Capture 2018 revision history
The first release of Capture 2018 was version 24.0.6, the 28th of March 2018.
Version 24.1.19, released the 6th December 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.
Version 24.1.18, released the 30th November 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.
Version 24.1.16, released the 27th November 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.
Version 24.1.15, released the 16th November 2018
- Design Crashes
- Switching back and forth between live mode in a view could lead to a crash.
Version 24.1.14, released the 13th November 2018
- New Rendering Engine
- The new rendering engine has been made default, overriding previous choices in the configuration.
- New Rendering Engine
- Grouping and ungrouping objects with transparent materials could cause a crash.
- New Rendering Engine
- Rendering images and movies without atmosphere could cause a crash.
- New Rendering Engine
- Rotating gobos did not visualize on macOS.
- New Rendering Engine
- Rendering of very wide beams could break down in some angles.
Version 24.1.13, released the 8th November 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.
Version 24.1.12, released the 18th October 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.
Version 24.1.10, released the 25th September 2018
- New Rendering Engine
- Edges of backlit objects appeared fuzzy at lower rendering settings.
- New Rendering Engine
- Using more than one live mode view at once caused glitches and flickering.
- New Rendering Engine
- Negative shadows could appear from cloned objects on macOS.
- New Rendering Engine
- Large green patches could appear when fixture information was enabled.
Version 24.1.8, released the 11th September 2018
- New Rendering Engine
- Capture could freeze on macOS when opening the first live view.
- New Rendering Engine
- Various minor beam rendering issues were resolved.
- New Rendering Engine
- LED panels could show artefacts at a distance.
- New Rendering Engine
- Various performance improvements on macOS.
- New Rendering Engine
- The intensity of light from omnidirectional fixtures was incorrect.
Version 24.1.7, released the 6th September 2018
- New Rendering Engine
- Handling of Windows driver crashes was improved.
- New Rendering Engine
- Shadows rendered incorrectly.
- New Rendering Engine
- Video projectors did not render correctly on macOS.
- New Rendering Engine
- Performance of omnidirectional lights was improved.
- New Rendering Engine
- End marker sizes of motion fixtures rendered incorrectly.
- New Rendering Engine
- Some objects were visible even if they were behind the camera.
- New Rendering Engine
- Image and video rendering rendered too bright.
Version 24.1.6, released the 30th August 2018
- CSV Import
- Fixture data exported to CSV files from the ETC Eos console are now supported.
- New Rendering Engine
- The automatic quality rendering setting has been implemented.
- New Rendering Engine
- Laser projector visualization has been implemented.
- 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 Rendering Engine
- Objects in locked layers remained selectable despite the global setting for such layers to be unselectable.
- New Rendering Engine
- Edges of printouts could appear stretched.
- New Rendering Engine
- The grid in plot views did not scale and position correctly.
Version 24.1.4, released the 10th August 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.
- Text Editing
- Extra linebreaks were added when editing multi-line text properties (such as plot text inset contents) on macOS.
- 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.
- New 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.
Version 24.1.3, released the 7th July 2018
- New Rendering Engine
- Stability improvements for Metal on macOS.
- New Rendering Engine
- General performance improvements.
Version 24.1.2, released the 29th June 2018
- DWG Export
- Rotations of objects only slightly tilted off the Y axis exported incorrectly.
- New Rendering Engine
- Ambient lighting rendered incorrectly with ambient occlusion enabled.
- New Rendering Engine
- Aperture arrangements of multi aperture fixtures rendered upside down.
Version 24.1.1, released the 27th June 2018
- Materials
- The ability to apply materials to all surfaces of library forms as well as trusses has been added.
- New 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.
- New Rendering Engine
- Plot views could crash if a fixture did not have a symbol.
- New Rendering Engine
- Measurement lines and arrows did not appear on plots.
- New Rendering Engine
- Symbols could not be selected in wireframe views.
- New Rendering Engine
- Shadows did not follow objects moved with motion fixtures.
- New Rendering Engine
- Grid origo highlight were not visible on macOS.
- New Rendering Engine
- 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.
Version 24.0.14, released the 8th June 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.
- New Rendering Engine
- Plot view inset content could disappear fully or partially.
- New Rendering Engine
- 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.
Version 24.0.13, released the 1st June 2018
- New Rendering Engine
- Video projectors and media in materials, including emissive materials. Selected camera and smoke box struts. Live information for motion fixtures.
- Student Edition
- Restrictions on maximum number of DMX universes lifted.
- New Rendering Engine
- Rendering movies and still images on Windows could fail due to video card timeouts.
Version 24.0.12, released the 21st May 2018
- New Rendering Engine
- Important stability improvements to the new rendering engine for macOS.
Version 24.0.11, released the 15th May 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.
Version 24.0.10, released the 4th May 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.
Version 24.0.9, released the 23rd April 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.
Version 24.0.8, released the 5th April 2018
- Fixture Update
- Capture could crash when updating fixtures if there was any problem with the library installation.
- Mac Crashes
- Capture could crash macOS during editing of project contents.
- 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.
Version 24.0.7, released the 30th March 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.
- New Rendering Engine
- Several fixes to issues in the new rendering engine.
For older versions of Capture, see the Capture Nexum revision history.