LED Studio Changelog

All notable changes to this package will be documented in this file.

[1.5.0] - 2026-10-05

Kept the prepopulated Orbitron sample font static so authoring text does not mutate its glyph tables or atlas.
Added vertical curved and corner boards, pipe-wrap presets and spherical LED boards with adjustable latitude limits, inside or outside faces, and optional closed poles.
Added hexagonal boards and cabinet layouts, optional partial edge panels, seeded whole-panel defects and a honeycomb wall preset.
Added spatial board groups that map content across each board’s physical position and size, including gaps and irregular panel arrangements.
Improved distant and sub-pixel board brightness, emitter transitions, diffusion halos, saturated colors and HDR presentation, including more consistent hex-emitter brightness.
Improved transparent-layer blending, content reduction, nearest sampling and defect flicker, and retained compositor shaders automatically in Player builds.
Improved URP Deferred and depth-priming support, depth and normal rendering, shadows, motion vectors, fog and stereo rendering. Fixed Metal shader warnings.
Added live-texture emission for compatible global-illumination setups and a realtime GI room example with setup guidance. Optional controls can limit update frequency, pause new lighting samples or clear the board’s GI contribution.
Added a clearer LED Board material inspector with named settings, contextual panel controls, grouped sections and reliable multi-material editing and Undo.
Improved saved-board rendering and animation in Edit Mode, source binding refresh and update scheduling.
Kept stationary and paused auto-scroll text visible across bitmap, TextMesh Pro and external renderers, and simplified text-source controls.
Organized example scenes into numbered folders with shared assets and added pipe-wrap, sphere, hex-cabinet and spatial-honeycomb demonstrations.
Expanded the manual with TextMesh Pro markup, renderer requirements and topology, cabinet-defect and group guidance.
Improved window layouts and sample-font stability, moved Custom directly after None in the Front Frame menu, and kept live group-status updates from interrupting inspector controls.

[1.4.0] - 2026-09-01

Added optional generated front frames with chamfer, round, cove, ogee, stepped, and reusable custom profiles; frame-only and rear-body combinations now support flat, curved, corner, and cylindrical boards with dedicated materials, stable high-detail profile winding, precise meter-range dimension sliders, and responsive authoring controls.
Added seven source-verified AI Skills for board authoring, content, groups, Timeline, runtime control, and rendering diagnosis, with repository-only benchmark scenarios and package validation.
Added Unity 6.7 lifecycle ownership for board, renderer, synchronization, preview, and editor state while retaining Unity 2022.3 support.
Removed the Wetzold-owned LED Studio source activation guard from the optional UniText integration while retaining UniText availability guards, so Asset Store imports compile its renderer without project-wide scripting defines.
Cleared define constraints from the optional UniText integration assemblies while preserving their LED Studio and UniText version defines.
Standardized Welcome and About menu labels to omit ellipses.
Updated the optional UniText integration for UniText 3.3 animation APIs. UniText 3.3.0-pre.7 is now the minimum supported version.

[1.3.1] - 2026-08-07

The welcome guide now opens once for standalone installations, stays quiet when bundled inside another Wetzold tool, and remains available from the Tools menu.

[1.3.0] - 2026-07-27

Rebuilt LED Studio, the Board Wizard, welcome screens, and every LED asset and component inspector with polished responsive UI Toolkit layouts.
Added consistent previews, validation, semantic status messages, compact asset creation, and safer editable lists throughout board, profile, source, playlist, composition, layout, and defect authoring.
Added an optional UniText 3 integration for multilingual shaping, bidirectional text, fallback fonts, emoji, markup, reusable renderer profiles, and UniText-powered text, timer, and score sources.
Added focused content, playback, configuration, fault, and diagnostics scripting views.
Removed mutable board implementation state from the supported scripting surface.
Fixed a large group of compiler warnings from the LED board scripting API in Unity 2022.3.
Fixed editor warnings during script reload when optional Text Studio or UniText rendering is installed.
Fixed edit-mode camera captures initializing an assigned render pipeline before Unity had finished restoring its volume settings.
Fixed topology and board-body controls not rebuilding generated LED meshes during slider, numeric, toggle, and dropdown edits, which could leave curved boards flat or hide the LED face until another setting changed.
Fixed the Board Wizard showing an empty preview for Text Studio text and creating Text Studio boards without their required rendering component.
Fixed internal bitmap text ignoring character spacing, and simplified every text settings inspector to show only the controls supported by the selected renderer.
Fixed nested LED inspector settings appearing without hierarchy indentation, making complex board configuration sections easier to scan.

[1.2.0] - 2026-06-26

Added reusable board topology settings for flat, curved, corner, and full 360-degree cylindrical LED boards.
Added optional board body extrusion so generated LED boards can have physical cabinet depth, side materials, and back materials.
Added board-level and group-level timing controls for clock mode, update phase, time scaling, maximum delta time, edit-mode ticking, and manual clock control.
Added source timing controls so content can update every frame, only when changed, at a fixed rate, or only when manually refreshed.
Added vertical and horizontal text scrolling, manual scroll offsets, seamless wrapping, scroll padding, and distribution controls for ticker-style signs.
Added text blinking with flash and fade modes, blink rate, on-time, dim alpha, and phase offset controls.
Added more complete runtime scripting for creating, configuring, and updating LED boards from code.
Added named content ports and live input binding for programmatic text, images, video, UI Toolkit, timers, scores, and custom sources.
Improved runtime board geometry controls, including emitter count and density changes, generated mesh refresh, board-body settings, topology assignment, and pointer-to-board hit mapping.
Added runtime controls for logical backgrounds, presentation backgrounds, live input bindings, source markup parsing, and board suspension.
Improved generated package asset repair for default LED materials and bundled TextMesh Pro font assets.
Added optional Text Studio-backed text rendering support when the Text Studio integration package is installed.
Improved Chart Guru integration guidance for optional scene-component and live-input chart binding.
Refined the Programmatic API and showcase samples with cleaner setup, live updates, emitter-count examples, generated board forms, and timing examples.

[1.1.0] - 2026-06-17

Improved playlists with reusable layered compositions and a much wider range of transition styles.
Added a faster text engine with TTF font support, multilingual text, richer styling, pixel-perfect sizing, and bundled example fonts.
Added UI Toolkit board display support.
Enhanced sample scenes.
Updated the customer manual and package documentation for the latest composition, playlist, text, and preview workflows.

[1.0.1] - 2026-06-08

Initial public release of LED Studio.
Included realistic LED walls, ribbon boards, perimeter displays, and multi-panel setups.
Supported text, images, video, render textures, Canvas, UI Toolkit, timers, scores, layered playlists, editor setup tools, and example content.
Supported URP, HDRP, and the Built-in Render Pipeline.
Required Unity 2022.3 or newer.