CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. The format is based on Keep a Changelog.

Version 2.0.0 - 2024-08-05

Added

• Vulkan renderer can be used for evaluating sessions.
• Using OpenImageIO for reading/writing most image formats.

Changed

• Removed Qt5 support.
• Remove Lua scripting support.

Version 1.35.1 - 2023-10-26

Added

• Added EXR Writing.

Fixed

• Fixed TIFF writing.
• Resetting item name to default when clearing filename.

Version 1.35.0 - 2023-10-01

Added

• Added TIFF reading and writing.

Changed

• Automatically defining #version 120 for shaders using gl_FragColor.
• Saving non-session filenames and evaluation mode in session state.

Fixed

• Fixed 16 bit texture binding custom format filter.
• Supporting non-utf8 text files with system codepage again.

Version 1.34.0 - 2022-06-23

Added

• Added Files dock.
• Allow dropping files on session window.

Changed

• Set custom tool and dock window titlebars.
• Automatically moving #extension to front.
• Not automatically indenting lines which start with }.
• Eliding long paths in recent file list.
• Saving settings on Windows in Ini file.
• Raising process priority while bringing window to front.
• Rectangular selection does not create cursors left of rect.

Fixed

• Fixed performance problem when file is reloaded very quickly.
• Only replacing untitled untouched source editors.
• Purging textures/binaries from cache when closing editor.
• Mark editor as modified when file is deleted.
• Fixed canonical path of included shaders.

Version 1.33.0 - 2022-03-09

Fixed

• Disabled maximum image limit introduced in Qt6.
• Fixed Find/Replace bar close button icon.
• Fixed TextureEditor repaint under Qt6/Linux.
• Fixed video playback for Qt6, removed Qt5 support.
• Not replacing first attribute source when another is missing.

Version 1.32.0 - 2022-02-17

Added

• Added Base16 theme support.

Fixed

• Fixed deducing shader type from file extension.

Version 1.31.0 - 2022-01-26

Added

• Allow to activate overwrite mode in source editors.

Changed

• Not automatically zooming small images to fit.
• Made zoom control a combobox.

Fixed

• Restored zoom under mouse cursor.

Version 1.30.0 - 2022-01-15

Added

• Added zoom to texture editor toolbar.
• Added saving failed message.

Changed

• Only updating untitled file items when Saving As.
• Building Windows binary releases with Qt 6.4.1.

Version 1.29.0 - 2022-01-05

Changed

• Improved texture viewer performance.
• Improved source type deduction.
• No longer adding suffix when Saving As.

Fixed

• Fixed crash when creating Texture without width.
• Not updating Item filename when Saving As fails.
• Fixed resizing file backed target texture.
• Not restoring maximized window when dropping file.

Version 1.28.0 - 2022-12-16

Added

• Added toolbar button for toggling line wrapping.
• Setting default editor font.

Changed

• Replaced icons with symbolic icons.
• Set custom dock close/restore icons.

Fixed

• Fixed setting file dialog directory to current file's.
• Improved layout of shader/attachment property panel.
• Gamma correcting floating point formats in preview.
• Made font size of Windows consistent.
• Prevent opening menu on Alt-mouse action.

Version 1.27.0 - 2022-10-15

Added

• Trying to link shader in standalone validation to get warnings.
• Standalone validation automatically selects common HLSL entry point.
• Added keyboard shortcut to standalone validation toolbar button.
• Completing extension when saving depending on source type.

Changed

• No Syntax Highlighting for Plaintext, added source type Generic.
• Only flipping 2D textures in editor automatically.
• Only opening untitled textures automatically next to other editors.
• Reduced margin when zooming in texture editor.

Fixed

• Prevent menu from popping up on Alt-key shortcut.
• Not focusing hidden session dock on Ctrl-Tab.

Version 1.26.0 - 2022-09-04

Added

• Allow to disable channel in texture editor.
• Allow to copy texture editor content to clipboard.
• Implemented Attachment colorWriteMask.

Changed

• Conditionally scrolling to end when reloading externally modified file.
• Sorting editors in dock tab context menu.

Fixed

• Improved Find/Replace performance.

Version 1.25.0 - 2022-07-21

Added

• Added shader preamble and include paths.
• Added toolbar buttons to show/hide dock windows.
• Allow to hide menu bar.
• Splitting single line of values pasted in binary editor.

Changed

• Flipping textures from files in editor by default.
• Renamed attachment depth offset factor/units to slope/constant.
• Getting entry point for shader validation from session.
• Improved Atomic-Counter sample.
• Made find/replace button toggleable.
• Updated SPIRV-Cross to 2022-07-04 master.

Fixed

• Fixed crash on invalid stream attribute.
• Fixed crash on stream attribute count change.
• Fixed potentially wrong preview texture format.
• Fixed restoring histogram state.

Version 1.24.0 - 2022-04-15

Added

• Initial Lua scripting support.
• Added multi-cursor-editing.
• Added more advanced About dialog.
• Editor back/forward navigation.
• Allow pasting hex values in Binary Editor.
• Allow pasting clipboard in new editor.
• Allow to reduce histogram range using mouse.

Changed

• Improved rectangular selection.
• Highlighting lines starting with # in plaintext files.
• Applying EXIF transformation on load.
• Highlighting current line in line number margin.
• Removing trailing space on backspace/delete.
• Selecting item when dropping in session.
• Resume previous search on F3.

Fixed

• Improved performance of single instance check.
• Find/Replace only in selection.
• Fixed cache update on save.
• Fixed disabling syntax highlighting for big files.
• Improved syntax highlighting performance.

Version 1.23.0 - 2022-02-25

Added

• Initial QML support.
• Automatically prepending default #version when missing.
• Outputting total evaluation time.
• Added Bitonic sort sample.

Changed

• Moved script evaluation to render thread.
• Replacing untouched untitled editor when opening source file.
• Reloading text and binary files less often.
• Merged Z selector into layer selector in texture editor.
• Activating first item when not restoring session state.
• Generating output from generated shaders.

Fixed

• Fixed line numbers when #including multiple files.
• Limiting matching brace highlighting.
• Improved cache invalidation on source editor open/close.
• Only invalidating raw texture on format change.
• Autocompleting extension only when saving.
• Fixed potential crash when deducing block row count.
• Fixed console.log script function.
• Showing initially downloaded empty buffer in editor.

Version 1.22 - 2021-12-21

Added

• Context aware autocompletion.
• Allowing to select source lines by clicking in line number margin.
• Swap textures/buffers calls.
• PFM file reading.
• Added Paint sample.
• Added Cube HLSL sample.
• Added JavaScript library sample.

Changed

• Replaced input with Mouse and Keyboard script objects.
• Opening sample sessions with active evaluation mode.

Fixed

• Clearing script output on manual evaluation.
• Not checking remote files in recent file list for existence.
• Fixed auto range button.
• Fixed closing brace on non empty line.
• Fixed AltGr keys with rectangular selection.

Version 1.21 - 2021-11-12

Added

• Added histogram in Find panel of texture editor.
• Initial HLSL support using glslangValidator/SPIRV-Cross.
• Added more actions to editor tab context menu.
• More work on color picker.

Changed

• Setting file dialog directory to focused editor's.
• No longer applying sRGB conversion to float target preview.
• Deducing shader source type also from content.
• Cleaned up file dialog extension filter.
• Updating texture editor when video plays.
• Accepting dropped files on editors.
• Improved syntax highlighting.
• Increased maximum zoom level.

Fixed

• Fixed wrong editor modified indicator.
• Improved removing messages of source validation.
• Fixed deleting rectangular selection.
• Fixed input of 0 in buffer editor.
• Expression editor does not simplify 0.00 to 0.
• Ignoring printf in standalone shader validation.
• Fixed handling of small files in gli and tinyexr.
• Fixed updating binary editor when buffer block layout changes.
• Fixed potential crash in JavaScript console redirection.
• Fixed crash when activating call without program.
• Invalidating file cache on editor save.

Version 1.20 - 2021-08-23

Added

• Added editor tab bar context menu.
• Added color picker in Find panel of texture editor [WIP].
• Added EXR file reading.

Changed

• Improved reloading of source editors.
• Reloading files in background.
• Opening new editor on tab bar double-click.
• Not undocking on dock window double-click.
• Increased number of recent files.

Fixed

• Fixed potential crash on texture editor closing.
• Improved unicode handling.
• Fixed upload of integer textures.
• Fixed crash on missing buffer bindings.
• Correctly setting font of output window.
• Improved visibility of more checkboxes on dark theme.

Version 1.19 - 2021-05-10

Added

• Added fullscreen option.
• Added saving/restoring session state.
• Added option to show whitespace.
• Highlighting matching brace.

Changed

• Improved closing multiple modified files.
• Moved source validation/type to source editor toolbar.

Fixed

• Fixed standalone shader validation.

Version 1.18 - 2021-04-16

Added

• Added manual vertical texture flip control.
• Added support for integer/double stream attributes.
• Automatically adding suffix when Saving As.

Changed

• Opening more editors on double click.
• Applying image format on combobox select.
• Using gli for loading/saving DDS.

Fixed

• Better handling of failing save.
• Evaluating expressions in more contexts.
• Improved message updates.

Version 1.17 - 2021-03-29

Added

• Added menu action for opening containing folder.
• Added support for the #include directive.
• Added GPUPAD preprocessor definition.

Changed

• Simplified working with multi-file shaders.
• Showing top-left corner of texture on open.
• Increased update rate of externally modified files.
• Improved binary editor cell editing.
• Checking buffer for modifications after download.
• Improved display of file paths.
• Changed default indentation.
• Improved theme.

Fixed

• Restoring unmaximized window geometry.
• Handling different directory separators in Save Session As.
• Fixed index buffer offset.

Version 1.16 - 2021-01-31

Added

• Iteration count for groups.
• Buffer block bindings.
• Sessions can be reloaded.

Changed

• Binding uniform sets global script variable.
• Removed Script expression.
• Keep rendering with previous program version when invalid.
• Increased shader validation responsiveness.
• Increased automatic evaluation responsiveness.
• Keeping instance when opening session file.

Fixed

• Improved auto completion popup.
• Fixed error message line number parsing.
• Fixed opening of buffer block editor.
• Fixed crash when opening missing image.
• Fixed not disappearing messages.
• Improved video playback on Windows.

Version 1.15 - 2021-01-05

Added

• Providing builds for Linux and macOS.

Fixed

• Improved Qt and OpenGL version and platform support.

Version 1.14 - 2020-12-23

Added

• Expressions for texture dimensions.
• Expressions for block offset and row count.
• Separating recent files and sessions.
• Script/Expression evaluation timeout.
• Made source compatible with Qt6.

Fixed

• Fixed session modified indicator.
• Fixed buffer field invalidation.
• Fixed untitled buffer upload.
• Improved buffer editing performance.

Version 1.13 - 2020-11-21

Added

• Added indirect compute call.
• Added polygon mode to target.
• DDS reading/writing.
• TGA reading/writing.
• RAW image data can be loaded as texture.
• Z-level of 3D-textures can be selected in preview.
• Added indirect sample.

Changed

• Replaced buffer column with block and field.
• Showing full item name in reference comboboxes.
• Setting default extension of non-2D textures to .ktx.
• Updated volume sample.

Fixed

• Fixed reading/writing of 3D textures.
• Improved renaming file items.
• Improved bringing first instance to front (under Windows).

Version 1.12 - 2020-09-10

Added

• Copy/paste/cut for rectangular selection.
• Suggest filename when saving untitled.
• Added Instancing sample.

Changed

• Improved pasting as session item child.
• Improved binary editor cell editing.
• Improved syntax highlighting.
• Improved find/replace (Ctrl-F3).
• Changed dark theme highlight to blue.

Fixed

• Ignore unused item references of call.
• Allow opening missing files in new editor.
• Improved buffer binding point assignment.

Version 1.11 - 2020-08-04

Added

• Supporting printf debugging.
• Added constant input.mouseFragCoord.
• Automatically moving #version to front.
• Added glslang AST dump.
• Tessellation sample.

Changed

• Increased message update interval.

Fixed

• Accepting file drops on whole window.
• Improved GLSL and Javascript highlighter.

Version 1.10 - 2020-07-16

Added

• Texture Editor Toolbar.
• Uploading/downloading of multisample textures.

Changed

• ZeroCopy preview no longer optional.
• Automatically assign result of script expression.
• Restore evaluation mode after opening sample.
• Scroll texture with wheel and hold modifier & focus.
• Updated samples.

Version 1.9 - 2020-06-03

Added

• Framebuffer without attachment supported.
• Texture buffers and image binding format.
• Atomic counters support.

Changed

• Automatic manual evaluation after steady evaluation.
• Active calls no longer bold.
• Updated dark theme.

Fixed

• Improved utf8 detection.
• Explicitly set shortcut for Reload.
• Fixed handle leak in KTX lib.
• Fixed column width in BinaryEditor under Windows.
• Improved uniform array binding.
• Message window automatically resizing row height.
• Fixed automatic selection of new items.
• Fixed layer/layerd for 3D texture image binding.
• Improved Save session as.

Version 1.8 - 2020-04-27

Fixed

• Fixed the MingW build.

Version 1.7 - 2020-04-02

Added

• Added video file playback.

Fixed

• Restore hidden editors dock.
• Prevent deletion of newlines of rectangular selection.
• Fixed problem with file item renaming.

Version 1.6 - 2020-03-26

Added

• Rectangular selection in source editor.
• Synchronizing file items' names with file system.
• Tooltip for file items.
• Added Ctrl-Tab editor cycling.
• Optional anisotropic filtering.
• Added gltf sample viewer.
• Allow to open all shaders of program.
• Reset evaluation button.

Changed

• Expand session groups on double click.
• Enabled HighDpi scaling.
• Ignoring file modifications on save.
• Ignoring dimensions of read only texture items.
• Not serializing name of file items.
• Reduced resolution of sample textures.
• Updated TextureEditor background.
• Updated samples.

Fixed

• Improved file caching/reloading.
• Fixed texture editor unload.
• Not downloading resources without editor.

Version 1.5 - 2020-03-17

Added

• Added KTX texture support.
• Preview of non 2D textures.
• Added compressed texture formats.
• Highlighting focused editor.
• Copy Buffer call.

Fixed

• Smarter insertion of new items.
• Improved autocompletion popup.
• Improved occurences highlighting.
• Improved session/editor synchronization.
• Missing storage buffer binding warnings.
• Logging call errors.

Removed

• Removed binary file extensions/deducing from filter.

Version 1.4 - 2019-12-23

Added

• Allow to select subroutine by index.
• Automatically append number to new items' names.
• Mouse position variables.

Version 1.3 - 2019-12-15

Changed

• Zero copy preview of texture made optional.

Version 1.2 - 2019-12-13

Added

• Script expression.
• Copy texture call.

Fixed

• Fixed scroll after find bug.
• Remove trailing spaces/auto indentation improved.
• Fixed missing file crash.

Version 1.1 - 2019-11-08

Added

• Expressions for call arguments.
• Copy files on session SaveAs.
• Custom actions.
• Call "Execute On" property.
• Zero copy preview of texture.
• Synchronization to compositor.
• Output of preprocessed source.
• Output of Nvidia GPU program assembly.
• Report file write errors.
• SyncTest sample.

Changed

• Evaluation revised.
• Use dedicated GPUs by default.
• Session tree double click no longer expands.
• Auto-open message window only once.
• Updated dark theme.

Fixed

• Message window performance improved.
• Recent file list is updated on save.
• Call property limits increased.
• Fixed Save As / default extension.
• Improved uniform not set warnings.
• Source validation prepends headers.