What's new in veadotube mini 2.0
Apr 30, 2024
- New engine! we switched out of Unity because Unity sucks. the engine we're using now is one made from scratch as well (written in C#, deployed with the .NET Native AOT thingy) which means it should run even better than 1.4 did, especially on Linux.
- New rendering system! images should look good now, and hopefully take less RAM. you should also see better support for transparent capturing (no more grey borders, hopefully!), better Spout2 integration on Windows, a new Syphon integration on macOS, and support for the Linux Game Capture plugin :]
- New UI! we took what worked and redesigned what didn't work and now things are a bit more clean and organised. stuff is now a few more clicks away, but hopefully it shouldn't slow you down too much!
- Languages! mini now includes Portuguese and Spanish along with the original English. you can also create custom language packs, if you'd like!
- New stuff in display settings! you can now change the background colour to whatever colour you'd like, as well as add a custom image to the background. you can also reposition your avatar around the screen, as well as manually set the avatar scale, instead of tying it to the window size!
- New program settings menu! you can now configure things like the window title, manually type in the window size, switch the language, change the websocket server... wait, websockets?
- Official Stream Deck support! we made an official plugin that's still not in the store but that you can download through itch.io as well! it works by connecting to the local websocket server that mini hosts, which means you can also write your own integrations.
- Better microphones & noise reduction! we changed how microphones work on Windows so things shouldn't crash as bad as it did in 1.4. we also added noise reduction options so that you don't have to mess too much with the sensibility slider!
- More state options! we moved all the state options to a new menu that you gotta click on the state to have it show up. you can now rename your states, reorder them, set the blinking frequency and duration, set how the animation plays when the state is activated or when your avatar blinks... lots of stuff!
- New state shortcut system! you can now combine whichever hotkeys you'd like, so you're no longer limited to ctrl or alt or shift :] we also made adjustments to the Linux version so that you no longer have to run the entire app as root to get hotkeys to work!
- New state effects! we now let you customise whatever you want about your state animations and whatnot. wanna set exactly how much your avatar shakes? sure! wanna stack animations together? sure thing! wanna darken your avatar, or maybe have it rotate around? yeah we added that too!
New in veadotube mini 1.4 (Sep 17, 2023)
- So this one is not huge feature-wise, save for the new display settings menu, which you can access through the button that was previously only used to change the background colour. it includes a few new things you can do:
- Hide interface! if the UI hiding behaviour wasn't precise enough for you, you can now forcibly set it to hide until you click on the app again.
- Pixelate images! you can now set the image mode to Sharp instead of Smooth, which means you no longer have to resize your pixel avatars.
- Spout2 support! this one is windows 64-bit only: you can now stream your avatar directly to OBS through the Spout2 interface.
- Now for the behind-the-scenes fixes and improvements:
- Complete microphone system rewrite! if your microphone didn't work well with mini, now it should! (shoutout to the HÖNK dev, we somewhat helped each other with this one)
- Better hotkey behaviour! the hotkey mode "enter on press, leave on release" should work with multiple states now.
- Autosave improvements! which here means you shouldn't lose your automatically saved avatar as much as you did before (make sure to always manually save your avatar though!)
- New image formats supported! including .psd and other project files. also .webp for some reason.
- Image display improvements! mini should have less of that grey border around images, as well as larger images shouldn't look too blurry anymore.
- Memory & performance improvements! done through a mix of treating images in memory a bit better and exporting the app with IL2CPP.
- New .veadomini format! which isn't compatible with previous versions but seeks to fix just that sort of lack of compatibility for future versions. also you can now open them as if they were .zip files to retrieve your images. convenient!
- If you're on windows, you might also notice the window title shows the time the app opened; this may help people trying to stream multiple instances of veado mini
New in veadotube mini 1.3c (Nov 23, 2021)
- PNGs have been optimised and now they load like 9x faster than before! this applies to animated PNGs too.
- When an animated image (GIF or APNG) is set as the blinking image, the blink duration follows the image duration :] this should make the blinking feature more useful.
- Minor improvements towards performance (it should run slightly better) and memory (it should waste less RAM).
New in veadotube mini 1.3b (Oct 29, 2021)
- Most microphone issues that people were having should be gone now!
- Transparent GIFs are now actually transparent; no more blinking colours.