Updated 2024-10-08
Below is a a preliminary development roadmap for future development, describing what has been done and what the current plan is. Everything is very much subject to change. As testing is now ongoing you can also find more detailed recent build change logs in the Version history.
Completed previous roadmap steps can be found at the Completed roadmap steps history page.
Development plan
Summer 2024
[x] Test phase 1
A first round of test versions for testing and feedback by a smaller group of external testers, testing core functionality and concepts:
Done:
- Version/update checking system
- Improved Getting started / intro dialogue
- Basic settings
- Versioned per-platform download system
- License system
- Basic sample files
- More tooltips, warnings and other inline help feature contents
- Windows code signing (getting rid of Windows warning when starting app)
- Configuring and reordering custom document parameters
- Improved random value generation performance and reliability
- Improved Linux stability / support
- Tester testing and collecting feedback
Autumn 2024
[-] Test phase 2
In progress
A second testing period with more testers and focus on adding more features and fixing bugs:
To do:
- Better OS integration
- More user settings
- More layer node transformation handles
- More layer nodes
- More input nodes
- Improved node management (Changing node types and rearranging nodes)
- Additional export formats
- Fixes and improvements based on the first test period
- Tester testing and collecting feedback
2024
Test period 3
Early access
A third testing period for testing and feedback to ensure it’s solid for the 1.0 release. This will be an “early access” style open testing period where anyone can purchase the software at a reduced price:
To do:
- Distribution systems (Download and purchase pages)
- Presentation videos
- Rendering and generation performance optimization
- Fixes and improvements based on the first testing rounds
2024 +
1.0 Release
The first full release version available for sale.
- Fixes and improvements based on testing rounds
While this development roadmap ends with the 1.0 release the plan is not to stop development there. Just like with Vectoraster and Patternodes the initial release will likely be followed by many updates, large and small over time.
Future post release updates
2024 +
Future updates
Some possible such future expansions that (probably) won’t make it into the first release:
- Multiple artboard support
- Animation
- Batch processing (setting input parameters from list and exporting outputs)