Brekel Face v2 – Retail Installer Download

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Changelog

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 v2.53
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- Added MotionBuilder 2023 plugin

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 v2.52
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- Added MotionBuilder 2022 plugin

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 v2.51
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- lots of small bugfixes, prevention measures, optimizations and potential memory leaks based on static code analysis

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 v2.50
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- improved compatibility with more audio devices
- updated internal libraries
- updated code signing certificate

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 v2.49
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- internally now forces the use of desktop OpenGL drivers (which was the default on almost all machines anyway)
  - overruling a QT_OPENGL environment setting that a user or other program may have set
  - a QT_OpenGL setting of "angle" could prevent some GUI widgets from being drawn
- updated internal libraries

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 v2.48
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- fixed issue where "Is Tracked" status was always true

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 v2.47
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- last message log file is now moved to a _old folder at startup so we always keep the current and previous log for debugging / crash reporting purposes
- updated 2D & 3D OpenGL windows and drawing internals to a more modern widget class
- updated to new compiler profiting from new optimizations
- updated a bunch of internal libraries to the latest versions

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 v2.46
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- fixed an issue with "opencv_world430.dll" not loading on some machines in previous version

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 v2.45
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- small update to Remote Triggering
- updated some of the internal libraries

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 v2.44
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- fixed issue with crash report generation/upload

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 v2.43
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- moved all licensing options to their own menu in the top menu bar
- added functionality to the top menu to remove license file (so you can install it on a different machine)

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 v2.42
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- updated the GUI stylesheet
- added MotionBuilder 2020 plugin
- trial now records up to 10 seconds
- consolidated some cross application code
- added option to directly upload a crash report to the Brekel server
- added toggle option to Settings menu at the top for turning High DPI Scaling On/Off on next application start
- started digitally signing executable to help alleviate anti-virus false positives

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 v2.41
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- added error message popup window when a file cannot be written to alert the user more vigorously
- internal changes to movie writer
- internally switched to a different library packaging system
- updated internal libraries to latest versions
- cleaned up dll files

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 v2.40
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- internal changes to movie writer
- fixed an issue where timestamps could sometimes not get reset properly

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 v2.39
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- Unreal Live Link enabled state wasn't saved/loaded between sessions, fixed now
- added MotionBuilder 2019 plugin
- rearranged MotionBuilder plugins page in the installer
- moved log and all other user settings file to Brekel folder in Documents folder
  - to avoid clutter when using multiple Brekel apps on a machine
- updated to latest Qt and OpenCV libraries

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 v2.38
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- added a fix for a problem where on a small number of machines acquisition threads couldn't be stopped after a recording
  - which could result in many additional frames
  - which could appear as no animation being exported or with very weird timestamps
- changed video writer to an all new FFMPEG backend
  - made some changes to the supported codecs
  - most files export to an MP4 container now
- changed the preview movie output to H264 MP4 files
- fixed a few small memory leak in the GUI and recording systems

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 v2.37
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- added a PZ2 template for Poser/DAZ Genesis8 figures
- added functionality for live streaming into Unreal Engine4 using their "Live Link" protocol
  - added example FBX file ("UnrealEngine4" folder in installation folder)
  - added chapter to the documentation
  - note: live streaming is not available in the free Trial version, simply request an evaluation version if you want to test this

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 v2.36
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- added functionality to render preview to a movie file
- timestamp in TCP/UDP stream sometimes wasn't accurate due to floating point precision
  - the timestamp now rolls around every 1000 seconds to leave more room for decimal precision

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 v2.35
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- added additional out of bounds check in memory managment of recorder to prevent crash during export
- switched back to a slightly slower but more robust way of rendering the face mesh
- error checking and reporting in rare cases where an invalid timestamp range is detected during recording
- removed "draw skeleton" from the 2D views as it was causing problems on some machines/drivers
- openGL update of 3D and 2D views are now synchronized

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 v2.34
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- when network streaming (TCP/IP, UDP & OSC) and playing back data on the Preview tab it should now
  stream the data from the last recording instead of live data

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 v2.33
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- fixed a bug that could crash the BVH exporter in some cases when multiple bodies/faces were detected in a sequence
- removed GUI widget to set Oculus Rift rendering, as it wasn't functional anymore anyway
- switched to latest FBX SDK
- added extra options for writing older FBX formats
- changed FBX file type naming to 2006-2018 naming convention, with internal file format (v6.1 - v7.5) in parentheses

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 v2.32
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- added additional memory validation checks in internal animation curve preparation to prevent acessing out of bound memory in rare cases on some setups

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 v2.31
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- fixed a problem that could cause a crash on export
- tracking FPS was not being smoothed resulting in "low light level" warnings on tiny fluctuations
- upgraded internal libraries for latest security and performance updates
- now compiled with visual studio 2017

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 v2.30
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- fixed crash log files as some filetypes were giving issues with the new mail server
- when using "Record Triggering" the "Append Date/Time" is now respected when it's enabled on the Master 

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 v2.29
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- solved problem with smoothing filter where point could potentially stay lost after disappearing
- updated internal libraries to latest version to take advantage of latest
  - performance updates
  - security updates

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 v2.28
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- "Auto Filename" is now renamed to "Append Data/Time"
  - it will now always respect the manually set filename
  - and when turned ON simply append the date/time to it
- added logger window
  - the info from the black console window is now displayed in a logging window in the GUI of the app
  - logging info is also saved to a log file (in your My Documents folder)
- Added crash reporting feature
  - when a crash is detected log files and debugging info is collected
  - a zip file will be placed on your desktop
  - and a dialog box will ask you to send this file by email so the cause can be debugged

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 v2.27
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- added MotionBuilder 2018 plugins
- 2D and 3D openGL drawing should be a bit more efficient now
- increased size of font in black console window
- file browser windows now handle symbolic links correctly
- fixed a bug where camera could get too close to it's target
- updated libraries to latest versions

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 v2.26
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- fixed a problem with "error loading aruco130.dll" on some machines (bug was only in v2.25)

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 v2.25
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- redrawing of some of the OpenGL widget should be a bit quicker now
- file browsers should now work with symbolic links
- prevented the 3D camera to dolly past it's near plane
- updated some of the internal libraries to latest versions

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 v2.24
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- added link to the Unity live streaming example script/scene to the help menu
- fixed problem with poser templates where negative values for neck/head multiplier wouldn't work.
- fixed problem with neck/head multipliers not saving when changed in the Poser Template Editor

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 v2.23
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- added timestamps to OSC packets
- license installer should now warn if no license key file was found in a zip archive
- "new version available" window now shows full changelog, not just the last change

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 v2.22
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- added option to stream OSC (Open Sound Control) data out to other applications  (see documentation on available OSC messages)

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 v2.21
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- solved some audio related crashes on certain machines
- upgraded C++ 2015 redistributable installer to SP3 to avoid problems for fresh installs

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 v2.20
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- option (from the top menu) to slowly flash the sensor's LEDs during recording
- added options (in sensor tab) for controlling auto or manual exposure of the color camera
- added internal options that try harder to maintain 30 fps mode for the color camera
- made compressed BPC files a little smaller

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 v2.19
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- FBX was always using v7 Binary, fixed now, should respond the the GUI setting

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 v2.18
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- fixed multi threaded race condition in recording code
- fixed console font size for Win10 anniversary update
- small fix in FBX exporter for non-standard frame rates

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 v2.17
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- better support for high DPI screens
- added support for for MotionBuilder 2017
- updated to Visual Studio 2015 & Qt 5.7
- discontinued Oculus Rift support (for now)
- 8-bit audio is no longer supported

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 v2.16
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- audio waveform display now turns red if audio is clipped when volume is set too high
- added a slider for adjusting the audio recording volume
- added the option to play the audio from the selected input over the speakers
- added option to turn of audible beeps at recording start/stop
- network status GUI widget is now correctly updated
- small change to the MotionBuilder internals when switching between TCP/UDP

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 v2.15
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- fixed some memory management in 3D data exporter to prevent crashes when saving files

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 v2.14
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- fixed preview functionality
- enforced Unicode compiler settings to hopefully help prevent crashes when working with special characters in filenames/folders

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 v2.13
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- fixed possible crash at startup
- frame timestamps are measured more accurately now
- mouse-over tooltips are now opaque for better readability

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 v2.12
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- internal changes for Multi-Sensor alpha: https://brekel.com/multi-sensor
- some small change to update mechanism
- C++ redistributable libraries (vc_redist) are now installed in a different way

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 v2.11
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- internal changes for Multi-Sensor alpha (coming soon for pointcloud recording)
- small modification on checking if update is available

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 v2.10
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- "Colorize Bodies" for Depth got broken, fixed now
- "Clip Bodies" for PointCloud got broken, fixed now

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 v2.09
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- each video recorder now does it's compression on a separate thread
- MJPEG codec red & blue channels are no longer swapped
- sensor transform is now correctly saved to the registry when running headless mode
- internal memory management speed optimizations
- more work done under the hood to support the upcoming Multi Sensor add-on
- updated audio dlls

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 v2.08
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- moved Color & Point compression settings to the BPC groupbox under 3D Output Formats
- added a Video tab for recording the 2D views in AVI format
  - select one or more of these video sources: InfraRed, Depth, BodyIDs, Color
  - select from these codecs: XVID, MJPEG, X264, Lagarith, MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, WMV, FLV, Ogg Vorbis
  (note that this may be dependent on your machine's resources and installed codecs)

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 v2.07
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- added Color & Point compression setting for BPC files
  With compression enabled filesize reductions of 75% compared to Lossless can typically be achieved
  Compared to older versions of the software this can even be 85-90%!
- installer now removes files of previous version first before installing

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 v2.06
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- added option to render 3D viewport to an Oculus Rift Virtual Reality headset (tested with SDK 0.6.0.0)
- fixed some bugs in the recorder's memory management, preventing possible crashes
- added option to menu to help with manual license installation
- a Network Triggered recording will now create a folder if it has to
- internal engine updates to support upcoming Multi Sensor Calibrator Alpha
- included Poser/DAZ template for Genesis3 figures
- updated to Qt 5.5

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 v2.05
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- fixed bug in smoothing code that could cause problems especially on fast machines
- added a "Viewport Settings" window under the top "Settings" dropdown menu
  allowing to customize the viewport drawing and colors
- double clicking the main viewport now toggles it being fullscreen
  can be disabled from the top "Settings" dropdown menu

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 v2.04
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- fixed bug where Remote Trigger could fire record start signals for formats that were disabled
- incoming signals for Remote Trigger for BVH, PZ2 and FSQ should now work
- added a headless mode
	- allows running the application without a GUI
	- in case you only want to stream data to other applications with minimal overhead
	- in case you just want a machine to be a Record Triggering slave with minimal overhead
	- see PDF documentation for commandline options
- fixed bug where Remote Trigger could fire record start signals for formats that were disabled
- if dropped frames are detected during recording this is now printed in the widget that lists recording length
  - this could for example happen when:
    - computer is too slow
    - disk is too slow (especially when recording BPC pointcloud files)
	- another program is interfering with the recording (for example overactive security software)

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 v2.03
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- facepoints are now oriented to face mask mesh in FBX recordings as well as streaming
- CPU usage is now measured more accurately
- adjusted Lips Pucker shape to protrude lips a bit more

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 v2.02
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- installer will now warn if not running Windows 8 / 8.1 / 10
- added Unity example script and sample scene showing how to stream realtime data
- added zipped Unity assets in case you don't want to use the UnityPackage
  - for example when non-Unity users want to peek at the C# network code
- added plugin for MotionBuilder 2016

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 v2.01
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- license installation is now done with elevated administrator privileges to avoid problems on certain machines
- PZ2 files were applying wrong neck/head offset, fixed now

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 v2.00
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- first official release
- now provides some additional help when license extraction/copy fails

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 v0.93 (RC2)
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- now saves closest subject's scale/offset values when "all" is selected
- FBX face mesh had inverted normals, fixed now
- actor calibration and scale/offsets were sometimes reset when face was lost, fixed now
- actor calibration shape wasn't exported to FBX, fixed now
- GUI wasn't being reverted correctly when stopping actor calibration, fixed now

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 v0.92 (RC1)
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- added "Set Neutral" button to main GUI so you don't have to open the "Animation Unit Scale/Offset" tools for it
- animation units are now correctly displayed on mouse-over in the animation unit widget
- subsequent actor calibration work now, no longer need to restart the application inbetween
- actor calibration helper text is now drawn in the 3D viewport
- removed mirror functionality since it didn't work properly for exported files
- toggling of pointcloud drawing no longer hides face in some cases
- many options (output formats, networking etc) now display information in the tool section title bar
- tips and documentation are now displayed in the statusbar when you mouse-over buttons/settings

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 v0.91
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- included PDF documentation
- removed CPU RDRAND check at startup as it may have been too restrictive

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 v0.90
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- neck/head default rotation now matches global space
- neck joint is now smoothed along with the head
- MotionBuilder plugin now correctly creates face points
- MotionBuilder plugin now streams neck transform data
- MotionBuilder plugin now records data in characterFace node
- fixed crash after actor calibration
- extended BETA period (no new license needed)

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 v0.80
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- implemented Preview tab, for replay of the last take after recording
- added toggle for drawing face points
- number of recorder frames/secs in GUI is now actually updated during recording
- added additional check for required CPU RDRAND support
- added "genesis1" PZ2 template

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 v0.70
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- body joint drawing in 2D views should be more stable now
- depth gamma is now set to 0.1 by default
- when not drawing pointcloud CTRL+A (frame pointcloud) now frames the faces instead (like CTRL+F)
- beter initialization for new faces (should no longer distorted vertices in rare cases)
- changed some things in the network protocol so it's easier to read from user's code
- updated MotionBuilder plugins with the new network protocol
- added warning message at startup when CPU doesn't support SSE instruction set needed for face tracking
- added "ben" PZ2 template
- added "jessi" PZ2 template
- added "katie" PZ2 template
- added "M4" PZ2 template
- added "ryan" PZ2 template
- added "simon" PZ2 template
- added "sydney" PZ2 template
- added "V4" PZ2 template
- added message to request help testing PZ2 templates

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 v0.60
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- implemented PZ2 export
  - included "genesis2" template (tested with DAZ 4.7)
  - included "alyson" template (untested, multipliers may need tuning by beta testers)
  - included "james" template (untested, multipliers may need tuning by beta testers)
  - if you have characters with different templates please send me an exported PZ2 file
  - you can create new templates by searching for things like "brow", "lip", "mouth" in a PZ2 file from your character
- arrow drawing in viewport during actor calibration got broken in v0.50, fixed now
- default camera view is a bit further away from the model now
- browse button for BVH should work properly now
- optimized internal body and 2D face processing
- TXT & CSV now exports neck & head position/rotation

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 v0.51
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- bugfix to prevent crashes in face drawing code
- bugfix to prevent cases when face would not draw
- bugfix to prevent animation unit display to draw data for faces that aren't tracked anymore

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 v0.50
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- implemented BVH recorder (not as accurate and complete as FBX)
  - exports head joint (position/rotation)
  - face joints (as rotations)
  - rotators for each animation unit
- FBX now also exports neck joint
- download link from help menu now points to beta downloads page (instead of non-existing retail one)
- OpenGL view uses a longer lens now, better suited for faces

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 v0.40
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- multiple actor workflow is now supported
- File > Exit from the top menu now works
- added actor calibration status information for each of the 6 subjects
- you can now load/reset actor calibrations for a specific or all subjects
- you can now load/reset scale/offsets for a specific or all subjects
- added status info (min/max) during auto tuning
- added toggles to enable/disable particular animation units for auto tuning
- tweaked Lip Stretch shapes to have a smoother falloff
- symmetry constraint got broken, fixed now

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 v0.30
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- implemented new Animation Unit widget, can display data from multiple faces now
- FBX now contains nulls for each animation unit with data applied in translate Y (for apps that don't deal with the blendshaped mesh well)
- FBX now contains joints for moving parts of the face (note that the mesh in the FBX uses blendshapes for deformation)
- fixed "Resample Frame Rate" for all outputs (didn't actually work before)
- file save dialogs now say "Save" on the button
- increased speed for text drawing in 3D and 2D viewports
- animation unit clamping is now ON by default
- fixed crash on "Reset Actor Calibration"

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 v0.20
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- implemented Cryengine (FSQ) file format
- implemented TXT file format 
- implemented CSV file format 
- renamed "Build Actor Representation" to "Actor Calibration"
- "Actor Calibration" data is now loaded into the tracker to help tracking accuracy
- removed deformation sliders in "Actor Calibration" since it's a bad to manually tweak these
- removed "Synchronize Streams" toggle from the GUI since it needs to be handled internally for face tracking
- when floor can't be detected this is now mentioned in the GUI on the Sensor tab
- compacted the GUI margins a bit
- added resizer bar between 3D viewport and animation unit bars

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 v0.10
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- initial public beta release