Fabric Alpha Releases

[vade]

Fabric Alpha 0

Welcome to the first Alpha release of Fabric!

Fabric is a new creative coding / rapid prototyping inspired by Quartz Composer.

Fabric is built on top of

• Satin Rendering Engine for Metal by Reza Ali
• Lygia Shader Library by Patricio Gonzalez Vivo.

Important

Please note Fabric is in heavy development and is not production ready. This is a preview release, and we welcome feedback of all type!

Please see review the following for info :

• Open Issues for all known bugs.
• Architecture Doc for introductory information on Fabric
• Roadmap Doc for planned next strps
• Nodes Doc for information on available Nodes.

We also invite Discussions if you have questions and not bugs

New Features

• Provide preliminary Fabric Editor GUI application (code signed), reminiscent of Quartz Composer's Editor.
• Provide preliminary document format to save Fabric Graphs
• Provide preliminary data types for Node output: Boolean, Index, Number, Vectors, Arrays, as well as Images, Materials, Geometry, Mesh, Light, Camera, and Sub-Graph (Macro) nodes like Iterator, Render in Image, etc.
• Provide preliminary Node implementations
• Support Quartz Composer execution paradigm with Consumer, Producer, Provider nodes.

Goals for Alpha:

• Vet graph evaluation model and node execution approach.
• Build community and get feedback on priorities of Nodes to build and features.
• Build a small / trusted developer community to help grow Fabric.

Known issues

• Memory isn't always freed when closing some documents with specific node configurations.
• Undo / Redo not yet implemented.
• Copy / Paste not yet implemented.
• Node Settings (similar to Patch Settings in QC) not yet supported.

Warning

Please note that any Fabric documents you save, at this juncture, are best effort supported in future versions as we work out kinks.

What's Changed

• Mixer Effects by @tobyspark in Mixer Effects #42
• Feature/remove renderable nodes by @vade in Feature/remove renderable nodes #45
• Feature/graph hosts object by @vade in Feature/graph hosts object #47
• Support for Satin/fixes/18 - removal of protocols from some hot paths… by @vade in Support for Satin/fixes/18 - removal of protocols from some hot paths… #54
• Fixes/23 - Node based automatic port Registration, Serialization, Publishing, Dynamic Ports, and Parameter exposing using PortRegistry by @vade in Fixes/23 - Node based automatic port Registration, Serialization, Publishing, Dynamic Ports, and Parameter exposing using PortRegistry #55
• Document Window Management Fix by @vade in Document Window Management Fix #58
• Add a draft base compute node by @vade in Add a draft base compute node #62
• About window w/ Fabric Logo implemented in SwiftUI by @tobyspark in About window w/ Fabric Logo implemented in SwiftUI #70
• App Icon by @tobyspark in App Icon #71

New Contributors

• @tobyspark made their first contribution in Mixer Effects #42
• @vade made their first contribution in Feature/remove renderable nodes #45

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Fabric-Project/Fabric/commits/Releases/Alpha-0

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This discussion was created from the release Fabric Alpha 0.

[vade]

Fabric Alpha 1 Release

Thanks to @JustinMeans for a slew of great PR's and fixes!

What's Changed

• Fix modulo by zero crash by @JustinMeans in Fix modulo by zero crash #75
• Add bidirectional node connection dragging by @JustinMeans in Add bidirectional node connection dragging #76
• Fix scene not updating when connections change by @JustinMeans in Fix scene not updating when connections change #78
• Feature/drag preview line by @vade in Feature/drag preview line #79
• Add drag preview line by @JustinMeans in Add drag preview line #77

New Contributors

• @JustinMeans made their first contribution in Fix modulo by zero crash #75

Full Changelog: Releases/Alpha-0...Releases/Alpha-1

[tobyspark]

This is hilarious –

And great to see the contributions + contributors since posting the alpha. I go away for the weekend and come back to a flurry of PRs!

[vade]

Fabric Alpha 2 is a quality of life update and features

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• Undo Support for Node and Patch Coords
• Graph Pinch to Zoom
• Better support for Light mode on macOS
• Fix for Typo's in documentation and on some Node and Node Parameters.

What's Changed

• Make Xcode project generic for any developer by @JustinMeans in Make Xcode project generic for any developer #82
• Add scroll-to-node and zoom features by @JustinMeans in Add scroll-to-node and zoom features #83
• docs: fix a bunch of typos by @MojtabaHs in docs: fix a bunch of typos #86
• Fix/zoom jump by @vade in Fix/zoom jump #87
• Fix zoom jump by anchoring magnification to viewport center by @JustinMeans in Fix zoom jump by anchoring magnification to viewport center #84
• Feature/undomanager support by @vade in Feature/undomanager support #88
• Add UndoManager support for graph operations by @JustinMeans in Add UndoManager support for graph operations #85

New Contributors

• @MojtabaHs made their first contribution in docs: fix a bunch of typos #86

Full Changelog: Releases/Alpha-1...Releases/Alpha-2

[vade]

Alpha 3

New Nodes:

• UV Material Node
• Arc Geometry Node
• Cone Geometry Node
• Tube Geometry Node
• Torus Geometry Node
• Vector 2, 3, 4 Distance Node
• Numerical Smoothing Node with 1 Euro Filter

Updates

• Update Hand Keypoint Detector Node to have outputs for each keypoint, useful to help select just some digits
• Update Plane Node to allow for plane orientation
• Bug fixes

[jeanpoole]

Hello from Melbourne, Australia!
Intrigued to check it out - thanks for developing / sharing this!!

I tried opening The Fabric app I'd downloaded from the releases page...
( Fabric.Editor.Alpha.5.zip )
and am on Sonoma - 14.8.2
.. and it said >> "You can't use this version of the application "Fabric Editor" with this version of macos."

I was expecting this to work... Am I doing something wrong?

"Requirements : macOS 14 +"

[vade]

Oh, i may have fucked something up with SDKs or what not. Ill take a look, apologies. I dont think theres anything inherently 15.0 + in the code and the only thing im eye balling is some new stuff in Tahoe which could be 'opt in' if done right.

[vade]

Feel free to file a bug @jeanpoole and i'll try to get to it soon!

[vade]

Oh jeez, i just had a default SDK setup. Thats on me. I should be able to make a small update.

[vade]

Ok, i spoke a bit too soon, i am using something in the editor thats 15.0 only. i'll see about work arounds! Sorry about that @jeanpoole that slipped through the many cracks.

[jeanpoole]

No worries, thanks for the replies - I haven't felt any need to nudge up to 15... until now.
I can probably shift over to 15 in the next week or so...

[vade]

Whoops, forgot to keep this updated to track our releases! We're up to Alpha 10 now! weee!