2023 Revision History

The first release of Capture 2023 was version 2023.0.20, the 14th of March 2023.

Motion Fixtures: Assigning motion fixtures in a group to control the group itself could result in a hang.

Control Pane: The mouse could jump to odd positions in multi-monitor setups when using the control pane on macOS.
Water Jets: Wide water jets did not render well at lower intensities.
Motion Fixtures: It was not possible to delete a motion fixture that had been added to a fixture group.
Gobo Wheels: The speed of gobo change was too slow in fixtures with very slow variable gobo rotation speed.
Emissive Surfaces: Depth precision glitches could be observed in emissive surfaces.

Report Layout: Table content could overflow page boundaries.
Rigging Reports: Sorting by rigging coordinate in reports produces unintuitive results.
Group Layer: Newly created groups were not assigned to a layer.
Gobo Rotation: The direction of gobo rotation, both indexed and spinning, was incorrect.
DWG Import: Lines imported from blocks in DWG files ended up at the wrong location.
MVR Export: Exported MVR files were missing all but the first fixture types' GDTF files.
Panel Reports: Panels did not provide any power rating in reports.

Hanging Dialogs: On Windows, Capture could hang temporarily in dialogs that have been open for several minutes.

Throws Light: Turning on and off the Throws Light property of fixtures could cause erratic lighting behaviour in other fixtures.
MVR Unit: Fixtures' Unit properties could export incorrectly when containing a combination of text and numbers.

MVR Import: Support for GDTF 1.2 and GLB geometry files has been added.
MVR Export: Trusses are now exported as symbols.
NDI Update: Updated to NDI 5.5.4.
MA-Net3 NIC: It is now possible to select the network interface to use for MA-Net3.
Project Files: Various improvements to verify and ensure the integrity of saved project files.

Corrupt Projects: Replacing internal fixture identifier when importing fixture data could lead to corrupt project files.

Rendering Glitches: Visualisation on Mac could contain glitches with emissive materials at certain angles and distances from objects.
Distracting Edges: Built-in forms such as the cylinder could leave distracting edges.
Off-screen Windows: Dialogs and windows could sometimes open partially off-screen on Windows.
Measure Units: Measurement units in automatic unit mode now allow mixed imperial units, i.e. 4' 2".

Window Resize: Resizing a design view in Live mode to a wide but very low height size could lead to a crash.
Pixel Tubes: Using pixel tubes and omnidirectional fixtures could lead to crashes on some Macs with Intel GPUs.
Corrupt Project Files: Recording snapshots with missing thumbnails could result in project files that could not be loaded again.

Library Download: Automatic installation of library updates downloaded inside Capture could fail with an incorrect incompatibility error.

Open Project: Opening a valid project file could fail under extremely rare circumstances.
Save Project: Shutting off the computer forcibly immediately after saving a project could lead to corrupt files.

Demo Timeout: The demo version could crash after the demo timeout had elapsed.

Movie Rendering: Occasional black frames and glitches could appear in rendered movies.

Chinese Reports: Capture could crash when displaying some reports in Chinese.

Snapshot Recording: Visualisation would freeze when opening modal dialogs on Windows, such as the movie snapshot recording dialog.
Layer Key: Plot layer keys could show layers in the wrong order.
Snapping: Snapping could malfunction after having used a keyboard shortcut to navigate away from a design view.
Transform: The transform dialog did not remember what type of transformation was last performed.
Page Setup: The built in page sizes for Letter was incorrect.
Slide Projectors: The quality of images projected with slide projectors was very low.
glTF Import: Importing glTF files from paths containing international characters failed without an explanation.
Symbol Key: Symbols in the plot symbol key were shown mirrored.
Fixtures Window: When opening the fixtures window it did not initially reflect the current selection.
DWG Export: Exporting imported objects with modified drawing units could get the wrong scale.

For older versions of Capture, see the Capture 2022 revision history.

Capture fixes and changes have been categorized as follows:

Improvements
Major bug fixes
Minor bug fixes