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Extra Viz Plugins version 1.9.0.48893 is released and recommended to be installed with the latest official Viz Trio bundle for Viz Engine 3.x

It is compatible with Viz Engine version 3.1.0.3764 and up.

Main New features & enhancements:

• The Toggle plug-in used for creating transition layers is now fully supported for Viz Engine and Viz Artist 3.1.x and up.
• ControlChart - A new plug-in to control the coordinates of various plug-ins; Vizual Data Tools, All the different Chart plugins (i.e. LineChart, AreaChart, BarChart etc.), Graph, BarValues, PieValues and more. It also supports all the features of the ControlList and DataLabel plug-ins.
• ControlClip - A new plug-in to control the clip played on SoftClip and MoViz.
• ControlVideo - A new plug-in that replaces the ControlTgclip (Targa). It has the same functionality with relative path support.
• ControlDPObject - Used to set the values of a local DataPool DataObject plug-in which now supports three different options of updating values.
• ControlImage - Now checks Viz Engine response when updating a texture; If an error is returned, ControlImage will fall back to removing the texture attribute.
• ControlObject - No longer logs errors to Viz Engine console when attempting to fill in nonexistent fields.
• ControlObject and Toggle on Viz Engine 2.8.x using Transition Logic and stop point management - Tags are now also managed on Toggle loaded objects with tags set on their animations.
• ControlParameter - Can now be used to control scene parameters.
• ControlList - Now possible to manipulate the number of rows. Descriptions of sub control objects are now exposed as descriptions of the according rows. In addition the behavior of several ControlLists with the same Identifier has been improved.
• ControlOmo - Now also accepts ControlList/ControlChart XML values.
• Toggle - Will load an empty geometry if an invalid geometry is set (Viz Engine 2.x). In Viz Engine 3.x an error message will be reported.
• Added to all control plug-ins is a common flag that specifies visibility only when in expert mode.
• Still Previews and Transition Logic - Toggle plug-in now positions the object director at a 'pilot1' tag (if found) when generating still previews. If not found, it will fall back to 0.5 seconds into the timeline.

Main bugfixes:

• A bug for positioning of the x-fade directors have been fixed.
• Colons in descriptions of control plug-ins no longer affect other plug-in specific options (e.g single line for ControlText).
• Fixed some rare failures that occured when using Transition Logic and stop point management which sometimes led to Viz Engine crashes.
• SoftClip has been improved to fix crash-bugs, and further enhanced to yield better performance.

Known issues:

• Viz Engine 3.x in Non-linear Editing mode can cause errors in the spacing between elements.

For full details and known issues read the Release Notes here

Download version from the ftp in /products/VizTrio/Latest Individual Installers/ folder.

Download is restricted to customers with a valid support contract. If you do not have the login details, please contact your regional support team.