2023 11 28 - Revision 0.0.0.3840

Bug Fixes

• Fixes crash in Histogram that was affecting nodes without an image output (Node Graph, Sprite It and Attributes).

2023 09 25 - Revision 0.0.0.3832

Bug Fixes

• 3D Viewport not updating and crash.
• Resize large image size crash.
• Crash Reporter fails to send report to server.

2023 08 04 - Revision 0.0.0.3780

New Features

• Paint with support for tablet stylus pressure.

2023 07 28 - Revision 0.0.0.3799

New Features

• Qt6 and Advanced Dockins System

2023 03 30 - Revision 0.0.0.3768

New Features

• Perlin Texture with colorized and XYZ output options
• Billow Texture with colorized and XYZ output options
• Ridged Multi Texture with colorized and XYZ output options
• Voronoi Texture distance to edge output option
• Rgb to XYZ Texture mixing parameter attribute
• Wave Texture with Shape and Range attributes
• Mix median option

2023 03 15 - Revision 0.0.0.3763

New Features

• Dark Theme

2023 02 18 - Revision 0.0.0.3746

New Nodes

• Mesh Groups node
• Mesh Group Bump node
• Value Components Edge node
• Filter Glitch node
• Filter Edge node

2022 12 02 - Revision 0.0.0.3724

New Features

• Mesh Cells node colored image output
• Render 3D Texture node with rotate, translate and scale attributes and image input.

2022 11 02 - Revision 0.0.0.3722

New Nodes

• Mesh To Normal node

New Features

• Mesh Cells node with cells of variable size
• Mesh Relax node renamed as Mesh Filter and updated with 5 more filters.

2022 08 19 - Revision 0.0.0.3678

New Nodes

• Mesh Cells node
• Mesh Relax node

2022 07 05 - Revision 0.0.0.3678

New Nodes

• Mesh Spots node
• Mesh Strokes node

2022 02 15 - Revision 0.0.0.3643

New Nodes

• Mesh Area node

New Features

• Vulkan CPU support with SwiftShader.
  Download and install the SwiftShader DLL if PixaFlux crashes during initialization or renders black images with the Sprite It node.

2022 01 26 - Revision 0.0.0.3640

New Features

• Image and Material Random Tiles with mask support

2022 01 13 - Revision 0.0.0.3638

New Features

• Multi connect nodes: Border, Emboss, Grow, Shrink, Convolution and Bleed.

2021 12 27 - Revision 0.0.0.3631

New Nodes

• Mesh Uv Grid.

2021 10 30 - Revision 0.0.0.3627

New Features

• Sprite It script Collage1 and Collage2.

2021 10 05 - Revision 0.0.0.3618

New Features

• The Sprite It node now includes a Poisson Disc Generator and a polygon shape.

2021 08 18 - Revision 0.0.0.3596

New Nodes

• Convolution Node
• Emboss Node

2021 07 31 - Revision 0.0.0.3593

New Features

• The Sprite It node now supports faster DLL programs built with C++.

2021 06 10 - Revision 0.0.0.3547

New Nodes

• Sprite It node.

2021 01 09 - Revision 0.0.0.3423

New Features

• Merge Project
• Select Nodes by Connection
• Pan View to Node Graph Frame

2020 12 27 - Revision 0.0.0.3414

New Nodes

• Hexagons
• Rect to Polar
• Connected Components

New Features

• Random Noise with Value output

2020 11 21 - Revision 0.0.0.3407

New Nodes

• Fibers Noise
• Image Sampler
• Material Sampler

New Features

• Voronoi Noise with 4 outputs: Flat, Closest, Second, Edge

2020 11 08 - Revision 0.0.0.3398

New Features

• Image Random Tiles with opacity
• Image Value Range with profiles
• Image Revolve with toroid option

2020 11 02 - Revision 0.0.0.3395

New Nodes

• Revolve shape node
• Pyramid shape node
• Brick shape node

New Features

• Common Tiles node with GPU acceleration
• Zig Zag Tiles node with GPU acceleration

2020 09 16 - Revision 0.0.0.3360

New Nodes

• Image Random Tiles
• Material Random Tiles
• Value Subtract
• Value Subtract
• Stack

New Features

• Vulkan Engine
• Nodes colored by Category

2020 03 22 - Revision 0.0.0.3238

New Nodes

• Value Subtract
• Value Divide

2020 02 23 - Revision 0.0.0.3235

New Features

• Height texture in Materials.
• Tessellation and height displacement in scene viewport.

New Nodes

• Scene Material
• Material Blend Height
• Ambient Occlusion

2020 01 17 - Revision 0.0.0.3220

New Features

• High Dynamic Range sky images in Scene Viewport
• Default sky image.
• Align nodes in graph.

2019 12 23 - Revision 0.0.0.3213

New Features

• Material Composition.

New Nodes

• Material
• Material Reader
• Material Split
• Material Blend
• Material Transform
• Material Tile
• Material Stamp
• Material Switch
• Material IO
• Image Tile
• Image Switch

2019 11 01 - Revision 0.0.0.3187

This PixaFlux release introduces major features that more clearly define it as a materials and texture image composer. Some other features have been removed to speed up many node operations and simplify the compatibility between nodes.

New Features

• GPU powered image operations.
• Custom Nodes.

New Nodes

• Displace node
• Gamma node
• Value Range node
• Value Function node
• Value Steps node
• Join Normal node
• High Pass node

Deprecated Features

• All color formats except RGBA, NORMAL and VALUE have been removed.
  Removed color formats: M, MA, RGB, HSVA, LABA.

Please be advised that PixaFlux 2019 11 01 introduces significant changes that make some projects from older versions incompatible with newer versions. We have tried to minimize the impact when loading older projects but in some cases you'll find missing nodes, missing connections or missing attribute values.
Please read the Deprecation 2019 11 01 wiki page for more information.

2019 05 12 - Revision 0.0.0.3091

New Nodes

• Warp node
• Compute Gradient node
• Poisson Noise node
• Blobs Procedural Texture node
• Bleed node

New Features

• Box blur in Blur Node
• Seamless Grow node
• Seamless Shrink node
• Seamless Relief node

Bug Fixes

• Voronoi node with better defined regions

2019 04 11 - Revision 0.0.0.3069

New Nodes

• Texture Rgb Map node
• Procedural Wave Texture
• Procedural Fibers Texture

New Features

• Render 3D Texture with samples
• Mesh Components with Material Index attribute
• Mesh Smooth Normals with Material Index attribute

2019 03 15 - Revision 0.0.0.3060

New Nodes

• Mesh Blur node
• Mesh Components node

New Features

• Gradient Texture with gradient input image
• Added Range and Saturate to Perlin Noise, Billow Noise, Ridge Multi and Voronoi
• Scene-Object attribute for mesh nodes

2019 02 02 - Revision 0.0.0.3040

New Features

• Save TIFF and PNG 16 bits per channel images
• Improved Mesh Surface Curvature
• Improved Normal Curvature

New Nodes

• Blobs Noise node
• Distance image node
• Value Clamp node
• Blobs 3D Texture node
• Greeble 3D Texture node

2018 12 31 - Revision 0.0.0.3005

New Features

• Support for Mikktspace uv tangents and binormals
• Support for Fbx 3d models with hierarchy
• Support for Obj files with more than one object

2018 11 07 - Revision 0.0.0.2991

New Features

• Gradient nodes support images as gradients.
• Point Sample Image node.
• Curve Sample Image node.
• New Boolean, Point and Rgbo math nodes.

2018 10 01 - Revision 0.0.0.2963

First official release towards Version 1.

New Features

• Supports all V0 features.
• Node Group node implements reusable custom nodes.
• Attributes node supports edit, delete and duplicate nodes.
• IO nodes supports more loop action operations.
• New number and point Math nodes.

2018 07 01 - Revision 0.0.0.2860

New Features

• Attributes are inputs and can be shared between nodes.
• Custom reusable nodes.
• New Node values: boolean, number, point, frame, rgbo, string, image, texture, curves.
• Mathematics and Geometry nodes.

2018 04 08 - Revision 0.0.0.2770

New Features

• Mesh Hard Edges node.

2017 12 12 - Revision 0.0.0.2604

New Features

• Zig Zag Tiles node.

2017 11 04 - Revision 0.0.0.2535

New Features

• Combine elements checkbox in Mesh Smooth Normal.
• Seamless checkbox in 2D Noise nodes.

2017 09 17 - Revision 0.0.0.2482

New Nodes

• Common Tiles

New Features

• Waves node with Normal and Mask output.
• Ellipsoid node with Normal and Mask output.
• Cylinder node with Normal and Mask output.

2017 07 26 - Revision 0.0.0.2452

New Nodes

• Repeat Translate
• Rotate 90

New Features

• Rotate sky light in Scene Viewport

2017 06 15 - Revision 0.0.0.2441

New Color Mode

• VALUE

New Nodes

• Waves
• Ellipsoid
• Cylinder
• Value Add
• Curve Sculpt
• Value Multiply
• Value Minimum
• Value Maximum
• Value Absolute
• Value Condition

New Features

• Info Window
• Model Viewport Tile U and V

2017 04 06 - Revision 0.0.0.2368

New Nodes

• Normal Curvature Node.
• Mesh Curvature Node.
• Compare Node.

2017 03 19 - Revision 0.0.0.2346

This new release introduces Curves as Node Graph Values. This means that curves can now flow through the graph and be reused in different nodes. Read more about the new Curves Workflow on the Wiki.

New Nodes

• Ellipse Node.
• Rectangle Node.
• Bezier Curves Node.
• Colorize Curves Node.

2017 02 26 - Revision 0.0.0.2323

Bug Fixes

• Fixes a bug on Stamp Node.

2017 02 20 - Revision 0.0.0.2313 - Download

New Nodes

• Stamp Node.
• Billow Noise Node.
• Ridge Multi Noise Node.
• Voronoi Noise Node.
• Random Noise Node.

New Features

• Transform Frame Manipulator.
• Blur Node with seamless boundary condition.

2017 01 27 - Revision 0.0.0.2275 - Download

New Features

• Display UV Mesh in Image Viewport.

2017 01 15 - Revision 0.0.0.2251 - Download

New Nodes

• Mesh Smooth Normal.
• Texture Gradient.

New Features

• Viewport Model Debug Shader.
• Gradient Editor in Gradient node and Gradient Map node.

2016 12 20 - Revision 0.0.0.2212 - Download

New Nodes

• Mesh Position Node.
• Mesh Distance Node.
• Mesh Normal Angle Node.
• Perlin Noise Node.

2016 11 11 - Revision 0.0.0.2178 - Download

New Nodes

• UVMesh Render Texture Node.

User Interface

• Model viewport with new Diffuse-Specular reflection workflow.
• Model viewport with new Glossiness microsurface workflow.
• Export images.

2016 10 16 - Revision 0.0.0.2161 - Download

New Nodes

• Render 3D Texture Node.

User Interface

• Scene Window replaces 3D Models node - models window.

2016 09 10 - Revision 0.0.0.2134 - Download

New Nodes

• Render Texture Node.
• Perlin Texture Node.
• Billow Texture Node.
• Ridged Multi Texture Node.
• Voronoi Texture Node.
• Checkerboard Texture Node.
• Image Texture Node.
• Texture Transform Node.
• Texture Turbulence Node.
• Texture Exponent Node.
• Texture ScaleBias Node.
• Texture Clamp Node.
• Texture Invert Node.
• Texture Maximum Node.
• Texture Minimum Node.
• Texture Addition Node.
• Texture Multiply Node.
• Texture Power Node.
• Texture Blend Node.
• Texture Select Node.

New Node Features

• Procedural Texture Nodes.

Known Issues

• PixaFlux crashes when opening files. This is related to the TEMP directory environment variable, but we haven't been able to identify what is the problem. Please contact us if you experience this issue.
• Paths with non ascii characters. PixaFlux doesn't understand characters that are not in the ascii table (e.g. japanese or russian characters). We are working on fixing this issue.

2016 06 08 - Revision 0.0.0.2058 - Download

New Nodes

• Colorize Node.

New Node Features

• Modify Normal Node with rotate normal.
• Shape Node with numeric input for Bezier knots and handles.
• Blur Node with multiple one to one input - output.

2016 05 15 - Revision 0.0.0.2048 - Download

This is a maintenance release that updates all the libraries PixaFlux uses, and fixes a few bugs.

2016 04 23 - Revision 0.0.0.2035 - Download

New Nodes

• Offset Node with multiple one to one input - output.

New Node Features

• Flip Node with multiple one to one input - output.
• Align Node with multiple one to one input - output.
• Perspective Node with multiple one to one input - output.
• Stretch Node manipulator resize.

User Interface

• File > New > New PBR Project
• Model to Display: Box - Sphere - Cylinder.
• Hold down shift to prevent autoconnect.

2016 04 05 - Revision 0.0.0.2009 - Download

This PixaFlux release adds multiple one to one input - output support for nodes that operate on single images.

New Nodes

• Stretch Node with multiple one to one input - output.

New Node Features

• Color Range node with multiple outputs.
• Mix Node with Minimum, Maximum and Multiply mix methods.
• Transform Node with multiple one to one input - output.
• Resize Node with multiple one to one input - output.
• Linear Array Node with multiple one to one input - output.
• Reframe Node with multiple one to one input - output.

Tech

• Read and Write support for TGA images.

User Interface

• Drag and Drop OBJ files into the Node Graph viewport.
• Double click connections to set Active and Display node.
• Node Graph Frames.

2016 02 14 - Revision 0.0.0.1958 - Download

This PixaFlux release adds new methods for creating nodes and fixes a few issues

• Create nodes with right click in the graph viewport.
• Create nodes just clicking the nodes menu icons.
• Zoom Frame in Model Viewport.

2016 02 04 - Revision 0.0.0.1950 - Download

This PixaFlux release adds more PBR Texture Composer tools, and more nodes for Image Normal Sculpting

New Nodes

• Releif Node
• Relax Node
• Grow Node
• Shrink Node

User Interface

• 3D Model Viewport with PBR Shader (Albedo Normal Roughness Metalness Occlusion).

2015 10 18 - Revision 0.0.0.1859 - Download

This PixaFlux release adds support for the creation of textures for 3D models, and includes several tools for the development of normal maps

New Image Type

• Normal map image type.

New Nodes

• 3D Model.
• To Normal.
• Modify Normal.
• Blend Normal.
• Mix Normal.

User Interface

• 3D Viewport.

2015 06 05 - Revision 0.0.0.1771 - Download

New Node Features

• Reader node: Pin attributes.
• External Project node: Move attributes.

User Interface

• Editable Node Name and Description.
• Icons in the Node Graph.

Tech

• Support for paths relative to the project.
• Missing asset images.

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed locking bug related with the ToM node.
• Fixed undo and redo bugs.

2015 05 13 - Revision 0.0.0.1762 - Download

New Nodes

• Align node.
• Color Range node.

User Interface

• Rulers and Guides.

2015 04 24 - Revision 0.0.0.1752 - Download

User Interface

• Duplicate nodes sets new Display and Active nodes.
• Console mode with write option.

Bugs Fixed

• ToM node uses Lightness in LAB images, and Value in HSV images.

2015 04 14 - Revision 0.0.0.1741 - Download

New Node Features

• Border node: Border around opaque pixels.
• Free Deformation and Lattice node: Soft deformation around XForm region.

2015 04 01 - Revision 0.0.0.1729 - Download

New Nodes

• External Project node.

Tech

• Support for CR2 and NEF raw images.
• Support for BMP images.

2015 03 17 - Revision 0.0.0.1723 - Download

Tech

• New save and load image library: FreeImage.

2015 02 17 - Revision 0.0.0.1705 - Download

New Nodes

• Border node.

New Node Features

• Gradient node: New frame manipulator, and Linear and Radial gradient shapes.
• Checker node: New frame manipulator, and different odd and even sizes for columns and lines.
• Constant node: New frame manipulator.

Tech

• Completely redesigned image generation module.

2015 01 20 - Revision 0.0.0.1667 - Download

New Nodes

• Text node.
• Linear Array node.

New Node Features

• Paint node: Set paint area with mouse gizmo and toolbar widgets.
• Paint node: Dodge tool now includes Burn tool as a drop-down option in the toolbar.
• Join Channels node: Respects the position of the input images.

User Interface

• Duplicate graph nodes
• Separated the viewport into Image viewport and Node viewport. Graph viewport can be detached.
• More intuitive interactive mode that hides and shows gizmos.
• Fixed some issues with node auto connection.

Tech

• Updated to use Qt5.

2014 12 06 - Revision 0.0.0.1612 - Download

Nodes. New Features

• Paint node with mask input.
• Paint node with better rectangular and elliptical brushes.

User Interface

• Better node auto connection.

2014 11 14 - Revision 0.0.0.1612 - Download

New Nodes

• Gradient Map node.

Nodes. New Features

• Adjust nodes with mask input and blending options.
• Paint node with image input.
• Resize and Reframe node with interactive gizmo.
• Blend node with mask image input.

User Interface

• Auto connect nodes.
• Viewport undo and redo.
• Preferences window.
• Recent projects sub-menu.

2014 06 13 - Revision 0.0.0.1527 - Download

First Release