MadMapper v4 BETA Available
Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2019 5:54 pm
Dear users,
We are pleased to announce you the availability of the MadMapper Version 4 BETA!
The next version of MadMapper will hopefully delight you with a host of new features and improvements, some of which have been requested for some time.
Time to break the limits! Time to enjoy a fresh new version of MadMapper!
We are excited to release this Beta version! Your precious feedback and bug report will help us improve the software, please share them with us -)
Users already registered within the Beta program will receive a newsletter in the coming days with a direct download link.
If you're not registered to the Beta program yet, you can do so on the MadMapper yourspace page!
https://madmapper.com/yourspace
Find the release notes below.
- the MADTeam -
MM 4.0 Release Notes
ADDITIONS
+ Surfaces:
- Quad, Circle and Mask surfaces can have multiple masks, user drawn, made of editable Bezier Paths
- Added Feathering on Quad, Circle, Triangle, Mask & Lines and on surface sub-masks
- Quad / Circle Masks can be drawn and attached to the input media (attach to Quad / Input or Nothing)
- Lines have been completely rewritten to be bezier paths, with user defined shape and joins
- Added an option to generate lines from surfaces/fixtures outlines
- Lines: improved animations and performances (single draw call for a whole line container)
- Surface Groups have their own opacity / color levels - child surface will be affected (their opacity / RGB will be multiplied by their parents)
- Surface Groups remember their perspective transform (stored in project)
+ New Quad mesh warping:
- Points can be added freely in the quad (Alt+Click)
- Added possibility to select and move a mesh warping horizontal/vertical segment / line
+ Added Surface Preview Groups: groups of surfaces that will made visible in the preview while being invisible in the output
+ Scenes / Cues:
- Added the possibility to create / remove Cue Banks
- Cue Bank "Live mode": pressing a cell will trigger the cue, no editing possibilities, just live triggers (nice with touch screens)
+ Workspace: added the possibility to define a folder at any location on the filesystem as the workspace, enabling sharing MadMapper resources in between machines through a file-sharing service like Dropbox, using specific workspaces for different projects, etc
+ Audio Player module: drag & drop your audio files (mp3, wav, aiff, etc) in MadMapper, create cues with it...
+ New integrated Shader Editor (to edit Materials)
+ MadLight Recorder:
- Added an option to record incoming DMX (from another application / light desk)
- Added support for audio playback (with multichannel support) with audio/DMX tracks synchronisation option
- Added playback modes
- Added a sequence edition mode
- Recording Start & Stop buttons are mappable / cueable
+ miniMAD Light:
- Support playing back audio file (with multichannel support - plugging a USB audio card to the miniMAD) with audio/DMX tracks synchronisation option
- Support Artnet unicast with devices which don't handle ArtNet Polling (using the unicast table defined in MadMapper)
+ miniMAD Video:
- Support surface Feathering / masks (with feathering) / mesh warping for Quads
- Support Quads, Circles, Triangles, Masks
- Added a "direct-to-framebuffer" video playback mode for optimal performance when used on a screen (when no mapping / perspective correction is required)
- Optimised graphics engine
+ UI:
- Cue Bank, Material Library, Fixture Editor, DMX Monitor etc. can be integrated in the UI or extracted and moved to an external screen
- Focused widget (Surfaces, Fixtures, Media, Modules, Masks...) is reflected by a lighter color, it will handle copy/paste/duplicate etc.
+ Improved editing in preview:
- Single click to enter / leave edition of a mask / line
- Click and release on actually selected surface will select the first surface behind it (circular selection)
- When a surface is selected TAB => select next surfaces, when a handle is select => Alt+TAB select first handle of next surface...
+ Added Master Levels in master tab: Master (video and DMX) / Video Master / DMX Master / Audio Master
+ New DMX Monitor with definable column count
+ Multi-instance for videos, image folders & Quartz file: you can import the same movie twice and control them independently
+ DMX Fixtures: added an option to define if a fixture slider should be affected by fixture luminosity (control a beamer PAN / TILT, luminosity will only affect RGB)
+ Calendar Scheduler module: put your scene/cues triggers in a google calendar or another calendar application, export it to standardized format ICS, and import it in MadMapper! No internet required, safe for install!
+ New FXs
+ New Generator: Audio Graph
+ New Oscillator Bank module
+ DMX
- Support DMX Input control through sACN
- Added an option to deactivate ArtNet / sACN synchronisation (some device don't handle it properly)
IMPROVEMENTS
* Overall user interface improvements
* Improved Material Library, supports drag & drop of a local or online material on previews or in media list
* Better feedback when a DMX / Audio input/output device failed to start
* Improvement playing back movie audio tracks
* BackMagic: Added a new preference to enable Blackmagic devices through system compliant drivers (some BlackMagic devices must be handled with OS component - ie Web Presenter)
* Updated to NDI 4.1 (supports NDI Hx, ie 4k streaming from NDI Camera mobile app)
* Align / distribute / Resize when surface groups are selected handle group as an item (not treating each child surface individually)
* When dropping visual files to output preview, create surfaces in current surface group
* Improved MadLight sequence edition
We are pleased to announce you the availability of the MadMapper Version 4 BETA!
The next version of MadMapper will hopefully delight you with a host of new features and improvements, some of which have been requested for some time.
Time to break the limits! Time to enjoy a fresh new version of MadMapper!
We are excited to release this Beta version! Your precious feedback and bug report will help us improve the software, please share them with us -)
Users already registered within the Beta program will receive a newsletter in the coming days with a direct download link.
If you're not registered to the Beta program yet, you can do so on the MadMapper yourspace page!
https://madmapper.com/yourspace
Find the release notes below.
- the MADTeam -
MM 4.0 Release Notes
ADDITIONS
+ Surfaces:
- Quad, Circle and Mask surfaces can have multiple masks, user drawn, made of editable Bezier Paths
- Added Feathering on Quad, Circle, Triangle, Mask & Lines and on surface sub-masks
- Quad / Circle Masks can be drawn and attached to the input media (attach to Quad / Input or Nothing)
- Lines have been completely rewritten to be bezier paths, with user defined shape and joins
- Added an option to generate lines from surfaces/fixtures outlines
- Lines: improved animations and performances (single draw call for a whole line container)
- Surface Groups have their own opacity / color levels - child surface will be affected (their opacity / RGB will be multiplied by their parents)
- Surface Groups remember their perspective transform (stored in project)
+ New Quad mesh warping:
- Points can be added freely in the quad (Alt+Click)
- Added possibility to select and move a mesh warping horizontal/vertical segment / line
+ Added Surface Preview Groups: groups of surfaces that will made visible in the preview while being invisible in the output
+ Scenes / Cues:
- Added the possibility to create / remove Cue Banks
- Cue Bank "Live mode": pressing a cell will trigger the cue, no editing possibilities, just live triggers (nice with touch screens)
+ Workspace: added the possibility to define a folder at any location on the filesystem as the workspace, enabling sharing MadMapper resources in between machines through a file-sharing service like Dropbox, using specific workspaces for different projects, etc
+ Audio Player module: drag & drop your audio files (mp3, wav, aiff, etc) in MadMapper, create cues with it...
+ New integrated Shader Editor (to edit Materials)
+ MadLight Recorder:
- Added an option to record incoming DMX (from another application / light desk)
- Added support for audio playback (with multichannel support) with audio/DMX tracks synchronisation option
- Added playback modes
- Added a sequence edition mode
- Recording Start & Stop buttons are mappable / cueable
+ miniMAD Light:
- Support playing back audio file (with multichannel support - plugging a USB audio card to the miniMAD) with audio/DMX tracks synchronisation option
- Support Artnet unicast with devices which don't handle ArtNet Polling (using the unicast table defined in MadMapper)
+ miniMAD Video:
- Support surface Feathering / masks (with feathering) / mesh warping for Quads
- Support Quads, Circles, Triangles, Masks
- Added a "direct-to-framebuffer" video playback mode for optimal performance when used on a screen (when no mapping / perspective correction is required)
- Optimised graphics engine
+ UI:
- Cue Bank, Material Library, Fixture Editor, DMX Monitor etc. can be integrated in the UI or extracted and moved to an external screen
- Focused widget (Surfaces, Fixtures, Media, Modules, Masks...) is reflected by a lighter color, it will handle copy/paste/duplicate etc.
+ Improved editing in preview:
- Single click to enter / leave edition of a mask / line
- Click and release on actually selected surface will select the first surface behind it (circular selection)
- When a surface is selected TAB => select next surfaces, when a handle is select => Alt+TAB select first handle of next surface...
+ Added Master Levels in master tab: Master (video and DMX) / Video Master / DMX Master / Audio Master
+ New DMX Monitor with definable column count
+ Multi-instance for videos, image folders & Quartz file: you can import the same movie twice and control them independently
+ DMX Fixtures: added an option to define if a fixture slider should be affected by fixture luminosity (control a beamer PAN / TILT, luminosity will only affect RGB)
+ Calendar Scheduler module: put your scene/cues triggers in a google calendar or another calendar application, export it to standardized format ICS, and import it in MadMapper! No internet required, safe for install!
+ New FXs
+ New Generator: Audio Graph
+ New Oscillator Bank module
+ DMX
- Support DMX Input control through sACN
- Added an option to deactivate ArtNet / sACN synchronisation (some device don't handle it properly)
IMPROVEMENTS
* Overall user interface improvements
* Improved Material Library, supports drag & drop of a local or online material on previews or in media list
* Better feedback when a DMX / Audio input/output device failed to start
* Improvement playing back movie audio tracks
* BackMagic: Added a new preference to enable Blackmagic devices through system compliant drivers (some BlackMagic devices must be handled with OS component - ie Web Presenter)
* Updated to NDI 4.1 (supports NDI Hx, ie 4k streaming from NDI Camera mobile app)
* Align / distribute / Resize when surface groups are selected handle group as an item (not treating each child surface individually)
* When dropping visual files to output preview, create surfaces in current surface group
* Improved MadLight sequence edition