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Changelog

2024-11-25

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(POPS) Visualizing Grains in the viewport updated.

2024-11-10

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(VELLUM) Vellum Caching updated.
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(BASICS) Interface I - Basics / Navigation updated.
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(BASICS) paint attributes updated.

2024-11-09

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New Video (MPM) Materials IV - Sandy created.
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New Video (POPS) [Solaris] Points as Lights created.

2024-11-08

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(POPS) [example] turn to dust updated.
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(VEX) Volumes: Offsetting Volumes updated.
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New Video (BASICS) [Solaris] Volume rendering created.

2024-11-07

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(BASICS) VEX II - Parameters & variables updated.
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(BASICS) COPs I - Basics updated.

2024-11-05

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(POPS) POP Sourcing II updated.

2024-11-04

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(BASICS) Solaris IV - Rendering updated.
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New Video (POPS) [Solaris] POP Shading created.
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New Video (POPS) [Solaris] Rendering POPs I - pscale and motion blur created.

2024-11-03

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(BASICS) VFX Software updated.
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(RBDS) [example] fruit loops updated.
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(RBDS) v and w updated.
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(FLIP) boiling water updated.
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(FLIP) Air Incompressibility updated.
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(BASICS) Visualization updated.
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(BASICS) Solaris III - Camera/Lights/Materials updated.

2024-11-02

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New Video (MPM) Intro / History created.
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New Video (MPM) Collisions I - Basics created.
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New Video (MPM) MPM Crashcourse created.
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New Video (MPM) MPM Container created.
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New Video (MPM) Theory / Tech created.
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New Video (MPM) MPM Source - Sourcing/Emission created.
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New Video (MPM) MPM Solver created.
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New Video (MPM) Materials II - Chunky created.
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New Video (MPM) Materials I - Elastic created.
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New Video (MPM) Density / mass created.

2024-11-01

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(PYRO) volume tools updated.
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(PYRO) Viewport updated.

2024-10-30

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(VEX) [EXAMPLE] DOPs magnet updated.

2024-10-21

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New Video (POPS) Quick update: Vellum Grains / MPM created.
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New Video (VELLUM) Quick update: Vellum Grains created.

2024-10-08

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(BASICS) [Homework] Disco Ball Effect updated.
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(BASICS) "For Loops" updated.
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(BASICS) Boolean node updated.
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(BASICS) Transform objects / pivots updated.

2024-10-02

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New Video (BASICS) COPs III - Tile Pattern Node created.
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New Video (BASICS) COPs III - Examples created.

2024-09-25

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New Video (BASICS) COPs II - Noise / UVs / Texture Generation created.

2024-09-20

Revamp of the invoice system (nicer invoices (past 2022))
Moved "Rendering" after "Fundamentals II" in the Basics Chapter

2024-09-18

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(BASICS) [Solaris] Render Subdivisions updated.

2024-09-16

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(BASICS) [ROPs] Lighting updated.
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(BASICS) Solaris II - Hierarchy/USD updated.
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New Video (BASICS) [Solaris] Lighting created.

2024-09-10

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New Video (BASICS) [Solaris] SHADING I - Materialx created.
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New Video (BASICS) [Solaris] SHADING II - Textures, Noise, Layering created.
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New Video (BASICS) [Solaris] SHADING III - Bump, Displacement created.

2024-09-03

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(BASICS) Solaris I - Overview (Karma/LOPs/USD) updated.

2024-09-01

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(PYRO) [example] Cigar updated.

2024-08-26

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(BASICS) Contexts updated.
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(RBDS) RBD Forces updated.

2024-08-25

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New Video (MPM) [WIP] Materials III - Liquid/Viscous created.

2024-08-03

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(FLIP) custom FLIP Setup updated.

2024-08-02

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(VELLUM) [Homework] Fill a cup with balls updated.
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New Video (BASICS) [H20.5] Recipes (Preview) created.

2024-07-29

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(VELLUM) Iterations / substeps updated.
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(BASICS) Houdini 20.5 updated.

2024-05-19

Updated server infrastructure. Website should be snappier now.

2024-02-18

Accounts can now be correctly deleted.

2024-02-15

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(POPS) POP Replicate updated.

2024-02-13

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(POPS) pop Collision behaviour updated.

2024-02-11

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(POPS) Hit Attributes updated.

2024-02-10

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(BASICS) match size updated.

2024-02-08

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(POPS) physical properties updated.

2024-01-26

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New Video (POPS) Resource Management created.

2024-01-25

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(BASICS) FX Hardware updated.

2024-01-24

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(BASICS) Installation + Licensing updated.

2024-01-20

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(BASICS) Assets updated.
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(BASICS) packed geometry updated.
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(BASICS) Using the website updated.

2024-01-17

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(RBDS) internal/ global substeps in RBD updated.
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(BASICS) circle/sphere/object packing updated.
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(BASICS) render farms updated.

2024-01-15

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added new price plans allowing to prepay for 6 or 12 months
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(RBDS) Packing for RBD Objects / Assemble updated.
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New Video (RBDS) Deforming geometry created.

2024-01-14

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New Video (BASICS) [Homework] Palisade tool created.

2024-01-06

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(VELLUM) [Example] Peel Off effect updated.
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(BASICS) Flipbook updated.

2023-12-16

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(RBDS) [example] Wood shatter updated.

2023-12-15

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(PYRO) cloud tools updated.
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(PYRO) cloud fields updated.

2023-12-14

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(RBDS) RBD Collisions Intro updated.

2023-12-12

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(VELLUM) constraints overview updated.
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(RBDS) RBD spawning updated.

2023-12-11

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(RBDS) [example] Glass shatter updated.
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(BASICS) Procedural Modeling: electric pole updated.

2023-12-10

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(RBDS) RBD Constraints Overview updated.

2023-12-08

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New Video (RBDS) RBD Material Fracture II - Glass+Wood created.

2023-12-07

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New Video (RBDS) Cone Twist Constraints created.

2023-12-03

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(RBDS) Switching @active / @animated / @deforming updated.
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New Video (VELLUM) (Advanced) editing of Constraints created.
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New Video (RBDS) Animated / Deforming Collisions created.

2023-11-23

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(PYRO) [RBD] Debris Dust/Smoke updated.
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(PYRO) sourcing operations updated.
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(BASICS) [Example] Donut I - Scale updated.
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(BASICS) [Example] Donut II - Rotation updated.

2023-11-16

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(PYRO) Temperature/ buoyancy / gravity updated.

2023-11-14

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Fixing special characters bug when registering (password and username can now contain nonenglish characters)
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(BASICS) [Bonus] scattering tips - distribution and pscale updated.

2023-11-12

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(BASICS) Reducing/Remeshing Geometry updated.
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(BASICS) groups II updated.

2023-11-08

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(FLIP) Introduction updated.

2023-10-26

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(PYRO) Render Pyro (smoke) updated.

2023-10-25

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(POPS) Working with time II - timewarp updated.

2023-07-15

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(POPS) [ROP] POP Shading updated.
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(POPS) DOP collision representation / SDFs updated.
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(BASICS) File Access I - Reading/importing updated.

2023-07-10

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Starting to roll out the new video player to all videos...

2023-07-04

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New Video (FLIP) Density created.

2023-07-01

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New Video (VELLUM) Clothing / Vellum Drape created.
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New Video (FLIP) Pressure / Divergence created.

2023-06-28

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(FLIP) boundary layer updated.
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(FLIP) FLIP H19.5 Containers / Container stream updated.
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(FLIP) H19.5 Sources/Sinks updated.

2023-06-21

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(BASICS) [ROPs] Rendering in Mantra / ROPs updated.

2023-06-20

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(POPS) [example] Fireworks updated.
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(BASICS) Rendering Overview (ROPs vs. Solaris) updated.

2023-06-12

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New Video (VEX) advanced point functions created.
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New Video (VEX) Limiting functions by groups created.

2023-06-07

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(BASICS) [ROPs] Shading I - Assigning materials updated.
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(BASICS) [ROPs] Shading IV - Bump+Displacements updated.
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(BASICS) [ROPs] Shading III - Textures, Noise & Layers updated.
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(BASICS) [ROPs] Shading II - Principled Shader updated.

2023-05-04

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(VELLUM) [Homework] Ventilator updated.

2023-05-02

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(VEX) distance( ) updated.
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(RBDS) Convex shapes II updated.

2023-04-23

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(VELLUM) tearing / weld constraint updated.

2023-04-12

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(BASICS) The magic node: Point Deform updated.
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(BASICS) [Example] cartoon tree updated.
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New Video (RBDS) Boolean Fracture created.
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New Video (RBDS) RBD Material Fracture III - Additional functions created.

2023-04-11

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(RBDS) Intro to Fracturing updated.

2023-02-28

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First implementation of an "autoplay" function. (As a button in the videoplayer)

2023-02-14

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Changed the logic for the "update" icon:
Now every video (you have watched) before and was updated since then will get an "update" icon.

2023-02-10

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(RBDS) metal denting updated.

2023-02-08

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(FLIP) sourcing tips updated.

2023-02-07

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(RBDS) Glass shatter render fix updated.

2023-02-06

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(FLIP) [Homework] Flip Tornado updated.

2023-02-04

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(FLIP) Ocean shader updated.

2023-02-03

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(FLIP) Meshing / Surfacing updated.

2023-01-30

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(FLIP) [Homework] simple mountain river updated.
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(BASICS) File Access III: Caching updated.

2023-01-29

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(BASICS) Volumes updated.

2023-01-27

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Implemented first iteration of the new design.

2023-01-24

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(FLIP) [example] water sphere/spiral updated.

2023-01-22

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New Video (BASICS) Career / Showreel advice created.

2023-01-21

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(PYRO) Analysis: Bonfire Pre-Set updated.

2023-01-20

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New Video (PYRO) [Example] Fireplace II - lighting/ shading/ rendering/ embers created.

2023-01-13

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(FLIP) Shelf tool analysis: small ocean updated.
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(FLIP) ocean spectrum updated.

2023-01-06

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(FLIP) visualising speed updated.
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(RBDS) RBD Material Fracture I - concrete updated.

2022-12-19

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(BASICS) SDFs - Signed Distance Fields updated.
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(PYRO) Flame look updated.

2022-12-17

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(POPS) Solver: Snow Footprints updated.

2022-12-16

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(FLIP) Flip+RBD updated.

2022-12-15

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(VELLUM) breaking constraints manually updated.
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New Video (BASICS) Attribute adjust nodes created.

2022-12-14

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(POPS) Basic POP Setup I updated.
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New Video (POPS) Basic POP Setup II created.

2022-12-13

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(RBDS) density vs. mass updated.
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(BASICS) the geometry spreadsheet updated.

2022-12-08

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(RBDS) [example] wall II - part 1 (Fracturing) updated.
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(RBDS) [example] wall II - part 2 (Constraints/Tweaks) updated.

2022-11-14

Added first iteration of changelog system at bottom of videos

2022-07-25

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updated the security system to prevent unallowed sharing of accounts
(Please contact me if this creates problems for you)

2022-01-25

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added subtitles/transcriptions to all videos
(automated, so some mistakes might occur)

2021-12-25

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added additional payment methods via Stripe (during checkout)

2021-10-28

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added "outdated" flag for videos (little tombstone)
(Yes, Houdini 19 has arrived!)

2021-10-26

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added Houdini version indicator (under the video title)

2021-10-02

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hiding the video list now scales up the video window
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added an icon next to videos with personal notes

2021-09-12

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Window title shows current video name (helpful when linking)

2021-08-17

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added an exit survey

2021-08-14

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added personal notes for each video

2021-08-03

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cookie sessions are now saved for 7 days ("autologin")

2021-07-04

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fixed missing check feedback on register form ("mail adress already exists")

2021-05-16

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fixed wrong calculation of progress bar

2021-05-04

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changed the URL handling to more descriptive addresses (test phase) (Test unsuccesful, turned off)

2021-02-11

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fixed problem with generating some invoices

2021-02-04

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improved search algorithm (better results when combining words)

2021-01-23

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added a progress bar in user menu
(based on the video marked as "watched")

2020-12-08

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fixed problem with 5th rating star, now easily clickable

2020-11-11

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easier navigation: when opening a video lower in the video list, the list will automatically be scrolled there

2020-11-02

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added scrollbars to video menu

2020-10-24

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improved Search function
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Added Quotes to landing page
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(subscription) Plans have now a page without the header/quotes

2020-10-23

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added Discord and Reddit Buttons in menubar
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added Changelog and News Section

2020-10-21

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"new" and "updated" timeframe lowered to 14 days

2020-10-11

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added invoices to user profile