This is a pretty minor release, but it does have one major change; I decided to drop the word Designer from the name. For now I’m just going to keep things super simple and call both the company and the product Exothermic. Many years down the line if I decide to create additional software under …
This update is mostly a maintenance update with bug fixes, no flashy new features. Snapping has been greatly improved and is actually pretty usable now. Of course there is still room for improvement and expansion, but it’s a start. Related to snapping, I added a new viewport overlay type: Rows and Columns. This overlay is …
Version 1.2.3 – Snapping Improvements & Code Signing Read More »
The biggest part of this update is that change to an installer that downloads the installation files. The advantage to this is that updating is much easier. When future updates come out an Update button will appear on the start screen that will initiate the update process which will handle downloading the updated files and …
There was an error with the windows installer on the last release. I also went ahead and fixed a couple other bugs: Fixes Fixed: Adding brush nodes to an existing brush Fixed: Delete node from the node menu works inside brushes now Fixed: Layer pivots when multiple layers are selected Fixed: Layer order when copying …
Version 1.1.5 Released – Windows Installer Fixed Read More »
Today’s release is pretty minor but it does have some nice features. The main feature is that in addition to drawing a selection rectangle around components you can also draw an ellipse a freehand path. This will make it easier to select groups of components. I also updated the Create Variable node with an interpolation …
It’s been a couple weeks but today I’m happy to announce the release of version 1.1.0 which adds a dope sheet for easy editing of keyframe times. I’ll admit I thought it was going to be easier to create a dope sheet than it was. The tricky part was adding the support for hierarchy keys …
Yes, this is the second release in 24 hours. I noticed a bug where RGB colors were being swapped on OSX for certain raster nodes and I thought it was important enough to warrant an immediate fix. Bug Fixes Duplicate command now works with nodes as well as layers. Fixed OSX RGB swapping on certain …
This is primarily a maintenance version but I did add one new feature: brushes can now make use of patterns. New Features Added Brush Pattern Fill Node Bug Fixes Added scale, translation and rotation to patterns Arc tool properly constrains now Fixed extract component command crash Removed gizmo and reset from the draw tool Ellipse …
This is just a maintenance version, nothing too exciting. These first couple months are probably going to be a lot of maintenance releases but I’ll try to throw in some new features as well. Bug Fixes Fixed brush noise node not expanding and no noise under a certain width Moved point constant and transform constant …
Well it took over 4 years but I finally got Exothermic Designer to a state where I’m happy releasing it to the public. It is certainly not perfect but it is feature complete from my original vision. The first couple months will probably mostly be spent fixing bugs found by users but I will throw …
