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Release Notes for 1.8.8

Discussion in 'Release Notes' started by Marty, Sep 18, 2015.

  1. Marty

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    Release note for 1.8.8

    Notes

    In order to install BTWYG R35, you must first uninstall BTWYG R32 using BTWYG R32’s installer, not BTWYG R35's installer as stated in the document ‘Server Update Instructions’.

    Dongle Date Requirement:

    August 4[SUP]th[/SUP] 2015

    Major changes:

    · BTWYG R35
    · Soft Bodies in BlackTrax
    · Wider outlier filter parameters

    Known issues:


    · When a recording is stopped in Motive with the Edit Tools window open, Motive will crash
    · Motive reconstruction bounds are inverted on the X axis (minimum X actually affects the maximum X)

    Firmware:
    2.7.0.41

    Secondary Applications:
    BTWYG: 2.35.50.113
    Motive: 1.8.23633

    Compatible with RTTrP Versions:
    6
    1.8.3
    1.8.7

    Features and Fixes:

    Bug



    • Fixed: Beam settings are no longer remembered after entering multi-fixture settings twice
    • Fixed: After running the TimeKeeper for several days, the sync may be affected, causing Beacons to drift by several bits
      • Note: If you are upgrading from a previous TimeKeeper release, you need to enter ‘t 10’ into the TimeKeeper via CSM
    • Fixed: NP Listener’s buffer size has been increased to 64K bytes
    • Fixed: Motive NatNet reporting incorrect frame rate when eSync is connected

    New Feature


    • BTWYG R35
      • New BlackTrax menu in CAD mode that has all the BlackTrax specific functions
      • BlackTrax Frames have been renamed to BlackTrax Trackables
      • Set User Origin now works with BlackTrax Trackables making it much easier to offset the origin
      • Live mode now displays current chapter number across the top display bar
      • When creating new Trackables, the next available number is automatically filled in the name field
      • More control over stick beams to toggle beams that are currently tracking, currently standby, or unassigned
      • Volumetric beams are now automatically disabled when switching to stick beams and enhanced beams is the default beam type
      • New BlackTrax and CAST logos
      • All features from WYSIWYG Release 33 to Release 35 including:
        • Re-designed Quick Motion Patch Tool to patch and clear only selected Trackables
        • Quick Patch Assignment tool for easy universe/port assignment
        • Updated Spreadsheet functionality in Data mode with many new features and enhancements
        • Laser visualization
        • Fixture and Object highlighting during Quick Tool assignment
        • Pipe mirroring with fixtures attached and mirror fixtures on floor
        • Shaded View Profiles and Shaded View Panel
        • Shaded view performance and visualization improvements
          • Ambient occlusion
          • Global Illumination
          • Source Disc Bloom
        • Layer manager now includes tags, descriptions, and prefixes
        • New Performance Tab in shaded view’s View Options
        • Many new textures in the library
        • Hatching in CAD Mode
        • Multi-line text labels
        • Arrows and Callouts for lines and text labels
        • New mode tabs with blue highlighting instead of orange
        • Tabbing and auto-hiding panels and window position management
        • Unicode support for over 110,000 characters included in all languages
        • Note: Please refer to the WYSIWYG release notes for the full list of changes and improvements
    • Soft bodies are now included in the virtual beacon list, which is a pre-release v2 feature; the ability to build virtual beacons using an unlimited number of LEDs and Beacons and have the centroid re-calculate position based on how may LEDs are visible (minimum 1 LED)
      • Note: Beacon numbers now range from 0-1999, Soft Body IDs range from 2000-4999, and Rigid Body IDs range from 5000-65,535
    • There are now five pre-installed Motive layouts, found under the Layout menu: Aiming, Calibration, Configuration, Recording, and Running. You may choose one of these layouts to be the default layout when Motive launches


    Improvement



    • Finer control over the Outlier Filter to allow more data accepted, which allows faster moving objects through the filter
    • RTTrPM Heartbeat is now on by default
    • Loading Virtual Beacons no longer clears the existing Beacon list

    Design Review



    • WYG Frames are renamed to WYG Trackables in both BTWYG and BlackTrax
    • Motive’s Beta tag has been removed
     
    #1 Marty, Sep 18, 2015
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