Argo Revision History

Capture Argo revision history

The first release of Capture Argo was version 20.0.13, the 14th of October 2014.

Version 21.1.32, released the 1st March 2016

Light Output: Some fixtures with multiple colour mixing modes and colour presets failed to produce any light output.

Version 21.1.30, released the 15th February 2016

Intel HD 2000/3000: Beams did not render correctly on some Intel HD 2000/3000 video cards.
Movie Rendering: Capture could freeze when aborting movie rendering.
Broken Objects: Under rare circumstances, object position and rotation could break completely when inserting or moving objects.

Version 21.1.28, released the 29th January 2016

Missing Files: The Windows installation did not install the library and reference manual documents correctly.

Version 21.1.27, released the 29th January 2016

Russian: Russian translation included.
Beam Rendering: Beam rendering of fixtures with multiple apertures not arranged in a perfect circle could break.
Library Updates: Library updates could fail if other software was indexing the contents of Capture's library folder during the update.

Version 21.1.25, released the 21st December 2015

Laptop Graphics: Capture now provides laptops with dual video cards (Intel+NVidia or Intel+AMD) with a hint to use the discrete (non-Intel) video card for Capture.
Video Crashes: Streaming high resolution video from media servers could cause a silent crash if broken JPG frames were received.
Beam Rendering: Fixtures with very small lighting apertures could fail to render beams.
Beam Rendering: Fixtures with lighting apertures arranged in near-round arrangements could render odd looking beams.

Version 21.1.23, released the 23rd November 2015

Fixture Focusing: Intense fixture focusing could trigger OpenGL driver memory leaks on Mac OS X.
Water Jets: The performance of water jet visualization was unnecessarily slow due to a mistake.

Version 21.1.20, released the 6th November 2015

Laser Streams: New CITP CAEX version C support allows any product to stream laser content to Capture.
Water Jets: The maximum water jet tilt range has been expanded from 180 to 720 degrees.
Video Players: Several higher video players resolutions have been added.
Missing Beams: Beams did not render in Top, Front and Section views in Live mode.
Broken Selection: Selection could stop working in large project files.
Laser Content: Laser content along the extreme edges was lost a few metres away from laser projectors.
Small Apertures: Fixtures with extremely small or thin apertures did not render any light output.

Version 21.1.15, released the 16th October 2015

EntTec: EntTec DMX USB Pro Mk2 support has been added.
CITP/MSEX: CITP/MSEX media server entries in the Video tab now also show their peer name.
Focusing: Performance of continuous fixture focusing has been improved.
Beam Artefacts: Wide washlight beams could case large rendering artefacts in live mode.
Plot Symbol Key: Refreshing a plot symbol key with multiple entries for the same symbol caused custom settings to spread to the symbol's other entries.

Version 21.1.10, released the 1st September 2015

Focus Sheets: Starting the focus sheet export function could under certain circumstances result in Capture hanging indefinately.
Intel HD: On Windows, the Intel HD 2000/3000 series OpenGL drivers are flawed and Capture could not open the design views. Beam rendering still does not work correctly, but now Capture at least starts.
Intel HD: On Mac OS X, the Intel HD 4000 OpenGL drivers are flawed and caused Capture to render plot insets with spill.

Version 21.1.7, released the 7th August 2015

Video Playback: On Windows, playing back video files with international characters in the filename, could lead to a crash.
Focus Sheets: Focus sheets were exported blank.
Texture Bleedthrough: Non-textured materials could be rendered with another material's texture.
CSV Pan/Tilt: Pan and tilt information in exported CSV data was incorrect.

Version 21.1.5, released the 1st July 2015

Beam Tearing: On Mac OS X with Intel HD 4000 & 5000 video cards, beams appeared generally broken due to an OpenGL driver bug.
Live Blackouts: On Mac OS X with Intel video cards, any live view could black out completely after having been hit by very strong beams, due to an Open GL driver bug.

Version 21.1.4, released the 29th June 2015

Beam Ends: Narrow beams could stop at a short distance from the floor, depending on their location on screen.
Beams Tearing: Beams could tear and/or partially disappear in front, top and section views.
Black Boxes: Black boxes could appear in front of the aperture of very bright fixtures.

Version 21.1.3, released the 25th June 2015

Beam Rendering: Beam rendering has been reworked and improved for performance and quality. Additional beam atmospheric detail rendering settings levels have been added.
Library Search: Library search result accuracy has been improved and search results are presented in order of relevance rather than alphabetic order.
Show Synchronization: Improvements to CAEX Show Synchronization and console patch information exchange have been made. Unidentified console fixture types are now identified in the console patch dialog prior to drag and dropping them into the project (as opposed to having to drag and drop onto existing fixtures). AtlaBase identifiers can now reliably be used to identify fixture types. Multiple fixtures can be dragged and dropped from the console patch into a project. More fixture data is listed in the console patch window and the columns are sortable.
LED Panels: In projects with many LED panels, memory usage has been reduced and performance increased.
Light Output: When changing modes of fixtures with different color mixing modes it could become possible to get light output from a fixture.
Insertion Point: The insertion point dialog button did not always appear after having dragged and drop items into a project.
Project Information: Project information was incorrectly placed when rendering images and videos.
EXIF JPEG: JPEG files with EXIF data are now supported.
Live Thumbnails: Live thumbnails for snapshots and consoles showed fixture selection.

Version 21.0.12, released the 16th May 2015

Student Crashes: Opening project files containing the Generic PAR 64 lighting fixture lead to a crash.
Video Playback: Various update issues could occur when using a video player or media stream with both a video projector and materials on objects.
Project Files: On Windows, when opening project files from the desktop, they might not open with a "File Access Error" if a space was part of the file name or path.

Version 21.0.10, released the 8th May 2015

Colour Temperature: Fixtures with optional virtual LED-based colour temperature correction produced the wrong colour when colour temperature correction was not active.
Large Projects: Project files with many LED panels or materials could start loosing gobos and beams.
Preset Parameters: Fixture parameters with colour mixing presets could get stuck in the wrong colour mixing mode.

Version 21.0.8, released the 7th May 2015

Rendering Quality: An atmospheric resolution rendering setting has been added.
Beam Characteristics: Default beam characteristics have been improved and accurate IES data is now used when available.
Variable Bloom: The bloom rendering effect has been improved, is now variable rather than just on or off and works when rendering images and movies.
Laser Visualization: The rendering quality of laser aerials and projections has been improved.
Prism Types: All currently missing missing prism types have been added.
Continuous Rotation: Continuous rotation support for fixture and water jet pan/tilt as well as the DMX rotator.
Motion Time: Fixture motion time and speed control channels simulation added.
Color Mixing: Several previously missing fixture color mixing modes are now supported.
CITP CAEX: CITP CAEX Show Synchronization added. Specifications available under the Developer support page.
CITP MSEX: CITP MSEX 1.2 support and fragmented high resolution video streaming support added.
Multi-body Fixtures: Multi-body fixture support and simulation added.
Object Positioning: The transform tool now supports absolute positioning.
Shadow Imperfections: Shadow precision has been increased.
Student Library: On Mac OS X, the contents of the library browser included empty folders.
Multi-selection Resizing: When resizing a multi-selection, sudden movements caused precision problems and moving a corner across another corner caused errors.
Plot Printing: Selected insets were printed with a red border if selected.

Version 20.1.10, released the 22nd April 2015

CITP Selection: The CITP FSEL fixture selection Deselect message always deselected all fixtures.
Large Objects: Errors when saving project files with large objects inside could pass unnoticed and corrupt project files.
Blind DMX: DMX data didn't jump back to live from blind at loss of blind data unless there was incoming live data.

Version 20.1.9, released the 28th February 2015

CITP Patch: On Mac OS X, Capture could crash immediately when creating a new project if a console sent patch information over CITP.
New Scenes: On Mac OS X, Capture would crash if you added a new scene after all scenes had been deleted.
New Items: On Mac OS X, when adding items in the Design tab, the step to give them a new name was skipped.
Student Objects: In the Student Edition, a large number of the library objects (such as musical instruments) were missing.

Version 20.1.8, released the 31st January 2015

Symbol Key: Editing the plot symbol key configuration to lead to crashes afterwards when selecting plot insets.
Mac Gatekeeper: Due to a problem with the digital signature on Mac OS X, the "Gatekeeper" would block Capture by default on some Mac OS X versions.
OpenGL 1.1: Capture would crash on machines where only OpenGL 1.1 was present, such as some vanilla Windows 8 systems.
Drag & Drop: On Mac OS X, drag items over a view in Live mode which could not be dropped in it rendered the view inoperable.
Text Edit: On Windows, text input fields would not scroll beyond their width, creating problems when entering long text in narrow fields.
Plot Fixtures: Fixture front mounts such as scrollers location and annotations where incorrect in paper mode when not using plot symbols.
Plot Editor: The plot editor could become mirrored when zooming quickly with a scroll wheel.

Version 20.1.7, released the 10th January 2015

Design Tab: Clicking outside the editing area while editing a property could lead to a crash.
Motion Fixtures: Loading a project with self-referencing motionfixtures and updating them caused Capture to lock up.
Save Image: When saving an image from a view, the file dialog would immediately reappear.
Model Import: Importing an object from another Capture project brought along all gobos and materials and not just the ones used by the objects imported.
Model Import: With the 'Locked layers unselectable' on, locked layers could not be selected during model import.
Snapshot Playback: Playing back a snapshot could under rare circumstances cause lighting fixtures to project the laser test pattern.
Select by Layer: The Select by Layer operation only selected the contents of groups and not groups themselves, leading to unexpected behaviours.
Media Panels: The non-LED background of media panels was too black and reflected almost no light when hit by fixtures.
Transparent PNG: PNG images with transparency did not render correctly in plot image insets.
Group Shadows: Deleting groups with objects that affect light left their shadows trailing.
Art-Net Sorting: External Art-Net universes where sorted subnet first, causing an interleaved listing.
Control Pane: Changing the optics of a fixture did not update the zoom ranges of the control pane.
Missing Gobos: Some rare gobos were neither shown in the library browser nor visualized.
Fixture Replace: Replacing fixtures with gobos and/or filters with other fixtures that do not support such did not cause them to be removed.
Plot Navigation: When holding the shift key in order to panorate a plot view inset in perspective or orthographic mode, the editor incorrectly entered inset multi-selection mode.
Custom Framelists: When customizing a fixture framelist the name of the fixture is now automatically part of project framelist.

Version 20.1.4, released the 28th November 2014

Fixture State: Manual control parameters of conventionals are not applied when a project file is opened.

Version 20.1.3, released the 27th November 2014

CITP Focusing: Supports new CITP SDMX Capa and ChLs messages for 16-bit fixture focusing.
CITP Multicast: New configuration option available to use new CITP multicast address.
Sphere Hull: Sphere Hull library form object now has a new "height rotation offset" property.
Selection Centering: Selected objects now snap to the ZY plane (x = 0) when moving to allow centering selections.
Save Image: A new keyboard shortcut 'I' has been added for saving images.
Plot Clone: Quick copy "arrow" button now available in plot editor for quick copy of insets in and between plots.
Plot Insert: New plot insets are inserted under the cursor.
Power Location: Power location information is now an option in plot styles.
Memory Usage: Storage of multi-cell fixtures is now more compact, reducing memory usage and file sizes.
Sketchup Import: On Windows, support for Sketchup 2015 files.
DWG Import: Support for DWG files up to version 2014.
Memory Usage: Unnecessary object and texture data was saved in projects (which grew files and memory usage).
Network Configuration: The "Automatic" network interface option of protocols was only automatic if manually changed to Automatic from something else (as opposed to when an IP address was no longer available so it showed Automatic for that reason).
Console Link: Console links would not reconnect automatically after disconnect.
Texture Mapping: Texture mapping to extents did not work correctly for imported and scaled objects.
External Universes: External universes coming and going while having a context menu open lead to crashes.
Focusing Fixtures: Manually focusing a tilt or pan only fixture rendered it unusable until the project was reopened.
Edit Material: On Mac OS X, using the 'Edit Material' shortcut in an object could lead to a crash.
Multicell Fixtures: Fixtures with large amounts (> 64) of individual cell controls could show constant unstoppable light output.
LED Panels: LED panels remained visible in Live mode even if in invisible layers.
Art-Net PollReply: The Art-Net ArtPoll reply message always reported 0.0.0.0 when in Automatic mode.
Layer Assignment: Annotations and objects could be assigned to different layers.
Fixture Update: Motion fixtures and water jets weren't updated when opening Capture Polar projects.
Framelist Editor: On Mac OS X, text in the frame list editor was rendered using filter colours.
Dialog Placement: On Mac OS X, the Align and Spread Even dialogs could be opened partially off-screen.

Version 20.0.20, released the 11th November 2014

Design Tab: On Mac OS X, the contents of the layers folder, layer sets folder and individual layer sets were not shown on the right hand side.

Version 20.0.19, released the 8th November 2014

Laser Media: Spurious crashes could occur on exit and as laser media streams appeared or disappeared.
Demo Media: Laser as well as video media feeds were sometimes incorrectly watermarked with the demo text.
Design Tab: Crashes could occur when editing layers and layers sets in the Design tab after having performed undo or redo actions.
Motion Fixtures: Chaining motion fixtures in a loop lead to crashes when controlling them.
Motion Fixtures: The name of the motion fixture associated with an object was only visible when editing.
Motion Fixtures: When associating or disassociating an object with a motion fixture, its live positition wasn't updated to reflect the change.
Spread Even: The Spread Even operation performed incorrectly in projects with grouped objects.
Library Updates: On Mac OS X, the library installation UI did not appear while installing a new library.
Fixtures Tab: On Mac OS X, when selecting a range of fixtures in the Fixtures tab, the selection order was not correct.

Version 20.0.18, released the 31st October 2014

Library Search: Library search did not find filters and gobos by code, part number or origin.

Version 20.0.17, released the 29th October 2014

Startup Crash: Capture could crash on startup when closing the 'Welcome window' if no internet connection was present.
Framing Shutters: Manual control of non-DMX controlled (ADB Warp-type) perimetral framing shutters was not available.
Plot Clones: Cloning a plot created two linked rather than disparate plots.
Plot Views: Newly added plot view insets in perspective or orthographic modes were navigated in parallell rather than focus locked style.
Stage Decks: The material assignment of stage decks wasn't saved.
Transparency: The rendering of transparent materials was inaccurate in some cases.
Zooming: Zooming incorrectly reset the rotation anchor's position.

Version 20.0.16, released the 18th October 2014

Actor Wireframe: The actor object's wireframe representation was missing many lines.
SketchUp Names: Block and group names were not imported from SketchUp SKP files.
Save Image: The function to save an image in a view only created renders.

Version 20.0.15, released the 17th October 2014

Hang on Open: Capture could sometimes hang when opening large project files.
Triangles: Adding new or cloning existing triangle objects lead to a crash.
Unessential Lines: Capture could crash when using the 'Remove unessential lines' function.
Intel Drivers: Capture refused to start on Intel HD 4400-based Windows computers due to a known Intel driver bug.
Media Properties: When changing the media property of fixtures or materials the value could only be changed if it was first cleared.

Version 20.0.14, released the 15th October 2014

Sketchup Import: Objects imported from Sketchup, 3DS or OBJ files in the Solo Edition were filtered out on save.
Key Files: License key files were rejected as invalid if their original filename casing wasn't preserved.
Plot Printing: On Mac OX X, all objects were drawn white when printing plots.
Symbol Key: Symbol key symbols were often printed white regardless of on-screen appearance.
Truss Colour: Changing the colour of a truss did not take effect until the project file was reloaded.

Legend

Capture Argo fixes and changes have been categorized as follows:

Improvements
Major bug fixes
Minor bug fixes