Here we go,

this is vvvv beta40, combining the coziness of vvvv beta with the latest version of VL - the self proclaimed "future of visual programming".

Highlights of this release:

• A fix for working with Spout and DX11
• Update to the latest version of VL

Through the integration with the latest version of VL, we're now again on par with the VL version that comes with vvvv gamma. This means that with vvvv beta40 you can now use the same latest versions of nugets, that you can use with the vvvv gamma 2020.1.x series.

Why should you update? Because this gives you access to the latest developments on these libraries:

To learn how to install nugets please consult this documentation.

EDIT 18 02 2021:
Replaced beta40 with beta40.1, because an issue emerged that made the installer of beta40 to fail under certain conditions. So beta40.1 is exactly the same as beta40, except with the installer issues fixed.

Offline Installer

32bit Version: core addons
64bit Version: core addons

Patcher People!

Once again later than we hoped for, but here it is: vvvv beta 39 in all its glory! Many thanks go to everyone who reported issues with the release-candidates! Here are the highlights:

General

• Finally we ship an installer! Just a few clicks and you should have vvvv beta running. Note how this also optionally installs the addonpack
• NOTE: By default it installs to C:\vvvv, because it won't work in C:\Program Files...
• The default patch-window size is increased
• By default new patches now save to %User%\Documents\vvvv\beta\Sketches. Like this you can quickly find your recently created patches via a new main menu entry: Recent Patches
• We've added two shortcuts to the main menu:
• Show Installed Packs: opens explorer pointing to the \packs directory
• Download Contributions: opens a browser pointing to the contributions page

Features

• Control IOBoxes from any webbrowser (desktop of mobile) using RCP. See the helppatch of Rabbit (RCP) for details.
• Easy to use WebSocket (Network Client) node
• New fancy shader nodes: PBR (DX11.Effects), PBRInstanced (DX11.Effects), PBRTextured (DX11.Effects), PBRTexturedInstanced (DX11.Effects)

New in VL

If you're also using VL already, good for you, because here you'll find even more goodies you will benefit from:

• Shiny Tooltips
• IOBoxes 2.0
• Regular Expression nodes
• Pingroups
• If you're looking for the Manage Nugets menu entry under Dependencies: this has been moved to the Quad menu
• and quite some more as we've listed in the gamma preview changelog

Besides those, it is important to understand that with VL you also have access to numerous more libraries that have been released recently. A lot of new packs these days come as nugets. For an overview, see VL packs on nuget.org and you can use them all in vvvv beta, via VL...

Learn VL

This is a good moment to get started with VL. Note that everything you learn and do with VL can later be applied to the upcoming vvvv gamma since VL is what both vvvv beta and gamma share. If you haven't already, check out these Tutorials and HowTos!

Have a good patch,
Yours, vvvv

PS: People who liked this release also liked The vvvv Show-Off-Reel

Surprise!

Another release just out of the gray only 2.5 months after the previous. How come?

The last beta37 release proofed to be quite stable, hardly any too concerning bug reports, but we have a breaking change to introduce and think this is a good moment. Hear us out:

If you're a vvvv-only user, you're safe. This release only has minor changes compared to beta37, so there shouldn't be any reason for you not to upgrade. Horray!

If you're also using VL, we're afraid, but swallow this:

Since there are hardly any other changes, we recommend you also switch as soon as possible and never look back...

So why the breaking change?

It's about how values get stored in IO boxes and pins. They now use the same serialization technique we already introduced as a node set for beta37. This means that we can store any data inside patches for which a serializer is registered - be it a spread of values, a dictionary or even a custom record:

And as a second example a dictionary from string to value

It might not look as much yet but it is a first step to get proper IO boxes back.

So apart from that another worth mentioning improvement is a new short cut called Ctrl+K which creates pins for the selected pads and puts them on the Create and Split operations of the containing patch

All other changes can be found the as usual in the Changelog.

Yours,
devvvvs.

this is a big one!

in the works for more than half a year, it is finally out: beta36 comes with a lot of new stuff for both vvvv and vl. many thanks to everyone who helped us tweak the release by reporting problems with the release candidates. but now please have a look at the following list of highlights of this release:

for many more details, please consult the changelog as linked to below.

so where are we at? with the nobrainer access to .NET libraries now at hand the question "can vvvv/vl do X?" has just become even less relevant. chances are that if you have a .NET library that you want to use in vvvv/vl you can just do so. extending the node libraries of vvvv and vl is therefore now much easier than it has ever been since in many cases not even c# has to be written anymore.

also with the added possibility to create DX11 buffers and images/textures in vl, dx11-heavy projects can gain a lot of performance by doing their CPU heavy parts in vl, possibly using the new AsyncLoop and AsyncTask regions to finally use the power of all your CPUs cores without the need to run multiple instances of vvvv.

consider this release the foundation of all the good things to come. it is now on you to make use of all these new possibilities. we're looking forward to your questions and contributions and to showing you the other things up our sleeves..

yours,
devvvvs.