NAP 0.7.7

Incremental release that adds support for new platforms, introduces some new features and fixes some outstanding issues. This is the final incremental release before NAP 0.8.

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• NAP-0.7.7-Win64-x86_64.zip
• NAP-0.7.7-Linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
• NAP-0.7.7-Linux-arm64.tar.bz2

New Features

Support for multiple Visual Studio versions

• The system default version of Visual Studio is selected as generator for cmake, together with it's toolchain. #68
• Both Visual Studio 16 (2019) and 17 (2022) are now supported. #68

FFT Support

audiovisual_demo_720.mp4

• New napfft system module (napfft) #38
• New audiovisualfft demo, using new FTT possibilities & GPU Compute (napfft & naprender) #38
• Implements real-optimized FFTs (positive half-spectrum: nfft/2+1 complex frequency bins) using Kiss FFT.

Improvements

• Add shadow spread property to LightComponent (naprenderadvanced) #63
• RenderBloomComponent refactor (naprender) #65
• Improved render obect sorting and filtering (naprender) #66
• Simplified the build script interfaces (build) #68
  • No longer are arguments specific to a platform - they are shared.
  • Replaced platform specific build commands (make, xcode etc.) with the more generic cmake --build command.
• Removal of (a lot of) string literals in tools/buildsystem (build) #68

Fixes

• Smoothdamp fix (napmath) #64
• Napkin is only installed on Windows when the build config is Release (build) #68
• Fixed the build environment check on Linux (build) #68
  • Uses the packaged version of python instead of system default
  • Removes the loose (deprecated) version check for Qt
• Fix crash in OSCSender when UdpTransmitSocket throws uncaught exception (naposc) #74
• Start audiofile playback manually (audiovisualfft) #77
• Assert compute workgroup count on dispatch (naprender) #78
• Hot reload fix for files in sub directories on linux (core) #79

I'd like to thank @TimGroeneboom, @stijnvanbeek, @lshoek, @cheywood and @cklosters for their contributions