Build 293.1 - Release version

The formats that are supported by default by DirectShow are listed here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...-in-directshow

For other formats you need to install specific codecs.

In the example you posted, the MP4 file uses the H.264 codec, that is in theory supported by default. Do you have problems with this file?

BTW in your example there is a mistake in your filename, it should be AppPath$ instead of AppDir$ (as AppDir$ doesn't contain the drive name), and "video.mp4" instead of "\video.mp4" (as AppPaths$ ends with a '\').

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Originally Posted by Yves

The formats that are supported by default by DirectShow are listed here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...-in-directshow

For other formats you need to install specific codecs.

In the example you posted, the MP4 file uses the H.264 codec, that is in theory supported by default. Do you have problems with this file?

BTW in your example there is a mistake in your filename, it should be AppPath$ instead of AppDir$ (as AppDir$ doesn't contain the drive name), and "video.mp4" instead of "\video.mp4" (as AppPaths$ ends with a '\').

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Going to call "Use Media Foundation with DirectX 11" UMFDX11

Swapped the AppDir$ for AppPath$. AVI and WMV work fine with DX9 and DX11 even with UMFDX11 ticked. just mp4s don't work at all, only when its in dx11 and UMFDX11 is ticked.

Made two test EXEs that plays MP4, WMV, and AVI. One is DX9 other is DX11. Gave them to 5 friends to test. Each one reported back that same file on DX9 MP4 didn't show, but WMV and AVI showed up on all.
I Don't think it's just me on this if others isn't working

Link to the zip I sent them with MFA
Pressing 1 plays MP4, 2 plays WMV and 3 plays AVI.

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Originally Posted by Tyrexchip

Going to call "Use Media Foundation with DirectX 11" UMFDX11

Swapped the AppDir$ for AppPath$. AVI and WMV work fine with DX9 and DX11 even with UMFDX11 ticked. just mp4s don't work at all, only when its in dx11 and UMFDX11 is ticked.

Made two test EXEs that plays MP4, WMV, and AVI. One is DX9 other is DX11. Gave them to 5 friends to test. Each one reported back that same file on DX9 MP4 didn't show, but WMV and AVI showed up on all.
I Don't think it's just me on this if others isn't working

Link to the zip I sent them with MFA
Pressing 1 plays MP4, 2 plays WMV and 3 plays AVI.

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Tested on my machine, everything works fine, the MP4 file plays correctly.

Tested on the Windows sandbox, i.e. quite similar to a fresh Windows 10 install, the MP4 doesn't play. So probably the H.264 codec is not installed by default, and it was installed on my machine by some application. So you have to install a H.264 DirectShow codec if you want to play this file.

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Originally Posted by Yves

Tested on my machine, everything works fine, the MP4 file plays correctly.

Tested on the Windows sandbox, i.e. quite similar to a fresh Windows 10 install, the MP4 doesn't play. So probably the H.264 codec is not installed by default, and it was installed on my machine by some application. So you have to install a H.264 DirectShow codec if you want to play this file.

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Is it possible for DX9 to have a toggle to use Media Foundation sometime in the future or a newer object? I looked more the forums and saw concept of a VLC object.

I notice that the Active picture seem to have some problem with physic movement after image change or hotspot change.

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Originally Posted by MuddyMole

Importing of sprite sheets in box mode is not working correctly when images have an alpha channel (it loads sprites in column order, instead of row order).
I suspect it may be related to another issue, mentioned previously in the changelog:

Build 292.5 - Change log
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- Picture editor: wrong export of sprites sheets in box mode when images have an alpha channel.

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I cannot reproduce this, could you post an image file that contains images that are imported in the wrong order?

Effects/Shaders are great, but I think having more special variables like fPixelWidth/fPixelHeight would be nice, here some suggestions:

fTime: Basically Fusion's internal timer being retrieved by the shader, would be pretty useful for spontaneously animated shader, if this can work with backdrops, it would be amazing so we could get animated backdrops!
fResolution: A float2 that bundles the object/layer size in pixels, it should consider the current object scale.
fMouse: Mouse pixel coords, basically a float2 that bundles xmouse and ymouse, should be relative to the object/layer.
fPosition: The object/layer position in a float2, could be used to have a scrolling texture that's relative to the position of the object/layer without messing with parameters.

Stacking shaders as well would be really useful, but I understand that it must be difficult to implement at this point...

Changing a bit of subjects, I just noticed that we can copy behaviors from one object to another and it automatically replace all instances of the original object by the new one, which honestly got me amazed, never knew it could do that!
I also thought about how BEHAVIORS could be more useful:

First would be nice if we could have something like library does, where you could have a "Select existing behavior" button, it then shows a window with the current mfa and a list of mfas from a new special folder called "Behaviors", where people could put mfas containing actives with behaviors inside, clicking on the mfa (like in the library) it would show the objects icons and names of that mfa, clicking these objects it would show it's behaviors, selecting a behavior would copy this the selected objects, and with the amazing built-in feature that replaces the original object from the events with the current one, it would be a fantastic way of sharing custom stuff (Eg: custom movements, custom interface elements, AI related stuff, etc)
Alternatively we could also have a new toolbar for behaviors, works exactly the same as the Library toolbar, but after double clicking a object it shows all its behaviors names... Double clicking the behavior name with object selected in frame or dragging it to a object would copy the behavior to the object...

I hope I explained it well, cause it would be pretty cool :D
But one thing that would make this extremely more useful would be the capability of add or remove behaviors of objects, so for example a custom movement or AI could be applied to objects during runtime, changing how it behaves, which makes total sense with the Behavior thing.

One improvement I'd like to see regarding Behaviours is speeding up searching for them in Find All. When I do Find All with Behaviours unchecked, it takes less than half a second. When I do it with Behaviours checked, it takes about 7 seconds (ie. ~20 times longer). I use Find All dozens of times per session, so it's a big difference. And I don't actually have any objects with behaviours!

To my [amateur] mind, it seems like there might be a simple solution. Have an internal list somewhere in Fusion that keeps track of which objects contain behaviours. Each time a behaviour is added, add that object to the list. (I assume something along theses lines is already being done to tell Fusion which icons to put a "B" on). Then, when performing a Find All search, don't search through every object to see if it has behaviours (which I assume is what's happening now). Only search the objects that appear on that list instead.

On a related note, I really think "Objects" need to be unchecked in Find All by default, because the slowdown they cause is crazy. When I search with Objects checked, the search takes ~23 seconds. When unchecked it takes, like I said, less than half a second. It probably took me like two months to discover this difference though, and I'm sure many others are the same. I think it really undersells the awesomeness of this feature to present it in 'ultra-slow mode' by default.

Don't know if this has been brought up by anyone else (apologies if it has), but I'm having an issue installing this update.

Click team Fusion Developer 2.5 has not been totally installed because of the following reason:

Examples/AdMob/Test AdMob iOS.mfa: This file contains invalid data (error 11FD)

You will have to run this utility again to completely install Clickteam Fusion Developer 2.5

Could we get the index on the list of Alt Values/Strings for objects like it does on Global Values/Strings? It feels like this was overlooked...