• DSOF-23236 - Add support for HDMI & DP VFCs to output in 4:2:2 or 4:4:4

Setting HDMI and DisplayPort VFC cards to 4:2:2 or 4:4:4 is available behind the option switch enableColourFormat. It will stay behind the option switch until we are certain the EDID changes have no adverse downstream effects. The options available are RGB, RGB Limited, 4:4:4, 4:2:2, and Auto.

Auto Behaviour varies by VFC card:

• IP -> Selects YUV 4:2:2
• HDMI -> Selects RGB unless bandwidth Exceeds HDMI 2.0 spec at which point it will drop down to YUV 4:2:2
• DP -> Selects RGB

DVI and SDI VFCs do not have this option. The colour format for DVI cards is always RGB (and that is all they support) and for SDI VFCs it is determined by the SMPTE standard format selected.

• DSOF-24079 - Designer now has the option to skip setting d3 projects share on installation. There is now an option during d3 installation to share the d3 projects folder. When it is ticked, the d3 projects folder is shared and Everyone is given read and write permissions (This is the current default behaviour). If it is un-ticked the user-configured sharing settings are not changed. You can find more information about this feature here.

Un-ticking this will mean that you can no longer access the shared folders via Manager and several features like content distribution won’t work unless you manually configure sharing settings.

• DSOF-26889 - Designer now has various ways of using the CTRL modified to interact with text fields. Here is a comprehensive list:
• CTRL + Delete to delete the word to the right of the cursor
• CTRL + Backspace to delete the word to the left of the cursor
• CTRL + Left-click to move the cursor left to the next word boundary
• CTRL + Right-click to move the cursor right to the next word boundary
• CTRL + SHIFT + Left-click to extend the selection left to the next word boundary
• CTRL + Shift + Right-click to extend the selection right to the next word boundary
• DSOF-28149 - Designer will now warn the user in the UI when understudies are set up in an invalid configuration in the following ways:
• An understudy that has no target will be highlighted orange and show a helpful tootip.
• Two understudies with the same target will be highlighted red and show a helpful tooltip.
• DSOF-28342 - On launch, Designer will now auto-update expressions that fail due to case sensitivity. In r29.2 we changed expressions to be case-sensitive to make them more powerful. This unfortunately left some old projects relying on case insensitivity to have broken expressions. We’ll fix that for you now when you update so you don’t have to!
• DSOF-28716 - You can now control the float fields of Expressions Variable Layers with DMX Sockpuppet. These values are 16-bit, so each variable gets assigned 2 DMX Channels : A broad value, and a fine value. Strings and function fields are not controllable.
• DSOF-28829 - Designer now allows you to independently set the Bit Depth of the GUI to 8-bit regardless of the setting for the rest of the project. To do this you simply enable the option switch forcePrimaryOutputTo8Bit on each machine you want to behave in this way. This is to help in scenarios where you want to output 10-bit but the KVM you have only supports 8-bit.

• DSOF-8398 - Setting TC Adjust to offset timecode on a track now applies correctly to TimecodeTester and TimecodeSystemTime transports.
• DSOF-27341 - Designer will now provide a helpful warning during installation if the CPU is an older generation than what we support.
• DSOF-28185 - We have updated our automated log file management to only delete old files, and only start deleting files if logs exceed a certain total size. This should generally mean we can gather and review older log files more easily.
• DSOF-28673 - Detect systems API will no longer intermittently fail with a 5000 error code. See our developer documentation for more information about our APIs.

• DSOF-28483 - Added a new Colour Inspector for validating OCIO and ACES colour workflows. Documentation on the new tool can be found here

• DSOF-27941 - Designer will no longer produce an Access Violation when making a precomp in a Layer whose mapping contains no screens.
• DSOF-28286 - Shutting down Designer on a laptop in fullscreen mode is now much faster.
• DSOF-28335 - Accessing the Designer API documentation via Manager > Help > Open API Documentation now correctly shows the v1 documentation again.
• DSOF-28360 - Designer will no longer leak memory when not in focus on a Director.
• DSOF-28527 - VFC Device editors now open correctly again.
• DSOF-28787 - Tabbing between GUI fields once again loops to the top of the editor when you get to the bottom
• DSOF-28908 - d3preview now opens files correctly again.
• DSOF-28909 - Global crossfade now correctly overrides a track crossfade when the track crossfade duration is set to 0.
• DSOF-28912 - Layers with Square Brackets [ ] in their names can now we used in Expressions again with the same syntax as normal
• DSOF-28923 - You can now output the value of a layer parameter via custom OSC output expression even when it is keyframed.

• DSOF-27786 - Manager will now display whether or not you have a Realtime Connector License on EX range machines under “Help > d3 Licenses”.

• DSOF-27372 - Loading an H.264 encoded file will now give you a helpful error message explaining that the codec is unsupported instead of an access violation.
• DSOF-28364 - Designer will now correctly detect new files that are added to sub-folders within shortcuts in the objects folder.
• DSOF-28768 - Designer will now correctly output the value of a layer parameter via custom OSC output expressions and will no longer report a “recursion limit” error. Examples of values that can now be sent include:
• module:video.brightness
• module:video.speed
• module:video.volume
• etc.
• DSOF-28769 - Single-layer Notch blocks no longer fail to load if they do not expose a layer parameter.

• DSOF-28258 - Designer now supports full SDI HDR video capture and output via the Quad 3G VFC.
• DSOF-21271 - Quad 3G VFC Cards now support Rec.2020.
• DSOF-28179 - Quad 3G VFC Cards now support super black/white luma with HDR transfer characteristics (HLG and PQ).
• DSOF-28397 - Designer will not allow the user to select HLG or PQ when outputting with Rec.709 or Rec.601.

Dynamic range describes the ratio between the brightest and darkest parts of an image. High Dynamic Range (HDR) is a technology that represents an increased dynamic range in an image to provide a greater level of contrast, brightness and colour.

Both Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG) and Perceptual Quantiser (PQ) transfer functions for HDR video are supported for SDI HDR capture.

We now support HDR video capture on all Disguise media servers with SDI capture cards. For the signal to be captured properly as HDR it must be:

• In the REC.2020 (also known as BT.2020) colour space.
• Set to 10-bit.

In the Video Input Patch Editor, the Input Transform needs to be changed to HLG - Rec.2020 or PQ - Rec.2020. The format field will then show the colorimetry and transfer characteristics as seen in the screenshot below:

We also support SDI HDR video output using the Quad 3G VFC card. In the Feed View we have added the option to change the YCbCr Conversion Matrix to Rec.2020 (BT.2020). The Transfer Characteristics setting will then need to be changed to either HLG or PQ depending on the transfer function being used.

We also support SDI HDR video output using the Quad 3G VFC card. In the Feed View we have added the option to change the YCbCr Conversion Matrix to Rec.2020 (BT.2020). The Transfer Characteristics setting will then need to be changed to either HLG or PQ depending on the transfer function being used.

• DSOF-27428 - You can now link tracking axes to skeletal joints of skinned meshes more easily.
• DSOF-27536 - A range of fields that were previously not settable via an expression are now settable. Specifically Skeleton joint rotations. These values can also now we arrowed in to parameter collections to correctly capture their value.
• DSOF-28500 - Designer will now more gracefully handle high-GPU-memory scenarios to avoid dropping frames.
• DSOF-28537 - The spec of the .2p5d file format has an added a new optional field mean_depth which can be used to define the depth of the planes. You can find more information about this under our developer documentation here https://developer.disguise.one/formats/2p5d/.
• DSOF-28554 - Removing missing media from Designer via the resource management API is now much faster.
• DSOF-27396 - Designer will now notify you if it detects that NDI Tools 5 has been installed, as this software has been tied to multiple BSOD events on D3 servers. Our recommendation is not to use NDI Tools 5 at this time.
• Please see TA-54 for more information.

• DSOF-13435 - The Multi-mapping feature in d3labs will now render multiple parallel maps correctly.
• DSOF-28015 - The MR set Output Resolution field is now nested under the Settings separator in the UI. Right where it belongs.
• DSOF-28531 - Loading .avdn codec encoded files will no longer incorrectly report the file as a supported format and fail to play it. Designer will now give a useful error message explaining that the format is not supported.
• DSOF-28561 - Changes made to objects via the Mixed Reality [https://developer.disguise.one/api/session/mixedreality/ and QuickCal https://developer.disguise.one/api/session/quickcal/ APIs are now distributed to Actors and Editors correctly.

• DSOF-25924 - V1 api calls to netconf and content\remotesources endpoints now work correctly again. (These APIs are deprecated so we may not guarantee functionality going forward)
• DSOF-27929 - Clear Media Ingestion History will no longer fail with an access violation in projects that use projectors.
• DSOF-28511 - Analysing GPU pool usage with the profileGPUPoolFromLaunch option switch will now be easier to use to diagnose GPU memory issues.
• DSOF-28553 - Exception logs are now more useful to our developers by correctly identifying the memory address of the module.
• DSOF-28632 - The expressions: currentFeatureName, currentFeatureTime, nextFeatureName and nextFeatureTime now correctly report about upcoming Tags as well as Notes.
• DSOF-28732 - OSC output expressions now display helpful tooltips when there is an expression error.
• DSOF-28805 - Actors will now correctly receive Renderstream streams again.

In r30.0.1 and r30.0.2, RS streams cannot be received on Actor machines. Please revert your Designer version to r30.0 as the current workaround. This has been fixed in the next release.

Reminder: You can freely move a project from and r30.0.1 and r30.0.2 to r30.0 without consequence.

• DSOF-28555 - When not genlocked, setting the project to 59.94 FPS and applying feeds will no longer actually output at 60 FPS.
• DSOF-28724 & DSOF-28741 - Improved some internal logging.
• DSOF-28726 & DSOF-28731 - Various internal improvements to test systems.
• DSOF-28751 - Changing Load Weight for a Workload assigner now correctly updates Pool usage and Bandwidth estimates.
• DSOF-28757 - Double-clicking on a project folder in d3 Manager will no longer allow you to rename the project.

• DSOF-28160 - Actors will no longer sometimes fail to receive correct timings from director understudies after failover.
• DSOF-28576 - RenderStream engines rendering with Vulkan (including TouchDesigner) no longer crash when launched with a Mesh Mapping.
• DSOF-28636 - Controlling a field of an open layer via Sockpuppet when in a session of machines will now properly update projector blending if the field you are controlling impacts projector blending.

• DSOF-28407 - Move solo to a long-term Designer software version release

Users will be unable to run a project built in Designer software version from r30.0 onwards on a Solo. The final Designer software version to run on the Solo will be r29.2. This will become a long-term release model, with fixes only for show-critical issues that do not require large changes, for a period of 1 year. 

We have released final video playback performance metrics for the Solo that are specific to this Designer software version, which can be seen here.

We have put together an overview on the product life cycle which explains each of the phases in more detail. This can be seen here.

• DSOF-26046 - API: Include Setlist in Active Transport endpoint

We have included both the name and the UID of the setlist within the Active Transport API endpoint as found here: https://developer.disguise.one/api/session/transport/#get-setlists 

• DSOF-28313 - Remove OCIO shader properties from layers that don’t require them. These layers are:

• RGB Colour
• Tracking Marker
• LUT

• DSOF-28324 - VideoAsset editor enable/disable entire versions

The Video Version selector is now better formatted and easier to use. Versions will now be presented with friendly colours and you can shift-click to enable and disable all the fragments within a particular version at once.

DSOF-28401 - - You can now disable notifications about unsupported audio codecs embedded in video by setting the option switch: disableUnsupportedEmbeddedAudioNotification

• DSOF-22931 - Setting a CDL parameter via the API will now properly clamp the value on input to the min/max of the field in the GUI (you can still change the min/max in the GUI to change the clamping behaviour)
• DSOF-24076 - “ALT+G” GUI hidden splash screen text is no longer repeated and is now simpler
• DSOF-24154 - Playing in Loop XFade mode with a fade duration of 0 will now correctly loop with 0 fade instead of playing right through the section break.
• DSOF-25883 - QSDI VFC cards can now output 1080i at 50, 59.94 & 60 fps with the correct VPID so they are now correctly consumable by downstream devices.
• DSOF-26351 - The detectsystems API endpoint now always correctly returns the d3net adapters IP address.
• DSOF-27985 - Exporting frame as screenshot from an LED screen now works correctly when the enableSLC option switch is set.
• DSOF-28084 - Deleting the time string from a TC tag will no longer generate a notification.
• DSOF-28250 - In ACES mode, rendering 2 layers on the timeline targeting the same surface where one has content in ACEScg and another in ACEScct will not longer result in black sparkles on output.
• DSOF-28358 - Omitting the easing value from an HTTPSockpuppet API command will now default to easing linearly rather than returning an error.
• DSOF-28386 - Changing the GUI Mode for a machine via the API now works correctly and behaves the same way setting it in the GUI does.
• DSOF-28395 - Notch layers patched to HTTP sockpuppet will no longer display a spurious notification.
• DSOF-28402 - status/session API no longer returns an error when a machine in session is offline
• DSOF-28440 - HTTPSockpuppet patches no longer expose some fields which are not visible in the GUI.
• DSOF-28433 - Changing the refresh rate of d3 will no longer cause MTC transports to think that timecode has been dropped.
• DSOF-28484 - Texture streams over RenderStream is now correctly sent from the controller machine instead of always from the Director media server.
• DSOF-28602 - Changing the type of a surface, LED screen or DMX screen will no longer report an error and fail to change the surface type.
• DSOF-28638 - Using Porta to delete video clips in Designer will now happen much faster.
• DSOF-28643 - Holding tab and Shift+Tab while moving the mouse now correctly pan and rotated the visualiser camera again.

• DSOF-25006 - Shortcuts in the d3 project folder now show content in sub-folders.
• DSOF-28214 - These objects are also correctly considered for missing media notifications and highlighting
• DSOF-25713 - Designer no longer fails to process multiple Midi notes controlling an event transport if the notes are sent very close together.
• DSOF-27426 - FBX skeletons with multiple root bones now load correctly. (A root bone is automatically added as the parent of all roots).
• DSOF-28041 - The expressions “self.min” and “self.max” no return the min and max values of a Metafield correctly again.
• DSOF-28208 - RenderStream: channel mappings list now automatically updates when adding and removing channel mappings.
• DSOF-28224 - Controlling an Open Layer field by pick-whipping another field to make an expression will now work correctly again.
• DSOF-28290 - In OCIO mode, arrowing a Layer in to a LUT layer and then undoing the creation of the arrow will now correctly break the link and un-apply the LUT.
• DSOF-28423 - OCIO options are no longer visible in the PreComp Texture Widget when in Normal Gamma Colour Space mode.
• DSOF-28456 - Renderstream assets that are configured to have a custom gamma in ACES mode, and then are turned back to gamma mode will no longer spam the console.
• DSOF-28460 - Editing multiple layers at once now correctly displays OCIO fields and the fields correctly affect the layers.
• DSOF-28539 - Certain 2.5D assets when updated from r29.1.1 to r29.1.2 will no longer render in GUI colour space when it should be rendering in working space.
• DSOF-28590 - Spatial mapping outlines now correctly turn invisible when their editors are closed.

• DSOF-23165 - Texture Widget: Type filters are now always visible for all created texture types
• DSOF-27913 - Non-functional Lock/Unlock Files button removed from VideoClip object
• DSOF-28311 - The Test Pattern layer now renders consistently across colour management modes
• DSOF-28323 - Tracking marker layer now displays the correct colours when using different OCIO input transforms.

• • DSOF-21329 - Support non-16:9 camera aspect ratios with “region of interest”
  • Video input configuration now supports the ability to crop the image with two new configuration fields:
  • Crop size: The crop rectangle size in pixels to apply to the incoming video. The applied crop will be centered on the frame e.g. a horizontal crop of 1600px on a 1920px original frame will remove 160px on the left hand side and 160px on the right hand side.
  • Crop offset: The offset in pixels to apply to the crop rectangle. Offsetting the crop rectangle more than half the crop size in an axis will cause the crop rectangle to shrink in order to stay within the original frame. This functionality is useful for use cases such as when a camera produces non-16:9 output over SDI which is restricted to 16:9, resulting in black bars. The black bars can be cropped out with this feature. Productions using anamorphic lenses will also benefit from this feature. For more information about video in cropping, see setup-video-input.
  • DSOF-26311 - OSC output with customisation using Expressions
  • In addition to existing functionality to receive commands over OSC, Designer now supports outputting OSC for monitoring purposes with a flexible approach using Expressions. For detailed documentation on this feature, see OSC Monitoring and OSC Custom Monitoring.
  • DSOF-27760 - OSC Output Expressions: Ability to output via OSC what Timecode is coming into Disguise
  • Using the new OSC output expressions functionality described above, timecode coming into Designer can be outputted over OSC using the expression transport.timecode.current.__str__()
  • DSOF-24047 & DSOF-27975 - It is now possible to resize the track widget horizontally instead of only vertically and there is a useful button for restoring the default size.
  • DSOF-27356 - The quit and quit-all confirmation pop-ups will now appear above splash messages to make closing Designer easier.
  DSOF-28297 - The title of the Blend Profile graph has been renamed from “Blend Region Black Level” to “Dynamic Blend Region Black Level” so that it is more obvious that it is referring to the black of the blend zone, not to the projector black.

• DSOF-27813 - Sockpuppet protocol text no longer extends past the end of layers.
• DSOF-28243 - DMX lights will no longer produce an “INTEGER_DIVIDE_BY_ZERO” exception when deleted from the stage.
• DSOF-28399 - When double clicking on project file in D3Manager, the project name will no longer be editable by default.
• DSOF-28412 - A sockpuppet layer controlled from Porta no longer displays a single frame at the default value before setting controlled parameters.
• DSOF-28439 - The time synchronisation between multiple Designer machines will no longer break under specific network configurations involving multiple VPNs.
• DSOF-27357 - Designer will no longer extend an inserted layer beyond the timeline end.
• DSOF-28459 - The CDL setting in Video module now works correctly in OCIO.

• DSOF-24905 - Setting the placeholder of a VideoIn to None will no longer retain the last placeholder image selected until a system reboot.
• DSOF-27970 - HDMI VFC cards will no longer occasionally be detected as DP 1.2.
• DSOF-28223 - Designer now displays a friendly warning instead of an Access Violation when arrowing from an Open Layer to a Metafield (min, max, step etc.).
• DSOF-28237 - Zoom & Focus data is now correctly captured in the shot recorder again.
• DSOF-28327 - Designer will no longer intermittently hang after boot or applying feed settings when in very noisy networks.
• DSOF-28336 - Custom OCIO configs which do not define the built-in transform to be sRGB now display correctly in the visualiser.
• DSOF-28372 - The SpinBitmap layer now correctly shows dynamic OCIO transform fields.
• DSOF-28389 - Actor status icons now show tooltips again.
• DSOF-28417 - Resolved an issue where d3 could crash to desktop during apply feeds or when in certain rare GPU states.
• DSOF-28437 - Designer will no longer log lots of errors to the console when entering the feed scene while colour management is set to Gamma space

• DSOF-28283 - TrackSection Fades with Precomps no longer cause precomps to snap instead of transitioning smoothly
• DSOF-28295 - Designer now properly accepts variables in "selected index" expression of list indirection controllers
• DSOF-28338 - OCIO - Dynamic properties no longer affect all videos with the same colour space

OCIO

OCIO is a widely adopted open-source colour management solution. For more details on OCIO, visit https://opencolorio.org/.

For details on how OCIO is implemented in Designer,  see the Disguise User Guide for detailed documentation: https://help.disguise.one/designer/colour-management/ocio

Known issue: When using an identical colour space transform on multiple different resources (videos, textures, LEDScreen, etc.), changing the OCIO dynamic properties (exposure, contrast and gamma) on a resource will also affect all other resources which use the same colour space and transform. This issue will be resolved in a subsequent hotfix. For more information on OCIO dynamic properties, refer to the user guide link above.

Colour Inspector

The Colour Inspector is a new tool in Designer for inspecting the specific colour values of pixels within an image. It is useful for verifying content and colour workflows.

See the Disguise User Guide for detailed documentation on the Colour Inspector:
https://help.disguise.one/designer/colour-management/colour-inspector

• DSOF-22938 Make XR Colour Calibration work with ACES/OCIO

Colour calibration for XR now supports ACES and OCIO modes.

• DSOF-26828 Notch colour management in OCIO

Using Notch with Designer now supports both ACES and OCIO modes.

• DSOF-26830 OCIO working space selection

In OCIO mode, the working colour space is configurable. See the user guide OCIO section for details on how to set the working colour space.

• DSOF-26832 Implement OCIO for Renderstream module

OCIO supports the RenderStream layer. Sharing OCIO information with content engines over RenderStream was out of scope for this improvement.

• DSOF-26927 Selectable default input and output transforms in OCIO config

In OCIO mode, default input and output transforms can be configured so they are automatically applied to media and output devices. See the user guide OCIO section for details on how to set the default input and output transforms.

• DSOF-24246 Ability to duplicate and rename projects from within d3 Manager

Right-licking on a project or project file within d3 Manager now provides options to:
- Duplicate project
- Duplicate project file (option is disabled if right-clicking the project rather than the project file)
- Delete project
- Delete project file (option is disabled if right-clicking the project rather than the project file)
Projects and project files can now also be renamed via d3 Manager.

• DSOF-28287 Improve or explain the new VimbaX pop up in r29.0

The notification “Vimba X SDK/Driver not installed” now only appears when using the OmniCal workflow.

• DSOF-19120 - Logging now contains a full stack trace for certain error conditions
• DSOF-23972 - Sockpuppet:  Fixed an issue where exporting generic DMX personality for VIDEOTRIGGER produced divide by zero error
• DSOF-28251 - Fixed an issue where selecting masks in feed rectangles made 1 pixel of gradient
• DSOF-27635 - Content now looks correct in the visualiser in ACES mode
• DSOF-28011 - The ACES transform box is now properly aligned with other fields
• DSOF-28060 - Gamma space profile no longer applied to feed rects in the UI
• DSOF-28227 - The tracking marker module is now properly applied the IDT of the palette

• DSOF-28225 - CTRL + SHIFT + D now correctly duplicates and renames layers again!
• DSOF-28267 - Designer will no longer report an access violation on launch when certain rare configurations of history files exist on disk.
• DSOF-28292 - The visualiser camera will no longer stop rendering when an LED screen is added to the stage and no default gamma space has been set.

We have made a number of significant improvements to the IP-VFC. Due to changes to the IP-VFC firmware, any user wishing to use the IP-VFC on a Designer project built in software version r29.0 onwards must also update the IP-VFC firmware version to 23.0.7. The firmware version on an IP-VFC can be upgraded and downgraded, but must be used with a compatible Designer software version. 

Please refer to the following compatibility table in order to understand which IP-VFC firmware versions are compatible with which Designer software versions:

All IP-VFCs being used in the session must be updated to run on the same firmware version. The IP-VFC firmware updater tool and a guide to updating the firmware can be found under the VFC Firmware Update tab here.

IP-VFC SDI mode changes

• DSOF-22892 - You now no longer need to enable the enableSDIIPVFC option switch to use your IP-VFC with SDI SFPs
• DSOF-23731 - The IP-VFC card's list of supported formats now correctly hides unsupported formats.

720p and QUAD video output modes on the IP-VFC when running in SDI mode are greyed out by default as they are not currently fully supported. They can be enabled for testing via the enableIPSDIExperimentalModes option switch, however they are not fully supported and if you do plan to use them please reach out to support to discuss the limitations and risks.

• DSOF-27405 - IP-VFC cards will now output an SDI video stream correctly if only a single SFP is attached to the 2nd output port.
• DSOF-25602 - IP-VFC cards now no longer expose a TPG field when in SDI mode

In previous releases, when an IP-VFC was in SDI mode, there was a field in the output port properties called TPG, which stands for Test Pattern Generator. We have removed this field as the functionality is replicated by rendering a test pattern via a video layer.

• DSOF-25603 - IP-VFC cards in SDI mode can no longer independently be set to "Frame Replay".

In previous releases, when an IP-VFC was in SDI mode, there was a field in the output port properties called "Frame Replay". We have removed this field as the functionality is replicated by the ‘Hold output’ function, which allows the user to freeze the output on one or a selection screens.

IP-VFC ST 2110 mode changes

• DSOF-26523 - You can now select your PTP profile on the IP-VFC from the Designer interface when in ST 2110 output mode.

The options we support are:

SMPTE2059-2015

SMPTE2059-2021

• DSOF-26546 - You can now fully configure your IP-VFC card without requiring SFPs be connected first.
• DSOF-26999 - IP-VFC cards in an understudy machine will no longer take on the network port configuration of the IP-VFCs in the machine they are taking over from during failover.
• DSOF-27487 - IP-VFC cards now startup network interfaces on boot much more quickly.
• DSOF-22772 - IP-VFC cards will no longer intermittently hang indefinitely when you modify their network configuration.
• DSOF-23944 - Selecting PTP sync in the feed view will now automatically set all installed IP-VFCs in ST 2110 output mode to PTP sync mode (you can change them manually later, but this configuration is the most reliable for sync).
• DSOF-26532 - The Genlock indicator in the feed view no longer intermittently reports that IP-VFC cards in ST 2110 output mode are PTP locked when they are not.
• DSOF-26541 - Manual changes to the IP VFC cards network configuration are now correctly undoable.
• DSOF-26542 - IP addresses in the IP-VFC editor will no longer react erratically to the scroll wheel.
• DSOF-26543 - IP-VFC cards in ST 2110 mode will now correctly stay in EXT sync mode when it is set.
• DSOF-23860 - The IP-VFC editor will now warn you if you enter an invalid multicast address.
• DSOF-26700 - The IP-VFC editor will now highlight your network settings in red if the IP address supplied is not on the same subnet as your gateway.
• DSOF-27392 - IP-VFC cards in ST 2110 mode will no longer intermittently fail to create a video stream.

IP-VFC General changes

• DSOF-26574 - The IP-VFC will now display a grey-pink border in the feed view if it is non-responsive.
• DSOF-24968 - d3service and Designer now log more verbosely about the state of IP-VFC when it's being configured to help us better diagnose problems in the field.
• DSOF-26641 - Designer will no longer display an access violation when joining session with an IP-VFC card and loading directly in to the feed view.
• DSOF-26651 - The IP-VFC GUI will now always update with the correct PTP clock ID after applying genlock or feed settings.
• DSOF-26666 - Machines will no longer hang indefinitely when applying feed settings if the first IP-VFC card in the server cannot detect a genlock source.
• DSOF-26679 - Designer will no longer intermittently display an access violation when inspecting a machine that has IP-VFC cards attached.
• DSOF-26685 - Once configured, the IP-VFC will now wait less time to output a video stream.
• DSOF-26803 - Designer will no longer display and access violation when opening the editor of a machine that had IP-VFC cards installed but is now offline.
• DSOF-27404 - IP-VFC cards will no longer intermittently fail to initialize properly on machine boot.
• DSOF-27424 - Genlocking a machine via the IP-VFC card is now much more reliable.
• DSOF-28012 - EX range director machines will now correctly apply IP-VFC configuration to actor machines with IP-VFC cards connected.
• DSOF-24289 - Servers with IP-VFC cards installed that are set to genlock in EXT sync mode now respond correctly to upstream genlock signal changes.
• DSOF-24868 - You no longer need to apply feed settings on every system reboot to output from IP-VFC cards.

Other Improvements

We've been working on things other than the IP-VFC too.

• DSOF-28200 - You can now specify a default gamma space colour transform for all new ingested media and all newly created displays.

In Project Settings under ‘Colour Management’ you will find two new entries when the mode is set to ‘Gamma Space’ which each accept a colour profile object:

‘Default ingest profile’

‘Default display profile’

DSOF-28053 - For DMX Screens you can now select the new GRBW Fixture type (one step closer to having all the permutations!).

• DSOF-20707 - Selecting a new feed scene for a machine will now correctly update the feed name displayed in the feed view.
• DSOF-22779/22970 - Changing the split mode of a Quad-split capable VFC card from Mirror to Quad or Quad 4K will no longer randomly create or delete virtual heads erroneously.
• DSOF-22969 - When changing the split mode of a VFC card it will no longer move the Matrix Routing settings of subsequent VFC cards on to their neighbors.
• DSOF-23271 - Changing Quad-split to Mirror mode will no longer intermittently display an access violation in specific projects.
• DSOF-24035/28127/26713 - We have made various improvements to tooltip behaviour in this release:
• Tooltips will now be slower to display and display more consistently across the UI.
• We have improved a range of tooltips to make them more explanatory and helpful.
• Tooltips for broken expressions now better explain what's wrong and how to fix it.
• DSOF-25733 - All OSC Event Transport messages now correctly highlight in blue when triggered.
• DSOF-28138 - d3service logs are now simpler to assist with troubleshooting.

• DSOF-27052 - Projects that specify extra dlls like d3labs.dll in their dlls.txt file will not longer fail to open if the dlls.txt file has mixed line endings.
• DSOF-27831 - Layers with mappings that target no screens which apply affects to PreComp textures no correctly force the layers rendering the PreComps to become active.
• DSOF-27839 - Video layers patched to Sockpuppet that have a live video input sequenced now correctly show the placeholder video clip (if one is selected for that video input) when the video input is disconnected. This matches the behaviour of normal video layers.
• DSOF-27869 - Updated the test patterns that come with Designer in the following ways:
•  Fixed the 100% -> 0% greyscale to have correct colour values
•  Fixed the "Full Range" text to be the correct limited range colour values
•  Re-centred the content

• DSOF-11562 & DSOF-24738 mp4 video format files will now correctly be reported as unsupported when loaded, instead of reporting a cryptic error.
• DSOF-17285 Include link to release notes webpage in help tab in d3manager
• DSOF-24890 Performance improvement when modifying custom parameters for web layers
• DSOF-27989 Shortcuts added to move selected layers/groups where the  Playhead is

• CTRL + [  Extend/Trim the start of the selected layers to the playhead position
• CTRL + ]  Extend/Trim the End of the selected layers to the playhead position
• CTRL + ALT + [    Move the start of the selected layers to the playhead position while maintaining the length of the layers
• CTRL + ALT + ]    Move the end of the selected layers to the playhead position while maintaining the length of the layers

• DSOF-27793 - Hierarchy->Add Child now allows you to select grandchildren objects. For example consider the following object hierarchy:

Stage → Screen 1 → Screen 2 → Screen 3

                            → Screen 4

Now when selecting children for Screen 1 you can select Screen 3 and Screen 4, whereas previously you could only do so if you removed Screen 2 as the parent of screens 3 and 4.

• DSOF-11057 - Fixed an issue where low resolution screens appeared blurry in the visualiser. (Does not affect video output)
• DSOF-24353 & DSOF-24890 - Fixed some performance issues in the web module
• DSOF-26516 - The Format field of a video input will now always update to the correct format instantly upon assignment of a new capture source.
• DSOF-26802 - Fixed an issue where Designer would sometimes not automatically create a share for the d3 projects folder if sharing settings had been manually edited.
• DSOF-27748 & DSOF-27814 - Layer editors for groups now properly close all related keyframe widgets when closing
• DSOF-27972 - Mousing over the session icon in d3manager for a project will now correctly show the list of servers participating in that session again.
• DSOF-28043 - Notch and Renderstream Notch layers can now have their custom parameters controlled correctly by HTTPSockpuppet.
• DSOF-28045 - Renderstream layers can now have their scene field controlled correctly by HTTPSockpuppet.
• DSOF-28072 - The warning about expiring Notch licenses has been reworded to not say the word "Warning" twice. (unlike this note, ironically)
• DSOF-28081 - Designer will no longer intermittently fail to quit fully when using ProRes video content, causing remote start-up to fail.
• DSOF-28136 - The UVLookup module will no longer sometimes show artifacts where there are large discontinuities in the UV lookup texture.

• DSOF-20204 - Fixed an issue where VFC Firmware and Generation would not be visible for remote machines in the feed view
• DSOF-27491 - Fixed an issue where the CameraControl layer did not send strings on playback
• DSOF-27593 - Fixed an issue where the CameraControl layer could not send a Preset above 15
• DSOF-27720 - Fixed an issue where BlackTrax with RTTrPM device did not snap points to tracked points correctly
• DSOF-27767 - Fixed an Access Violation when using RigidBody tracking workflow
• DSOF-27864 - Fixed an issue where adding a DMX screen with labels rendered to the stage would cause parallel and cylindrical mapping to no longer render their outlines
• DSOF-28004 Fixed an Access Violation when viewing the Machine properties for any unconfigured/newly created Machine
• DSOF-28025 - Fixed an issue where running an xR or VP project that was using an NDI source caused the input to stutter once a RenderStream layer is started
• DSOF-28039 - Fixed an issue where max() and min() expressions had the same behaviour
• DSOF-28069 - Fixed an issue where Nginx couldn’t start after installation if d3 nginx log folder is missing

• EX 2, EX 2C and EX 3+ Product Support

• DSOF-24180 - Added confirmation dialog to global apply feed settings button
• DSOF-26244 - Right-clicking on a projector from the projector list view now opens the projector editor. This now behaves the same as other right-click behaviour
• DSOF-26719 - When dropping frames, outputs between machines and on the same machine will now re-synchronize faster.
• Also, output will no longer stutter intermittently on Vx3 and Vx2+ machines
• DSOF-26937 - EX range: Outputs in the feed view are no longer labelled as "No VFC"
• DSOF-27365 - Improved performance when using lots of HTTP Sockpuppet video layers
• DSOF-27908 - OSC SockPuppet: Text fields now have examples in their personality viewer

• DSOF-24265 - Fixed an issue where multiple feed rectangles in the same output feed could misalign by 1 pixel in certain scenarios
• DSOF-25102 - Fixed an issue where  LUTs applied to DMX Screens did not apply to DMX output
• DSOF-25165 - Fixed an issue where d3manager could sometimes report understudy machines to still be in session after they were quit remotely from Designer
• DSOF-25217 - EX Range & Solo: Fixed an issue where Edid emulation set to ‘always’ did not work unless there were displays connected
• DSOF-26788 - Fixed an issue where projector config from projector list editor could not be changed
• DSOF-27209 - Fixed an issue where FPS in the network status widget does not match FPS in the HUD
• DSOF-27801 - Fixed an issue where Windows 11 reported as Windows 10 22631 in d3manager

All Notch blocks flickered when they were not being rendered at full frame rates when a user upgraded their project file to r27.8. As a result we removed r27.8 (build number 191665). This has now been resolved in r27.9, which includes a number of additional fixes and improvements.

The original release notes for r27.8 are also listed at the end of this document.

• DSOF-11388 More Zoom Steps when Zoom In

Additional zoom levels have been added to zoom in and out of the timeline, for example using Alt Scroll or the timeline magnifier icons.

• DSOF-27451 Move 'Collapse All Groups' and 'Clear Arrows' into a dropdown

The Track Editor menu now contains a new Actions section which contains the following:

• Clear Arrows (if the option switch isClearArrowsEnabled is enabled)
• Toggle Groups
• Close Layer Editors (see next item)

• DSOF-26612 Add way to close all open layer editors

The Actions section of the Track Editor now contains a Close Layer Editors function, which ensures that the list of layers which would open when the timeline scrubs over them is cleared.

• DSOF-27484 'Collapse all Groups' Should toggle to expand all groups

The “Collapse all Groups” button in the Track Editor has been renamed to Toggle Groups, and it now collapses or expands all Groups across the whole track. If even one group is open then clicking the button will close the group(s). Expanding will only happen if there are no open groups on the entire track. The shortcuts Ctl Alt + and Ctrl Alt - also perform this action.

• DSOF-27207 QuickAlign option to disable adding new points

In order to easily move existing points without accidentally adding new points when doing QuickAlign, a checkbox has been added to toggle on or off adding new alignment points. The checkbox is under the Interface Options menu.

• DSOF-27246 Support multiple OSC floats in OSC position receiver

The OSC Position Receiver can now use multiple arguments in the same OSC message. This means that one message can be received for the three arguments x, y and z, rather than three separate messages.

• DSOF-27420 Transport "engaged" button should have a tooltip explaining when it's allowed and when it's not allowed to engage/disengage

The Transport Engaged / Disengaged button now has a more helpful tooltip to inform as to why it cannot be engaged and/or disengaged.

• DSOF-24911 Notes API - to be able to GET and POST notes

A new HTTP API to get and set notes has been added. For details, see the documentation at https://developer.disguise.one or the documentation bundled with Designer, which is linked from d3manager->Help->Open API Documentation.

• DSOF-27204 Manager to show list of locally connected (physical) CodeMeter containers in "d3 License" window

The d3Manager License dialog (accessible from d3Manager->Help->d3 Licenses) now contains a section detailing the serial number(s) of local Codemeter license containers.

• DSOF-25823 - Fixed an issue that occurred on project launch, where d3manager warned "No valid Designer licence detected from d3service!" but continued to open the project
• DSOF-26562 - Fixed an issue where head names did not appear in the feed view
• DSOF-26726 - Fixed an issue where remote graphs sometimes failed to be sent to the director
• DSOF-26909 - Fixed an issue where DMX screens appeared inactive when the position was controlled with automation data until the visualiser camera was moved
• DSOF-27074 - Fixed undo (Ctrl + Z) not working work when deleting a tag
• DSOF-27144 - Sped up the timeSlideShow setup takes on projects with large number of video clips
• DSOF-27262 - Fixed an issue where WSAWaitForMultipleEvents was seen when using ArtNet
• DSOF-27280 - d3 installer now sets the d3.exe file properties to disabled for Windows versions later than 1809
• DSOF-27282 -  API Docs page no longer returns blank white screen
• DSOF-27289 - Fixed an issue where a Note did not unsubscribe ResourceActions when deactivated
• DSOF-27290 - Fixed an issue where ObjectView did not unsubscribe ResourceActions before adding new ones
• DSOF-27315 - Fixed a hang that occurred when on adding / removing from timeline
• DSOF-27359 - Fixed an issue where live update was blocked blocked after long hangs on director
• DSOF-27382 - Fixed access violation when two machines on network have duplicate hostnames 
• DSOF-27553 - OmniCal: Fixed an issue where the number of Projector inliers and total points were not serialised
• DSOF-27567 - Fixed shadow artefacts in dynamic blend with three projectors
• DSOF-27568 - Fixed barn doors not removing all projections
• DSOF-27596 - Fixed an issue where mask blur shadow was not accounted for by other projectors
• DSOF-27629 - Fixed multiple Access Violations when fading out of a sockpuppet layer
• DSOF-27640 - Fixed an issue where EventTransportMidiNote Notes and CC messages were no longer highlighted blue when receiving
• DSOF-27649 - Fixed an issue where setting load weight to 0 or negative caused an infinite hang
• DSOF-27665 - Fixed Access Violations in cleanup prefetch
• DSOF-27702 - Fixed an issue where inputs went black when a timeout occurred
• DSOF-27759 - Fixed an issue where Media Distribution was unable to distribute to editors
• DSOF-27763 - Fixed a crash to desktop on video file removal
• DSOF-27784 - Fixed an issue where Notch blocks flickered at all framerate fractions < 1

New Features

• DSOF-17036 ProRes Support

ProRes video codecs are now supported for playout on Disguise. ProRes is a visually lossless codec that uses intra-frame compression, where each frame is stored independently and can be decoded with no dependencies on other frames.

Users are now able to playout the following ProRes codecs from Disguise:

• ProRes 422
• ProRes 422 HQ
• ProRes 422 LT
• ProRes 422 Proxy
• ProRes 4444
• ProRes 4444 XQ

ProRes RAW playback in Disguise is not supported.

ProRes video codecs are CPU-based. We recommend checking the video playback performance for the Disguise media server(s) when deciding whether ProRes is appropriate for your show or production. 

Improvements

• DSOF-22928 Allocate buffers through GpuPool

This improvement prevents an error message outlining that access to the GPU device was lost on the actor machine when many high-resolution Notch LC video layers are used.

• DSOF-25479 Export profiles of GPU memory allocation

We have added profileGPUPoolFromLaunch as an option switch to enable users to trigger the creation of a memory profile so that they can understand the behaviour of a GPU pool for debugging purposes. This is exported as a .json file to a project folder called ‘output’. 

• DSOF-27549 On Understudy machines, don't set output status to orange in the network status widget if the GUI is on

Fixes

• DSOF-19231 - Fixed an issue where the debug console jittered when Video Prefetcher Report is visible during video playback, and the widget could not be resized
• DSOF-24304 Fixed a BSOD when Scrubbing Timeline
• DSOF-24583 - Fixed new textures pool not responding to scrubbing
• DSOF-24584 - Fixed scrubbing detection failing during lengthy system hangs or in low frame rate scenarios
• DSOF-24608 - Fixed console logging omitting timestamp on some lines
• DSOF-24662 - Fixed an issue where the prefetcher created many unnecessary prefetch jobs while scrubbing
• DSOF-25240 - Lowered the GPU usage of  Discovery ndirelay instance
• DSOF-25395 - Fixed an issue where overly active 'Strict mode' caused prefetch to miss and exhibit many errors
• DSOF-25712 - Requests in freelist no longer appear in the debug widget
• DSOF-25718 - Fixed an issue where VariableVideoModule held a reference to the last frame used even when not active
• DSOF-27157 - Texture parameters no longer switch places when using multiple texture parameters
• DSOF-27261 - Fixed an issue where  CPU textures were constantly re-allocated while playing NotchLC blocks.
• DSOF-25035 - Fixed an issue where the Shot Recorder with a note in parameter collection caused a problem on project restart
• DSOF-25743 - Fixed an issue where EventTransportDmx did not highlight "Stop" in blue when it was selected, and Brightness was permanently highlighted when DMX is connected.
• DSOF-27361 - Fixed an issue wherelLayers with missing media did not update the red highlight when the layer start is dragged earlier
• DSOF-27468 DMX SockPuppet: 'DmxPersonality' object is not callable when attempting to 'View Personality' in Patch Settings widget
• DSOF-27518 'GroupLayer' object has no attribute 'controlPatch'
• DSOF-27653 Using UX fade with a UVLookup module results in an error and the playhead won't advance beyond the section break.

• DSOF-27746 - Fixed a critical issue where Notch blocks were getting 'LOGIC ERROR' in r27.7.3

• DSOF-26647 - Fixed an issue where a duplicate process started when clicking on the start workload button from the timeline while the workload was already launching
• DSOF-26766 - Fixed an issue where timecode playmodes for layers were behaving inconsistently when playing to end of section with RenderStream
• DSOF-26953 - Fixed an Access Violation after closing the Renderstream widget
• DSOF-27243 - Fixed an issue where the debugLiveUpdate option switch was non-functional
• DSOF-27251 - Fixed an issue where Colour Calibration returned a black LUT and an .cube file with null values
• DSOF-27363 - Fixed an issue where extending the start of a layer using ctrl+< with the end of the layer at the end of track resulted in track lengthening
• DSOF-27466 - OSC/HTTP SockPuppet: Fixed an issue where Designer threw an error when attempting to display an alert box after exporting personality
• DSOF-27472 - Fixed errors being raised when attempting to drag the heading in the RenderStream cluster workload window
• DSOF-27485 - Fixed an AccessViolation when patching RenderStream layer to sockpuppet
• DSOF-27498/DSOF-27500 - Fixed an issue where slideshows did not load
• DSOF-27523 - Fixed an Access Violation on startup relating to QuickProfiler
• DSOF-27271 Notch instances that get prefetched but never end up being played through don’t return to Sleeping state

• DSOF-21378 - Render nodes marked as failed are now notified to prevent them contributing to network traffic
• DSOF-25240 -  Discovery ndirelay instance now has a lower CPU usage
• DSOF-26705 - Fixed an issue where RenderStream Layers connected to sockpuppet may not have initialised personality types leading to Exceptions
• DSOF-26899 - Fixed an issue where the first command to an OSC Indirection did not change the resource
• DSOF-27329 - Fixed an issue where a capture group config can't be saved on bluefish card

• DSOF-27010 Add a link to learn.disguise.one in d3manager
• DSOF-22053 Upgrade to Vimba X SDK for OmniCal 
• DSOF-25066 Custom colour primaries in Gamma Space mode

We have added the option to add custom output colour primaries from Designer to enable high performance colour transforms for LED panels. This is available when Gamma Space mode is selected as the colour management mode in Project Settings. This can be found by right-clicking a LED Screen found in a project and right-clicking Colour Profile underneath the Output dropdown menu.

• DSOF-25138 Designer will now respect the clipping planes defined in notch blocks. Note: Notch blocks which do not define a clipping plane will have a default one set by Designer.
• DSOF-25646 Omnical will check and notify the user if the wrong Vimba SDK is installed for use with the latest version of Designer.
• DSOF-26353 Implement colour management interface with Notch version 1.0

We now support colour management settings included in a Notch block exported from version 1.0 or later to a Notch layer in Designer

• DSOF-26356 Raise warning about Notch version 1.0 compatibility on unsupported servers

Notch Blocks that have been exported in version 1.0 or later have a number of requirements in order to run on a Disguise media server:

Windows OS - must be Windows 10 1607 or higher

GPU - support for Nvidia GPUs only (Maxwell Architecture or later)

Notch Blocks that are exported in version 1.1 or later will have the following requirements in order to run on a Disguise media server:

Windows OS - must be Windows 10 1607 or higher

GPU - support for Nvidia GPUs only (Turing Architecture or later)

We have created a notification in Designer to warn a user that attempts to run a Notch block that has been exported in version 1.0 or later on a Disguise media server that is not supported. 

A compatibility table can be found below.

• DSOF-26694 Upgrade nsis to 3.10
• DSOF-27009 Prewarm notch instances

We have reduced the load time when a user adds a Notch layer to a project for the first time, or starts a project with a Notch layer already assigned to a track. We have enabled this as default behaviour.

• DSOF-27056 Add support for double to rational conversion
• DSOF-27095 Update to latest FastBuild version v1.13
• DSOF-27152 Update NDI SDK to NDI 6

We have updated the NDI SDK to support NDI 6.0. This includes improvements to the 16-bit colour formats that are supported (P216/PA16) and a new specification for NDI HDR metadata. More information on NDI 6.0 can be found in their release notes here (link). It is important to note that NDI 5.0 video inputs continue to work as expected.

• DSOF-27247 Add pagination for Porta and the media API
• DSOF-27306 Include AudioFiles in the media/get api

• DSOF-24822 - - Fixed an issue where VideoAsset SLC Region Regex checked full path instead of just the filename,  causing a blue screen of death
• DSOF-25043 - Fixed an issue where VimbaCamServer used the incorrect ID for non-GigEVision cameras
• DSOF-25481- Fixed an issue where "display as" was broken for all unit types
• DSOF-25571- Fixed an issue where a 'NoneType' object had no attribute 'positionNear' when clicking on MIDI Personality names in Event Transport MIDI Note
• DSOF-26367 - Fixed an issue where Notch pass-through blocks gave a black texture when transforming with Gamma2.2 curve
• DSOF-26589 - Fixed an issue where there was no anti-aliasing on a set extension when feather is under 10
• DSOF-26595 - Designer now profiles automatically when performance is low
• DSOF-26633 - Improve Actor performance drops when running RenderStream
• DSOF-26648- Fixed an issue where RenderStream error notifications caused network spam
• DSOF-26650 Fixed an issue where bringing the brightness up on Renderstream layers caused unsynchronised pop-in across Actors
• DSOF-26897 - Fixed and issue where d3killer failed to kill nginx
• DSOF-27006 - Fixed an Access Violation in QuickProfiler subsystem when shutting down Designer
• DSOF-27034 - Fixed an issue where setting centre shift turned overscan red with zero distortion
• DSOF-27047 - Standardised HTTP sockpuppet API endpoints are in /experimental/ namespaces
• DSOF-27064 - Fixed an issue where Protoc router plugin was not generated at build time
• DSOF-27131 - Fixed an issue where removing all keyframes on a RenderStream custom event displayed a long value number
• DSOF-27153 - Fixed an issue where corrupt stage objects causes visualiser to fail to render anything
• DSOF-27244 - Fixed an issue where Undo / Redo of measurements resulted in NULL objects and drop to 2 FPS
• DSOF-27245 - API: Fixed an issue where a session did not return director status when in solo mode
• DSOF-27269 - Fixed an Async error notification not registering due to uninitialised pointer
• DSOF-27309 - Fixed an issue where Designer failed to load images in VideoFile folder with incorrect file extension
• DSOF-27338 - Fixed an issue where sorting scenes in the unreal project schema broke applications that rely on index
• DSOF-27370 - Fixed Unreal RenderStream failover in UE5.3/UE5.4

• DSOF-24431 - Fixed an issue where LUT files created textures directly rather than through the GpuPool
• DSOF-24747 - Textures allocate less memory
• DSOF-24909 - Fixed an error message when patching strobe/radar layer to Sockpuppet
• DSOF-25308 - Designer no longer tries to reload unsupported audio files
• DSOF-25449 - Fixed an "Error 500" loading consoles or projects URLs
• DSOF-26833 - Fixed an issue where RenderStream custom event keyframes did not trigger on first frame when running timeline on loop
• DSOF-26994 - Fixed an Omnical Crash
• DSOF-27040 - Reverts DSOF-26131, which was introduced in r27.4. The change caused playback modes in a Sockpuppet video layer to behave incorrectly. As a result of the revert, DMX sockpuppet triggers will no longer be in sync between machines, however, sockpuppet inframe/outframe will once again work as intended
• DSOF-27237 - Fixed an issue where Actors failed to load MeshDeform deformed mesh
• DSOF-27310 - Fixed an issue where Natnet driver editor failed to populate with ‘onClose’ error

• DSOF-26045 API: session/status/health does not return statuses from solo mode machines

We have enabled the Designer APIs to return status information when the machine(s) that has been queried is running in solo mode.

• DSOF-26527 Update test cards with new logo

We have updated both the colour and test patterns included as part of the Designer installer and made available in both 16:9 and 4:3 versions. We have added the following:

• Full or limited colour test pattern
• Chroma subsampling test pattern to prove 4:2:2 or 4:2:0
• Updated Disguise branding

• DSOF-27199 API: session/gototag returns 200 even when tag isn't found

In previous releases, the session/gototag endpoint returned a 200 OK HTTP status code even if a transport tag was not found. This has been resolved by returning a 400 bad request status code instead.

• DSOF-26587 - Fixed an issue where video receive delay would drift during time in a Matrox server with OS24Q1 in r27.0
• DSOF-26898 - Fixed an m_file->codec error when ingesting content
• DSOF-27051 - Fixed an issue where Matrox Videoin Hardware Identifiers got card-swapped
• DSOF-27124 - Fixed an issue where DSE mask could be not updated properly on Animate Objects
• DSOF-27139 - "Adding machine media" console logging is now less verbose
• DSOF-27206 - Fixed an error where mesh deform gives out of bounds error when deformed mesh already exists
• DSOF-27219 - Fixed a crash to desktop on shutdown, if shutdown was triggered during startup
• DSOF-27225 - Autosave: Fixed an issue where only the current selected Transport Manager was considered when checking if we're currently in show
• DSOF-27226 - Fixed an issue where mesh deform applied maxDistance in local rather than global screen scale
• DSOF-27230 - Fixed an issue where the ProxyMaker did not unsubscribe removeResourceAction

• DSOF-26801 Promote propSelectionPriority == 10 as default behaviour

Selection of objects in the Designer visualiser is prioritised based on the type of object. For example, if a camera is behind a projector, the camera will be selected even if the projector is visually in front. In previous releases, the Prop object had the lowest selection priority of all object types. This could be changed with the option switch propSelectionPriority. In this release, the default selection priority of Props has been changed so it is the same priority as a projector, puck, skeleton and 2.5D asset. It is still possible to use the option switch to change this, whereby setting propSelectionPriority to 0 is the lowest priority and 25 is the highest priority. 

• DSOF-27059 Add async error notification to Matrox API

Async notifications from Matrox are now logged to the console which helps debug any problems with the Matrox card or driver.

• DSOF-26510 - Fixed an issue where it was not possible to duplicate a 2.5D asset 
• DSOF-26878 - Fixed an issue where the MessageBox popped up under Designer, causing the system to appear as though it were hanging
• DSOF-26993 - Change of "RenderStream Projects Folder" registry key caused the  RenderStream workload to use an incorrect nDisplay file
• DSOF-27088 - Fixed an issue where the Video Asset Editor went out of alignment when version strings were different lengths

Skinned Mesh Workflows

Summary

The skinned mesh workflow allows a rigged mesh to be selected in a Skeleton, so that the mesh can be deformed based on the positions of the skeleton’s bones. This can be used to represent deforming surfaces, so that they can be used across other standard workflows within Disguise.

In this release the two main features are:

• Skinned mesh support for Skeletons
• A new SkeletalPointTrackingSource for controlling skeleton bones based on tracked points

Taken together, these features allow us to deform a mesh based on tracked marker positions from a system such as Blacktrax or Optitrack.

How-To

To use a skinned mesh as a projection surface:

1. Find or create an FBX file which contains a single rigged mesh, and copy this into the project’s objects/Mesh folder
2. Create a new skeleton, and select the FBX mesh in the skeleton’s mesh field
3. Create a new projection surface, and select the mesh named after the skeleton (not the original FBX mesh)
4. Try moving the skeleton’s bones using the manual posing controls in the skeleton editor. The mesh should deform in both the skeleton and the projection surface
5. If you want to hide the skeleton mesh, set the Display mode under Appearance to Hidden

To set up a SkeletalPointTrackingSource to control a skeleton:

1. Set up a marker tracking system e.g. Blacktrax or Optitrack to receive tracked points in Disguise
2. Create a rigged mesh with joints at each tracked marker position, export as FBX as select in a Skeleton
3. Under Hierarchy in the Skeleton, click ‘Create Reference Points’ to create a reference point for each joint
4. Create a new SkeletalPointTrackingSource as the Skeleton’s tracking source
5. In the tracking source editor, add points to link each tracked point to its corresponding reference point
6. Points can be sorted into groups. If a point stops receiving tracking data, its position will be estimated based on a rigid body transform from other receiving points in the same groups
7. Each point can also have an offset applied relative to the fixed point, and can have ‘Twist’ ticked to calculate the twist of that joint based on the positions of points within the same group
8. Adjust the ‘Rejoin velocity limit’ to change the speed at which points catch up with the tracked position when tracking is received again after being lost

This workflow is also documented in the user guide at https://help.disguise.one/en/Content/Workflows/Motion-Capture/Skinned_Mesh_Workflows/Skeleton.htm  and https://help.disguise.one/en/Content/Workflows/Motion-Capture/Skinned_Mesh_Workflows/Skeleton_Point_Tracking_Source.htm

Skinned skeletal mesh support

• DSOF-25206 Add deformable mesh functionality to skeleton
• DSOF-25221 Ability to import skeleton rig from FBX file
• DSOF-25307 Make skeleton layout persistent
• DSOF-25409 Render mesh when it is selected in a Skeleton
• DSOF-26074 Add retargeting to control skeletal mesh with tracked skeleton data
• DSOF-26599 Instance skeleton-controlled deformable meshes so the same mesh can be used multiple times
• DSOF-27004 Expose skeleton joint pose manual controls to users

SkeletalPointTrackingSource for marker-based skeleton control

• DSOF-25223 Ability to add tracked points to Skeleton
• DSOF-26734 Add option to clear reference points in Skeleton
• DSOF-25366 Account for non-receiving tracked points in Skeleton control
• DSOF-25407 Automatically detect and control duplicate joints
• DSOF-25484 Skeleton tracking  - avoid points jumping when they stop receiving
• DSOF-25497 Skeleton tracking - avoid points jumping when they start receiving again
• DSOF-25498 Skeleton tracking - calculate bone twist angle from rigid body group

• DSOF-24875 Add API call to indicate GUI state/selected option
• DSOF-25528 Add API call to set GUI mode

The above two items are in a new API endpoint /session/status/setguimode

• DSOF-25063 Add API call to query timecode receive status of a transport

A new receivingTimecode field has been added to TransportIndo in the Session API.

• DSOF-25088 Add API endpoints to query QuickCal pixel error and overwrite manual calibration

Two new endpoints have been added:
/quickcal/overwritemanualcalibration which overwrites the manual calibration for the given projector
/quickcal/projectorcalibration which returns information about the projector config including the error values

• DSOF-25222 Omnical - ability to mesh deform without adding verts

It is sometimes desirable to deform with Omnical without adding extra vertices. This is now configurable in MeshDeform in the new Topology Behaviour setting. Selecting “Discard inserted vertices” will result in a deformed mesh without added complexity. The number of vertices and triangles before/after MeshDeform will remain the same.

• DSOF-25351 OmniCal: minor MeshDeform performance improvements

Performance of the Omnical mesh deform feature has been improved.

• DSOF-25367 Add prediction to tracked points

A new section for Prediction has been added to the natnet driver. This can help to minimise lag. The new fields in the Prediction section are as follows:

Prediction time (sec): How much time to predict
Sample interval threshold (sec): This is the threshold of time intervals between samples to filter out noise. If the interval time between samples is bigger, detection will be ignored.
Sample size: The number of samples to use for prediction. More samples will make prediction less prone to the noise
Terms: This is the term of curve that is used for curve fitting.  Value can be set to either 1 or 2

• DSOF-26057 Add user facing option to render normals

Mesh normals can now be toggled on in the Designer visualiser. To turn on normals, go to Stage -> Visualiser Camera -> Render settings -> Object visibility -> Mesh normals. Normals will then be displayed for any mesh which is selected.

• DSOF-23836 - Fixed an issue where feeds dragged over a GUI could no longer be suppressed by Alt+G or Alt+F
• DSOF-24884 - Fixed an issue where toggling the GUI with ALT+G persisted the state through a project restart
• DSOF-25021 - Fixed an issue where NatNet driver could introduce subtle rotation errors in Rigid Bodies
• DSOF-25331 - Fixed an issue where unlabelled markers in Motive created infinite unnamed TrackedPoints in Designer
• DSOF-26190 - Fixed an issue where a dormant Sockpuppet Video Layer briefly became active when changing media slot
• DSOF-26622 - Fixed FBX mesh collisions mesh being generated incorrectly
• DSOF-26704 - Fixed FBX mesh thumbnail being empty
• DSOF-26901 - Fixed an issue where Alt+G GUI Is Disabled splash was not always in bottom right of screen
• DSOF-27011 - Offline editors no longer affect aggregate status in the session widget

The range finder option was toggled on by default when an user upgraded their project file to r27.5. In addition, an access violation was reported during the OmniCal calibration process which led to the project freezing. As a result we removed r27.5 (build number 186871) from the website. These have now been resolved in r27.5.1, which is otherwise identical to r27.5.

• DSOF-27185 - Fixed an issue where the range finder option was toggled on by default when upgrading projects to r27.5
• DSOF-27186- Fixed a Renderer Access Violation during OmniCal calibration that locked up Designer

• Added support for RXIII server type

We have added software support for the RX III render node.

• DSOF-11797 Improve DMX screen position receiver to enable reception of other byte formatting

The DMX Screen Position Driver now has the option to specify the number of DMX channels to use per axis, allowing the use of 16-bit (2 channels) and 24-bit (3 channels), up to 64-bit (8 channels).

The following fields were added:

• Number of Channels per Axis - number of 8-bit DMX channels per axis
• Signed - signals whether the value is a signed integer. Toggle on for yes and toggle off for no. This allows the value to be negative
• Little Endian - signals whether the value is in Little Endian (toggle on) or Big Endian (toggle off). This is the order the channels are used to create the value.

• DSOF-25698 Add a modifier to locking to director, which first jumps the director to the editor playhead before locking

When using an Editor that is running in session, users can now press ALT + SHIFT + click ‘Lock to Director’ to jump the Director to the Editors’ time location before locking. 

• DSOF-25854 Add range finder option to camera visualiser

We have added a range finder option to the camera visualiser to enable users to know how far away from a screen when completing pixel pitch calculations. This can be turned on by right clicking anywhere in the stage view, and then right clicking the Render settings. The Range finder can be toggled on and off from this menu and will appear as an overlay in the stage view.

• DSOF-26839 Allow padding outside of Renderstream full-frame renders

When the Splitting Strategy is set to ‘Full-Frame’ mode in the Cluster Assigner menu - found within the Config section the RenderStream layer - the Padding value is now applied to the outside of the full frame.  This can also be used with Mesh and Direct Mappings if using the RenderStream layer. 

• DSOF-26887 Remote GUI status and toggle for actors

We have added GUI status to the ‘Output’ indicator on the Network Status Widget as seen in the screenshot below. The GUI icon follows the same convention as the other icons, namely if the GUI is on a Disguise media server running in session then the icon will be green. If it is off then the icon will be grey. A tooltip also states this information if the user hovers over the icon. 

• DSOF-26890 Add hotkeys to next/last through the tracks in the setlist

We have introduced hotkeys to allow users to jump between tracks in the setlist. This can be completed by pressing ‘PgDn’ to go to the next track in the setlist, and ‘PgUp’ to go to the last track in the setlist.

• DSOF-25041 - Fixed an issue where the package destructor would try and compact the project file even when opened in write disabled mode
• DSOF-26121 - Fixed an issue where media distribution failed because the incorrect path was used
• DSOF-26871 - Remove VideoFile references (RPs) when a resource is removed

• DSOF-26229 - Fixed an issue where levels were marked as invalid when using an actor as a controller
• DSOF-26291 - Fixed an issue where 2.5d depth maps were unnecessarily included in the project diagnostic
• DSOF-26446 - Fixed an error message "wasn't expecting a frame receipt for a never-subscribed stream" when stopping RenderStream compressed
• DSOF-26708 - Fixed an issue where Dynamic Blend edge had jagged edge on dome with quickcal
• DSOF-26793 - Fixed an issue where feed warp 'draw control points on output' did not work in Custom mode
• DSOF-26870 - Machine List in Monitoring Manager is now sorted correctly
• DSOF-26874 - Fixed an issue where a projector mask surface with population mask in Alpha blend mode renders incorrectly in Feed output
• DSOF-26911 - Fixed an issue where Stage Movie recordings audio was 2 frames offset from video
• DSOF-26943  - Fixed incorrect blend implementation for Projector Alpha Mask
• DSOF-26949 - Fixed an Access Violation when receiving 16-channel ArtNet data

• DSOF-26760 - Receive health widget is now resizable
• DSOF-26933 - Resized d3manager columns in the ‘Network’ tab

• DSOF-25916 - Fixed an issue where device recordings with multiple states played back packets out of order
• DSOF-26271 - Fixed an issue where the d3 version of projects was not visible in in d3manager
• DSOF-26379 - Fixed an issue where the frame counter incorrectly changed when jumping on from a section using a direct map to one using a precomp
• DSOF-26447 - Fixed an issue where late joining Actors could be out of sync when in play to end of section mode
• DSOF-26467 - Fixed a crash to desktop when shutting down on Gx3
• DSOF-26840 - Fixed an issue where RX nodes published a display adapter list every 10 seconds
• DSOF-26958 - Fixed an issue where Frame Blend could become reversed when changing speed, causing jerky motion
• DSOF-26961 - Fixed a RenderStream Uncompressed crash

• DSOF-26926 - BlueFish card temperature is now logged on startup

• DSOF-25176 - Fixed an issue where the Videoin preview widget failed to open when using GUI fractional framerate
• DSOF-26000 - Fixed an issue where the input configuration menu caused the Videoin preview widget to crash while using GUI fractional framerate

Improvements

• DSOF-17967 Make "Find Usage" more useful (jump to usage etc)

We have improved the Find Usage functionality in the VideoClip, DfxFile, and AudioTrack layer editors. This can be found by right clicking on the respective pieces of media and left-clicking on the ‘Find Usage’ button in the layer editor for VideoClip, DfxFile and AutoTrack. This will open a window with all occurrences of the current piece of media across all tracks and layers. An example can be found here:

Each entry will contain the Track, Layer and usage location, shown as the timecode time from the timeline. A left-click on the entry will jump the playhead to the start of the layer that uses that piece of media. 

All Find Usage information can now be exported as a .TXT file.

The same functionality has been added to the ‘Find/Replace Usages’ button in the Mapping editor, which was introduced in r27.1 for sequenced mappings only, only in this case the window shown will display all occurrences of the mapping. In the menu, to the side of ‘Replacement Mapping’, if a user clicks on ‘None’ then a different mapping can be selected. Click ‘Replace with selected Mapping’ to assign the new mapping as seen here:

• DSOF-22572 Redistribute DMX and OSC data to allow for synchronisation

In previous releases, both DMX and OSC packets were received independently and actioned by each Disguise media server running in the session. We have changed this behaviour so that both DMX and OSC packets are now received by the director machine running in the session and distributed to the actors. This means that all DMX and OSC packets are executed at the same timestamp.

This improvement allows for the DMX and OSC protocols to be used in situations which require operations to happen in synchronisation, such as triggering DMX or OSC changes on a screen split across multiple actors for example. 

If Disguise is receiving DMX or OSC packets, we can right click DMX or OSC on the state tab at the top of the Designer GUI to open the ‘DMX Recorders’ or ‘OSC Recorders’ editor menu. This includes a ‘Redistribution Delay’ field where we can customise the frame delay to enable the redistribution of the DMX or OSC packets to take place. A higher frame delay will compensate for a high-latency network as it allows more time for the DMX or OSC packets to get from the director machine to the actor machines.

• DSOF-15782 Sockpuppet - Fixed an issue where sACN Sockpuppet playback could be out of sync
• DSOF-23659 - Fixed an issue where the tracking axis filtered value of zoom and focus failed send to system
• DSOF-24426 - Fixed an indefinite hang on mapping a bluefish input to video input
• DSOF-26481 - Fixed an issue where OSC expressions did not re-evaluate after a project restart
• DSOF-26520 - Fixed an issue where LocaleMetaData was missing from diagnostics, meaning events logs were not completely readable
• DSOF-26773 - Fixed a DMX/OSC-related error when right-click on the Devices
• DSOF-26775 - Fixed an issue where "redistributionDelay" field under the Devices was written in an incorrect style
• DSOF-26819 - RMAXd3: logging now handles 3 error codes

• DSOF-25391 - The MIDI Beat Clock Timecode Transport, when set to Metronome mode, now holds at the end of a section when in Playing to End of Section playmode
• DSOF-26439 - Fixed an Access Violation that sometimes occurred when starting a project with pre-configured video ins
• DSOF-26631 - More than 8 RenderStream streams in Mesh Mapping no longer cause black outputs
• DSOF-26721 - Fixed an issue where RenderStream duplicated one stream across outputs

• DSOF-26759 - Added machine name to time readout in the Readout module
• DSOF-26760 - The RenderStream Receive health widget is now resizable
• DSOF-26674 - Increase I/O limit for Designer licence to 6GByte/s

• DSOF-26632 - Fixed an issue where UV mappings were not applied accurately in Mesh Mapping mode
• DSOF-26677 - Fixed an issue where arrowing a Blur layer into video layer degraded the quality of the arrowed media
• DSOF-26678 - Fixed an issue where we, ‘Timed out while transmitting Art-Net packet’ when setting Tracking Recorders mode to Play
• DSOF-26737 - Made Artnet packet sequence count per universe instead of globally
• DSOF-26756 - Fixed an issue where Prop surfaces were masking surfaces behind them when in Add blend mode

The size of the Designer installer for r27.3 (build number 183205) and a number of custom branches exceeded the available RAM permitted as part of the reimaging process. This caused the reimaging process to stop and prevented the user from booting the Disguise media server into Windows. 

We removed r27.3 (build number 183205) from our website. This has now been resolved in r27.3.1, which is otherwise identical to r27.3.

• DSOF-9390 Lux Transparency Support

Non-opaque blend is now supported in Lux mode.

• DSOF-24027 TCP Indirection Controller

There is now a TCP variant of the Indirection Controller, in addition to the existing variant which uses UDP. It works like a UDPIndirectionController with a key value pair list and when the user sends a TCP message with a new key it causes the indirection to switch.

• DSOF-24933 HTTP Sockpuppet

In addition to control via OSC, Sockpuppet now supports control via the HTTP protocol. This makes Sockpuppet more easily controllable by web-based control interfaces and other networked components that utilize HTTP protocols.

The sockpuppet commands are sent to the director, from which the animation values are applied in sync across all machines in the session.

Patching a layer

1. Create a layer in d3 that you wish to patch.
2. Right click layer and select Patch to HTTP

API Overview

HTTP sockpuppet exposes the following HTTP API endpoints, currently under the experimental namespace which is not documented at developer.disguise.one. See http://127.0.0.1/docs/experimental for the Swagger documentation. Note that as these APIs are in the experimental namespace, they may be subject to change before promotion to the non-experimental namespace.

API Usage Workflow

Expected usage of APIs are as follows;

1. Call sockpuppet/easingfunctions to get list of possible easing functions
2. Call sockpuppet/patches to get list of possible patches
3. Using data from sockpuppet/patches, use /sockpuppet/live to make changes to the patch, and therefore the layer. Send to the director only, or controlling understudy.

Live changes sent to the director will be played back in sync across the session with a 2 frame delay.

• DSOF-4156 Shortcut to Expand all/Collapse all groups

The following keyboard shortcuts expand and collapse all groups:
CtrlAlt= (expand)
CtrlAlt- (collapse)
In addition, there is a new Collapse All Groups button in the right click menu of the track which collapses all supergroups and smart groups.

• DSOF-19079 Make strobe layer less intense when created

When a strobe layer is created the rate is now 1hz by default.

• DSOF-23033 Sequencing: Add hot key for layer 'fit to contents'

When a layer is selected using the key bind 'CTRL + SHIFT + F' it will fit layer to contents
The key bind is noted in the 'F1' Shortcut menu.

• DSOF-23439 FolderWatcher abort logs are unclear (e.g. if d3service fails to clean up) 
• DSOF-25049 Add text to manual observation alignment widget explaining initial alignment

We have added text in the Manual Observation widget that explains to users that if a wireframe is not visible, then the user should increase the Stage Render Opacity and adjust the Solved Position and Rotation until the alignment objects are in view.

• DSOF-25224 DSE accounting for surface normal relative to projector

We have added functionality to the Dynamic Blend workflow which accounts for the surface normal relative to the projector. When users edit the ‘Cutoff angle’ in the Dynamic Blend section of each projector and the relative angle of the projector and the surface normal exceeds this value, then we remove the contribution of that projector and use projectors with a better view instead.

• DSOF-25614 DSE: promote "dynamicSoftEdgeFullRes" to user-editable per-projector option

The option switch dynamicSoftEdgeFullRes has been promoted to a user-editable per-projector option. This enables the soft edge resolution to vary per projector rather than set across the whole project. In the projector settings, the “Dynamic Blend” section has a “Resolution factor” field 1/16, 1/8, 1/4, 1/2 and Full. 1/16 is the default for best performance. The "Resolution factor" changes DSE resolution, affecting blend quality (it is visible).

• DSOF-25623 DSE: re-organise Dynamic Blend section to hide less-used settings

The Projector Dynamic Blend section now has an Advanced Blend Setting sub-section with less frequently used options, to save on screen real estate.

• DSOF-25657 Make crash reporting disabled by default

Crash dumps are created when an unhandled exception occurs. This incurs a brief stall while the dump is generated. This behaviour is now opt-in and disabled by default. It can be enabled by one of the following two methods:

1. Option in Designer.  d3 > Advanced > Enable Crash Reporting > On / Off

When On, it generates a dump file on the local machine when an Access Violation thrown.
When Off, it doesn't generate a dump file on the local machine when an Access Violation thrown.

1. Advanced Project Setting > Option Switch: enableCrashReporting is Project Wide and depending which machine has the Access Violation thrown, it will generate a dump file on that specific machine.

• DSOF-25922 Keyboard modifiers for fine and coarse control of feed warp points

When on a KVM or on a laptop trackpad it tends to be easier to use a keyboard than use the cursor. Using the keyboard means the points move really slowly though. Adding modifiers means easier control of points without the movement being forced to be one slow speed. The following modifiers have been added:
- Holding Ctrl while moving feed warp points with arrow keys causes them to move in smaller increments

- Holding Shift while moving feed warp points with arrow keys causes them to move in larger increments

• DSOF-26395 Allow users to use field of view for XR calibration when focus encoder unreliable

If a tracking system is not sending a reliable focus encoder value, it can be preferable to disable it and use the field of view instead as a basis for XR calibration. Now, when the focus encoder value in the camera tracking source is disabled, it will be overwritten by the horizontal field of view if the focal length value is enabled

This value is shown as the zoom value when doing XR spatial calibrations, and is also used as the zoom encoder value when interpolating calibrated lens poses during operation

When overriding, the field in the tracking source is highlighted red, with the help text explaining why it is overridden. Similar highlighting and help text is also shown when the field is locked from the spatial calibration. All the equivalent of above is also true for focus encoder, overriding with focus distance where available.

• DSOF-7470 Removing resources doesn't work in session (previously Remove missing media on editor machines resets on reconnecting to session)
• DSOF-8134 - Fixed an issue where population masks with alpha gradients were not respected in the Lux renderer
• DSOF-23636 - Dynamic Soft Edge:  Fixed an issue a banding effect on blended region when brightness changed
• DSOF-23747 - fixed a CHECK_LOGIC error when launching RenderStream for mesh mapping with no screens
• DSOF-23788 - Fixed an issue where mesh mapping frustum jitters when following a camera
• DSOF-24891 - Fixed an issue where Tracking History would cast time to float and back, potentially causing minor issues for long running projects
• DSOF-25012 Fixed an issue where the installer had no 25G/100G rivermax licence files if offline
• DSOF-25036 - Fixed an issue where mesh projection would give strange viewpoints when a camera is very close to screen
• DSOF-25046 - Fixed an issue where graphics semaphores would not be released properly on Nvidia machines.
• DSOF-25101 - Fixed an issue where 'StageEditor' object had no attribute 'onResourceChanged' error when opening Stage Editor Menu.
• DSOF-25157 - Fixed an issue where the QuickAlign/AR alignment tool would inaccurately select vertices
• DSOF-25195 - Arri Lds driver: removed "sensor height" field to avoid overwriting aspect ratio
• DSOF-25358 - Fixed TrackedPoint labels  being incorrectly offset
• DSOF-25576 Dynamic Soft Edge: Fixed an issue where a profile would not be created if the empty project was created after d3 version was updated
• DSOF-25648 - Fixed an issue where OscDevice 'receiving' attribute did not match the true state
• DSOF-25856 - Fixed GraphicsDebugger log missing newline
• DSOF-25859 - QuickCal: Fixed an issue where rendering lineup was very slow for large meshes
• DSOF-25871 QuickCal: Fixed an issue where occlusion calculation for hidden markers was incorrect
• DSOF-25878 QuickCal: Fixed an issue where mouse-over help text was not shown for some settings
• DSOF-25919 - d3service: Fixed an issue where getThisMachine() would mix up machine Range and Model in API v1 response
• DSOF-25940 - Improved the resolution of the disguise logo in the installer 
• DSOF-26162 - Quest 3 headset now works properly with d3
• DSOF-26199 - Improved performance of DMX screen
• DSOF-26580 - Fixed a RenderStream workload crash on launch with Exception: ILLEGAL_INSTRUCTION

• Added support for VX 3 server type
• DSOF-26613 - "d3-events" EventLog now included in System Diagnostics

• DSOF-24757 - Fixed an issue where focus distance showed negative values in the object
  tracking mode
• DSOF-26575 - Fixed an issue where 2.5D assets incorrectly said it was at zero depth

Due to some issues discovered during the release process, we have delayed our recent releases. We are now releasing r27.10.3 which includes the Fixes listed below.

• DSOF-27660 - Fixed an issue where the HardwareList instance had no attribute 'close' error when closing Video Input Patch Editor
• DSOF-27688 - Fixed an Access Violation when using RenderStream with Notch Blocks
• DSOF-27844 - Fixed an issue where enabling VITC on Matrox cards causes console spam failing to signal surface read completion
• DSOF-27885 - Fixed an issue where a black frame was present on a RenderStream layer when move section to next section
• DSOF-27894 - Fixed an issue where a new track select widget opened on every click in MultiTransport
• DSOF-27935 - Fixed a crash to desktop when failing to setup topology
• DSOF-27796 - Fixed a crash to desktop in d3 when jumping to cue on another track
• DSOF-27854 - Fixed an issue where the Video asset editor did not show file versions

• DSOF-24626 Expression Variables

Expression variables enable the sharing of values between Designer expressions. For details on Expression variables, visit https://help.disguise.one/designer/configuration/expressions/variables.

• DSOF-23702 API - Failover API for Understudies

New APIs have been added to failover a machine using the API. The following endpoints have been added and are documented at https://developer.disguise.one as well as in the documentation bundled with Designer which can be accessed from d3Manager at Help->Open API Documentation

/failover/applydefaultrouting
/failover/failovermachine
/failover/restoremachine
/failover/settings
/failover/understudytargets

• DSOF-27090 - Fixed an issue where string formatting did not allow `module:name.field` syntax
• DSOF-27229 - Fixed a machine hang in MatroxTopology::cleanupSurfaceBufferPool
• DSOF-27586 - Fixed spherical mapping rotation being incorrect
• DSOF-27644 - Fixed an issue where  the Sockpuppet Notch layer moved the Effect field under Timecode Separator
• DSOF-27692 - Fixed Web browser based layers not limiting to the max texture size available to the renderer

• DSOF-26470 IP VFC: inform a user when no SFPs are connected

When using an IP-VFC card, we have added error reporting into the feed scene in the form of a tooltip for the ‘Sync Mode’ button. 

When a user is using the PTP option in sync mode, if there is no compatible 25Gb SFP in Port 1 on the IP-VFC then the sync mode button will turn red and a message will state the Disguise media server and VFC slot number which has the invalid configuration as seen below:

When a user is using the  EXT option in sync mode, if there is no compatible single or dual SDI SFP in Ports 3 and/or 4 on the IP-VFC then the sync mode button will turn red and a message will state the Disguise media server and VFC slot number which has the invalid configuration.

• DSOF-26538 IPVFC - change PTP_LOCKED mode name to PTP_SYNC

When using IP-VFC, we have changed the name of the PTP sync mode located under the Sync Info tab in the IP-VFC control widget from PTP_LOCKED to PTP_SYNC

• DSOF-26571 TrackJump - increase maximum section number from 32 to 1000

• DSOF-26139 - Changed the wording of "Replace with another Mapping" button to “Replace with selected Mapping”, and a tooltip with further explanation has been added to video layers

• DSOF-22638 - Fixed a video memory leak when mapping/unmapping video inputs
• DSOF-24199 - Fixed a hang that could occur on shutdown due to in-flight HTTP requests
• DSOF-24760 - Fixed an issue where object tracking mode for camera focus distance did not account for object hierarchy
• DSOF-25317 - Fixed occurrences of `toFree.addr4 != 0` error messages when using RenderStream
• DSOF-26140 - Fixed an issue when key-framed, Mapping Replacement names only updated after refresh of layer
• DSOF-26168 - Stage Render Layer - Fixed an issue where screens in 'Frontplate' layer mapped to the backplate showed up red
• DSOF-26339  - Fixed an issue where Dynamic Soft Edge did not affect Actors in session
• DSOF-26361 - Fixed an issue where the ‘Find/replace usages’ widget did not have a scrollbar when it extended offscreen
• DSOF-26377 - Fixed a shader errors being thrown when using radial mapping
• DSOF-26410 - Fixed an Access Violation using Blur layer

• DSOF-23937 IPVFC: Device names in NMOS are more descriptive

When using the IP-VFC in ST 2110 mode, we have changed the NMOS device label so that it clearly states the slot that it is occupying on the Disguise media server, for example ‘Slot 1’. In previous releases, the NMOS device label of each IP-VFC would be ‘Disguise Port 0’. 

We have also changed the NMOS node label to be the user-defined name, which is often changed from the Windows name to match the role in which it occupies within the d3net session i.e. Actor01.

• DSOF-25640 - Fixed an issue that occurred when as an Editor, you were not prompted to join a session when opening project file
• DSOF-26138 - Fixed an issue where asset sync in RenderStream did not sync deleted files
• DSOF-26350 - Fixed console spam caused by setting a placeholder clip on a videoin
• DSOF-26391 - Fixed an issue where LayerStack was not being applied to video input

• DSOF-25853 - Fixed an Access Violation that occurred after changing plates meshes within a 2.5d asset, and then undoing changes with ctrl + z clicked quickly several times
• DSOF-25991 - Fixed an issue where malformed PSN data when recorded could not be played back and caused other device recordings to fail
• DSOF-26094 - Fixed an issue where RenderStream Compressed caused d3 framerate drops
• DSOF-26097 - Fixed an issue where Device Recordings would intermittently appear empty if continuously receiving data and jumping through sections on the timeline
• DSOF-26157 - Fixed an issue where the Editor moved forward in the timeline rather than following the Director's timeline after unlock and lock to Director
• DSOF-26185 - Fixed issue where itu709 setting in gamma mode corrupted the display of certain files
• DSOF-26208 - Fixed 2.5d assets included in project diag resulting in very large file sizes
• DSOF-26288 - Fixed an issue where the DPX feed export yielded an unexpected colour space shift
• DSOF-26305 - Fixed an OmniCal lenscalibrator crash on startup due to a DLL issue
• DSOF-26319 - Fixed an issue where d3 could intermittently crash to desktop if a connection was lost while sending a failed HTTP Request

• DSOF-23762 Ability to see usages of mappings
• DSOF-25935 Replace all usages of a mapping

The above two improvements are accessible via the 'Find/Replace Mapping Usages' button in the Mapping editor.

• DSOF-23946 Remove "CodeMeter USB Mode" check from installers
• DSOF-24291 Show Designer software version in UI

We have added the Designer software version in the bottom right of the UI next to the machine name.

• DSOF-25256 Machine List in Monitoring Manager should be alphabetical

We have made the Machine List alphabetical within the Monitoring Manager window, found by left clicking on the FPS in the lower right hand corner of the track.

• DSOF-25700 Warn the user when the audio codec in their embedded audio is not supported

We have added a notification to warn the user that an unsupported audio codec is recognised when using embedded audio, and to convert the audio codec to either ‘sowt’ or ‘twos’.

• DSOF-25873 Define a certain degree of a cylinder mapping

We have added an Arc field to allow users to choose the degree, (0 to 360,) of coverage on a Cylindrical Mapping. This option is the same as the Arc field on the Spherical Mapping

• DSOF-25936 Auto-select first enabled layer in feed warp editor

In previous releases, when a user left-clicked the + button under Deformation layers - found within the Edit Warp Menu in the feed view - the first deformation layer was selected, even if the deformation layer had been disabled. In r27.1 the first deformation layer that is selected is the first one within the stack that is enabled.

• DSOF-26029 OmniCal: export unstructured point clouds (without invalid points)

We have enabled users to be able to export unstructured point clouds when using OmniCal. Structured point clouds directly correspond to the 2D grid output by projectors, and will include invalid points as NaN values. These values are usually those that were not visible to enough cameras or where 3D reconstruction failed. Unstructured point clouds provide no invalid points as NaN values within the export.

 This can be found in the Advanced section in OmniCal Calibration and clicking on ‘Save PointCloud’. This will save four PCD files for each projector grid within the Optical Stage Plan folder:

• Aligned and unaligned (as captured)
• Structured and unstructured 

• DSOF-21670 DMX String: Now defaults to 1 fixture

We have changed the default behaviour of new DmxStrings to one fixture.

• DSOF-24032 - Fixed an issue where an 'Indirections' object had no attribute 'role' - d3net Manager
• DSOF-24561- Fixed an issue when starting a RenderStream workload, RMAX receiver was being attached/detached several times
• DSOF-25904 - Sockpuppet: Fixed an issue where moving the Frame Index value caused stuttering and jumping of playhead in Video Clip
• DSOF-25950 -  Asset preview for 2.5D beach asset no longer clashes
• DSOF-25987- Fixed an issue where adjusting prediction would break spatial mapping
• DSOF-26146 - Added feedback when active latency automatic calculation is higher than the manually set active latency override
• DSOF-26247 - Fixed an  Access Violation when starting DSV video in preview
• DSOF-26251  - Fixed an Access Violation opening Virtual Reality Navigator editor
• DSOF-26290 - Fixed an issue where MAC addresses stored in NetworkAdapter were wrong
• DSOF-26137 - Fixed an issue where UE would crash on launch when a single fragment was too large
• DSOF-26562 - Fixed an issue where pre-multiplied alphas did not look correct in 2.5d workflows
• DSOF-26250 - Fixed an Access Violation when using VR headset

r27 introduces a number of improvements specific to Disguise media servers with a Matrox SDI capture card installed. These include:

• Mixed frame rate support - users can now work with any combination of video resolution formats and refresh rates across each video input. This resolves the outstanding TA-19: Matrox Video capture cards advisory found here
• Ultra low latency mode - we have reduced the video latency when running in ultra low-latency mode from 4 frames per second to 3 frames per second at 30Hz, 50Hz and 60Hz
• General performance improvements

These improvements are only available when running Designer software version r27 and above alongside the following OS builds - all of which are available to download on disguise.download/#hardware or https://disguise.cloud/account/software/os-downloads:

• DSOF-21761  Support for mixed frame/ refresh rates which are not related
• DSOF-24646 - Fixed an issue where 1080psf  29.97 VideoIn  on a gx3 gave half quadrant artefacts
• DSOF-24666 - Fixed an issue with interlacing modes other than discard did not work
• DSOF-25337 - Fixed capture buffer delay sporadically being too large resulting in tearing
• DSOF-25394 - Fixed interlaced capture on driver 10.4.101.1269 having fields in the wrong order
• DSOF-25460 - Fixed an issue when using Quad coupled mode, losing inputs 2-4 would result in a black frame
• DSOF-25465 - Fixed an issue where only the 12G-enabled ports hold onto the last frame if input was removed

• DSOF-26466 -  Fixed an issue where RenderStream Proxy did not show up on Director if both 25g connectors were active
• DSOF-26550 - Fixed an issue where a duplicate process was started when clicking quickly on the start or restart workload button

• DSOF-25851 - Fixed Manage Renderstream Workloads not working reliably

• DSOF-26273 - Fixed console spam with 'Updating Scene Due to Change in Resource' every time feed scene is changed

• DSOF-25410 - Updated the way proxy and non-proxy streams are filtered in health status widget
• DSOF-25448 Receive Health status in the RenderStream layer editor should no longer report "Frames Dropped Recently" for Proxy streams.

• DSOF-23229 - Fixed an issue where the current status of RenderStream was not shown under ‘Network’ tab within d3manager
• DSOF-23266 - RenderStream Workload widget does now automatically shrinks
• DSOF-23889 - Fixed an issue where d3manager did not update network share location when changing d3 projects folder
• DSOF-23890 - Fixed an isse where d3manager did not update network shares if not running as admin / elevated
• DSOF-24449 - Fixed an issue wher eRenderStream uncompressed streams intermittently only rendered black
• DSOF-24474 - Fixed an issue where Heap corruption in Rivermax cleanup code caused a crash in touchdesigner
• DSOF-24475 - Fixed a CL_OUT_OF_HOST_MEMORY error on vx using RenderStream
• DSOF-24622 - Fixed an issue where workloads could occasionally get stuck in awaiting requests
• DSOF-24648 - Fixed an intermittent flickering issue when starting RenderStream
• DSOF-24706 - Fixed an issue that occurred when using an uncompressed Unreal RenderStream, some actors showed RECV 0
• DSOF-24707 - Fixed an issue where an exception occured when trying to remove a channel mapping
• DSOF-24715 - Fixed an issue where actors crashed whilst starting and stopping workload
• DSOF-24838 - Fixed an issue where pool usage was not shown for assets using the default channel name
• DSOF-24855 - Fixed d3 heap corruption and a crash to desktop with RenderStream compressed in LibGpuVideoCodec (AMD 22.Q2)
• DSOF-24918 - Fixed an issue that occurred If the drive that d3manager was pointed at disappeared, launching d3 remotely on that machine would default to another drive
• DSOF-24943 - Improved RenderstreamSystem system speed when updating statistics about many streams
• DSOF-24974 - Fixed an issue where starting and stopping a render stream workload reduce performance of the director
• DSOF-24984 - Fixed an issue where launching d3manager with a missing d3 projects folder would result in the next project folder from the list being launched
• DSOF-25009 - Fixed an issue where adding samples to an uninitialized graph descriptor caused an exception
• DSOF-25023 - Fixed a crash on director when receiving proxy streams
• DSOF-25028 - Fixed an issue where if d3service crashed while RenderStream is running, all renderstream processes on that machine will no longer be controllable via d3net
• DSOF-25039 - Fixed an intermittent issue where streams were occasionally never received
• DSOF-25096 - Fixed an issue where calling an invalid API endpoint can intermittently caused a crash to desktop
• DSOF-25113 - Fixed an issue where 16K or higher screen couldn’t use blur layer even using enableSLC switch
• DSOF-25136 - Fixed an Access Violation can occur when moving the playhead out of a RenderStream layer after the GUI had been reloaded during development.
• DSOF-25137 - Fixed an issue where Renderer Graph was not accessible via the Workload details GUI
• DSOF-25183 - Fixed an issue where a video layer missing media highlight no longer updated as frequently to changes in sequencing
• DSOF-25185 - Fixed an issue where a vx occasionally dropped all received frames with RenderStream Uncompressed
• DSOF-25237 - Fixed an issue where missing media scenarios with a Bitmap layer caused notification spam: Corrupt keyframe, please check sequencing
• DSOF-25327 - Fixed an issue where Feed Mapping Editor still opened and is interactable even if the feed mapping is "Locked"
• DSOF-25338 - Reduced active time of "Packets dropped recently" 
• DSOF-25556 - Fixed an issue where editing Feed Warps intermittently did not take effort on actor machines in session, but the control points did move
• DSOF-25568 - Fixed an issue where RenderStream failed to initialise due to an exception, rs_initialise returns success
• DSOF-25629 - Fixed an error when launching project on actor, "Current d3projects folder not available on machine..."
• DSOF-25631 - When opening d3 manager "Run Project" buttonis now populated with the "current" project
• DSOF-25765 - Fixed an issue where Understudy takes over but does not indicate on director, sometimes failing to trigger matrix failover
• DSOF-25829 - Fixed RenderStream Failover
• DSOF-25892 - Improved Track widget updates when RenderStream workload status is updating
• DSOF-25893 - Improved receive health widget
• DSOF-25932 - Fixed an issue where workload state intermittently got stuck in "Launching"
• DSOF-26095 - Fixed an issue where some RenderStream uncompressed streams failed to start on the director when using an actor controller to run many streams
• DSOF-24245 - Fixed an indefinite hang/crash due to exhausting video memory
• DSOF-25905 - Fixed an issue where mesh mapping fragments teared when the engine origin is changed in real-time

• DSOF-25476 - Fixed an issue where Projection Screens could be inactive on Editors when animated with Animate Object Preset
• DSOF-25569 - Fixed stYpe Focus Distance not being used
• DSOF-25930 - Fixed an issue where 2.5D assets did not auto-extract on Actors
• DSOF-25983 - Fixed Black Magic Video Hub 3g no longer receiving commands
• DSOF-26026 - Fixed a topological sort error for 2.5D assets and plates
• DSOF-26093 - Fixed an issue where 2.5D had an error parsing depth map when an image was fully transparent

• DSOF-21902 - Fixed an issue where projects failed to load with error: m_delayDsp
• DSOF-23674 - Fixed an issue where video layers used in Layer Stacks were previewing the second to last requested media
• DSOF-25485 - Fixed an issue where pop-ups from session widget flickered back and forth between being on top and behind of the session widget
• DSOF-25499 - Fixed an issue with ncam tracking
• DSOF-25880 - 2.5D assets no longer have lower selection priority than displays
• DSOF-25912 - Fixed an issue where Device Recordings did not play back captured PSN data correctly
• DSOF-25943 - Fixed an issue where d3 was unable to import proxy files it had just made of versioned fragment replacement video clip
• DSOF-25949 - 2.5D - Depth maps no longer interpreted incorrectly
• DSOF-25976 - Fixed an issue where Perspective Mappings only appeared n Director, not Actors
• DSOF-25990 - Moved Variable Timecode implementation behind the option switch 'forcePIDTimecodeChase
• DSOF-26027 - Fixed an issue that occurred when using sockpuppet bank editor, using NONE did not respect transition times
• DSOF-26028 - Fixed an issue that occurred when switching from a NONE clip in a sockpuppet video layer the frame counter did not reset on the clip
• DSOF-26051 - Fixed an issue where machines with capital letters in their hostname did not show VFC status information

• Added support for vx2+

• DSOF-25920 2.5D - Fixed an issue where changes in z-offset for plates with depth maps don't get saved to 2p5d file

• DSOF-24939 - Fixed an Access Violation when selecting the tracker delay calibration thumbnail
• DSOF-25649 - Video mode Inframe - Fixed an issue where a sockpuppet video layer playing audio caused d3 performance to drop
• DSOF-25869 - Fixed an issue where transparent screens had a black background in non-UV regions in an upgraded project
• DSOF-25898 - Fixed an issue when using 2.5d where an artifact was present in parsed depth maps containing narrow non-alpha columns
• DSOF-25926 - Fixed an issue where the GUI was black when starting Designer on a server when Parsec Virtual Display Adapter is installed

New 2.5D Workflow

The new 2.5D workflow is also covered in the Disguise User Guide, together with a demonstration video, here.

What is 2.5D?

2.5D workflows bridge the gap between traditional 2D video plates and full 3D generative scenes.  By building up a scene with layers of images or video plates, with the possibility to add depth or shaping to the plates, users can quickly create a realistic-looking scene with parallax. 2.5D assets can be saved as .2p5d files and shared across projects or created using external integrations such as Cuebric to harness the power of generative AI to optionally create the image or just to speed up the process of image segmentation using AI.

What has changed?

2.5D has been possible with Designer prior to 26.3, however, it required the manual creation of plates using a projection surface per plate, manually applying specific settings to each plate, and the use of a StageRender layer. With r26.3, 2.5D has been made a first-class citizen in Designer with its own layer type and the concept of a 2.5D asset. This dramatically increases the usability and speeds up the workflow, as well as making it more intuitive and less error-prone.

In addition, the Cuebric integration speeds up the pipeline between the creative and volume control stages of the end-to-end workflow.

How-To

The following instructions assume an LED and MRset have already been set up in the Designer project

To set up a 2.5D asset from an existing .2p5d file:

1. Copy the .2p5d file to objects/2p5DFile in the project folder
2. Add a 2.5D layer to the timeline
3. Click on the asset field in the 2.5D layer. The copied 2p5d file should appear in the list of assets
4. Click on the asset to select it, it should then load and be visible in the stage
5. Select the desired 3D mapping in the 2.5D layer, e.g. MR set backplate
6. To reload the asset from the file and overwrite any local changes, click ‘Reload from file’ under Import/Export in the 2.5D asset editor

To create a new 2.5D asset from scratch:

1. Add a 2.5D layer to the timeline
2. Click on the asset field in the 2.5D layer, and create a new 2.5D asset
3. Add a new 2.5D plate to the ‘plates’ field in the 2.5D asset
4. Under ‘Layer Stack’ in the plate editor, click ‘Add Video’ to add a video or image to the plate
5. Continue adding plates and modifying their properties until the desired scene composition is achieved
6. Select the desired 3D mapping in the 2.5D layer, e.g. MR set backplate
7. To export the asset for use in other projects, click ‘Export to file’ under Import/Export in the 2.5D asset editor. The exported .2p5d file will appear under objects/2p5DFile in the project folder.

Modifying 2.5D asset properties:

• The 2.5D asset is an Object which can have its offset and rotation set by changing the values in the editor or moving the white box in the visualiser. Doing so changes moves all the plates to change the origin point of the 2.5D scene. It is recommended that the origin is set roughly in the middle of the range of movement of the camera, to achieve the most realistic-looking parallax.
• The ‘Field of view’ and ‘Maximum depth’ fields can be adjusted to scale the total area encompassed by the 2.5D scene. This can be used to ensure that the edges of the plates are not seen when moving the camera within its expected range.
• Plates can be added to or removed from the asset using the +/- buttons in the ‘Plates’ field. Plates are ordered by depth, and reordering the plates in the list will update the plates' depth to reflect their new positions.
• The Import/Export settings can be used to load or save .2p5d files. When loading files that contain depth maps, the ‘Depth map minimum override’ setting can be used to change the minimum distance from the origin, represented by full white in the depth map.

Modifying 2.5D plate properties:

• The plate depth can be changed by modifying the z offset value, or by dragging the plate in the visualiser. If the option ‘Scale with depth’ is ticked, the scale and x/y offsets will automatically be adjusted with depth so that the plate looks the same when viewed from the asset origin. If ‘Scale with depth’ is not ticked, the scale and x/y offsets will not change, so the plate will appear smaller as it moves further away.
• By default new plates will be scaled to match the total field of view of the asset. However, the scale values can be adjusted in the 2.5D plate editor to change the scale. Similarly, the x and y offsets can be adjusted to move the plate position.
• The plate’s mesh can be changed to add depth to a layer and make the parallax effect more realistic. Some .2p5d files will contain depth maps, which will be converted to meshes when importing. To remove the depth from the plate, the standard rectangle mesh can be selected instead.
• The plate Layer Stack is used to set up the layers appearing on the plate. To quickly add an image or video to the plate, use the ‘Add Video’ button. Otherwise, layers can be created as normal and stacked to create effects such as blur or colour adjust. Note that these layers can’t be keyframed, see ‘Advanced Workflows’ for methods to keyframe layers on plates.

Advanced workflows:

The 2.5D layer and assets are designed to provide a user-friendly way to quickly create 2.5D scenes which are portable between projects. The standard workflow should allow for the majority of use cases, however, more advanced workflows can also be achieved by combining 2.5D assets with other tools in Designer.

• Generally, images, videos, and effects should be added to plates using the plate Layer Stack. However, this does not allow for keyframing within these layers. To keyframe content on plates, layers should be added to the timeline as normal. Content can be mapped to 2.5D plates from the timeline similarly to any other display.
• 2.5D assets and plates are both Objects, so it is possible to animate them from the timeline, or parent assets to other objects which are controlled using tracking data
• The ‘Stage render layer’ which was used for 2.5D workflows prior to r26.3 still functions as it did previously, so it is still possible to use the old workflow if desired.

Cuebric Integration

Cuebric is a web-based tool for creating 2.5D scenes with the help of AI. For more information visit https://cuebric.com/.

With r26.3, 2.5D scenes can be exported from Cuebric and imported into Disguise. At the time of writing, the Cuebric scene is exported from Cuebric by clicking on “Plug & Play 3D” in the Segmentation view under the Depth option. Once exported, follow the instructions in the section above on “To set up a 2.5D asset from an existing .2p5d file”.

When the Cuebric export includes AI-generated mapping depth information, Designer will auto-generate a 3D mesh from the depth data to add shape to the plates.

To remove the depth mapping from the plate, the standard rectangle mesh can be selected instead in the plate properties.

For a video explanation of the Cuebric to Disguise end-to-end workflow, click here.

• DSOF-17618 - HDR processing of Notch content
• DSOF-25812 - Branding updates

• DSOF-25844 - ResourceTransport: Fixed an Undefined Behaviour copying "UID not found Reason" list

• DSOF-24356 - Fixed an issue where inserting time that would push layers beyond the end of a track did not extend the track
• DSOF-25007 - Fixed 'Invalid t: > track length' error when dragging to the end of timeline that had a video that was a frame long at the end
• DSOF-25595 - Fixed an issue that occurred when global crossfade pairing with audio layers caused stuttering and hangs when jumping around timeline
• DSOF-25637 - Fixed an issue where "Director is under heavy load" notification did not always clear
• DSOF-25663 - Fixed an issue where the compose layer would sometimes display black when being shifted horizontally
• DSOF-25691 - Fixed an issue where matrix commands sent to a Blackmagic Smarthub 12g sometimes didn’t set the configuration correctly

• DSOF-23262 - Fixed an issue where the Bank Editor widget resized when adding a new bank, hiding all of the slots in the top half of the widget
• DSOF-24284 Fixed an issue where the RenderStream Assets List text was drawn partly outside of widget
• DSOF-25151 Fixed an issue where using some blend modes while SLC was active stretched and compressed the content
• DSOF-25644 Fixed audio not looping when Locked and Paused At end point
• DSOF-25685 - Fixed API issue where a malformed d3 version would cause an internal error
• DSOF-25701 - Fixed an issue where a brighter line of content showed in some SLC configurations
• DSOF-25711 Fixed an issue where Mesh Policy rendered black frames when the Unreal Project in film/video & live events mode

• DSOF-24937 - Fixed an issue where SaveOnDelete Resource Transport commands shouldn't blocked Resource Transport if a resend failed
• DSOF-25413 - Default Variable Timecode Implementation

• DSOF-25050 - Fixed an issue where right clicking a Screen of DMX lights on an editor while in a 2 machine or more session stopped DMX outputting
• DSOF-25186 - Fixed an issue where remote installation occasionally failed to start d3service with 'Entry Point Not Found' errors on RX servers
• DSOF-25420 Fixed an issue where the Position Receiver Axis could not use "Set" button for input ranges

• DSOF-25507 - Fixed an issue seen in AMD machines, where SLC affected output when using Stage Render layer

• DSOF-22666 - Fixed an issue where d3 would hang due to a network security sweep
• DSOF-24346 - Added logging to Live Update option switch
• DSOF-24360 - Fixed an issue where RenderStream Uncompressed only received texture parameters on the first adapter
• DSOF-24786 - Fixed an issue where installing HDMI VFC REV E cards in a system after having QSDIVFC cards installed caused d3 to stall when loading
• DSOF-25156 - Added DCS sensor width manual column
• DSOF-25283 - Fixed an issue where project templates caused an error during install
• DSOF-25440 - MatroxApi now warns the user when there is driver and SDK version are mismatched
• DSOF-25468 - Fixed an issue where Arri LDS device was not parsing raw encoder values for zoom or focus distance
• DSOF-25527 -  lenscalibrator.exe is now code-signed

• DSOF-25401 - Fixed an issue where it was not possible to select objects after opening 'Points' separator in Rigid Body Tracking Source editor
• DSOF-25423 OmniCal: Fixed an issue where editing the camera plan in upgraded pre-r23 projects froze d3
• DSOF-25450 OmniCal: Fixed Rig Check workflow

• DSOF-24126 - Fixed an issue where MidiBeatClock jumped backwards in the timeline when set to Loop Section
• DSOF-25089 - Arri Lens Data System version 102 is supported in addition to version 103.
• DSOF-25244 - Fixed an issue where the Sockpuppet video layer media did not turn black when 'None' is selected
• DSOF-25335 - Fixed existing TransportJumpCommands being broken broken when upgrade to r26.0
• DSOF-25401 - Fixed an issue where it was not possible to select objects after opening 'Points' separator in Rigid Body Tracking Source editor

• DSOF-24932 - Fixed an issue where Deltacast vx4+ video input group 2 is duplicated

• DSOF-17119 - Fixed an issue where the PSN receiver assigning to rotation.x and rotation.z would not doing full 360
• DSOF-24221 - Fixed an issue where it was not possible to open the port editor of QSDI with 'NoneType' error
• DSOF-25068 - Fixed an issue with installing fonts when the user had a space in their user folder name
• DSOF-25120 - Fixed an issue where RenderStream download_buffers did not release its download queue on destruction
• DSOF-25121 - Fixed an issue where starting and stopping a RenderStream workload reduces performance of WorkloadManager on the director

• DSOF-25123 - We have implemented a preview feature that allows d3 to chase timecode at non-standard framerates. This can be used for example to adjust the playback speed of video in line with a DJs adjustments to the BPM of a track.To utilise this preview feature you can enable the option switch "forcePIDTimecodeChase". Chasing LTC or any kind of timecode will smoothly follow adjustments to timecode playback while this is set.If you perform large timecode jumps you may find that the playhead will fast-forward to get to the new timecode rather than immediately jump to that point.If you have feedback about this new preview feature please let us know via our support@disguise.one email so that we can take that into account for the finished implementation.

• DSOF-23668 - PreComps - Fixed an issue where clicking Effect or Generative layer caused feed blur
• DSOF-24802 - Fixed an issue where a video layer with speed ‘0’ was interpreted ambiguously.
• DSOF-24835 - Fixed an issue where deleting a VirtualLineup layer mapped to a camera's perspective after timeline focus was taken away from the layer and then returned causes Access Violations
• DSOF-24921 - Fixed an issue where an Object Tracking error blocked Spatial Calibration when not receiving Tracking data
• DSOF-25037 - Fixed an issue where the TrackingMarker output showed incorrectly when using feed map with SLC
• DSOF-25146 - Reduced the amount of wireframes shown in QuickAlign alignment widget

• DSOF-16666 Simple FBX mesh support

The FBX file format can now be successfully imported into Designer as a single mesh, meaning that users can now export models without the need for conversion from their respective 3D tool of choice. These can be used in the schematic, lux and heatmap renderers. Any FBX mesh will be imported with global positions, and non-triangulated meshes are triangulated on import. FBX files imported with up to 3x UV maps are supported. 

It is important to note the following mitigations with this feature:

• Object hierarchies found within the FBX file in Designer are currently not supported

FBX file format support can be used with the option switch enabled. To access, right click on a project folder in d3manager, select ‘Advanced project settings’ and then select ‘enableFbxMeshImport’. Please contact product-team@disguise.one for feedback on this feature.

• DSOF-22271 TransportJumpCommand locations should use time adjusted by timecode tag when using timecode location

When making a TransportJumpCommand in the TransportControl module, the location value has the option of being set with ‘CUE <cue>’ or timecode. 

In previous releases, when there are timecome tags on the track that a user wants to specify a location on, the timecode displayed in the GUI is based on the timecode tags, but the location that the TransportJumpCommand uses does not take the timecode tags into account.

In r26, the location for TransportJumpCommand now uses the time adjusted by timecode tags when using the timecode location. 

• DSOF-23321 Show RenderStream proxy stream status in the GUI

We have added RenderStream proxy information in the RenderStream Editor widget.

• DSOF-23699 Make list/grid view selection for media/texture browsers persistent

In previous releases, the behaviour of the media and texture browser in Designer was not persistent when a user would switch between grid view and list view. In r26 we have made the selection of grid or list view in the media/texture browser to remain persistent across all machines running in a session.

• DSOF-23810 Add FBX ASCII format for Shot Recorder export

Users can now export data from the Shot Recorder to the FBX ASCII format.

• DSOF-24041 XR: improve usability of Tracker Delay UI

We have made a number of changes to the Tracker Delay UI. These include changing the overlay colour from magenta to red to signify when no tracking data was captured, or the delay is set to too low or too high. We have also introduced help text in a number of areas of the UI to provide instruction on the Tracker Delay process.

• DSOF-24066 Alert the user when video lookup times becomes unstable or if errors are high

We have added a visible notification within the UI to notify users that the video receive delay is set incorrectly during the spatial calibration process when working with MR Sets. The calibration will be highlighted in red, and hovering over the row with a mouse will explain that there is a video receive delay error and to perform the delay calibration again. 

• DSOF-24089 DSV capture: minor performance optimisations
• DSOF-24090 DSV capture: add dropped frames detection
• DSOF-24099 Shorten RenderStream workload/stream friendly names for the UI

In previous releases, RenderStream workloads and streams were identified within the UI through a 64 bit unique ID to enable users to reference each stream. In r26 we have shortened the RenderStream workload names to make it more straightforward for a user to reference each RenderStream workload.

• DSOF-24153 Expressions: if expressions are broken, the layer they are used in should change colour as well as the parameter

In previous releases, if an incorrect Expression had been written then this would be flagged to the user by turning the parameter orange in colour. 

In r26 we have included the layer that is using the Expression to also change to red in colour so that the user is notified that the Expression is incorrect. If the layer is in a group, then the group will turn red when the layer it contains turns red.

We have also included an error message on the layer via a tooltip. If a user corrects the Expression then the layer will return to its default colour.

• DSOF-24160 Better texture buffer management for LogicalVideoInDevice
• DSOF-24166 Make list editors stickyable

In r26 we have enabled users to pin ListEditors to the Designer UI by clicking the pin in the top left hand side of each ListEditor as seen in the image below.

• DSOF-24271 Change default location for d3 Projects to D:Drive after reimaging a disguise media server

In r26 we have changed the default location for d3 Projects to be in the D:Drive after reimaging a disguise media server. In previous releases, a user would be pointed towards the Documents folder whereas all Designer projects should be located in the D:Drive.

• DSOF-24375 Include display master brightness in the feed UI

We have included the master brightness of LED screens and projectors within the feed UI. This can be seen as a percentage underneath the name of each screen, as shown in the screenshot below.

• DSOF-11028 - Fixed an issue where an embedded audio in a video layer would drift out of sync from the playhead either over time or due to frame drops
• DSOF-17926 - Fixed an issue where setting a value with '=' in an expression locked the value to the conditional value
• DSOF-21117 - EventTransportMidiNote Personality Train is no longer offset in GUI
• DSOF-21827 - MultiTransport Manager: Fixed an issue where  Editors would respond to timecode cues when the Director’s transport had been disengaged
• DSOF-22783 - Clarified active latency mismatch error
• DSOF-22876 - RenderStream: Fixed a stall / crash to desktop when modifying ClusterAssigner options while sending remote texture
• DSOF-22900 - Fixed an issue where pre-capture in spatial calibration did not work when multiple cameras are using same video input
• DSOF-23276 -  It is no longer  possible to rename a group to an empty name, which then prevented opening group options widget
• DSOF-23281 - Fixed an Access Violation in the input manager when using keyframe editor with multi-layer selection
• DSOF-23315 - API: Fixed /sequencing/changeindirections only matching classes not subclasses
• DSOF-23367 - Fixed the keywidget timeline repositioning to the timeline playhead rather than the time indicator when moving between control parameters, thus losing view of keyframes being edited
• DSOF-23645 - Fixed an issue where Actors and Understudies were not showing frame rate at Startup until open the session widget
• DSOF-23661 - Fixed an issue where the missing media window could go off screen
• DSOF-23710 - Fixed an issue where FBX data from disguise shot recorder doesn't import correctly in 3rd party software (UE, Maya)
• DSOF-23749 - Fixed being unable to filter by resolution in list editor
• DSOF-23841- Monitoring manager improvements
• DSOF-23848 - OmniCal: Fixed an issue where NUL was logged instead of integer value 0 for "projectorSimulationOptions"
• DSOF-23898 - Fixed an issue where user made video-in resource used in layers would generate content table fails
• DSOF-23934 - Fixed an issue where d3 switching between full screen and windowed would sometimes caused a crash to desktop
• DSOF-23955 - Inconsistent version tags no longer cause a crash to desktop
• DSOF-24036 - Fixed DSE not work with Face Culling
• DSOF-24088 - DSV capture: Fixed capture failure leading to shortening of capture buffer
• DSOF-24093 -Stop on TC Lost Behaviour is now consistent between director and editor
• DSOF-24105 - Fixed an issue where timecode tags where the frame number is the same as the number of frames per second caused the playhead to show the wrong time
• DSOF-24116 - Fixed an issue where versioning down a file used in smart group versions down every file used in that smart group, regardless of version number
• DSOF-24127 - OmniCal: UI Clarified when Multi-Pose is disabled because of missing cameras
• DSOF-24133 - Fixed an Access Violation when attempting to Empty Trash for LED Screen and Projection Surface
• DSOF-24168 - Fixed an issue where users could not create string literals in expressions
• DSOF-24189 - Fixed an issues ehre Go To Timecode ( Ctrl + / ) went to timecode plus a frame when used after a timecode tag
• DSOF-24204 - Fixed video is not being in sync when an actor rejoined the session
• DSOF-24209 - Fixed frame drops when moving between multiple video clips with audio
• DSOF-24214 - Fixed remote installs of d3 stalling
• DSOF-24269 - Fixed an Access violation when trying to write more than one mpeg-4 feed movie if using an unsupported resolution
• DSOF-24278 - Fixed an Access Violation in VideoInSystem::render when GPU driver had crashed
• DSOF-24343 - Fixed an issue where sockpuppet changes were not actually being applied to an audio layer
• DSOF-24384 - Trial: Fixed an issue where a write compacted package on exit will leave project file empty
• DSOF-24385 - Fixed an issue where an unreadable shader source directory could stop shader cache creation
• DSOF-24429 - Fixed an issue where audio underran at the start of videoclip with audio
• DSOF-24439 - Fixed Text Module failing to update text on project restart
• DSOF-24445 - Groups are now red when they are created containing layers which are already red
• DSOF-24454 - Installer: Fixed d3 Installer hanging when d3 is running the background
• DSOF-24462 - Fixed an issue where every string rendered to screen was copied 1x more than required
• DSOF-24466 - Fixed RSCompressedVideoIn not calling shutdown(), bypasses videoInShutDown actions
• DSOF-24507 - Fixed an issue where ResourceTransport was blocked on Actor / Understudy machines after FeedRect edits
• DSOF-24520 - ResourceManager: search() now includes matching files on disk
• DSOF-24521 - ResourceManager: Fixed remove() calling removeResourceAction twice
• DSOF-24529 - Fixed an issue where the List View and Grid View highlight icons were reversed
• DSOF-24553 - Fixed widget suggestion text being unnecessarily copied
• DSOF-24573 - Fixed an issue where ObjectDeformationSettings::remove used single parameter erase call when used with std::remove_if
• DSOF-24588 - Fixed a virtualCam error when starting a RenderStream workload
• DSOF-24605 - Fixed an error notification "m_cameras.front() == cam" being produced during spatial calibration
• DSOF-24805 - XR: Fixed being Unable to create a Legacy Observation
• DSOF-24806 - Fixed an issue where removing feed rectangle on output threw error: 'Machine' object had no attribute 'feeds'
• DSOF-24807 - Fixed errors thrown when trying to duplicate a feed rectangle
• DSOF-24815 - RenderStream:  Fixed Uncompressed workloads failing to start
• DSOF-24819 - Fixed an issue where users were unable to duplicate multiple feed rectangles in the feed view
• DSOF-24841 - Fixed remote install failing on RX
• DSOF-24847 - Improved LED Screen List Editor duplicate names handling
• DSOF-24956 - Fixed an issue where a combination of Matrox VX2 director and Deltacast VX4 or VXUnderstudy caused “Unable to create video capture stream” error notifications.
• DSOF-25099 - Fixed an issue d3preview caused an Access Violation on opening file

• DSOF-23415 - Overlay message added to alert user "live update ready" if live update recovers
• DSOF-25061 - Fixed an issue where OSC expressions may fail to update with more than one OSC input device until the device list was re-ordered
• DSOF-25122 - Fixed an issue where d3manager showed "no license" popup on disguise servers in some situations
• DSOF-25130 - Fixed an issue seen where an indefinite capture freeze could occur when moving between capture card inputs

• DSOF-24101 - Unified "dropped frames" counting across all videoin classes
• DSOF-24349 - Implemented IMvVideoConnectorNotification for inputs to receive status updates in console

• DSOF-24301 - Fixed an issue where consecutive timeouts on capture cards would abort the thread and not restart it
• DSOF-24443 - Fixed an issue that occurred when a capture card input was unplugged and replugged, all inputs would freeze for a few seconds before recovering
• DSOF-24549 - Fixed Matrox thread 1A Aborting thread due to repeated time out
• DSOF-24552 Fixed an issue where output would get stuck if the video input signal was lost and recovered
• DSOF-24693 - Fixed an issue where checkInputSignalChanged was causing main thread to hang
• DSOF-25115 - Fixed an issue where the capture thread could occasionally crash with an Access Violation while configuring a quad input
• DSOF-23828 - Fixed an issue where setting EDIDS to unmanaged/force off did not work as intended
• DSOF-25064 - Fixed an issue where Mellanox licence failure was not reported as an error on gx3 servers
• DSOF-25070 - Fixed an issue where Canon ACES input transforms were not selectable in the UI

• As part of r25.2.2
• DSOF-23391 - Fixed an Access Violation when opening 'Manage Old Media'
• DSOF-24694 - Fixed an issue where the frontplate was not aligned correctly when in minimal latency mode
• DSOF-24889 - Fixed an issue where OSC Expressions did not working properly after loading snapshot
• DSOF-24985 - Fixed an issue where use of Renderstream texture parameters would eventually cause a crash
• As part of r25.2.3
• DSOF-24726 - Fixed a “No video in texture for videoin_1.mov -” warning error on Video Input device
• DSOF-25031 - Fixed issue related to manual AR calibration
• DSOF-25040 - RenderStream: Fixed multiple Access Violations when starting a workload with proxy streams
• DSOF-25044 - Fixed an issue where Rotation Delay for tracking sources was not updated
• DSOF-24761 - Fixed an issue where Indirection Media didn't indicate that it is a value set by indirection when the value is None

• DSOF-23505 - Fixed an Access Violation that occurred if the Capture Setup widget was open while a capture is in progress
• DSOF-24762 - Fixed an issue where the GUI framerate fraction caused some strange widget behaviours
• DSOF-24888 - Fixed an issue where the Focus distance and Aperture would stick to 0 after an MR set observation
• DSOF-24922 - Fixed an issue where the sensor width was erroneously overridden by spatial calibration
• DSOF-24950 - Fixed an Access Violation when importing objects
• DSOF-24965 -  Fixed an issue where long entries in the debug window would cause a ‘<NULL>’ notification to appear.

• DSOF-24386 - Fixed an issue where an error stating permission was denied [Error 13] when opening project from d3 Manager
• DSOF-24424 - Fixed a delay when launching a project from d3 Manager and Designer opening
• DSOF-24594 - Improved the speed of NDI source discovery
• DSOF-24758 - Fixed an issue where missing dependencies caused Notch Blocks to not load.: “Unable to load error: Error 0x7e: The specified module could not be found”
• DSOF-24808 - Fixed an issue where 12G SDI input limit was reached even using 3G
• DSOF-24814 - Improved audio prefetching limit logging
• DSOF-24816 - RenderStream: Fixed an issue where framerate plummets and/or workload crashes when un/assigning texture parameters
• DSOF-24928 - Fixed a memory leak in RenderStream Uncompressed with Texture Parameters

• DSOF-24204 - Fixed an issue where video was not in sync when an Actor rejoined the session
• DSOF-24799 - Fixed an Access Violation when trying to add a MIDI device

• DSOF-23458 - Fixed  IO stalling due to too many concurrent read operations
• DSOF-23645 - Fixed an issue where Actors and Understudies were not showing frame rate at startup until opening the session widget
• DSOF-24130 - Fixed an issue where the tooltip didn't render text but could grow too tall when you have groups within group
• DSOF-24295 - Fixed an issue where timecode was sometimes ignored when track jumping
• DSOF-24576 - Fixed an Access Violation when stopping uncompressed RenderStream workload on an rx
• DSOF-24595 - Fixed an issue where it was not possible to create a group in an existing group
• DSOF-24734 - Fixed an issue where it was not possible calibrate tracking delay when using object rather than camera tracking source
• DSOF-24748 - Fixed lens calibration not being applied when using Object tracking source
• DSOF-24751 - Fixed an issue where camera focus distance and aperture were usable as layers
• DSOF-24752 - Fixed an issue where d3net session between servers containing different capture card types threw "Unable to create video capture stream" errors and spammed the console continuously

• DSOF-24681 - Improved performance of getContentViewpointsForFragment

• DSOF-24399 - Fixed an Access Violation encountered when using multi transport
• DSOF-24439 - Fixed an issue where the Text Module failed to update text on project restart
• DSOF-24672 - Fixed an issue that occurred when leaving a video layer with embedded audio in "at-endpoint" loop mode  resulted in a hang
• DSOF-24678 - Tracking marker no longer has aliasing at the edge of meshes

• DSOF-24610 - Fixed an issue where RenderStream channels with higher load factor composited behind other channels
• DSOF-24600 - Improved virtual camera stability

• DSOF-22915 - Fixed a crash on exit when DxDevice was lost
• DSOF-24500 - d3service no longer crashes on close
• DSOF-24507 - Fixed an issue where ResourceTransport blocked on Actor / Understudy machines after FeedRect edits
• DSOF-24523 - Fixed ACCESS_VIOLATION 0x280 while renaming the stage from an Editor
• DSOF-24558 - Fixed an issue where  Heap Corruptions caused a crash to desktop
• DSOF-24560 - Fixed an Access Violation when using the 'Removing Virtual Head' option in the FeedHead widget

• DSOF-24186 - TrackingMarker layer now shows red on output when the LED is blocked by another LED in camera view

• DSOF-23300  - Fixed an issue when a signal was lost, video input format did not go to "None" 
• DSOF-24422 - Improved Camera movement in Unreal Engine 5.2 with DirectX12
• DSOF-24531 - Fixed an issue with 12g input on capture cards where it would report “input limit reached” and prevent capture

• DSOF-23420 - Fixed an issue where media which was present on the machine was reported as missing in d3
• DSOF-23859 Fixed - Access Violations when failing to create WebBrowser in Text Layer
• DSOF-23964 - Fixed an issue where DeltaCast Video Input (Capture) Group 1 & Group 2 were flipped
• DSOF-24156 - Fixed an issue where artefacts appear over RenderStream
• DSOF-24393 - Keyframes: Fixed an issue where setTimeQuantised had missing checks which could result in keyframes with the same time
• DSOF-24437 - Fixed an Access violation in folderwatcher causing d3service to be broken silently
• DSOF-24473 - Fixed Access Violations in RenderStreamModule editor running RenderStream Assets with widgets open and crossfades on timeline
• DSOF-24483 - Fixed an Access Violation when programming renderstream layers

• DSOF-23423 - Fixed an issue where placeholder images appear on output for the first frame after a patched videoin becomes active
• DSOF-23692 - - Fixed an issue with IPVFC with no SFP, sometimes launched d3 with a blank GUI
• DSOF-23783 - Fixed an issue where VariableVideoPlayer: "Invalid frame calculated"/ "start != end" notification showed on sharp speed changes
• DSOF-23983 - Fixed an issue where layers with a video keyframe that fell before their start were not prefetched properly
• DSOF-24277 - Fixed an issue where UDP Camera Switching caused frame drops and dirty switches in a session
• DSOF-24376 - Fixed an issue where the background flashed when switching Video layer media via DMX
• DSOF-24288 - Fixed a performance hit caused by unnecessary domain copies

DSOF-21756 Support for Invisible: real-time markerless mocap by move.ai

For details on how to use real-time markerless motion capture with Invisible by move.ai,  please visit: https://help.disguise.one/en/Content/Workflows/Motion-Capture/Invisible/Invisible-Overview.htm

DSOF-23201 Improve lens tracking source workflows

In r25 we have made a number of improvements to the camera tracking workflow within Designer. 

To add a tracking source to a camera:

1. Under Devices, add a PositionReceiver
2. In the PositionReceiver under Drivers, add the relevant tracking driver and set it up to receive tracking data
3. Engage the position receiver
4. Create a Camera in the Stage
5. Under the Camera Settings, select tracking source. This should have been automatically generated by the driver once tracking data started to be received
6. Data from the tracking source should start overwriting the values in the camera

General UI Improvements

We have now highlighted values in the camera that have been overridden when using external tracking sources or spatial calibrations. We have also added tooltips that indicate to the user that each value has been overridden.

We have also added an ‘Open Driver’ button to go straight to the driver from the tracking source, and vice versa we have added an ‘Open Tracking Sources’ button in the driver to go to the tracking source to improve navigation.

Added receive time smoothing to tracking sources

Within the tracking source, we have added a number of new options. The first is the ‘Smooth receive time’ box, which when turned on smooths out the tracking data received by disguise, but may add a small amount of latency. This was previously an always-on option but can now be optionally turned on or off by the user.  

Added the ability to disable particular axes in tracking sources

The Values box can be expanded to provide all values being provided within the tracking source, and these will be highlighted in green. There are also check boxes next to each value to allow users to untick values that they don’t want passed through to the tracking source. These values will change within the camera when unticked, and can be edited by the user manually within the camera. 

To toggle values applied from the tracking source:

1. From the Camera, open the Tracking Source editor
2. Expand the Values separator
3. Values highlighted in green are being received from the tracking source. Values with a dark grey background are not being received. Values with a light grey background are received but toggled off
4. Untick the checkbox to stop the value being applied in the camera
5. Tick the checkbox to apply values again

We have also added a ‘Delays’ option within the tracking source to apply lens delay offset if required.

In previous releases, if users had a tracking source that failed to send a particular value then we would have used a dummy value on the camera. In r25 we now leave the value that has been provided by the tracking source and will not replace them with a dummy value.  

Lens focus parameters for tracking sources

We have also added parameters for controlling focus and depth of field parameters. This has currently been implemented for RenderStream Unreal Engine assets only. Within the Unreal project, the user has to select the ‘CineCamera’ for the channel. 

To use lens focus parameters:

1. Set up a RenderStream layer with an Unreal asset, with a channel created from a CineCamera
2. Map the channel to a Camera or MR set backplate or frontplate
3. Start the RenderStream workload
4. Adjust the ‘Focus mode’ under Camera / Physical / Lens / Focus. There are three options:

1. Disabled - no depth of field. Focus mode is disabled by default
2. Manual - use this mode to turn on the feature. Focus distance and aperture can be adjusted manually to adjust the depth of field. These can also be received from tracking sources which provide them
3. Object Tracking - select an object in Designer to calculate the focus distance from. The aperture will be changed manually or received from tracking data, and the focus distance will be controlled by tracking the specific object within your scene

5. Adjusting the lens focus parameters in the camera should cause the depth of field effect to change in Unreal Engine

Tracking Smoothing graph

We have added tracking smoothing graphs to help debug tracking issues. The lines in the graph can be interpreted as follows:

• Lookup offset (ms) - this is the time in milliseconds between the smooth tracking data that we are looking up, and the latest data received. This should almost never go below zero, as that would mean that we have received the tracking data too late to be able to smooth it. If it is consistently much greater than zero, this means that we are adding unnecessary additional latency whilst waiting to receive smooth data
• Index delta - the change in index of the tracking data that we look up in the buffer across each frame within Designer. If the tracking frame rate is twice the Designer frame rate, this would be around 2. The smoothness of this line shows the success of the receive time smoothing. We are aiming for a consistent index offset between each packet of tracking data that we look up
• Received delta - the change in the receive time of the tracking data of each frame. This shows us how smooth the tracking data would be without receive time smoothing. It can be compared against the ‘Index delta’ line to check that receive time smoothing is working
• Instantaneous smooth data delay (ms) - indicates how far we would have to look in the buffer to ensure that we have received tracking based on the latest received packets. This is aggregated over time to give a stable lookup time
• Local smooth data delay - the maximum smooth data delay for this specific machine
• Global smooth data delay - the maximum smooth data delay over all machines. This is particularly relevant when we are redistributing tracking data across machines. It should provide a consistent period to look back in the buffer to ensure that we have smooth tracking data

DSOF-7571 BlackTrax: Implement BlackTrax Centroid calculations

We have implemented centroid tracking sources into the RTTrPMDriver within the PositionDriver devices. This means that we can now receive centroid data within disguise for Blacktrax tracking systems.

DSOF-22936 Add ARRI LDS as a device driver for receive lens data native from Arri Cameras

We have added Arri LDS within the PositionReceiver devices so that users can receive metadata from Arri cameras into disguise - that being focal length, aspect ratio, vertical and horizontal field of view, sensor size, aperture, and focus distance.

DSOF-22279 Ensure Quad-SDI VFC output signal is not interrupted after configuration

In previous releases, the output from a Quad-SDI VFC card would be interrupted if a project would be restarted within Designer

In r25, if a user was to restart a project within Designer then the output from a Quad-SDI VFC card would be the same resolution as it was before the project was restarted. This prevents the signal being interrupted upon restarting a project within Designer.

The only time that an output will be interrupted from a Quad-SDI VFC will be if a disguise media server was restarted or powered off, or when apply feed settings is executed.

DSOF-22410 Support focus and iris data in FBX export from shot recorder

In r25 we have added both aperture and focus distance to the default parameter collection for new cameras within the Shot Recorder feature. These properties can also be set within the Shot Recorder FBX export. 

DSOF-22460 Keep last-known camera position if camera tracking drops

In previous releases, when camera tracking is lost, the camera will revert back to 0,0,0. In r25, the camera tracking will remain at the last tracked camera position.

DSOF-22672 Make common base project for d3api and d3service

DSOF-22837 Write functionality to clear up exported glb, movie and metadata files

We have added an improvement to the Previz Link within Designer in r25 to clear up disk space by deleting old export files related to Previz that are no longer being used by any other application. Any export file that is still being used will not be deleted until the next time a clean-up takes place, where again we will only delete export files that are no longer being used by any application. 

DSOF-22937 Move nginx logs to d3 app data directory instead of in program files

In r25, nginx logs have been moved from the program files path to C:\Users\d3\AppData\Local\d3\nginx

DSOF-22995 GUI: The layer editor should move to front open keyframe editors when it gains focus

In previous releases, when working on a large timeline that overlaps on-screen with a layer editor, if a user was to click on the layer editor to focus on it, the layer editor widget would be foreground but the keyframe editor would be behind the timeline. In r25, when a user brings a layer editor into focus, the keyframe editor will now foreground with it. 

DSOF-23002 Sequencing: On project upgrade, disable sequencing for all fields which are not sequenced

In previous releases, if a project was upgraded from a version of Designer that did not support the Keyframe Toggle (before r20.0), all fields were set to have Keyframes enabled. This required a significant amount of tidying to be able to benefit from the Keyframe Toggle. In r25, we have enabled any fields that only have 1 frame and therefore no sequencing should have the Keyframe Toggle automatically set to off on project upgrade.

DSOF-23110 Videoins with placeholder images should have the resolution of the placeholder.

In previous releases, when adding a Videoin for a placeholder image, the video would be set to the last resolution of the video input received by disguise. In r25, if a Videoin is added with a placeholder image, the video will be set to the resolution of the placeholder image that is used. The Videoin will override the placeholder image resolution when it is available.

DSOF-23245 Optimize DmxScreenRead layer

In previous releases, it was reported that the DmxScreenRead layer was impacting the performance of Designer. We have now optimised the layer.

DSOF-23336 IP VFC SDP file paths should be discoverable

We have added a ‘Copy SDP path to clipboard’ button within the IP-VFC settings menu. This includes the SDP path that can be copied and added onto a ST 2110 receiver device, such as the Megapixel Helios.

DSOF-23646 GET activetransport API should return the selected track for each transport

We have enabled the ActiveTransport API to return the currently selected track for each transport. This can be found within the GET activetransport API, where we have included a currentTrack property that indicates the current selected track of a given transport. 

DSOF-23756 Add double dot RS plugin version to schema JSON

We have added a new RenderStream release naming convention to include double dots for plugin-specific hotfixes. This can now be seen within the Designer GUI.

DSOF-23808 Implement support for Arri Alexa LogCv4 to ACES workflow

DSOF-23927 Allow user to copy/paste notifications

Users can now copy and paste notifications from Designer without having to open the console.

DSOF-19735 - Fixed an issue where snapshots failed to create after the snapshot widget was closed

DSOF-19736 - Fixed: If a snapshot has failed to create, an access violation was displayed if a widget was opened while taking a snapshot

DSOF-20435 - Fixed an issue where the  CPUMonitor did not respect poll unit/interval settings

DSOF-20791 - Fixed an issue where "Edid port invalid errors" on applied feed settings

DSOF-21510 - Improved the efficiency of Text Layers

DSOF-21687 - Fixed an issue where Media Distribution did not report correct size for image sequences

DSOF-21694 - Fixed an issue that occurred when undoing a creation of a group with the widget open displayed a "not in list" error

DSOF-21839 - Fixed an issue where projects started with a Masking object appearing until the stage is brought into focus

DSOF-21988 RenderStream: Fixed an issue where Designer would hang when stopping a workload

DSOF-22109 - Fixed an issue where list indirections were not triggering multitransport

DSOF-22756 - Fixed an issue that occurred after deleting a Skeleton object from Stage and its Stick Man was still visible

DSOF-22780 - Fixed an issue where it was not possible to open the rollback window of 2 objects at the same time

DSOF-22781 - Fixed an issue where duplicating group with video transition layer

DSOF-22798 - Video Input Patch Editor: Fixed an issue where the format field was not refreshed upon project startup

DSOF-22812 - Fixed an unnecessary error continuously being thrown when an empty texture parameter was assigned

DSOF-22846 - Fixed an issue that occurred when disengaging the Position Receiver, the status didn't work as expected

DSOF-22916 - Fixed framerate drops on solo with section on the timeline

DSOF-23030 - Fixed an issue where a new section break was not dropped on the exact frame when zoomed out and using ; ` shortcut to move playhead

DSOF-23103 - Fixed an Access Violation when using ctrl+z to undo deleting a layer

DSOF-23107 - Fixed incorrect timestamps on a newly created project within d3manager

DSOF-23127 - Mosys Driver: Fixed an issue where it was possible to edit lens values in the GUI when using Mosys GeneratedCameraTrackingSource

DSOF-23153 - Fixed an issue where Video Inputs was not scrollable

DSOF-23157 - Fixed an issue where Udp::connect error didn't specify which port it failed to bind to

DSOF-23159 - Fixed an issue where ObjectView did not expand according to buckets / subdirectories

DSOF-23179 - Fixed an issue where the VideoIn format field was not serialising correct value with director/actor setup

DSOF-23180 - Fixed an issue where Layer Stack did not affect placeholders in LogicalVideoInDevice

DSOF-23215 - Fixed an issue where Movie Output > Output movie size had options for 2K and 4K export on the MPEG-4 drop-down list despite Designer reporting errors that "d3 designer can only export resolutions up to 2160 pixels" and then failed any export attempt

DSOF-23264 - Fixed an Access Violation when taking a Snapshot after closing Snapshot manager

DSOF-23287 - Fixed an issue where a calibrated camera with no tracking source silently overwrote lens intrinsics

DSOF-23303 - Fixed an issue where the console was spammed when Designer was minimised while running in application mode

DSOF-23319 - Fixed an issue where Designer delayed tracking longer than it needs to when doing receive time smoothing

DSOF-23328 - Fixed an issue where many (Save) Actions were not unsubscribed at d3 shutdown

DSOF-23331 - Added detailed logging on shutdown for still subscribed Actions

DSOF-23332 - Fixed an error at 'MissingMediaDomain: checkMissing'

DSOF-23333 - Fixed an issue that occured when changing SLC sizes would result in an error after configuring feed

DSOF-23342 - Fixed an issue where copying and pasting a layer at the end of the timeline did not extend the track

DSOF-23358 - Fixed an issue where keyframes outside of the highlighted grouping area were not deselected and not included in the keyframe grouping

DSOF-23361 - Fixed an issue when assigning empty VideoInTexture caused a parameter size error

DSOF-23368 - Fixed an issue when selecting a group of keyframes whilst there was already an active group selection in the keywidget added the new selection to the old

DSOF-23422 - Fixed [XR] Spatial Cal not working as expected

DSOF-23429 - Fixed an issue where a "'NoneType' object has no attribute '__base__'" notification was displayed when right clicking on proxy maker with disableProxyMaker option switch enabled

DSOF-23513 - Fixed iPod 6 showing as an option in OmniCal

DSOF-23550 - Fixed an issue where the Patch Assignments Widget could not be opened

DSOF-23558 - Fixed an issue where Telemetry would fail with error "queryLogs failed: Can't find manifest"

DSOF-23566 - Previz link: Fixed an issue where props didn't handle alpha material and textures properly

DSOF-23575 - Fixed an issue where Rotational X value flickered between two numbers in Tracking Source Data when Smooth Receive Time unchecked

DSOF-23581 - Fixed an issue where ‘Cannot create a link without a Resource’ error was displayed when adding the new depth of field parameters to the shot recorder

DSOF-23595 - Fixed an issue where the ‘enable Depth of Field (DOF)’ option check-box in Camera settings has changed to a number field input box

DSOF-23598 - Fixed mesh fragment artefacts in a mesh mapping

DSOF-23611 - Fixed an issue where upper and lower-case letters in names of the Camera Settings were mixed up

DSOF-23613 - Fixed an issue where it was not possible to do secondary observations with trackmen camera tracking system as zoom encoder is always 1.f

DSOF-23620 - Fixed an issue where the prop mesh could not be assigned 'None'

DSOF-23629 - Fixed an issue where Mesh Mapping would jump the camera for a few frames to a different position

DSOF-23666 - Attribute Error: Fixed 'NoneType' object having no attribute 'hidden' when adding a spherical camera

DSOF-23685 - Fixed the Focus field inside Camera widget not working as expected

DSOF-23716 - Fixed a VirtualCam notification error when starting RenderStream with MR set mapping

DSOF-23740 - Fixed an m_renderPoseHistory.empty() Error Notification upon re-opening a project with RenderStream layer

DSOF-23751 - Fixed an error spamming whenever opening the Tracking Source widget of a Skeleton

DSOF-23754 - Fixed an issue where a camera with a tracking source selected and no videoin, opening the camera widget showed an error

DSOF-23777 - Fixed Open Tracking Sources widget not working as expected with Skeletons

DSOF-23783 - Fixed an issue where VariableVideoPlayer: "Invalid frame calculated"/ "start != end" notification was shown on sharp speed changed - check

DSOF-23811 - Removed Skeleton Scale

DSOF-23893 - RTTrPM driver - Fixed an issue where centroid positions had Y / Z positions swapped

DSOF-23899 - Fixed an issue where the Inner Frustum was not visible when using Backplate and Mesh Mapping

DSOF-23963 - Fixed NGINX being set to Manual instead of Automatic in Services

DSOF-23978 API: - Fixed an issue where boolean properties in result of /service/system/detectsystems never returned to 'false'

DSOF-24042 - Fixed an issue where alembic mesh centroid did not match when mesh is far away from origin

DSOF-24049 - Fixed a typo on response to http://localhost/api/session/status/health

DSOF-24083 - Fixed multipleAccess Violations and crashes to desktop when trying to stream 3 channels over RenderStream

• DSOF-22798 - Video Input Patch Editor: Fixed an issue where the format field was not refreshed
  upon project startup
• DSOF-23179 - Video Input Patch Editor: Fixed an issue where the format field did not save the
  correct value with a director/actor setup

• DSOF-23379 - Fixed an issue where the proxy maker made proxies 1 frame short for videos 1 frame short of rounded duration to fps
• DSOF-23559 - Fixed an issue where video inputs dropped out with timeout error
• DSOF-23939 - Fixed an intermittent kMvSynchroStatusCancelledLate error which stopped capture
• DSOF-24155 - Fixed option switch for overriding nDisplay config file in Unreal Renderstream

• DSOF-24070 - Fixed an issue where it was not possible to scroll in larger nested folder structures
• DSOF-24191 - Fixed EX3 and Vx4n machine types being missing from HTTP APIs machine enums
• DSOF-24200 - Resolved an issue introduced that could prevent launching projects when spherical, perspective or parallel projections were in use.

• DSOF-23040 - Fixed an issue where the rsync port conflicted with VPN
• DSOF-23732 - Fixed an issue where the proxy generated by the proxy maker was not recognized
• DSOF-23885 - Improved Camera Switching performance
• DSOF-23899 - Fixed an issue where the Inner Frustum was not visible when using Backplate and Mesh Mapping
• DSOF-24083 - Fixed Access Violations and a crash to desktop when trying to stream 3 channels over RenderStream
• DSOF-24106 - Fixed an issue where OmniCal cameras could not be added to a project on EX 3

• DSOF-24056 - RenderStream Uncompressed: Fixed an error where  "packet/frame dropped recently" message did not clear after a stream recovered
• DSOF-24001 - Fixed an issue where quad link capture displayed a black screen

• DSOF-16856 - Sony IDTs no longer appear wron
• DSOF-16841 - All LED Screens now have a hierarchy dropdown again
• DSOF-16834 - d3 trial build now starts properly
• DSOF-16811 - set extension and led LED walls no longer fall out of sync when AR fade is set to 0
• DSOF-16787 - d3service will no longer crash if empty/corrupted file ending in ".uproject" found in Renderstream Projects folder
• DSOF-16765 - Camera switching is no longer broken when frontplate is in minimal latency mode
• DSOF-16744 - rslogs folder is now correctly included in diagnostics
• DSOF-16734 - RenderStream Active Latency no longer causes excessive stuttering when not set to a multiple of the refresh rate
• DSOF-16703 - Mapping Quick Select slots no longer allow for non MultiChannel mappings to be applied on RenderStream layers

• DSOF-16674 - Renderstream workload actions (Start, Stop Sync) will now be greyed out when the corresponding operation is in progress.
  • The Sync button will grey out while there are running sync operations, on completion of all operations (success or failure) the button will no longer be greyed out
  • The Stop button will be greyed out when the workload is not running
  • The Start and Sync buttons will be greyed out when the workload is running
  • The Start button will be greyed out while there are running sync operations

• DSOF-23566 - Previz link: Fixed an issue where props did not handle alpha materials and textures properly
• DSOF-23748 - Fixed an issue where a hang occurred the first time playing into a layer of content
• DSOF-23758 - Fixed a  d3service crash seen in r23.1.2
• DSOF23023 - Fixed an issue where pucks were not exported properly to glTF

• Added product support for EX 3

• DSOF-23375 - Fixed an issue where the Video Prefetcher was not creating video requests for the next section
• DSOF-23797 - Fixed a crash to desktop seen in r24.0
• DSOF-23829 - Fixed Edit VideoClip button
• DSOF-23878 - API: Fixed transport engage/disengage not applying session wide
• DSOF-23961 - Fixed an issue with heap corruption when hot-reloading shaders
• DSOF-23996 - Fixed an issue where d3 could not run on multiple machines with RPVII cards (vx4+ or vx4n)

• DSOF-23365 - The improved GPU memory management system shipped in r24.0 behind
  the option switch 'useGpuPool' is now enabled by default. It provides reliable stability
  for demanding video playback loads and other high-memory-usage scenarios

• DSOF-23038 AV in "Upload assets" test case in test_cloudserver

• DSOF-23694 - SDI-IPVFC: Fixed an issue where 4096x2160 59.94 10bit failed to enable stream
• DSOF-23725 - Updated Designer API documentation
• DSOF-23900 - Fixed an issue where quitting d3 and re-opening, IPVFC stream was disabled

• DSOF-21119 - GPU fan speed is now programmatically set on vx4+
• DSOF-23479 - Fixed Access Violations that occurred when a mapping indirection is added to a slot in the Bank Editor, and when a new indirection is subsequently attempted
• DSOF-23569 - SDI- IPVFC: VX4 output is no longer tearing or not outputting
• DSOF-23726 - IPVFC - Addressed a 10 second sleep that was causing 'Timed out waiting for output mode change' error notification

• DSOF-23660 - Support Riedel MN-Z-SFP-2T-SDI-12G

• DSOF-23630 - Fixed an issue when #upgrading to r24.0, SDI VFC outputs were forced to 444
  and not 422
• DSOF-23691 - Fixed an issue where using 3D perspective projection did not work when using 3D
  content
• DSOF-23714 - Fixed an issue where using 3D perspective projection did not work when using 2D
  content
• DSOF-23722 - Fixed an issue where 'DisplayList' object had no attribute "printimmediate" when
  opening patch editor

• DSOF-23249 - Fixed an Access Violation on deleting a layer mapped to a pre comp
• DSOF-23253 - IPVFC - Fixed issue with 1280x720@24hz mirror mode and various other formats on gx3 presenting some artefacts on the LED. (PTP)
• DSOF-23345 - Fixed an issue where StageRenderLayer displayed certain proxy levels as if they were proxy-off after opening the feed view
• DSOF-23447 - Fixed a RenderStream crash to desktop when using texture parameters
• DSOF-23487 - Fixed an Access Violation when creating the alignment point when using OmniCal
• DSOF-23514 - Fixed all screens being inactive In VR
• DSOF-23556 - Fixed an issue where DCS focal length was incorrect when sensor sizes were not set to 35mm
• DSOF-23615 - Fixed an issue where MR set plate resolution changed when switching cameras with different overscan
• DSOF-23675 - XR: Fixed a Python error "no attribute 'refreshObservationList' when adding a manual observation
• DSOF-23690 - Fixed an Access Violation in feed view with IP VFC on remote machines, causing grey screen on startup

• DSOF-17848 - With "disableDmxPacketSendWait" on, lost sACN node on network still causes the project to slow to a halt.
• DSOF-17540 - Sequencing changes do not transfer to other machines in session when restoring a snapshot
• DSOF-17193 - Multi User Edit in UE requires preferred sync adapter to be set to a network adapter which is available to all machines
• DSOF-17108 - Current NCAM data implementation used can exhibit unreliable packet timing
• DSOF-16935 - d3 cannot set SDI VFCs to Quad 4K 2SI 23.98, 24, 29.97 or 30Hz
• DSOF-16425 - Renderstream: When using MultiChannelMapping, only one spatial map w backplate is able to change position/rotation
• DSOF-15445 - Editor machines with a user account linked to an Microsoft Account can't join d3 sessions due to permissions errors

Q-SDI VFC Firmware advisory

Background:

SDI VFCs are unable to achieve a guaranteed genlock to an interlaced genlock signal. There is 50% chance there will be a phase offset of 1 field (180 degrees). This is due to the way in which the sync cards for both AMD and NVidia GPUs detect genlock signals.

Firmware version 1.9.0 adds a button to reverse the field, which enables you to revert to the alternate field if genlock is phase offset. To properly use this feature, you will need to have the relevant equipment to be able to measure the phase of the SDI output.

Firmware version 1.9.0 requires the use of r17 or greater.

Impact of Issue:

Any Q-SDI VFC shipped with firmware 1.8.0 or earlier and needing to lock to interlaced Genlock Signal

Affected Hardware:

All Q-SDI VFC shipped with previous firmware versions.

How to determine the current firmware version:

• Populate VFC compatible disguise machine with only the SDI cards you want to check.
• Run vfcfirmwareupdater.exe located at C:\Program Files\d3 Production Suite\build\msvc
• Check Firmware Version

How to update to v1.9.0:

• Populate any VFC compatible disguise machine with only the SDI cards required to be updated.
• Download the VFC firmware update from: https://d3packages.s3.amazonaws.com/vfc/quad_sdi_vfc_v1-9-0.rbf
• Run vfcfirmwareupdater.exe located at C:\Program Files\d3 Production Suite\build\msvc
• Click Choose file and load the downloaded VFC firmware update. The filename should be quad_sdi_vfc_v1-9-0.rbf
• Slots will be automatically selected. Ensure only SDI type cards have this firmware update applied to them.

• Click Update Firmware, the update will start and will take between 10-25 minutes.

• On completion, the Firmware version field will not update until all cards have finished updating and have been re-initialised and detected.

• DSOF-3357 Ability to view waveform of audio in modules

The audio waveform allows users to visualise the audio output of a single layer, a collection of layers or the quantized audio track while working in the keyframe editor. This permits them to add keyframes while taking audio output as a consideration at a glance.

How-To

To visualise the audio waveform of one or more layers:

1. Create one or more audio layers

2. Set the audio track of the layer(s)

3. Open a keyframe editor

4. Right-click in the keyframe editor area to access the options

5. Click on

a. layer to visualise the waveform of the currently opened layer

b. combined to visualise the collective waveform of multiple layers

To visualise the audio waveform of the quantized audio:

1. Add an audio track to the track

2. Open a keyframe editor

3. Right-click in the keyframe editor area to access the options

4. Click on quantised to visualise the waveform of the timeline audio track

Key widget audio waveform modes

Single layer audio waveform

Combined layers audio waveform

Quantised audio waveform

Audio waveform with volume keyframes

Audio waveform in quantised mode with quantised track

• DSOF-7298 Dynamic Layer Naming

This feature allows users to rename layers with dynamic tags that will be automatically replaced in the rename process by specific values in the layer.

How-To

1. When renaming a layer either by right-clicking on the layer or pressing alt+r this feature is available.

2. When renaming the layer you can use words between curly braces to create dynamic tags like this {special tag}

3. Hitting rename on a layer will then automatically replace the text in that tag with special values based on the tags.

4. The tags that are supported are:

a. {type} is replaced by the type of the layer.

b. {index} is replaced by an incrementing index starting from 1. i. You can append a number after \"index\" as the start number (e.g. {index5}).

c. {currentname} is replaced by the current name of the layer.

d. {<field>} will be replaced with the name of the first keyframe in the layer with the name <field> i. Examples: {mapping}, {speed}, {blend mode}. ii. If a field is not present in the layer the {<field>} text will be removed from the final name.

5. Typing in a layer name with mis-matching {} tags will stop renaming and make the rename widget turn red with an explanatory tooltip.

Documentation:

Right-clicking on the field will bring up the documentation as described above as well as text boxes that save the last rename used and places for the user to store renames that are used frequently.

Renaming multiple layers:

When renaming multiple layers the user is presented with a confirmation dialogue that shows a preview of the renames to occur. At this stage the user can either abort or finish the renaming. This dialog can be toggled on and off with a toggle.

• DSOF-11013 Support for YUV 4:4:4 modes from the Quad-SDI VFC card at 1080p when using Firmware 1.9.0

We have enabled support for YUV 4:4:4 chroma subsampling from the Quad-SDI VFC card after updating the firmware to 1.9.0: 1080p30, 1080p29.97, 1080p25, 1080p24, 1080p23.98

• DSOF-14192 Bank Editor detach and attach resource view options

We have enabled users to detach the Resources view from the Bank Editor, making access easier when working with lots of resources. To access this feature, open the ‘options’ menu on the Bank Editor and click on ‘Detach Resource View’. This allows users to have the Resources view separate to the Bank Editor. Each view can be made larger or smaller according to what is required, and users can still drag and drop files into the Bank Editor. The Resource View can be reattached by opening the ‘options’ menu on the Bank Editor and click on ‘Attach Resource View’.

• DSOF-20481 "Apply Matrix Feed Routing" button added to Feed Output

We have added an “Apply Matrix Feed Routing” button in the Feed Output menu. This enables users to send the Matrix In-Out settings and Presets to the corresponding Matrix, and avoid mismatching between Designer and the Matrix. In previous releases, Designer would not send the Matrix In-Out Settings and Presets to the Matrix.

• DSOF-22859 Tell the user which Expression doesn't match any known Resources

In previous releases, when we cannot match a name in an Expressions with any loaded resources, we do a potentially very costly brute-force search as warned in a notification. In r24 we tell the user we now notify the user which name can’t be matched so that it can be fixed.

• DSOF-13096 Projector editor should use checkboxes

We have enabled a check box in the Dynamic Blend dropdown on the Projector editor menu to enable and disable Dynamic Blend, and to Use Snapshot (yes/no).

• DSOF-13485 Improve soft edge gradient with S curve

We have enabled a predefined S curve interpolation that can be used as an option to the linear curve when generating custom softedge textures. This can be found as a ‘S Curve Interpolation’ toggle when creating a SoftEdgeTexture mask editor.

• DSOF-14203 Sockpuppet: auto populate error message to include bank and slot for easy navigation

We have adjusted the error message found when users are notified that there is an Auto Populate Conflict in the Bank Editor within Sockpuppet. The new error message outlines “Bank X / Slot X already contains Media_Name.mov - couldn’t auto-populate older media Media_Name.mov”

• DSOF-15109 OSC output data for 'trackposition' should match Designer timeline

When adding an OSC Event Transport to the current transport, we have enabled the track position from the OSC output data to match the timeline markers within the Designer GUI.

• DSOF-20363 Inconsistent Tag notification should tell users to amend their naming

The ‘Version tag inconsistent’ notification tells users that the folder or file name may need amending.

• DSOF-20382 Ability to override alpha rendering order

In previous releases, when working with two LED or projection surfaces with the blend mode set to alpha, the default behaviour would be that surface 1 would always cover surface 2. In r24 we have enabled a ‘depth sort override’ that enables users to manually override the depth sorting. Objects with lower values will be rendered before objects with higher values.

• DSOF-20581 Add ability to override un-sockpuppeted controls in video layers to take from the video clip instead of from the timeline

Sockpuppet layers expose 4 frames on the layer that are usually set directly on the video clip object when used with a normal video module - those being Frame Index, Trim Frames, Loop In Frame, and Loop Out Frame. These are exposed on the Sockpuppet Video Module in order to control them via Sockpuppet.

We have enabled the ability to set an option switch called overrideUnpatchedMediaFields which mean that the Frame Index, Trim Frames, Loop In Frame and Loop Out Frame fields will be taken from the video clip instead of being directly sequenced when they are not used in Sockpuppet. When these fields on the layer are used in Sockpuppet then they behave as expected and can be controlled by Sockpuppet external controls.

• DSOF-21087 Improve input/output transform widget usability
• DSOF-21351 Allow user to export compositor and output frames to content directory

We have enabled users to capture a single frame from the output or compositor feed so that it can be used as content within a scene. We have added ‘Export Compositor Frame’ and ‘Export Output Frame’ in the Feed View.

• DSOF-21392 Add hotkey for jumping to the end of the track

We have added a hotkey [End] that enables users to jump the playhead to the end of the current track.

• DSOF-21563 Detect when d3service is not running on disguise servers and advise
• DSOF-21711 Add inverse transform for RED Wide Gamut

We have added an option for RED Wide Gamut, a colour space designed to encompass every colour that is recordable by RED’s current and past cameras. This can be found in ACES mode under the list of Output Transforms (ODTs) under ‘Camera’.

• DSOF-21712 Add Gamma 2.6 utility transforms

We have added an option for Gamma 2.6 in the utility output transform list for both Input Transforms (IDT) and ODTs to support users working with projector and LED screens that operate with a gamma of 2.6 in Designer. In previous releases, Gamma 2.2 and Gamma 2.4 were available.

• DSOF-22043 Profiler widget should not bring up the text write-out and graphs on default

We have removed the text write out of the trace and various graphs from the profiler widget, which can be found by pressing CTRL + ALT + P. The widget provides buttons to change the profiler name, start and stop recording, and live monitor which will then bring up the original text write out and various graphs.

• DSOF-22553 Searching in media lists should have the option to behave like a filter

We have enabled users to be able to specify in any objectview how they’d like searching and filtering in all object views to behave. This can be accessed by pressing the little arrow next to the search bar in the object view.

There are two options - Alphabetical Filter and Relevance Search. The option selected will be machine-wide and will not transfer to other editors/controllers in the session. It will also persist through restart.

• DSOF-22741 BRGW fixture We have added the ability for users to add BRG + White (BRGW) fixtures within Designer.
• DSOF-22847 Make sure receive health widget keeps updating between launch of RenderStream

We have enabled the Receive Health widget for RenderStream continues to update when RenderStream is stopped and restarted so that it can be pinned as a way of monitoring the health of RenderStream.

• DSOF-22974 Audio waveform: Keyframe widget options need more context

We have added text labels for each section of the Keyframe widget that describe the section controls for Keyframe Interpolation, Audio Visualisation and Key Mode.

• DSOF-23006 Transport Manager: Incoming clock should be displayed even when transport disengaged

In previous releases, ‘Not engaged’ was shown when the transport was disabled. We have enabled users to see the incoming timecode within the Transport Manager widget. The timecode is shown but greyed out to demonstrate that the timecode status is known. If the timecode clock is running, it will update in the Transport Manager widget. If the timecode clock is not running, the last time received will be shown.

• DSOF-4778 - Fixed an issue where topological sort would find a cycle when duplicating projectors with populated DSE exclude lists
• DSOF-4900 - Fixed projector output mode not being fully synchronised on editor join
• DSOF-14238 - Added a solution to Bank thumbnail spaces preventing Resources list to be seen
• DSOF-15539 - Fixed an issue where fuzzy search did not prefer matches which begin with the search term
• DSOF-16935 - Fixed Designer being unable to set SDI VFCs to Quad 4K 2SI 23.98, 24, 29.97 or 30Hz
• DSOF-17691 - Fixed an issue where alembic mesh was not showing video in LUX renderer
• DSOF-18781 - Fixed the FPS indicator not being centred
• DSOF-18817 - Fixed ADL Function Pointers failing to load
• DSOF-19448 - Fixed the zoom size of bookmark on project restart
• DSOF-19663 - Fixed an issue where event logs generated with system / project diagnostic do not save display information
• DSOF-19889 Fixed inconsistency in the naming of Colour shift between brightness / contrast and hue / saturation
• DSOF-20138 - Disabled "Draw control points on output" by default
• DSOF-20158 - Fixed an issue where directory changes within symbolic link / directory junction were not detected
• DSOF-20159 - Fixed an issue where the projector list editor showed a "visualiser" section that did not exist in editor
• DSOF-20202 - Fixed an issue where DSE Include / Exclude lists could contain the same projector multiple times
• DSOF-20246 - Fixed an issue where soft edge texture output points did not scale with feed rectangle
• DSOF-20567 - Fixed an issue where changing the stream parameters while stopping a stream cause a crash 
• DSOF-20707 - Fixed an issue when using multiple feed scenes, the feed name listed in Feed view did not update when loading a feed scene
• DSOF-20791 - Fixed an issue where "Edid port invalid errors" on applied feed settings
• DSOF-20798 - Fixed an issue where the ACES mode HLG utility showed a black window on videoin
• DSOF-21025 - Fixed OSC Indirection in video asset for change video in not working
• DSOF-21407 - Fixed an error in IdentityDomain when upgrading project
• DSOF-21447 - Multi Feed selection GUI is no longer inconsistent
• DSOF-21457 - Fixed d3manager taking 1-2 minutes to launch after reboot
• DSOF-21483 - Fixed DeltaIn::lockAndCreateStream failing to correctly check if channels have been locked
• DSOF-21536 RenderStream: - Fixed an issue where resetting keyframes on Scene field resulted in "INVALID" selection
• DSOF-21552 - Fixed an issue where selecting Rescan whilst Proxy Maker is running results in errors
• DSOF-21707 - Fixed an issue when starting RenderStream "!fragment.stream.empty()" could occur
• DSOF-21765 - Track Section Fade taking priority over all layers in the section
• DSOF-21768 - Fixed DMX Indirection not affecting layer mapping when assigned
• DSOF-21782 - Installer no longer takes focus to a text field as soon as it launches, taking keyboard input from whatever else the user is doing.
• DSOF-21814 - Fixed an issue where Renderstream Layer using Perspective Map with DMX could get stuck on Awaiting Requests
• DSOF-21921 - d3Manager default column widths improved
• DSOF-22013 - Fixed a 'NoneType' error when duplicating / changing a SpatialCalibrationConfig resources
• DSOF-22174 - Fixed Unused Media Domain not removing DxTexture and Audio from cache
• DSOF-22175 - Fixed an issue where MachineMediaRegistry did not update itself when an Image Sequence was removed from disk 
• DSOF-22231 - Fixed an issue where Videos would sometimes not play the last frame
• DSOF-22236 - Fixed an issue where "Create New Layer" and "Create New Object" lists looped back to the top of the list when scrolling or using arrow keys to select new object
• DSOF-22304 - Fixed an error in IdentityDomain after clearing ingestion history
• DSOF-22322 - Fixed an issue Fuzzy Search sometimes behaved unexpectedly and gave worse matches before better ones.
• DSOF-22350 Spatial Calibration- Fixed error message "!!! Main thread hung due to early render access < DxTexture::movePixels"
• DSOF-22369 - Fixed an issue where OSC Indirection Controllers required that the user specify the object type in the message
• DSOF-22372 - Fixed an issue where DSE did not apply correctly to automated screens using tracking sources
• DSOF-22417 - Fixed an issue where virtual lineup complained about inactive cameras if any camera is not active
• DSOF-22453 - Fixed an issue when using multiple MR sets, the last MR previously opened populate the MR set list
• DSOF-22473 - Fixed an issue where some alembic files appear flipped when loaded
• DSOF-22474 - Fixed the Installer being unable find libprotobuf.dll when installing Designer
• DSOF-22518 - Designer now respects the content viewpoint of RenderStream clients which modify the camera data
• DSOF-22526 - Fixed an issue where the incorrect automatic shutdown message (on exit) when unplugging license was displayed
• DSOF-22544 - Fixed an issue where d3manager disconnected network adapter warning banner was cropped
• DSOF-22548 - Fixed an issue where the CDL layer did not tell the user why it is red
• DSOF-22573 - Alembic mesh: Fixed an issue where imported normals were wrongly assigned
• DSOF-22683 - Fixed Udp::bindToPort error not correctly specifying which port it failed to bind to
• DSOF-22684 - Fixed an issue where the Actor Status Widget' reported OSC devices as offline when not receiving 
• DSOF-22702 Deltacast capture: - Fixed an issue when moving from 1080p to 2048p50, the capture thread would crash repeatedly
• DSOF-22713 - Fixed an issue where reference points could not be unlocked from the reference points management widget
• DSOF-22721 - Fixed the console being spammed with "Warning: Trying to truncate to a negative width"
• DSOF-22728 RT: - Fixed topological sorting found while changing track in attached project
• DSOF-22754 - Fixed an issue where layer naming jumped 322 if the same type of layer is created
• DSOF-22769 - Fixed an issue where a "Project restart required" notification was displayed even when it isn't required
• DSOF-22775 - Fixed an Access Violation when adding the camera (NVIDIA broadcast) option to an input
• DSOF-22779 - Fixed an issue where three virtual VFC heads were created when Split Mode changed from Mirror to Quad
• DSOF-22780 - Fixed an issue where it was not possible to open the rollback window of two objects at the same time
• DSOF-22796 - Matrox capture : Fixed an issue where 'No signal' mapped videoins contribute to 12G/3G limits
• DSOF-22797 - Matrox capture : Fixed valid 12g signal being detected on a 3G port
• DSOF-22813 - Fixed an issue where removing the version tag from the folder name after an Inconsistent Tag notification caused image versions to fail
• DSOF-22825 - Fixed an Access Violation in checkIfCurrentWorkloadHasLostPackets when opening two streams on same render node
• DSOF-22851 - Fixed an issue where it was not possible to set none Keyframe is Resource keyframe editors
• DSOF-22875 - Fixed an Access Violation With fade transtion, when forwardin the playhead in video trigger layer 
• DSOF-22891 - Fixed an issue where RefpointsManipulator shadows based class onFocusChanged() instead of overriding it
• DSOF-22932 - Fixed implereview tool not working with tortoise 6.2 or later
• DSOF-22954 - Fixed FNV hash in fnv.cpp
• DSOF-22970 - Fixed an issue when changing the split mode of a VFC card from Quad to Mirror removed virtual heads
• DSOF-22984 - Fixed "&resource" error when attempting to set "None" resources in layer parameters
• DSOF-22990 - Tracking marker module - Fixed an Access Violation when setting marker image to ‘None’
• DSOF-23059 - RenderStream: Fixed an issue where proxy streams no longer being identifiable
• DSOF-23073 - Fixed an error in 'StreamObject' object when attempting to open log via Show Log button
• DSOF-23092 - Fixed an issue where the camera editor throw an error attempting to add field to "Appearance Separator"
• DSOF-23116 - Fixed being unable to import gui.MediaDistributionWidget
• DSOF-23125 - Fixed an issue where text boxes with nothing in them were invisible until text is entered
• DSOF-23130 - Fixed an issue where the camera did not use DCS provided focal length
• DSOF-23132 - Fixed an Access Violation when media sync fails
• DSOF-23156 - Fixed an issue where 'bounds-check' error was displayed when attempting search with no items
• DSOF-23161 - Fixed an issue where the Ttext field and caret were not visible for empty text fields
• DSOF-23166 - Fixed an issue where Right-click > Add Feed Rectangle in feed view threw error notification "global name 'currentMachines' is not defined"
• DSOF-23172 - Fixed an issue where StreamInfo population in /renderstream/layerstatus needed refactoring
• DSOF-23176 - Trial: Fixed an issue where Feed Mapping output was enabled, but shows red text that outputs are disabled
• DSOF-23185 - [ACES] Fixed an issue where sShader failed to compile when selecting 'Gamma 2.6' as Output Transform
• DSOF-23186 - Fixed an issue where it was not possible to rename groups or layers inside of a group, causing a 'MulticastDelegate' error
• DSOF-23252 RenderStream: - Fixed an issue where the alpha channel from all render nodes was added together
• DSOF-23311- Fixed an issue where the Feed Output was disabled, but did not tell the user why
• DSOF-23320 - Fixed an issue where a Matrox capture card could randomly drop frame during playback
• DSOF-23440 - Fixed an issue where the DisplayManager stopped working after attempting to apply feed settings
• DSOF-23523 - Fixed an issue where disable UnusedMediaDomain by default caused issues
• DSOF-23557 - Fixed an issue with d3 service clean up cloud folder while it iwa empty, causing login and read issue
• DSOF-23655 - Fixed an issue where Metadata fields didn’t't open when right-click on the value box

• DSOF-23093 - Fixed an issue where frontplate mapped content did not respond to AR fades
• DSOF-23183 - Fixed an issue where attempting to edit the Stacking Warp caused "no attribute 'rect'" to be displayed
• DSOF-23395 - Fixed an issue where StageRenderModule proxy levels were incorrect during transition
• DSOF-23404 - Fixed an issue where a  m_file -> codec() error was thrown on the Actor relating to media ingestion
• DSOF-23428 - Fixed an issue where it was impossible to open a workload with an unknown asset
• DSOF-23514 - Fixed screens being inactive in VR

• DSOF-23184 - Restricted range of of PTP domain number for IP VFC card to valid range 
• DSOF-23218 - Fixed IP VFC Cards from misreporting a missing PTP source
• DSOF-23346 - Fixed an issue where the video input patch reported wrong Deltacast card for vx4
• DSOF-23386 - Fixed an Access Violation when receiving Artnet
• DSOF-23408 - Fixed an issue where failing to read corrupt or missing frames from content caused content to stop rendering requiring a project restart

• DSOF-22406 - Fixed an issue where applying 10 bit feed settings on Nvidia disguise only applied to the GUI and not to VFC cards
• DSOF-23141 - Fixed an issue where changing SLC region sizes resulted in error
• DSOF-23151 - Fixed an issue where frames would be dropped when camera switching unless patch editor preview was enabled
• DSOF-23241 - Fixed an issue where Resource Transport was blocked on the director when deleting MidiNote or Playmode Module
• DSOF-23248 - Fixed an issue that occurred when the shelved packet debug widget was open, live update was blocked when splitting a rect in a feed map on editor
• DSOF-23254 - Fixed an issue where RT was blocked when importing a layer that overlaps the end of the timeline
• DSOF-23255 - Fixed Shader compile error when using Live Action Volume with virtual camera
• DSOF-23263 - Fixed an Access Violation when selecting none when importing feeds from table
• DSOF-23270 - Fixed an error when moving feed rectangles between output heads
• DSOF-23272 - Fixed an issue where quickly duplicating a text layer twice and then deleting one on an editor could cause Live Update to become blocked
• DSOF-23273 - DMX Sockpuppet: Fixed an issue where the patch assignment widget doess not update after clicking "Unpatch All Layers" until the DMX patch settings widget was closed
• DSOF-23275 - Fixed an issue where Live Update was blocked after unpatching DMX sockpuppet layer
• DSOF-23242 - When Live Update is blocked on the director this error is now visible in the Actor Status Widget

• Added support for our IPVFC cards, outputting video in ST 2110 Mode*
• *SDI functionality will be added in a future release

• DSOF-18962 - Fixed an issue where Pixelate layer did not work without a mask input
• DSOF-20373 - Fixed an Access Violation after 'Attempt to retrieve slug font data that hasn't been loaded!'
• DSOF-21734 - Performance: Improved FPS for layers
• DSOF-22630 - Rollback: Fixed an issue seen when rolling back a camera to a previous version, the 'from' path changed when the import widget opened
• DSOF-22877 - RenderStream: Fixed an error when attempting to restart workload running an Unreal asset
• DSOF-23016 - Reduced CPU usage when using multiple indirections
• DSOF-23028 - Fixed Dynamic Feed expressions
• DSOF-23058 - Fixed an issue where setup_fonts.py took about ~40 second to convert/copy .ttf and .otf during installation if no fontcache existed
• DSOF-23079 RenderStream: Fixed an error when "truncate log" when attempting to start a workload running Unreal asset
• DSOF-23085 - Fixed feed warp not showing content
• DSOF-23097 - RenderStream: Fixed an issue where RenderStream failed to create workload log file or folder, if the folder did not exist
• DSOF-23139 - Made Output now exports size for mpeg-4 stage movie list of options rather than custom value boxes
• DSOF-23226 - Fixed Track jump module selection of 'current track' does not persisting

• Designer Public APIs

A suite of revamped and extended HTTP APIs for Designer are available in this release.

A new website for full documentation is available at https://developer.disguise.one, including

general guidance, API method documentation and OpenAPI JSON specification download.

The API documentation is also available from within Designer itself, by following the menu option

in d3manager -> Help -> Open API Documentation.

The new APIs fall into two categories: The Service APIs relate to functionality provided by the

d3service runtime and are available whenever disguise is installed on a machine. The Session

APIs relate to the currently running session and as such are only available when the d3 runtime is

running.

The previously existing V1 API, found at /api/v1, should be considered deprecated as of the launch

of the stable API set under the Service and Session APIs.

New API integrations should not target the V1 API and should instead use the APIs documented

under /api/service and /api/session. No new APIs or functionality will be added to V1, however the

V1 API will be maintained for the foreseeable future and we will give notice if we plan to remove it

in the future.

• Export Designer Scene to Disguise Cloud Previz

Previz link allows the user to export their stage and content from Designer, and upload it to disguise drive as a Previz Scene. With a URL to the uploaded Previz Scene, users and disguise show programmers can share the current state of the disguise show without restricting the end customers with baked-in camera angles, or having to install Designer themselves.

How-To

1. Ensure that you are logged in to your disguise cloud account via d3Manager

2. Access the cloud export editor either by:

a. shift-selecting a portion of the timeline, or

b. opening the d3 state editor

3. Select the disguise drive organisation and drive to export the Previz scene to, refreshing the storage information if new organisations and drives have been created

4. Choose to either export the highlighted portion of the timeline, or the whole timeline

5. Click on Export and wait for the progress bar to complete

6. Click “Copy URL to Clipboard” and paste it in the the web browser address bar to open uploaded scene in Previz.

• DSOF-20573 Support exporting stage from Designer in glTF format

We have enabled users to be able to export stages in Designer in gITF to support files to disguise

drive as a Previz scene. Under the stage menu export section, change the extension to either gltf

or glb. The option button will also become available which will contain some material and

compression settings.

● DSOF-23038 AV in "Upload assets" test case in test_cloudserver

• DSOF-18764 - Legacy Video Module doesn’t work with color shift
  • Workaround: Not known
  • Affects Version: r19.1.7
  • Fixed in r21.0

• DSOF-20056 - Tracking Camera frustrum out of sync between Director & Actor with AxisObjectTrackingSource
  • Workaround: Not Known
  • Affects version: r21.0
  • Fix due in r21.0.1

• DSOF-18015 - Intermittent issue - Heap Corruption causing Crash To Desktop
  • Workaround: Not known
  • Affects version: r19.0.1

• DSOF-17848 - With "disableDmxPacketSendWait" on, lost sACN node on network still causes the project to slow to a halt.
  • Workaround: Add a static entry into the local systems ARP table.
    • Open an elevated commant prompt.
    • Find out MAC for IP, could use arp -a to see existing entries in local arp cache.
    • Run netsh interface ipv4 show interfaces to get a list of interface names.
    • Add a new entry to the ARP table netsh interface ipv4 add neighbors "<interface name>" <dest ip> <dest mac>
    • E.g netsh interface ipv4 add neighbors "Wi-Fi" 10.105.1.253 01-02-03-04-05-06
    • Remove entry like so; netsh interface ipv4 delete neighbors <dest ip>
    • Important - Remove entries when done or re-image system!!! Otherwise network issues may occur in the future sending the manually added IP addresses.
  • Affects version: r18.1.7

• DSOF-17540 - Sequencing changes do not transfer to other machines in session when restoring a snapshot
  • Workaround: Not known
  • Affects version: r18.1.2

• DSOF-17193 - Multi User Edit in UE requires preferred sync adapter to be set to a network adapter which is available to all machines
  • Workaround: Often the preferred sync adapter is set to the 25Gb network to facilitate faster sync. Unless all machines in the network have a 25Gb adapter, the preferred sync adapter must be set to another network adapter when multi user edit sessions are running in UE. The adapter can be changed back for when running sync tasks.
  • Affects version: r18.0

• DSOF-17108 - Current NCAM data implementation used can exhibit unreliable packet timing
  • Workaround: Not known
  • Affects version: r18.0

• DSOF-16935 - d3 cannot set SDI VFCs to Quad 4K 2SI 23.98, 24, 29.97 or 30Hz
  • Workaround: Not known
  • Affects version: r18.0.2

• DSOF-16425 - Renderstream: When using MultiChannelMapping, only one spatial map w backplate is able to change position/rotation
  • Workaround: Not known
  • Affects version: r18

• DSOF-16082 - Clustered Rendering: d3service requires restart for asset discovery to work on new Unity executables
  • Workaround: restart d3 service
  • Affects version: r18

• DSOF-15553 - Feed mapping editor shows white screens in a notch layer on first use. In subsequent use it will then show the first pixel
  • Workaround: Not known
  • Affects version: r17.4.9

• DSOF-15445 - Editor machines with a user account linked to an Microsoft Account can't join d3 sessions due to permissions errors
  • Workaround: Create a second local user account
  • Affects version: r17.4.8

• DSOF-12837 - Looping within a section with loop play mode occasionally plays content of first frame in next section
  • Workaround: Not known
  • Affects version: r17.0.2

• DSOF-21313 - Fixed an issue where machines with bluefish cards could spontaneously restart
• DSOF-22986 - Fixed an issue where launching designer would always trigger "VFC outputs may be in an inconsistent state"
• DSOF-23008 - Fixed an issue where live update could become blocked and changes would not propagate through the session
• DSOF-23095 - Fixed an issue where vx4 and vx4+ video inputs do not update when switching Capture Card Variant to Matrox

• DSOF-22680 - Fixed an issue where DMX failover resulted in understudy hang when sending a command with the value "1"
• DSOF-22874 - Fixed an issue where the Fader layer did not work with more than three screens and actors in session
• DSOF-22912 - Fixed a memory leak in the GUI
• DSOF-22968 - Fixed an issue where it was not possible to add layers to layer stacks

• DSOF-22297 - Fixed an issue where it was not possible to set outputs to 10 bit at certain resolutions and frame rates
• DSOF-22409 - Fixed an issue where virtual lineup was not shown when the physical camera is set on the Camera object in non-dedicated director mode
• DSOF-22631 - Fixed an Access Violation when attempting to rollback objects with multiple instances of the same object type exist in the project
• DSOF-22755 - Cue list window no longer causes frame drops

• DSOF-22001 Upgrading project removes RenderStream scene keyframes

• DSOF-22692 - Fixed an issue where a transition from 'None' to media did not respect
  transition time
• DSOF-22878 - Fixed an issue where if a failure to load GPGPU occurred it led to an
  Access Violation and failure to launch project

• DSOF-22032 - Fixed an Access violation when closing Check Cameras window
• DSOF-22034 - Renderstream: Fixed an issue when using 3+ texture parameters into RenderStream resulted in glitchy/scrambled textures
• DSOF-22208 - Fixed the D3NetManager instance no longer being static leading to a potential performance hit
• DSOF-22581 - Fixed an Access Violation when setting then unsetting media in video layer
• DSOF-22636 - Fixed a 'long too big to convert' error when previewing empty videoin
• DSOF-22637 - Fixed an Access Violation when previewing VideoClip with embedded audio
• DSOF-22663 - Fixed an issue where Deltacast capture could not decode specific psf formats

• DSOF-21736 Live Action Volume

Live Action Volume allows users to define a region of an XR stage which contains ‘live action’, e.g. performers and props. All areas outside this volume will be covered with virtual set extension, rather than exposing the filmed LED screens.

The reasons for doing this include:
1. To mask on-stage objects outside the performance region (e.g. cameras, lights).
2. To make more of the frame be taken up by virtual content, which seamlessly blends with the filmed screens within the live action volume.

How-To

To add a live action volume to an XR setup:

1. Create an object (e.g prop, screen etc.)
2. Change the object’s render layer to ‘Live action volume’
3. Set the object’s mesh and more it to the desired location on the stage to contain all the live action
4. Multiple live action objects can be created to cover disconnected regions of live action

Usage notes:

Live action volume objects (along with set extension mask and addition objects) apply globally. All objects in the stage in these layers will automatically modify the set extensions of all MR sets, without needing to be added to the MR set ‘On-stage’ object list.

On-Stage objects positioned behind or in front of a Live Action Volume won’t make them covered by the Set Extension unless they are on the side of it as we only render the Live Action Volume in 2D.

• DSOF-3606 Ability to set non-SMPTE timecode for frame accurate sequencing in any frame rate

We have created an option to set Custom Timeline FPS to support frame accurate sequencing. This is made available in the Timecode Collapsible widget found in the right-click menu for Transport.

• DSOF-11343 Debug log window resize

It is now possible to resize the debug log window, which makes it much more user friendly.

• DSOF-12624 Notify user of new or mismatching VFC firmware

If the VFC firmware is found to be old or mismatching, this is now flagged with a notification stating “Found old VFC firmware”.

• DSOF-15168 All objects should be able to be used as set extension masks/additions without adding as an on-stage object in the MR set

In order to add set extension masks or set extension additions, it is no longer necessary for these to be part of the MR set. All objects in the relevant layers can work as masks or additions, without  needing to be in the MR set.

• DSOF-19189 Show film strip of a clip in the key frame editor

The film strip for a video is now available in the key frame editor. This is useful to get an overview of the content without having to play it through. This feature is disabled by default, and can be enabled by unchecking the “Disable key frame editor film strip” option in the Project Settings.

• DSOF-20495 Add mellanox dumps to system diagnostics

Mellanox crash dumps are now included in the system diagnostics.

• DSOF-20669 Remove blue flash watermark from feed view

The Feed view has been modified so that both the Feed Rectangle and Feed Output behaviour is consistent. In previous releases, the Feed Rectangle would fade to blue while the Feed Output would not fade 

For a non-server Designer machine, the Feed rectangle will fade to blue (on gold release) or purple (on a beta release) every 10 mins. The Feed Output will exhibit the same behaviour.

For any disguise server, the Feed Rectangle shall never fade on a gold release but fade to purple on a beta release. The Feed Output will exhibit the same behaviour.

• DSOF-20844 Indicate which machine is the local machine in d3manager

In d3manager, the local machine is now highlighted in bold. As a user, this is useful when accessing multiple machines via a KVM and needing to know which of the machines listed is the one you are logged onto.

• DSOF-21987 Cloud login improvements

The disguise cloud login functionality within Designer which was released in r22.2 has undergone several quality improvements.

• DSOF-21196 Add ability to customise the API endpoint

• DSOF-21322 MTC layer does not support 29.97 drop frame

The MTC layer for outputting MIDI timecode now supports 29.97 Drop Frame (DF) timecode.

• DSOF-21618 ‘Cue table exported’ pop-up added

• DSOF-21623 Remove ‘HDMI 3840X2160 10bit’ warning

A confusing warning message in Notifications has been removed.

• DSOF-21633 Allow ALT+G to toggle GUI on all machine roles

• DSOF-21652 Don't render set extension mask when set extension alpha = 0

If the set extension alpha is set to zero, the software no longer renders the set extension mask as it is wasted effort. This performance improvement is applicable to VP setups where set extensions are not used.

• DSOF-21738 Virtual object camera visibility setting

The “Virtual Object Alpha” setting in a Camera enables objects which define regions of interest to be displayed in the visualiser with a specified level of alpha. This is useful for objects such as set extension mask/addition layers, live action volumes or 2.5D layers. 

In previous releases, these objects were not rendered to the camera which could make them difficult to interact with. This setting is now enabled by default in the visualiser camera, but not in other cameras. 

The example screenshot below shows layers of a 2.5D scene which have been output to the StageRender layer being displayed as translucent layers with this setting enabled. The setting is found in the Camera object under Stage Render / Render Settings / Object Visibility.

• DSOF-21785 Tidy up camera visibility settings

The settings of a Camera object have been tidied up in order to take up less space on the GUI, and makes it easier to manage.

• DSOF-21971 RenderStream assets which crash on startup leave no information for fault finding

In previous releases, if a RenderStream asset crashed on startup (before even renderstream.dll loads), there was no way to report why it crashed. In r23, this is now captured, and log files are placed in the %LOCALAPPDATA%\d3\renderstream_workloads folder, with a subfolder for the asset name, then “friendly” workload name. 

Each instance is stored into an instance_n.txt file, where n is the instance number within the workload. The log viewer in Designer is able to view the file via the Designer Logs share on the render machine, so access to all logs from assets which failed to start will be available too.

• DSOF-21984 RenderStream host memory applications need to be able to specify pixel format

This improvement is relevant for developers of RenderStream plugins. The pixel format was limited to BGRA8 pixel formats only on all versions of RenderStream up to 1.30. 

From RenderStream 1.31, the engine can now specify the memory it provides in the same way dx apps can use a reasonable selection of pixel formats in the textures they provide to the API.

• DSOF-22039 Add the ability to render 3D content from spherical mappings

Spherical mapping supports a new property called Content Mode which is set to 2D or 3D. When set to 2D, the behaviour is the same as previous releases. When set to 3D, RenderStream and other 3D layer types (StageRender, Notch and Renderstream) will render 6 views of their world in order to build the 6 tiles of a cube in order to generate 360 degree content.

The cube mapping viewpoints will be automatically created for render engines, resulting in 6 workloads - one for each side of the cube - and the resulting content is mapped for 360 degree coverage, i.e. a 360 degree arc around the spherical focal point. This achieves the same observed behaviour as equirectangular content which spherical mappings normally use.

• DSOF-22454 Run -NoVerifyGc Command on RenderStream Launch

RenderStream layers for Unreal Engine now pass through the -NoVerifyGc option by default for Unreal Engine RenderStream workloads. This significantly speeds up the launching of these workloads, without having to put this config in custom configuration.

• DSOF-4472 - Fixed an issue where it was not possible to unsockpuppet tint or access individual RGB values
• DSOF-16022 - Fixed the object selection outline being incorrect in the camera view with overscan
• DSOF-17699 - Video Input textures are now included in the bandwidth estimates
• DSOF-19158 Fixed an issue where it was not possible to add observation while acting as a dedicated director
• DSOF-19378 - Fixed an issue where the RenderStream log was not always copied to Director
• DSOF-19945 [ACES] - Fixed an issue where the VideoIn Preview failed to preview Input Transforms
• DSOF-19965 - Fixed an issue that occurred when transitioning between two pre-comps in Bitmap layer using "Transition time" causes fade from black instead of crossfade
• DSOF-19968 - Fixed an issue where jumping into the currently running RenderStream layer caused a stutter between 50-500ms
• DSOF-20351 - Fixed an issue that occurred when a showfile was transferred between different GUI resolutions, the widget may have drawn off screen
• DSOF-20522 - Fixed an issue where groups of layer starts could jitter when being selected and resized
• DSOF-20524 - Fixed an issue where Designer received invalid comms messages and crash to desktop
• DSOF-20565 - Fixed overscans on RenderStream content creating a clear visual difference to non-overscanned content
• DSOF-20627 - Fixed an issue where d3service presented an offline error on launch despite d3service running
• DSOF-20726 - Fixed issue where Designer issued warning that a Bluefish driver on a Solo is newer than required
• DSOF-20754 - Renamed Automation in the device monitor icons
• DSOF-20867 - Status UI now handles lost device errors during rendering
• DSOF-21007 - Fixed the debug window text is overflowing
• DSOF-21149 - Fixed an issue where previews were not rendered after a restart in VideoIn patch panel
• DSOF-21200 - Setting UI transparency to off is now represented on Understudies
• DSOF-21201 - Designer could crash if using precomps as texture parameters when switching maps in Unreal
• DSOF-21205 - Fixed an issue where UnusedMediaDomain didn't detect media on remote machines on the first project startup
• DSOF-21250 - Fixed an error in CameraCalibrationObservationEditor when undoing creation of a Manual Observation while editor is open
• DSOF-21269 - Fixed an error in the Colour Picker when undoing colour selection
• DSOF-21277 - Improved performance when using multiple videoins and RenderStreams on vx 4 and vx 4+ due to OCL queue synchronisation
• DSOF-21279 - Fixed an issue where RenderStream ‘receive health’ did not report issues with packet receipt
• DSOF-21281 - Fixed an issue where deleting a keyframe ‘before/after’ when using [] as selector did not work correctly
• DSOF-21282 - Fixed an issue where multi-select on parameters, keyframe modified levels together, but deleting before/after only affected the parameters right clicked on
• DSOF-21294 - Spatial Calibration Object - Fixed an issue when selecting a new calibration object the calibration wasn't applied
• DSOF-21312 - Fixed an issue where opening and closing the d3net manager widget within a session displayed a 'multicastDelegate' error
• DSOF-21319 - Fixed an issue where changing API ports resulted in API documentation not being accessible
• DSOF-21347 - Fixed an issue where ACES input transform options were available on RenderStream assets regardless of Colour Management
• DSOF-21356 - Improved console notifications around dedicated directors applying group feeds
• DSOF-21406 - AnimateObjectPreset: Fixed an error in ScreenConfigurationEditor when adding objects to a ScreenConfiguration
• DSOF-21476 - When restarting a RenderStream, "!fragment.streams.empty()" is no longer shown
• DSOF-21525 - Fixed an issue where GUI Update was sluggish on showfile
• DSOF-21538 RenderStream: Fixed an issue where the pool incorrectly reported asset were out of sync
• DSOF-21539 XR: Spatial Calibration "MulticastDelegate: Fixed 'startup error'"
• DSOF-21572 - Fixed an issue where API Query Parameters were not displayed in the Swagger documentation
• DSOF-21576 - Fixed an issue where deleting unused media didn't work for image sequences
• DSOF-21578 - Fixed an issue where removing fields within an Open layer created a Multicast Delegate error
• DSOF-21593 - Fixed an issue where GPU could lose access when playing 1 x 12k and 1 x 8k Notch LC files at the same time
• DSOF-21597 - Fixed an issue where arrows ended up in a wrong state when removed on remote machine
• DSOF-21598 - Layers no longer cause crash on exit
• DSOF-21619 - Fixed an issue where cue table import on section would break when a project is set to 59.94
• DSOF-21635 - Using a 'StageRender' layer with a perspective mapping in 3D content mode no longer fails
• DSOF-21661 - Feeds no longer have a red border in designer mode
• DSOF-21691 - Fixed an issue where pressing CTRL + 1 with a keyframe timeline open caused an Access Violation
• DSOF-21706 - ‘Spatial map’ now behaves like ‘3D perspective map’ when reprojection distance is zero
• DSOF-21732 Fixed a potential Access Violation when undoing undo colour selection in a Palette
• DSOF-21748 - Fixed issue where SLC Region Updates can no longer be called multiple times.
• DSOF-21755 - Mesh Mapping now supports Vulkan image formats
• DSOF-21783 - Fixed an issue where the overscan field was green when tracking system was used
• DSOF-21790 - Fixed an issue where the text layer text font didn't change to imported fonts
• DSOF-21808 - Console no longer spammed when 'Configure' separator is open inside RS workload
• DSOF-21831 - Fixed a d3Manager crash when renaming project folder
• DSOF-21832 - Fixed an issue where SLC regions were available for all videoclips, even when SLC was not enabled for the project
• DSOF-21836 - Fixed an issue where d3Manager crashed on startup if the current project no longer exists in debug 
• DSOF-21841 - Fixed an issue where with "enableWebGL"on, web still reports WebGL disabled
• DSOF-21847 - Fixed an issue where ALt Drag DMX values resulted in incorrect number assignment
• DSOF-21850 - Fixed an issue where props did not work as live action volumes
• DSOF-21851 - Fixed an issue where the media ingestion history window was blank upon opening
• DSOF-21857 - Fixed an issue where importing the FeedRect setting was not available
• DSOF-21873 - Delete All Unused Media API is now more reliable
• DSOF-21897 _ Fixed an issue where the OpticalCalibrator could hang
• DSOF-21899 - OmniCal: Fixed an issue where projector lens distortion did not update if only 3rd order coefficient is set
• DSOF-21934 - Fixed an issue where Unreal exposed Custom Events didn't behave like any other keyframe in d3
• DSOF-21969 - Fixed an issue where links to RenderStream assets using custom extensions didn’'t get launched correctly.
• DSOF-21970 - RenderStream shortcut asset now respects the working folder option
• DSOF-21973 - Fixed an issue where d3Manager licence check didn't account for developer authorisation and blocked d3 from running
• DSOF-21977 _ fixed an issue where there was no way to save & load a RenderStream asset metadata effectively when using shortcuts
• DSOF-22011 -  Export Output Frame from Feeds now export as expected
• DSOF-22032 - OmniCal: Fixed an Access violation when closing Check Cameras window
• DSOF-22033 - Fixed anissue that occurred when a virtual camera points 180 degrees behind the physical camera, the physical view appeared upside down
• DSOF-22037 - Tracking Marker Module - brightness and colour adjustment now work on the markers
• DSOF-22050 API: Fixed an issue the custom d3service http port was not respected
• DSOF-22061 - Fixed an issue where virtual camera positions would reset on restart
• DSOF-22071 - Fixed an issue where  d3 start-up was stuck with a black window sometimes
• DSOF-22085 _ Projectors in blank projects are no longer set to be Hidden
• DSOF-22092 - Fixed an issue where set extension content was disconnected from screens when backplate reprojection distance is zero
• DSOF-22101 - Camera frustum size no longer increases when virtual camera moves
• DSOF-22118 RenderStream: Improved compressed workloads
• DSOF-22126  - Camera visibility settings - upgrading old project now makes virtual objects visible in the visualiser
• DSOF-22132 - Fixed an issue where Workload Status Widget on the RenderStream layer has the wrong scaling for it's list views.
• DSOF-22133 - Fixed an issue where it was not possible to remove MR sets and Mesh Projections from Hierarchy once added
• DSOF-22136 - Fixed an issue where the tracking marker module didn’tn't clip properly for 2D perspective and feed maps
• DSOF-22164 - RenderStream New Mappings are are now visible
• DSOF-22165 - Fixed an issue wher eit was not possible to Adjust Texture Streaming Assigners when Scene Name is too long
• DSOF-22208 - D3NetManager instance is once again static
• DSOF-22213 - Fixed an Access Violation when trying to access the cue list
• DSOF-22233 - Fixed an issue where the incorrect RenderStream Version was reported
• DSOF-22245 - Fixed an issue where DMX lights with fixtures quickly degraded performance
• DSOF-22304 - Fixed an error in IdentityDomain after clearing ingestion history
• DSOF-22372 - Fixed an issue where DSE did not apply correctly to automated screens using tracking sources
• DSOF-22379 - Fixed an issue where the bitmap module displayed the previous keyframe (instead of the current keyframe) when transition time was set to 0
• DSOF-22384 - RenderStream: Fixed an 'Attempt to allocate more than DX_MAXTRISTRIPS' error when Details widget was open with running workload
• DSOF-22387 - MR set output resolution now affects camera plate mapping resolution
• DSOF-22393 - ‘Apply genlock button’ should be greyed out when genlock is applied as it becomes non functional
• DSOF-22413 - Fixed an issue where scaling the grid spacing down on the testpattern layer produced an exception
• DSOF-22433 - Fixed an issue where Go To Timecode did not work with custom (non-SMPTE) FPS when the frame value wass higher than 29
• DSOF-22445 - Fixed an Access Violation when using profiler on local machine 
• DSOF-21722 - Fixed an issue where vx4’s could lose access to the GPU during NotchLC playback
• DSOF-22488 - Fixed Errors when creating / deleting tags and notes on the timeline