What's new in Tao Presentations 1.54
Sep 26, 2014
- Now supports right-to-left Unicode scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew
New in Tao Presentations 1.53 (Sep 26, 2014)
- Implement 'frame_pixel' to read a pixel at given coordinates
- Fix issue restoring clip plane #2.
- Respect clipping with displacement mapping
- Make it easier to control transparency manually
- Do not stop animation for an invalid texture ID
- Synchronize clip planes correctly
- WebRemote: Snapshot after a delay to enhance quality
- Materials demo broken because of culling
- Fix for a crash or incorrect data accessing arrays
New in Tao Presentations 1.52 (Sep 26, 2014)
- Accept on "key:+" without interpreting + as a regexp
- Implement rsync function to invoke rsync synchronization
- Implement 'run_process' to run arbitrary external processes
New in Tao Presentations 1.51 (Sep 26, 2014)
- Better label for 'quad-buffer' stereoscopic mode
- Move 'show' documentation to the Graphics section
- Add a few transitions from GLSL.io
- Ability to set variables with names having high XL precedence like 'to'
- Resolve paths in shader file names
- Better fix for skippy movie_time
- Accept CSS color names such as 'rgb(20, 30, 40)' or 'hsv(10, 20, 30)'
- Fixed culling for spheres and transparency
- Add SiOptica 5-view multiscopic mode
- Add Control-T keybord shortcut for a timed snapshot
- Implement unified color model for all color functions
- Add an optional 'body' argument to load_tsv, load_csv or load_data
- Added a Weather module
- Add page_unique_name
- Fix a rare crash when evaluating page exit handlers
- Reintegrate VLC in the Player edition
- Add a 'configuration' import that does not require a signature
- Add a 'publisher' entry in Player license to list authorized publishers
New in Tao Presentations 1.50 (Sep 26, 2014)
- Fix for line_arrow not showing arrows
- Support for Dimenco 1080p displays using native 9-view mix
- Add View > Display menu entries for 2D+Z (Dimenco)
- Include multiscopic drivers in default download
- Enable following modules by default: quiz, web_remote, prez_at, tao_sync
- Update to git 1.9.0
- Add missing Linux dependency on libestools (required by Speech module)
- Prevent ObjectLoader from corrupting GL drawing state
- Accept OBJ files generated from 3DS Max export
- WebRemote module snapshots pages on page transitions, not at startup
- Fix crash caused by invalid data types for some XL errors
- Add -display option to select display mode at startup
- Allow FPS statistics trace to be activated from the preferences box
- Send error and log messages to tao.log file when there is no console
- Fix shader errors with Mac Retina displays
- Added multistream_movie and multiview_image
- Added text_frame and text_frame_texture (text box rendering to texture)
- Allow more than 8 texture units
- Report errors during stereoscopic driver initialization, avoid crash
- Add "highlight" color style for Slides module
- Add 8VIEW6 tiled movie decoding mode, skipping the broken-up views
- Update demo quiz information and quiz module
- Add 5VIEW4 tiled movie decoding mode, skipping the broken-up view
- Support for United Entertain displays
- Unified configurable multiscopic driver
- Ensure VLC ouptut from -tvlc shows on the standard error
- Support playback of multiple video streams in a single video file
- Added Alex Brush and Open Sans fonts
- Initialize slides language to the language of the user interface
- Fix XL regression causing error in Seasons Greetings theme
- Support for Tridelity ML displays
- Recompute the Z-map scaling for 2D+Z based on eye_distance
- Enhance rendering of transparent objects, e.g cubes
- Improve depth perception for objects around Z=0