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v1.00
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First official non-beta release — thanks to everyone who tested through the beta cycle!
- Fixed slow thread-handle accumulation across many file loads in a single session
- Hardened sequence loader's frame-request cleanup against cancellation edge cases
- Hardened OBJ parser's index reader against signed-integer overflow on extreme values
- Reduced worker-thread contention when loading legacy HDF5 Alembic files
- Minor cleanup in crop-volume mesh-filter path
- Removed VAT (Vertex Animation Texture) export for now. The game engine side ecosystem proved too unreliable (may return in a future release)
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v0.75
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- Added Translation & Rotation (X / Y / Z) to the Mesh Transform panel alongside the existing Uniform Scale
- Applies both to the 3D viewport display and is baked into mesh exports (all formats)
- Also available headless via a new `--rotation X,Y,Z` CLI flag
- Added "Solid Floor" toggle — ground plane writes depth and clips meshes below it (useful for checking foot penetration / floating)
- Added "Off" toggle to the Crop Volume gizmo — hides the translate/rotate/scale handles for an uncluttered viewport (tap the active mode key T/R/S again to toggle off from the keyboard)
- Added current frame number to the HUD (visible during live playback and burned into exported video when HUD is enabled)
- Added "Render Annotations" option to Export Video — camera smoothly glides between saved annotation viewpoints; strokes appear on each annotation frame
- Fixed annotation state not initializing on frame 0 after loading a sequence
- Fixed issue with annotation not dissapearing from 3D viewport after delete until first refresh
- Inter-Frame Interpolation now defaults to Catmull-Rom instead of Linear for fresh installs
- Camera Tracking now defaults to 100% for fresh installs
- Cache now defaults to half the avaialble RAM in the machine for fresh installs
- Cleaned up and compacted GUI a bit
- Sped up video export — encoder now runs on a worker thread alongside rendering, and skipped a per-pixel format conversion
- Presets are no longer re-created if user deliberately deleted them from the folder
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v0.74
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- Added Crop Volumes — clean up volumetric-video noise (capture-rig walls, floor, stray geometry) without round-tripping through Houdini or Blender
- Box, cylinder, and sphere volumes
- Each can be set to "keep inside" or "keep outside" (subtractive)
- Multiple volumes combine as a union
- In-viewport gizmo with translate (T), rotate (R), and scale (S) handles
— Numerically values in the Crop Volumes panel
- Settings auto-save next to the sequence as a .crop.json sidecar and reload automatically when the sequence is opened again
- Crop volumes apply during mesh export to OBJ, PLY, Alembic, and USD
- Export to PC2 / MDD / VAT is blocked when a crop is active (as cropping produces varying topology per frame, which fixed-topology formats can't store)
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v0.73
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- Fixed Velocity Heatmap: removed flicker on playback loop and stale colors when scrubbing; sensitivity slider is now scene-relative so the same value works across caches at any scale
- Fixed duplicate log lines when loading Alembic files (one line was incorrectly emitted per worker thread)
- Fixed log panel scrolling: latest messages now always appear at the bottom
- Fixed crash with Onion Skin bug that could occasionally happen on Windows
- Fixed potential crash at shutdown while still loading a file
- Added Settings Presets panel: save, load, rename, delete, import, and export named snapshots of your settings
- Presets are categorized (Viewport, Colors, Lighting, Post-FX, Mesh Transform, Texture, Export) — apply only the categories you need without touching the rest
- Per-file preset auto-load: link a preset to a specific file so it applies automatically each time that file is opened
- Replaced "Save Settings Per MeshCache File" checkbox with the clearer per-file preset linking in the Presets panel
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v0.72
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- Added an Onion-Skin effect that allows displaying ghosts of previous/future frames
- Added a Motion-Blur shader (based on motion vectors and post blurring)
- All sliders in the GUI now also have an accompanying numeric input and vice versa
- Removed Shade sliter from colors in GUI and consolidated into Fill light for simpler controls
- Moved post-processing shaders to their own groupboxes
- "Reset Settings" no longer collapses disabled groupboxes
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v0.71
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- Speed improvements in Alembic loader (especially Ogawa variant)
- Speed improvements in USD loader
- Anti-Aliasing setting can now be switched at runtime
- Depth of Field shader now works when Anti-Aliasing is enabled
- Fixed UV Texture not updating when switching to an image sequence or video after a cache was already loaded
- Added option to save settings on a per-file basis or globally when disabled
- Added toggle to show/hide annotation drawings
- Annotations now draw with a subtle drop shadow so they stand out a bit better
- Existing annotations can now be edited
- Updated incorrect download link to: https://brekel.com/meshcache-studio-beta-downloads
(please open this link manually when updating from v0.70)
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v0.70
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- Initial public beta release
