighting fixture plot symbols and stand-alone symbol scaling through plot styles as well as individually.
  • Gitters have been added as an external accessory for fixtures.
  • Snapping in the plot editor makes it easy to produce exact and neat looking plots.
  • A new option in the plot symbol key configuration allows combining custom text with counts.
  • File Format and Protocol Updates:
  • The import of DWG files now support up to version 2018 files.
  • The import of SketchUp files now supports up to SketchUp 2018 files.
  • Live media streaming using NewTek NDI now supports NDI v3.
  • Superb DWG Export
  • Up until now, exporting a model to DWG has produced a file with polyface meshes only. Now all objects come out as blocks, retaining the orientation of each object, making it much easier to apply block-oriented workflows on the resulting DWG files. Blocks are also instanced so that each instance of a type of fixture, truss or symbol shares a common block definition. Groups are also preserved by using blocks
  • Each object is also fully attributed; at a minimum with unit information but also with full fixture and truss details including manufacturer, weight, patch, channel and other relevant information.
  • Symbols such as rigging points and sightlines and both distance and angle measurements are exported to DWG as well.
  • Fixture Data Import and Export:
  • Import and export of CSV fixture data now includes X/Y/Z rotation angles.
  • Import of CSV fixture data now also automatically configures for ChamSys MagicQ and WYSIWYG files. We have also added support for UTF-16 CSV fixture data, files such as from WYSIWYG.
  • Fixture Data GrandMA2 Export:
  • Support for exporting fixture patch data in the grandMA2's XML format has been added.
  • Layers of fixtures can be exported based on the layers of your design, by fixture type or simply with all fixtures in a single layer. Fixture types and numbers can be assigned as part of the export if desired.
  • Presentations:
  • A new option for snapshot pane hiding and rendering settings access.
  • Access to universe information and configuration.
  • Visualization:
  • Mapping of media to and visualization of LED panel moving heads.
  • A new Hue Clamp view option that allows you to choose whether you wish to prioritize colour intensity accuracy in the visualization.
  • New modes for separate valve control of water jets that can be patched independently from the pump.
  • New WRGB mode for texture generators.

New in Capture Student Edition 23.1.12 (Mar 6, 2018)

  • Opening a project file from an older version of Capture with a colour scroller attached to a conventional fixture could lead to a crash.
  • Library Installation
  • Library installations on macOS 10.13 could be very slow.
  • Editable Fixtures
  • Fixture name, make and weight information was editable by mistake on macOS.

New in Capture Student Edition 23.1.11 (Jan 30, 2018)

  • CAEX ShowSync
  • The order of fixtures reported in a CITP/CAEX fixture list is now deterministic.
  • Image Media
  • The video player could fail to play back image files.
  • Plot Fixtures
  • Textual information outside fixtures on plots such as filters or focus information did not always render on top of other objects the same way as the fixture's symbol.
  • Layer Priority
  • Layer priority did not get applied properly to standalone symbols.
  • Project Information
  • Project information logo and text did not render to image unless the bloom effect was enabled or resolution was low.
  • Omnidirectionals
  • Omnidirectional lights such as bulbs could produce a white rectangle when above frosted transparent objects, if very bright.
  • Cylinder Hull
  • The number of segments of a cylinder hull was always lost on duplication.

New in Capture Student Edition 23.1.10 (Jan 8, 2018)

  • Console Link:
  • Fixtures patched to universes not available to a console link are now reported as unpatched to the console and a warning is shown to the user.
  • Zoom:
  • Free-flight zoom did not function, was zooming to the camera's focus point.
  • Multiple Apertures:
  • Fixtures with multiple laser or video light sources only visualized the first light source.

New in Capture Student Edition 23.1.9 (Nov 29, 2017)

  • Hantmade Stage:
  • Support for version 2 of the Hantmade Stage plugin for Cinema4D.
  • MA-Net:
  • Support for up to 256 MA-Net universes.
  • Plot Editing:
  • When moving insets in plots on macOS they could sometimes move slower than the mouse.

New in Capture Student Edition 23.1.8 (Oct 31, 2017)

  • Random Strobe:
  • Strobe synchronized between multiple apertures of the same fixture.
  • Video Resolution:
  • Changing the resolution of a video player lead to Capture hanging.
  • Transparents:
  • Rendering order of beams and transparent objects has been improved to reduce errors.

New in Capture Student Edition 23.1.7 (Oct 11, 2017)

  • Fixture Output:
  • Some fixtures with a single asymmetric aperture did not produce any light output.

New in Capture Student Edition 23.1.4 (Oct 6, 2017)

  • Retina Support:
  • Support for Apple Retina display rendering added to the Student Edition.
  • Oval Optics:
  • Support for oval LED optics has been added.
  • MacOS Tabbar:
  • Accidental opening of the tab bar on macOS has been blocked as it caused navigation issues in maximized views.
  • MacOS Commands:
  • Command availability did not update correctly on macOS when focusing between undocked views and the main interface.
  • DWG Normals:
  • Broken normals in DWG files were passed through on import causing discolorations.
  • Video Projectors:
  • Video projected from projectors with offset apertures rendered cut off.
  • Colour Mixing:
  • Colour of dual layer color mixing fixtures were combined additively (rather than HTP).
  • Colour Mixing:
  • Virtual RGB colour mixing of RGBW fixtures caused intensity anomalies in dual layer color mixing operation.

New in Capture Student Edition 23.1.3 (Sep 5, 2017)

  • CSV Import:
  • Importing a CSV file with empty lines could cause a crash.
  • OBJ Import:
  • Importing an OBJ file with polygons that do not specify normals could cause a crash.
  • Beam Stuttering:
  • Visualization of beams on moving scenery could stutter under certain circumstances.
  • External Accessories:
  • External accessories such as barndoors were not visible in plots.
  • Multihomed Networking:
  • Outbound multicast messages of CITP and ETCNet could use the wrong network interface.
  • Scaled Objects:
  • Scaled imported objects appeared very dim.
  • Text Editing:
  • Editing long text properties on macOS without a mouse left a part of the text editor invisible.
  • Movie Rendering:
  • Replacing a movie file on rendering on macOS did not work.
  • Fixture Frontmounts:
  • Attaching or removing fixture frontmounts such as scrollers and dousers did not correctly update beam positions.

New in Capture Student Edition 23.1.2 (Jul 6, 2017)

  • Invisible Objects:
  • Objects in hidden layers could under some very specific circumstances be selected.
  • Video Playback:
  • The speed of video played back in video players could drift from world clock.

New in Capture Student Edition 23.1.1 (Jun 26, 2017)

  • Keyboard Shortcuts:
  • The keyboard shortcut for View Focus All has been changed to Shift + F and the shortcut for Select All By Fixture Type has been changed to Shift + T.
  • CAEX Ver. D:
  • Support for CITP/CAEX version D.
  • Data Import:
  • A new option has been added to choose the X, Y and Z axis directions when importing positions.
  • Visualisation
  • The default beam characteristics for beam fixtures lacking photometric profiles has been improved.
  • Visualisation:
  • Red tone shifts have been reduced for intense indigo and violets.
  • Visualisation:
  • The intensity of beams aimed into the camera has been reduced to increase realism.
  • Art-Net 3:
  • The numbers of Art-Net universes over 256 were not shown correctly.
  • SketchUp Import:
  • Drawing block and name information was not preserved correctly for SketchUp imports.
  • Data Import:
  • When importing patch information using separate DMX channel columns the results would be off by one.
  • Omnidirectionals:
  • Rendering of omnidirectional fixtures could fail and render them inactive.
  • Visualisation:
  • The angles of framing shutters when controlled through DMX were incorrectly amplified.
  • Visualisation:
  • The intensity of apertures was incorrect, especially for large apertures and on long distances.

New in Capture Student Edition 23.0.18 (May 29, 2017)

  • Laser Precision:
  • Lasers could appear to shoot through narrow surfaces.
  • Plot Colour:
  • Plot discolourations were present on macOS, making parts of a plot appear slightly pink.
  • DWG Import:
  • Some types of surfaces could import without normal information, causing surfaces not to reflect any light.

New in Capture Student Edition 23.0.17 (May 22, 2017)

  • Fill Lighting:
  • Having fill lighting enabled could lead to crashes when attaching or detaching objects from motion fixtures.
  • Quality Information:
  • The view quality information was not visible in other than 100% resolution scaling.
  • Laser Precision:
  • Laser projected on thin items could leaks through the items.
  • Plot Grid:
  • Plot inset grids printed so thin they were almost invisible.

New in Capture Student Edition 23.0.16 (May 15, 2017)

  • Dropdowns:
  • Dropdown property lists could open too narrow on macOS.
  • Power Information:
  • Power information in the quick information window did not appear on macOS.
  • Omnidirectionals:
  • Rotating omnidirectional light sources caused striped rendering artefacts.
  • Blue Colours:
  • The visualization of blue colours could appear too strong for some fixtures and cause a red colour shift.
  • Colour Temperature:
  • Fixtures that can only be controlled by colour temperature and dimmer did not visualize.
  • Locked Layers:
  • Objects in locked layers remained selectable with multiselection even if the option to make objects in locked layers unselectable was active.

New in Capture Student Edition 23.0.15 (May 8, 2017)

  • NDI Streaming:
  • Receiving video over NDI could cause random crashes.
  • Fill Lighting:
  • Attaching objects to motion fixtures could lead to fill lighting related crashes.
  • DWG Import:
  • Importing a DWG file could cause a texturing-related crash.
  • Throws Light:
  • Fixtures with the Throws Light property set to False had invisible apertures.
  • Automatic Quality:
  • The automatic quality setting could cause intensity fluctuations.
  • Color Textures:
  • Some red tones in color textures appeared extremely dark.
  • Model Import:
  • Using the Place Here option when importing objects did not always work.

New in Capture Student Edition 23.0.14 (Apr 28, 2017)

  • Cinema 4D:
  • Objects imported from Cinema 4D have been set to cast shadows by default.
  • DWG Materials:
  • The color of imported materials with standard names such as ByBlock, ByLayer and Global is adjusted to the default color if imported as black.
  • Line Width:
  • Layer line width rendering on Windows was defect, causing paper views to be difficult to read.
  • Fill Lighting:
  • Changing the fill lighting quality settings could cause the fill lighting to stop working.
  • Beam Intensity:
  • Beam intensities and colours of multi-aperture fixtures could be incorrect when dimmed.
  • Beam Rendering:
  • Aperture rendering could appear broken near the aperture of fixtures with very wide field angles.
  • DWG Blocks:
  • Drawing names did not import from blocks that contained other elements than block references.
  • Project Information:
  • The scaling of project information was incorrect when rendering images and movies.

New in Capture Student Edition 22.1.8 (Jan 10, 2017)

  • SketchUp Import:
  • When importing files from SketchUp, Capture tried to guess the scale.
  • Circle Truss:
  • When adding circular truss from the library an incorrect diameter adjustment was made, resulting in the wrong diameter.
  • Power Location:
  • The power location indicator symbol was not drawn for fixtures not using the plot symbol.

New in Capture Student Edition 22.1.7 (Dec 2, 2016)

  • Beam Flickering:
  • Lighting beams would flicker on Intel HD 2000/3000 video cards.
  • HSV Modes:
  • Colour mixing in HSV modes only produced red coloured outputs.
  • CITP Universes:
  • CITP-based DMX universe transfer was limited to a maximum of 100 universes.

New in Capture Student Edition 22.1.5 (Nov 1, 2016)

  • Colour Presets:
  • Fixtures would get stuck in colour presets if they used another colour mixing mode than when not in a preset.
  • Fixture Visualization:
  • Changing between layers with different settings for whether fixture visualization is enabled did not enable or disable fixture visualization.

New in Capture Student Edition 22.1.4 (Oct 8, 2016)

  • CITP Disconnect:
  • Capture could crash when a CITP connection was lost.
  • Drag & Drop:
  • When quick copying items in orthographic wireframe views they were inserted at origo if their center was located behind the camera.
  • Annotation Offset:
  • Annotations did not have an extra depth offset to prevent them from being drawn inside other near objects in front and section views.
  • Prism Visualization:
  • Engaging a prism in a fixture could lead to beams showing random graphics.
  • DWG Import:
  • DWG model import respected the active layout rather than always using model space.

New in Capture Student Edition 22.1.3 (Sep 6, 2016)

  • Circular Truss:
  • Assigning a circle angle to a straight truss without a circle diameter lead to Capture hanging.

New in Capture Student Edition 22.1.2 (Sep 6, 2016)

  • Adding Fixtures:
  • Adding fixtures with any view showing fixture information could lead to a crash.
  • EntTec Devices:
  • Disconnecting an EntTec device could lead to a crash.
  • Projected Lighting:
  • Lighting projected towards the direction of the camera and on a surface near the camera could sometimes be partially cut.
  • VCP Devices:
  • Unrecognized virtual COM-port devices would remain locked by Capture and unavailable to other softwares.
  • Project Save:
  • The asterisk project change indicator in the project window was not cleared correctly on project save.

New in Capture Student Edition 22.1.1 (Aug 17, 2016)

  • Layered Control:
  • Support for dual layer (ie. master & individual cell) light and colour control in fixtures.
  • Backup Files:
  • In the event that a project file backup is present on open or save, choices for dealing with this are presented.
  • Circular Truss:
  • The diameter of circular truss has been changed to refer to the outer diameter rather than the center diameter.
  • Locked Layers:
  • Non-structural editing (such as filtering or number assignments as opposed to for instance deleting and grouping) operations are now allowed for fixtures in locked layers.
  • Focus Change:
  • When changing focus between views and windows some operations were not enabled or disabled properly.
  • Plot Grid:
  • Setting the grid width or height of a plot view inset to 0 lead to Capture hanging.
  • Stuck Shutters:
  • The use of colour macro channels could lead to shutters getting stuck in visualization.
  • Fixture Report:
  • Fixture reports did not sort properly by patch if custom patch bases were used.

New in Capture Student Edition 22.0.25 (Jul 5, 2016)

  • Multiple Properties:
  • Sometimes a property edited through a dropdown menu was not changeable if multiple objects were selected.
  • Wide Beams:
  • The visualization of projections from very wide angle fixtures could fail at certain viewing positions.

New in Capture Student Edition 22.0.24 (Jul 5, 2016)

  • Laser Projections:
  • Laser projections on surfaces at a long distance from the camera could fail
  • Page Settings:
  • Printer page settings were lost between saving and opening project files
  • Barndoor Adjustments:
  • Making barndoor adjustments caused bright flashes on the barndoors that caused automatic exposure fluctuations

New in Capture Student Edition 22.0.22 (Jul 5, 2016)

  • Large Objects:
  • Loading project files containing very large objects could lead to a crash.
  • Plot Scale:
  • The plot view inset scale text was misaligned for larger text sizes .
  • Sorting:
  • Sorting of project items was case sensitive in some views.
  • Reports:
  • Omnidirectional lighting fixtures were not included in reports.

New in Capture Student Edition 22.0.21 (Jul 5, 2016)

  • Symbol Key:
  • It was not possible to edit custom texts in plot symbol keys on Mac OS X.
  • Keyboard Shortcuts:
  • The Delete and Deselect All keyboard shortcuts did not work in the plot editor.
  • Frontmount Annotations:
  • The connecting line between frontmount fixtures (such as scrollers, blinders, etc.) and their annotations was incorrectly placed.

New in Capture Student Edition 22.0.18 (May 26, 2016)

  • Delete Layer:
  • Deleting layers could take very long time if used in many objects.
  • Fixture Snap:
  • Conventional fixtures that had been focused snapped to truss at the wrong location.
  • Fixture Speed:
  • Jumping back to motion speed control from motion time control of fixtures did not work.
  • Rotation Anchor:
  • The rotation anchor would appear when only one a measurement end was selected.
  • Recent Files:
  • Recently access files no longer accessible were not listed in the welcome window.

New in Capture Student Edition 22.0.15 (May 26, 2016)

  • Hog Connectivity:
  • Connecting to a Hog lighting console could fail.

New in Capture Student Edition 22.0.13 (May 26, 2016)

  • R9 300 Series:
  • Fixed live visualization rendering issues on Macs with AMD Radeon R9 300 series video cards.
  • Laser Beams:
  • Laser beams maximum length prevented large scale projection visualization.
  • Plot Styles:
  • Plot styles did not apply to plot view insets.
  • DWG Import:
  • Imported DXF/DWG objects were hollow/wireframe.
  • Project Save:
  • Saving files in folders synchronized with services such as DropBox and Google Drive was prone to errors.
  • Video Playback:
  • Some video files did not play back correctly on Windows.
  • Fixture Channel:
  • A fixture's channel property was not editable in the Design tab.
  • Widget Layers:
  • Widgets could be assigned to and were coloured by layers, but not hidden through layer sets.

New in Capture Student Edition 21.1.32 (May 26, 2016)

  • Light Output:
  • Some fixtures with multiple colour mixing modes and colour presets failed to produce any light output

New in Capture Student Edition 21.1.30 (May 26, 2016)

  • Intel HD 2000/3000:
  • Beams did not render correctly on some Intel HD 2000/3000 video cards.
  • Movie Rendering:
  • Capture could freeze when aborting video rendering.
  • Broken Objects:
  • Under rare circumstances, object position and rotation could break completely when inserting or moving objects.

New in Capture Student Edition 21.1.28 (May 26, 2016)

  • Missing Files:
  • The Windows installation did not install the library and reference manual documents correctly.

New in Capture Student Edition 21.1.27 (May 26, 2016)

  • Russian:
  • Russian translation included.
  • Beam Rendering:
  • Beam rendering of fixtures with multiple apertures not arranged in a perfect circle could break.
  • Library Updates:
  • Library updates could fail if other software was indexing the contents of Capture's library folder during the update.

New in Capture Student Edition 21.1.25 (May 26, 2016)

  • Laptop Graphics:
  • Capture now provides laptops with dual video cards (Intel+NVidia or Intel+AMD) with a hint to use the discrete (non-Intel) video card for Capture.
  • Video Crashes:
  • Streaming high resolution video from media servers could cause a silent crash if broken JPG frames were received.
  • Beam Rendering:
  • Fixtures with very small lighting apertures could fail to render beams.
  • Fixtures with lighting apertures arranged in near-round arrangements could render odd looking beams.

New in Capture Student Edition 21.1.23 (May 26, 2016)

  • Water Jets:
  • The performance of water jet visualization was unnecessarily slow due to a mistake.

New in Capture Student Edition 21.1.20 (May 26, 2016)

  • Laser Streams:
  • New CITP CAEX version C support allows any product to stream laser content to Capture.
  • Water Jets:
  • The maximum water jet tilt range has been expanded from 180 to 720 degrees.
  • Video Players:
  • Several higher video players resolutions have been added.
  • Missing Beams:
  • Beams did not render in Top, Front and Section views in Live mode.
  • Broken Selection:
  • Selection could stop working in large project files.
  • Laser Content:
  • Laser content along the extreme edges was lost a few metres away from laser projectors.
  • Small Apertures:
  • Fixtures with extremely small or thin apertures did not render any light output.