• *** [PRESET->SAVE] fails check for already rezzed Porgan Presets Volume 1. (workaround: rename rezzed book to "Porgan Presets Volume" remove the "1" from the end.
• *** negative values in ACCEL rounded off to nearest tenth, (-0.01 to -0.09 treated as -0.0)
• **. [More...->(weblink buttons)] are non-operational. (workaround: press the [Script] button and navigate from there.
• *.. Loading presets with default textures mistakenly reports "'' texture not found", error can be ignored.
• *** bug - risk of exceeding the memory limit when using [SCRIPT] function
• **. [COPY] creates incomplete chord objects if emitter #1 is currently OFF
• **. UI - accel "compass" control is awkward and does not update after [RELOAD] or preset load.
• *.. [IMPORT] only loads texture key, not name. (not going to be fixed)
• *.. [SCRIPT] cut'n'paste from MS-IE fails to preserve indentation.
• *.. UI - using /7 to speak a vector value fails if vector value contains spaces.
• *.. UI - Texture Dropbox gets stubborn after [RELOAD] is used.
• *.. Emitter Stack: rapid-stack switching can leave the controls a little confused.

• NEW: Built-in TARGET child-prims! (use "[x] Edit Linked Parts" to move them!)
• NEW: The EMITTERS are now unlinked from the console, move and rotate them anytime! t
• NEW: Your effect's EMITTER and TARGET positions are duplicated by the [COPY] function!
• NEW: (Save Preset) option to build your own library of often used effects
• NEW: (?) "Help" button provides information about the most recently used control or option
• NEW: EMITTER selection control on console paired with an effect Color/Texture indicator
• NEW: Console Theme: (EBONY) - a laquered grand piano style.
• NEW: [OPTIONS] -> (Inspect) feature to select a control without touching it. (useful for people that often use /7 to adjust effect settings) without accidentally touching and changing it.
• NEW: user interface layout, button behavior, console shape
• NEW: Icons: full bright, follow velocity, Interp color/scale, X,Y Accel
• FIXED: [RELOAD] incorrectly disabled emitter #2 and #3 by setting BURST COUNT to ZERO
• FIXED: [RELOAD] on a new porgan sometimes targets the old porgan
• FIXED: OMEGA bug, large values didn't [COPY] well.
• NEW: Number Keypad on console simplifies setting exact values!
• Reduced prim count of the console from 56 to 48!
  
  

• [SCRIPT] more script-writer options desired
• Allow 'import from particle script' option
• Correctly Preserve TestTargetPrim locations for use in Presets, [SCRIPT]
• (typecasting) in [SCRIPT] output can be removed due to recent change to SL, yay!
• Improve the 'new update available' to allow people to request beta versions
• Change [RELOAD] process to a better [SCAN] process
• soon - [SCRIPT] printer will also be smart about re-creating positioned particle targets!
• Red-Warning needed for particles only 'underground': large ANGLE+RADIUS w/o omega+bounce
• [COPY] chords work great with all Particle Laboratory's CONTROLLER & TARGET Templates, but are still limited to CONTROLLER_ID="A" for now.
• (done) Make the Emitter Stack moveable/resizable so large effects won't hide the porgan controls
• (done) Emitter SELECT/OFF controls should be moved to console
• (done) add WARNING messages to give better clues/hints about control combination problems
• (done) [COPY] feature will clone the rezzed test-target-prims along with the effect automatically!
• (done) change appearance of the emitter stack (reduced polygon count)
  
  

Fri Mar 19 17:49:35 PDT 2010


• Updated FAQ to reflect version 1.0.

Mar 5 13:32:35 PDT 2010


• *** The User Guide is still woefully incomplete

Wed Feb 3 16:34:45 PST 2010


• Re-integrated and upgraded /7 text-chat param input system: #+ moves to the next emitter, #- moves to the previous emitter. Accepts particle param lists as [param|value|param2|value2|param3|value3|...|...][target_prim_offset_vector|emitter_prim_offset_vector|emitter_prim_rotation] (emitter_prim_offset is ignored for root prim)
• BIG improvement to SAVE ONE/SAVE ALL preset options, better integration with /7 input channel. Entire preset definition is stored on one line making for *MUCH* faster loading than before.

Sat Jan 30 13:37:56 PST 2010


• Copy target and emitter positions almost complete (root prim rotation is still a problem).
• Numeric Keypad added to console for precise tuning. To edit vector data, touch the part of the numeric display you wish to over-write.
• Re-repositioned the RADIUS and BURST COUNT controls to footboard
• Rebuilt the 'Book' interface. LEFTSIDE(black-text) = guest-usable-functions, RIGHTSIDE(red-text) = owner-only functions. Top buttons load/import effects, bottom buttons copy/output effects. [Reload] is now [import]. [F.A.Q.] is now [Web]. [Options Menu] button is now larger. (Clear All) function being moved to [Presets] section.
• adjusted cabinet shape slightly and put the OMEGA cube on the ground instead of floating unsupported.
• combined the "Busy Indicator / Presets Library" prim and the "Emitter Texture/Color Indicator" prims
• rebuilt the Min/MaxSpeed controller, looks better, sliders no longer dangle off the right and left sides of the control, tying up usable UI space.

Fri Jan 8 06:40:29 PST 2010


• Reduced Prim count by 2, current count=49
• added (?) help button, added PATTERN types and hints to param/value display panel
• Lateral ACCEL compass control improved. Top now sets direction, slider on side sets velocity.

Fri Jan 8 06:40:29 PST 2010


• Reduced Prim count by 3, current count=51
• rebuilt the PARAMETER and VALUE display panel, improved touch-hints given by it.
• relocated the rez-pad prim and porgan label prim, whittled the cabinet
• reverted tiny helper scripts to LSL instead of MONO to reduce overall memory use
• Display Selection control now moved to console. One and only one emitter will be in 'edit' mode at all times.

Sat Jan 2 12:01:04 PST 2010


• fixed beta-bug: turning a stack emitter on/off after switching emitter cause target-other to default to target-self
• changed behavior of TARGET TYPE controller. Touch to bring up options, pick one of the four displayed options to set it. (previously was touch-cycled through the 4 options).

Fri Jan 1 17:41:29 PST 2010


• fixed - misc chatter from touching old root prim
• fixed - default touch event triggering script in new root prim

Tue Dec 29 15:18:58 PST 2009


• done - added Option -> Inspect feature to check the value of a control without adjusting it
• fixed - chair/reloadprim rez rotations and locations
• fixed?(again) - RELOAD count=0 problem. (still needs testing)
• fixed - copy-permissions problem

Fri Dec 11 23:45:12 PST 2009


• done - SAVE PRESETS feature added - save individual effects for easy retrieval
• done - REZ TARGET feature added - porgan rezzes a moveable target when targetting is turned on.
• done - some console icons improved to make their purpose clearer

Sat May 29 22:11:35 PDT 2009


• **. *LIVE-FIX* SCRIPT GENERATOR cleanup/overhaul/upgrade

Mon Feb 16 11:39:03 PST 2009
THIRD RELEASE Version 0.3

Summary of Major Fixes and New Features:

*NEW*
• Speech Override Can't get a control to give you an exact value? Say the value on channel /7!
• Restricted Access - Lock the controls so only you can use them. You can also rez an "Operator's Chair" to allow one other person to use the console at a time. (under OPTIONS menu)
• Customize the Console - Set two colors and a texture (under OPTIONS menu)
• [SCRIPT] - Single Shorter URL, more robust (has 2nd website to use if 1st is not responding), also displays shortform output in chat.. *just in case* both websites are down.
• Clear All - Clears all particle settings at once. (under OPTIONS menu)
• The ? Hint - touch the ? in the middle of the console for a reminder hint about the most recently used control!
• CONTROLLER TEMPLATE - the chord's controller script now has adding LISTEN and AUTO-STOP options included (off by default but easy to enable). (chords are created with the [COPY] function)

*FIXES*
• FIX: Color Picker controls are now much more accurate.
• BUGFIX: The mysterious "self-destruct" message associated with the COPY! function is fixed.
• BUGFIX: corrected small negative values for ACCEL/GRAVITY were mis-handled by COPY and PRINT
• BUGFIX: Presets and Reload failed to reset OMEGA emitter rotation properly in many cases.
• ADDED a few missing "Red Warnings" that light up controls to alert you to possible particle problems.

*CHANGES*
• AUTO-SLEEP - main display stops emitting particles if not used for 5 minutes
• TEXTURE CONSOLE - preview now shows changes to END-scale,color,alpha values much faster.
• AGE/RATE/COUNT LIMITER - AGE, RATE and COUNT controls auto-adjust if you try to draw too many particles with one effect.
• Several console controls tuned, moved, resized, slightly altered including:
  • SPEED MIN/MAX - sliders now collide with each other making it easy to set both to the same value.
  • ANGLE BEGIN/END - also now collide with each other too.
  • RELOAD - The dropbox 'vortex' has been enlarged and waits more patiently.
  • BOOK - consolidated all the web-doc links into one "help' button.
  • The Stack - is now further from the console and angled slightly, to help prevent the console vanishing inside large particle effects. (still not yet relocatable, sorry! next version!)
(Version 0.2 was only released to beta testers - Thanks for all your feedback on that version!)

Mon Feb 16 11:07:03 PST 2009

• *.. Web-pages updated, added "printer friendly version" links to each as well.
• *** Rare "Stack-Heap Collision" on "Readout - Master Emitter" should now be fixed.
• *.. [Options]->(Clear All) now merely turns emitter #2 and #3 off, rather than setting their burst count to 0, and EMISSIVE, and INTERP COLOR and SCALE are set to ON by default now.

Sat Feb 14 13:05:47 PST 2009

• *.. corrected slider display for min/max speed, was offset.
• *.. added F.A.Q. webpage
• *.. revamped the update-checker
• *.. Stretched some of the texture controls slightly
• *** fixed a bug with emitter switching and restricted mode.
• *.. added more customization options to the CONTROLLER TEMPLATE in rezzed effect COPIES.
• *.. re-textured book control to make button-zones more obvious
• *.. extracted 3 obsolete prims, total now 56!
• *.. finished script-url consolidation update
• *.. bug where all 3 emitters were locked after a RELOAD fixed.

Thu Jan 22 09:38:55 PST 2009

• *** added fail-over web host for picking up scripts generated with PRINT feature.
• *** jopsyinsl.com downtime issues seem to be resolved.
• *.. PRINT! single friendlier URL to pick up PRINT'ed scripts.

Wed Jan 21 06:13:10 PST 2009

• **. switching emitters on the pyramid stack sometimes gets into a strange state

Thu Jan 15 04:21:11 PST 2009

• **. (can't reproduce:0 Chords aren't listening to master script (fixed?)
• *** (fixed) Rez-pad to Chord communication sometimes affects nearby new chords
• *.. (fixed) Controls: some dials may be a little inaccurate after loading a preset.
• *.. (fixed) Controls: end-color picker sometimes stops responding
• *.. (fixed) Controls: color pickers tend to over-saturate muted hues/tints
• *.. (fixed) PRINT! logic for name vs. key too strict?
• *.. (added) a red-warning for RADIUS too high

Tue Jan 13 04:25:03 PST 2009

• Age/rate*count bounding. Pushing one control out of bounds pulls the other two in.
• added FLAGS, FLAGNAME to parameter display panel, vanished the flaglist below.

Fri Jan 9 19:31:20 PST 2009

• Added "idle time out" ... emitter stack should stop emitting after 5 minutes of neglect, and start up where it left off next time it's used.
• Owner and Single-User "Operator Chair" RESTRICTED mode complete. OPTIONS -> ACCESS (RESTRICT / UN-RESTRICT / REZ A CHAIR).
• *.. RELOAD now overwrites OFF emitters.
• New Cabinet theme added: Brass. "Default" changed to "Classic" on a whim.
• OPTIONS -> CLEAR ALL (?reset all?) added to wipe all 3 emitters settings clear.
• *.. Controls: ANGLE controls now look accurate after preset/stack-change
• *.. Controls: ANGLE and SPEED controls now act as 'bookends', unable to pass through each other. This makes it *MUCH* easier to set both to BEGIN/END and MIN/MAX to the same value.
• speed min/max control combined into a single prim.
• Texture Drop-box updated, now ignores unauthorized users in restricted mode.
• Bug in texture drop-box not clearing set texture elegantly in restricted mode, fixed.
• RELOAD vortex enlarged and made a little more patient.
• Porgan Chair updates self to match the theme set on the console, and auto-dies if a new chair is rezzed.

Tue Jan 6 23:51:49 PST 2009

• laying groundwork for "tidy script urls" and options.
• Enlarged/updated the RELOAD! drop-box vortex
• Owner-only/Seated-Operator restriction 50% implemented
• Color Pickers - far more accurate hue/saturation/luminosity picking now.
• PRESETS: now properly reset OMEGA and other omitted parameters.
• Book-control update: Consolidated web-doc links, increased contrast on Presets, faded-out Texture Libaray
• Book-control update: Added OPTIONS menu - "Theme" and "Permissions"
• Book-control update: clean-up/overhaul - returned SCRIPTS/PRINT option to guest-usable
• Console - split "Texture Controls" part off of the main console.
• Console - Re-arranged to cluster PATTERN and PRODUCTION together better.

Fri Dec 12 19:44:39 PST 2008

• *LIVEFIX* Added Google Translate widget to Porgan web docs.
• Turned/distanced the stack a bit from the console, better for larger effects.

Sat Dec 6 01:16:30 PST 2008

• *.. Controls: difficult to set very small gravity values (only a display problem)
• **. Display: values between -1.0 and 0.0 were displayed incorrectly.
• **. PRINT! display errors for small negative numbers, larger negatives over-rounded off too much.
• *.. red-warnin: Low transparancy warning added.

Wed Dec 10 21:28:50 PST 2008

• *.. red-warning: Particles moving too fast to be seen
• LIVE-FIX **. PRINT! "short-form" output caused type-mismatch errors.

Mon Dec 1 07:22:24 PST 2008
SECOND RELEASE (version 0.1)

Summary of New Features included in Version 0.1:

• COPY! & Textures - You can now use No-Mod/No-Trans textures purchased from from the Particle Laboratory in your chords!chords!
• RELOAD! - chords can be scanned back into your Porgan! Just touch RELOAD! And Control-DROP your effect into the vortex! (owner-only, and only on their own COPY! effects created on version 0.1 of the porgan or higher)
• Console: Better WARNINGS signs: More controls turn RED to help you find particle problems faster!
• Console: Better INCOMPATIBILITY detection: More controls vanish if they are incompatible or irrelevant with the options you have selected.
• Console: Better NOT-IN-USE indicators: More controls correctly go DIM to show when they are not in use.
• Chords COPY!s: resistant to script resets!. clones created with shift-drag-copy lost their particle data because the action resets object scripts.
• PRINT!: - Cut'n'paste from IE fixed!
• PRESET!: - updates: volcano(new), smoke(updated)
• Preset: - New Random Presets "All" and Sub categories: Color+,Pattern,Production & Influcence
• Preset: - Reset reverts current effect being edited to a very simple display
• Secret Easter Egg feature -- can you find it?

Sat Nov 29 14:26:22 PST 2008

• **. RELOAD! Only works for device owners, and only on their own creations for security reasons
• clean-up: chord script greatly reduced
• fix: chord on/off switch default possition corrected
• new: "Easter Egg" feature
• new: RANDOM preset categories
• updated: *.. Controls: PSYS_SRC_MAX_AGE dial finally has a better label
• new: RELOAD! feature, drop chords into the vortex to read them back into the Porgan

Thu Nov 27 09:25:34 PST 2008

• fixed: **. COPY! particle gravity reversal anomaly. (can't reproduce)
• fixed: **. ACCEL compass background should go dim when value is 0.0
• fixed: *** ACCEL compass does not re-center to 0,0 properly.
• fixed: ACCEL compass dims/vanishes when not in use or disabled by target linear.
• fixed: Follow Velocity Button now goes bright red when it is causing problems
• NEW: Touch parameter label in center of console for a HINT about the last control touched.
• change: enlarged texture-drop, auto-off dial & book, swapped it with ACCEL controls.
• fixed: *.. The Stack: auto-UNLOCK trigger if two parts of the stack are turned off.
• updated: PRESET! Fire:Smoke - minor improvments
• fixed: *.. very high speedmin&max should invoke "red warning"
• fixed: *** Shift-Drag a COPIED effect resets its script losing the effect
• fixed: **. Particle Effect Clone: shift-drag copies fail to touch-on/off.
• fixed: *.. very slow burst rates should invoke "red warning"
• fixed: *.. various bad age/rate/auto-off combinations cause RED warning.
• fixed: *.. auto-off dial goes dim, not green when not in use.
• fixed: *.. rezzing a new private porgan auto-spawns a chord (fixed)

Thu Nov 27 00:02:09 PST 2008

• LIVE FIX: *** Using MS-IE to PRINT scripts fails to line wrap after cut'n'paste.
• LIVE FIX: *** [SCRIPT] ! output error - all flags got mistakenly turned off.

Tue Nov 25 20:54:40 PST 2008

• fixed: *.. PSYS_undefined on parameter display when book is used.
• fixed: *.. unnecessary extra code in chair removed.
• *new*: *.. Preset: "fire:volcano"

Mon Nov 24 00:58:42 PST 2008

• fixed: *** COPY! & PRINT! denied owner after a drag-copy.
• fixed: **. Texture particle rods problem finding target after rez.
• fixed: *.. flag display: TARGET_POS and TARGET_LINEAR stuck "on"
• fixed: *.. Porgan Chair default touch action set to "open"

Mon Nov 22 15:43:23 PST 2008
FIRST RELEASE (version 0.0)