What’s New

This information applies to the tkeskita/bvtknodes version.

Version 0.11

2023-12-31: Motion Blur is available in VTK To Blender Mesh Node. Mesh motion blur is implemented using Blender Shape Keys, based on mesh point transformation by a vector point field.

2023-08-19: Resurrected VTK To Blender Volume Node. This was possible since pyopenvdb is now included in Blender 3.6 by default.
2023-08-18: Upgrade to Blender LTS version 3.6 (Python 3.10) and VTK 9.2.6. The previous Blender LTS version 3.3 (Python 3.10) still works as well with VTK 9.2.6. This upgrade required no class changes.
2023-06-09: Fixed a bug where negative scalar values were colored incorrectly with Color Mapper node (absolute values of data was shown).
2023-01-21: Upgrade to Blender LTS version 3.3 (Python 3.10) and VTK 9.2.2. The previous Blender LTS version 2.93 (Python 3.9) still works as well with VTK 9.2.2.

2022-07-28: Color Mapper Node now supports vector arrays as well as scalar arrays as input. For vectors, magnitude of the vector is used for the color scale.
2022-06-12: Changed Custom Filter to fix it’s tree import/export.
2022-06-05: Fixed importing of colors for Color Ramp node.
2022-05-28: Fixed Property listing bug for Blender 2.93 (properties were not shown in the Properties tab).
2022-05-28: Added VTK To Blender Image Node to convert vtkImageData to a Blender Image.

Upgrade to Blender LTS version 2.93 and VTK 9.1.0. The previous Blender LTS version 2.83 still works as well with VTK 9.1.0.

Supported Blender LTS version 2.83 and VTK 9.0.1.
New node update system, where VTK updates are independent of node editing actions. User has now option to change Update Mode in the Inspect Panel, which determines when changes in nodes are updated to VTK objects. Most useful options include No Automatic Updates and Update All Automatically.
Nodes have now Node Status information, which is shown by node colors.
Values of dynamic enumeration lists are stored in string properties, so that it is possible to pre-define whole node trees without need to run updates on nodes. This allows full pre-definition of node trees e.g. for JSON imports.
several new cubeflow node tree examples (in Tree Tab) available for Node Examples for Unstructured Grids.
Development for this release was made in pull request #46.

A testing framework helps developers catch regression bugs.
Global Time Keeper node allows animation of many node properties by Blender’s Keyframes feature.
Improved Custom Code editing.
Matplotlib color maps are available as presets in Color Ramp node.
Several bug fixes and small usability improvements.
More information in pull requests at github.