2021 Revision History

The first release of Capture 2021 was version 2021.0.31, the 9th of March 2021.

Line Weight: The minimum line weight of layers has been reduced to 0.1 pt.
Line Rendering: Capture could hang when rendering the new line object.
Beam Rendering: Beams could appear degenerate in some quality settings, especially with breakup gobos and wide beams.
Effect Rendering: Flame and CO2 effects could render "choppily" if the computer had been on without a restart for long.

Rendering: Reduced TDR sensitivity (likelihood of video card timeouts) when rendering.
Reports: Viewing reports from old projects files or removing columns in reports could lead to crashes.
Presentations: Presentations failed fail to start on macOS.
DWG Export: Exporting projects with multiple objects with the same drawing name to DWG could fail with an internal error.
MVR Files: Channel information field mapping changed from FixtureId to FixtureID.
Special Effects: Control over special effect parameters in the control pane could be lost when changing DMX modes.

Visualisation: Visualisation automatic quality and performance enhancements.
Polygon Form: Changing the extrusion to or from 0 could cause a crash.
glTF Export: Material alpha mask cutoff was exported regardless of alpha mode.
MVR Import: Fixtures could be patched on the wrong universes.
MVR Export: Some fixture types could result in broken MVR exports.
MVR Export: The MVR Unit Number field could be exported with non-digit characters.
Visualisation: Depth variation artefacts in multi-aperture fixture beams have been reduced.
Compatibility: Opening project files saved in Capture Argo could fail.

Dependencies: Some software dependencies were not installed correctly, causing Capture to not start on some machines.
Student Edition: Saving projects files in the Student Edition lead to a crash.

For older versions of Capture, see the Capture 2020 revision history.

Capture fixes and changes have been categorized as follows:

Improvements
Major bug fixes
Minor bug fixes