Guys, i’m really happy to release the new, Beta 3 release of the world’s sexiest VJ software, CoGe. This release is more stable and powerfull and adds many new things i described in my previous post.

Well, there are MSAA, OSC support, Global key/midi set, rendering window to controls, and an experimental video exporting feature – which is not the best – and many other things. Now you can bind midi buttons to sliders, and midi faders to buttons and matrixes like the 3 cell FX switch. There are some new inputs for Quartz Composer modules as well, check the templates and don’t hesitate to ask me if you don’t know something. More detailed info soon

As you know, the manual still missing, but guys, don’t be afraid, let’s discover the app!

The latest – Beta 2 – release of CoGe has some undocumented internal changes with Media Presets. The presets files now stores thumbnails for files. This information is not to usefull for users, but while i made a plugin for Quicklook, now you can previewing CoGe Media Presets in Finder with a simple space-key hit. As i said, this will working only with Beta 2 saved Media Preset files. For preset files from the previous version, just drag your file to a slot in CoGe Beta 2 and save again.

The first public version – as a v0.2 – of the plugin available for download: http://code.google.com/p/cogequicklook/

I’m happy to release CoGe 1.0 Beta 2 version. After a few months since the initial Beta 1 release, there are many changes under the hood and on the user     interface, so this version aims to the stability and to make the UI more user friendly - check the Changelog below. The bad news – and i hope you guys will appreciate it – 10.5 Leopard no longer supported. It’s because i want to release new versions more often, and don’t have time to working on the 10.5 compatibility. Sorry for that.

Don’t forget the recently check the forum for new modules, there are many new things not included with the main release – just because those stuffs requires 3rd party plugins.

One more things: if you create a snapshot with the new built-in function, are has a video made with CoGe feel free to post that stuff to the CoGe Flickr and the CoGe Vimeo Groups.

Download: Projects Google Code page

Changelog:

What’s new:

• multi-window layout
• windows are resizable on Y
• window collapse/expand
• resizable preview window
• user definable clear color on the main output
• user definable start-up state (loads an internal stored project)
• adds ‘playerChanged’ input for Players
• right-click windows content re-ordered, now moduls on the top
• adds snapshot creation feature
• adds ‘meausePosition’, ‘bpm’, ‘currentBeat’ inputs for Mixers
• adds ‘Find Missing Files with Spotlight’ feature

Fixes:

• crashing on New Project
• tearing when rendering to an FBO
• wrong preview priority after startup
• crashing when dragging a button cell
• crashing if control module doesn’t has ‘bpm’ input port
• crashing on project load
• right-click windows shows only QC files
• issues on event forwarding to compositions
• too large sliders on Master FX
• issues when swapping Media Slots

… and some other misc/minor  changes/fixes

After a long time, i’m happy to release a new beta from the CoGeWebKit Quartz Composer plugin. Vade and me worked a lot on this projects, the plugin has some known issues and needs more time to work, but basically this version is enough stable and its working under Snow Leopard – so i hope you guys will have fun when using it.

If someone missed the previous release, CoGeWebKit is a Quartz Composer plugin that leverages WebKit to allow offscreen rendering of web technologies including interactive Flash and Java content. Control mouse input, browse normally and post process rendered web pages in Quartz Composer.

Download page: http://code.google.com/p/cogewebkit/

Forum topic: http://coge.lovqc.hu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=171

CoGeGPLReader is a plugin for Quartz Composer, for import GIMP Palette files (.gpl) as a structure of colors.

http://www.colourlovers.com/ is an excellent resource for GIMP Palette files.

Download: http://code.google.com/p/cogegplreader/

Example Composition: http://coge.lovqc.hu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=165

The plugin now let you know the states of the mouse buttons.

Download: http://code.google.com/p/cogemousecoords/

CoGeMouseCoords is a pretty simple Quartz Composer plugin for get the current screen resolution, and the current mouse coordinates on the screen.

Download: http://code.google.com/p/cogemousecoords/

I’m happy to release the first public beta from CoGe 1.0! There are tons of changes, new things, improvements, so this is a very-very new CoGe. I’m actually busy with making documentations about the project – so, at the moment, this version is for people how wants to discover unknown territories

Project now hosted on Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/coge

CoGePSBrushes is a free and open-source Quartz Composer plugin, it present an image structure from a brush (.abr) file.

The new beta2 release has some little fixes and additions:

• fixes crash on loading unsupported formats
• add relative file path handling
• add image creating to a background thread. This means loading big files doesn’t pause your composition anymore

Project now hosted on Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/cogepsbrushes/

CoGePSDLayers is a free and open-source Quartz Composer plugin,it present an image structure from a PSD file’s layers, and a structure with the image resources – the image data “without the layer”.

Check a basic demo on Vimeo, download available on the forum.