Smode 8.6

What’s new in 8.6?

Simplified Camera Mapping in the Stage

It’s now much simpler to create camera mappings in the stage!

By the way, we renamed “2D/3D Virtual Screen” into the more friendly names 2D Scene Mapping and 3D Camera Mapping .

Storage Devices

Your disks are now viewed by Smode as StorageDevice , which enables to have access to disk streaming performance data.

Placement Preset Shortcuts

We still are wondering how we could live without this before ;)

View all Keyboard Shortcuts of Smode

Volume Layer / 3D LED Workflow

Model your LED setup in 3D space and send 3D volumetric content into it, it’s as simple as this!

Example of the Volume Layer : A sphere of light inside LED Strips_

Parameter Bank States

A parameter bank now contains a table of Parameters Bank State value, which can be thought of as “presets”, “memories” or simply “states”. The content of this parameter states table can be imported from a .csv file.

Hierarchical selection of targets in project video export

Export a video with hundreds of targets… easy!

Learn how to Export a video from a project output / processor / content Map

Progress Bars

When Smode boots, you now will know what it’s doing! We also added progress bars when loading document.

Full ChangeLog Smode Studio 8.6

These features are available in all editions of Smode.

UI:

New: Progress bars when starting Smode and when opening documents
New: Keyboard shortcuts for 2D placement presets (Ctrl+Alt+I, Ctrl+Alt+O, Ctrl+Alt+Numpad)
Fix: F2 now selects the correct row when pressed after Ctrl+D
Chg: Get rid of confusing 2D/3D selector in the viewport
Chg: New widget for the Cube Faces selection

2D:

New: Duplicated Image layers now share their GPU textures
Chg: Major enhancement of performance on large .svg files
New: .svg files now have nice thumbnails and support the “create compo from file” command
New: support of 32 bits .tiff and 16 bits grayscale .png still image files
New: update NDI to version 4.1
Chg: The Test Pattern grid is now centered on the middle pixel

3D:

Chg: update to Substance Engine 7.0.0
Chg: Substance parameters now include the name of their group
New: Automatically split multi-material objects in .fbx files
New: “Delete Unused Materials” command on Material Banks
New: Support of vertex-only .obj and .fbx files
New: Range selection options in the Group 3d Mask

Audio/Video:

New: StorageDevice that enable to check disk streaming performance
New: Channel offset in File Sound Tracks for simple channel routing

Animation and Control:

New: Parameter Bank States Editor
New: Import CSV as Parameters Bank
New: Convert text parameter to seconds and RGB(A) colors
New: Dynamic link modifiers now also work on multi-dimensional types (Colors, Positions, …)
New: Shortcut “M” to Break Points and Time markers
New: Compo “Make Screenshot” and “Export Image” support .tga and .jpg file formats
New: Enable smooth interpolation of “quadrilaterals” as a whole

Full ChangeLog Smode Station 8.6

These features are only available in Smode Station.

Video:

New: Deltacast filter SDI interface standards according to board capability (update driver to v6.13.01)
New: BlackMagic DeckLink SDK update to v11.4.1 (for QuadHDMI and SDI8kPro support)

Video Export:

New: Major enhancement of the video export selection dialog for large projects
New: Image sequences now use absolute 0-based numbering
Fix: Transcode With FFMpeg work from a network remote

Pipeline / Stage:

Chg: “2D/3D Virtual Screen” has been renamed into 2D Scene Mapping and 3D Camera Mapping
Chg: “Master Scene” has been renamed into Show
New: Simplify the parameters and creation of Mappings

DMX Led Mapping:

New: 3D Volume Layer
New: Import CSV as Fixture
New: Support of multi-universe fixture types
New: Fixtures now report DMX address conflicts and errors
New: Tube Fixtures with diffused colors
New: ‘CMY’ color format in fixture types
New: Parameters ‘dmx channels before/after’ and ‘gap’ in Led/Strip/Screen fixture types

Miscellaneous

Chg: update CodeMeter runtime to V7