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Shit on a stick (Would that feasibly even be possible? What about the texture?) this is a big bastard of a release and the worst part is I wanted it to be bigger.
New Sauce
Studios. Every single visualizer mode now has a sexy ass studio instead of a complicated builder. Of course, I'm the only user of either of these but I am going to improve my own QoL a little at least. Studios mean:
- Live previews and adjustments with recorded clips you can use but not hear because copyrightfright.
- Simple pretty as fuck controls.
- Directly adjust modes by clicking on many of them.
- Organised saving/warnings
Just click OPEN STUDIO in any visualizers settings to open it on the preset you chose and hotswap from one studio/preset to another using its menu. Camera has the same controls as live.
Waveform Ribbon
- New 3D visualizer mode that is ridiculously pretty and extremely adjustable.
OG Bubble Updates
- Bubble was improved with some lessons learned, given particles and microbubble streams.
- Drift was also fixed though I suggest low values lest you want to stain something.
Fullscreen Visualizer Mode. Added as part of much larger work now every bordered mode can go fullscreen.
- Fading in, customizable track toast.
- Quickly swap in and out, there is a button for it (diagonal arrow) or just press V.
Spectrum. Not to be completely left out, the bastard first child had some minor really weird shit added.
- Preset 1 is still the best looking one but now Preset 2+ are more cringe than embarrassing, featuring flags of the world and shit.
- You should really just use Preset 1, or make a better one and give it to me, the whole point of the studios!
- The studio for Spectrum allows you to use patterns now both small and large, hence the flag test.
- Visual Smoothing improved. Spectrum should finally, hopefully, maybe this time, stay smoothed visually.
Neon Lake. Major fidelity improvements.
- Neon lake now is actually worth looking at! For presets 1-3 I may have left some shit ones in.
- Neon Lake now also has live terrain editing in the studio so make whatever obscene shapes you want and then watch them undulate. Like a normal person would.
All of these came with more and more fancy 3D architecture and led to the conclusion that a native C++ Vulkan core would be eventually needed. That isn't in this release yet. Though some of its fixes have trickled down to improve performance a bitty.
Widget Surfaces! At long last!
- Widgets now inherit the settings surfaces. Normal, Glass, Frosted, Smoked, Mica and Acrylic. You can override this in the style overrides if you want to for some reason.
Linux SUPPORT?!?!? Er, kindasortamaybe.
- I take pride in carefully crafting this piece of shit wherever possible but lacking a second system and an allergy to Hyper-V, I can only do "It should work on Linux, probably." support, which is what this is!
- It also doesn't help Linux has told screensavers to fuck off but since this is an entire custom 3D rendering pipeline with custom primitives now, it has a little more value than just there.
You want to get the media center (fullscreen dashboard) version on Linux unless you are a fancy bitch and can link it to an idle daemon. If you have troubles, yell them at me! I won't tell you a solution but I will at least have something concrete to fix.
There's quite a bit upcoming work once it is stable. The Vulkan backend and a preparatory Library/Playlist/Song Tagging system for a very experimental and very silly idea.