changelog.txt

v0.9.0
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- Significant stack of performance updates that should increase performane significantly on ships/templates with lots of effects (big thanks to Al2Me6, DRVeyl, JohnnyOThan)
- Fixes to Additive Volumetric shader including fix for atmosphere sorting at night sans scatterer

v0.8.2
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- Fix to procedural particles shader

v0.8.1
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- Fix compatibility with KSP < 1.12

v0.8.0
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- Significant rewrite of controller and controller UI code. This resulted in a change to how generated configs look, but existing configs should work fine (thanks ArXen42 for all the hard work for this)
- Improvements to UX for controller selection and configuration
- Added an error notification when you try to add an effect with an invalid effect parent
- Some refactoring of UI code in various areas
- Redid color picker for significantly better UX
- Added the ability to save (within a game session) color swatches to copy/paste between effects and materials
- Shader bundles can now be loaded from anywhere in gamedata (anything with a .waterfallshaders extension)
- Shader bundles are loaded alphabetically and replace existing shaders in the order loaded. e.g if xyz.waterfallshaders contains a shader with the same name as abc.waterfallshaders, the one from xyz.waterfallshaders will be used
- Shader improvements
 - Additive (Volumetric) shader:
  - fixed excessive noise bug
  - the _Noise setting is now 5 times more sensitive (divide your old _Noise setting by 5 to get previous behavior)
  - you may need to slightly increase your _FadeOut setting if your old setting was below 0.5
  - start and end tints will no longer depend on Fresnel or InvertedFresnel settings (so your old color gradient may need some readjustments)
  - added FresnelFadeIn setting so you can gradually fade in the Fresnel effect starting from the nozzle exit.
 - Echo (Dynamic) shader:
  - echo spacing (_EchoLength) setting will now properly scale with the mesh scale
  - new _ExpandLength setting stretches the individual echos

v0.7.1
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- Changed the default blend mode of all additive-type effects to One One, this is controlled by a new Settings item called EnableLegacyBlendModes
- Fixed the Thrust controller which was not working right (al2me6)
- Fixed material picker texture name throwing an error (al2me6)
- Fixed color editor window being too wide

v0.7.0
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- New shaders: Waterfall/Additive (Volumetric), Waterfall/Additive Cones (Volumetric),  Waterfall/Additive Echo (Dynamic) by KnightOfStJohn 
- Added new workflow: volumetric for new shaders
- Fixed randomness seed for different effects on different parts not working right
- Made material labels a little clearer in the Material Editor

v0.6.8
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- Various popup UI windows will now be better at retaining their position if changed when opened (e.g when changing the color you are editing)

v0.6.7
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- Added an option to allow non-uniform parent scaling in effects (al2me6). Don't use this if you don't know exactly what you are doing

v0.6.6
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- Updated compatibility to KSP 1.12

v0.6.5
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- Resolved an issue that would cause waterfall data items (templates, etc) to be unpatchable with Module Manager (thanks al2me6!)

v0.6.4
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- Added a ThrustController controller which keys off engine normalized thrust
- Added a more verbose exception when failing to load a template
- Disabled SMR rebuilding as it wasn't doing much and was negatively impacting performance

v0.6.3
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- Improved hydrolox-lower-3 (RS-68) template (Zorg)
- New hydrolox-upper-2 and methalox-upper-2 templates (KnightOfStJohn)
- Fix issue when deleting effects in the editor

v0.6.2
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- Fixed texture picker not showing texture names
- Fixed black line in shaders when using antialiasing
- Fixed distortion effects not being culled on low intensity 

v0.6.1
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- Fixed light editor in UI overwriting light settings with last light's settings
- Minor performance improvements
- Fixed throttle being considered 'on' always with engines that have a minThrust specified
- Added new ramp up and ramp down optional config flags for throttle controllers
- New template updates from Zorg
 - Another alcolox template, alcolox-lower-2 (more accurate to Mercury redstone).
 - Revised alcolox-lower-1 (looked too nice to delete so its another alternative).
 - Revamped hydyne plume
 - Added hydrazine monoprop plume (only for v small engines, dervied from RCS plume).
 - Added Kerosene+Nitric acid, lower and upper (R12, kosmos 2I type).
 - Removed click when looping NFT engine sound loops.
 - Added thalox sustainer template
 - Slight tweaks to RCS template. (existing templates should be fine).

v0.6.0
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- Moved 'engineID' field inside the Throttle controller
- Added 'thrusterTransformName' field to RCS controllers, which will allow them to map to unique ModuleRCSFX 
- Added a new 'minimum' field to perlin noise that allows the generation of negative numbers. Renamed old 'scale' to 'maximum', as that's what it was
- When adding effects, can now select a Workflow, which filters Shaders and Models so they are easier to match up with valid choices
- When selecting modifier types, visible target transofrms are filtered so only valid ones are shows (e.g, no)
- Fix for culling of Alpha (Directional) shader
- Improved algorithm for effect sorting, should be better most of the time
- Fix for all shaders under HDR mode: significantly better looks!
- Better descriptions/text in the UI when selecting models, shaders, etc
- Various UI fixes throughout
- Added support for Lights
 - More or less like EngineLight
 - Add Lights through the usual workflow
 - Apply modifiers to modify light parameters like other effects
- Added new Deformation (Dynamic) shader
- Added new simple plane models for use in various effects
- Templates are now better
 - Specifying multiple templates per module are now supported in configs
 - Editing multiple templates at once is supported in the UI

v0.5.0
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- Rewrote effect application backend with a few enhancements
 - SUBTRACT, ADD modifier modes actually work properly now
 - Performance improvements overall
 - Even more major performance issues when effects are fully transparent
- Somewhat changed how atmospheric depth is calculated, result should be fairly in line with SmokeScreen/RealPlume implemenation for better compatibility
- Fixed an issue where effects would occasionally not be reloaded correctly on game load if there was more than one ModuleWaterfallFX on a part
- Improved light color controllers
- Shaders
  - Updated Additive (Dynamic) shader with a few bug fixes for HDR
  - Updated Alpha (Directional) shader to work sgnificantly better in general
  - Addded Alpha (Dynamic) shader which is broadly the same as Addtive but alpha
  - Added some manual z-sorting handling to deal with alpha/additive transparency sorting issues
- Templates:
 - Major template update from Zorg with dozens of new templates and many fixes/improvements
 - New RS-25 plume by KnightOfStJohn
 - Updates and improvements to existing garbo Nertea templates
 
v0.4.1
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- Changing TextureScale, TextureOffset and Vector3/4 material properties in the editor will now apply to multiple instances of a plume (e.g on multiple thrust transforms) immediately rather than requiring reload
- EffectRotationModifier now uses local Euler angles instead of local look rotation. 
- Added a Speed parameter to the perlin noise controller
- Exposed _Seed material parameter for noise in the UI
- Added ability to specify Randomize Noise Seed at effect creation, which causes _Seed to be randomized upon effect creation. Disabling this allows the effect _Seed to be modified in the material editor

v0.4.0
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- Fixed shader time offset causing random scaling of shader speed values
- Reorganized the UI overall, with many improvements, some highlights
 - It is now possible to export a complete ModuleWaterfallFX
 - It is now possible to edit Effect names 
 - It is now possible to re-order Effect Modifiers
 - Added more detailed Controller UI
   - Only controllers present on the module are shown
   - Can add, edit and remove controllers
   - Controllers can be overridden individually
   - When not overridden, controllers will try to show the value of the controller
 - Many QOL improvements
- Added ability to specify noise type to Random controller: can use random (old one) or perlin (basic 1d perlin noise)
- Added new controllers
 - Mach: outputs current Mach number
 - Gimbal: outputs gimbal fraction, where 1/-1 is full extension, 0 is centered. Needs axis specified.
 - EngineEvent: event controller, fairly prototypical. Two events are currently available, ignition and flameout. 


v0.3.0
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- Fixed some bugs with the RCS controller
- Updates to some templates
- Added waterfall-hydrolox-lower-3: Delta IV lower stage hydrolox engine


v0.2.10
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- KSP 1.11

v0.2.9
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- Fixed OSX shader package
- Improved Light controller
- Added new LightColorModifier, link a Material color to the color of a Light
- Improved spotlight and floodlight templates (cones and flares adjust to RGB colour of the light, flare effect is no longer removed outside of the atmosphere)

v0.2.8
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- Added better HDR handling to shaders, should result in less TUFX breakage in HDR mode
- Added new Billboard (Additive Directional) shader - a billboard that fades out when away from a specific angle
- Added waterfall-spotlight-1 and waterfall-floodlight-1 templates
- Added new Light controller (link effects to a light intensity)
- Added two new flare textures to use

v0.2.7
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- Added IgnoreProjector tag on all shaders; should resolve some interactions with Scatterer

v0.2.6
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- Added new guard for multiple misconfigured modules that should break the game less when there is a critical configuration error

v0.2.5
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- Fixed randomness values for shaders being lost sometime in the past

v0.2.4
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- Added a ShowEffectEditor setting that controls whether the editor toolbar button is shown - this is off by default!
- Fixed an issue where some effect models might be on the wrong layer, causing them to be shown in the part highlighter's advanced mode
- Fixed some log messages that didn't have a log level

v0.2.3
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- Fixed DDS format of some flare textures

v0.2.2
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- More less logspam
- Future improvements

v0.2.1 
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- Log levels can now be specified in settings
- Lowered log levels by default (less logspam)
- Fixed a few ModuleManager errors
- Added compiled shaders for Linux and OSX (somewhat experimental)

v0.2.0
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- Split configuration for Restock and Restock+ parts into a different mod
- Fixed plume scaling in the case where multiple plume parent transforms have different scales (i.e. nuPoodle)
- Fixed a couple of minor bugs
- Renamed/restructured templates:
 - waterfall-hydrolox-lower-1: lower stage hydrolox engine 
 - waterfall-hydrolox-lower-2: lower stage hydrolox engine, energetic, orange
 - waterfall-hydrolox-rs25-1: lower stage hydrolox engine based on SSME 
 - waterfall-hydrolox-upper-1: upper stage hydrolox engine, suitable for orbital engines
 - waterfall-kerolox-lower-1: Reddish kerolox lower stage engine, suitable for energetic lifting engine
 - waterfall-kerolox-lower-2: orangeish kerolox lower stage engine, suitable for energetic lifting engine
 - waterfall-kerolox-lower-3: extra burny kerolox lower stage engine, suitable for energetic lifting engine
 - waterfall-kerolox-sustainer-1: reddish kerolox lower stage engine, somewhat based on Titan 3 engine
 - waterfall-kerolox-upper-1: Reddish kerolox, suitable for generic upper stage engine
 - waterfall-kerolox-upper-2:Red/white kerolox, suitable for low thrust upper stage engine
 - waterfall-ntr-lh2-1: LH2-based nuclear rocket engine
 - waterfall-ion-xenon-1: Xenon Gridded Thruster engine
 - waterfall-rcs-jet-1: White RCS jet
- Added a set of sounds for authors to use, from KW and NFT

v0.1.3
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- Fixed a number of bugs related to the Material Editor and new effect creation
- Fixed Color Modifiers not working on multi-engine setups
- Improved behaviour of Transform effect blending modes (still not perfect but eh)

v0.1.2
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- Bugfixes

v0.1.1
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- Fixed parsing of plume rotation in templates
- Fixed plume switching needing specific module orders
- Scaling bugfixes

v0.1.0
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- Initial version controlled release
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