Changelog

Version 1.4.1

18 September 2026

• Fixed: Restrict To — an open curve used as a bounding object restricted an arbitrary subset.
• Fixed: the node help page named the wrong Ghost Style default.

Version 1.4

8 September 2026

Restricting a stream

• New: Restrict To on every velocity type — limit a stream to a point group or a bounding object.
• New: Invert flips the restricted region, and Output Group records the points the stream reached.

RBD

• New: Break Glue at Trigger shatters glue bonds inside the blast instead of pushing against them.
• New: Check RBD Sim reports every link between this node and the connected solver.
• Create Connected RBD Sim now reconciles the solver it built instead of building a second one.

Events

• New: Quick Setups per event — Impact, Explosion, Shockwave, Sustained Push, Levitate, Rumble and Quake.
• New: Re-bake All Events repairs bakes after the input's point count or transform changes.
• Fixed: Copy From now loads the copied event's Setup, not just its baked data.

Output and visualization

• New: Cull to Affected deletes or marks the parts of the input no event reaches.
• New: Export Event Index (@av_event) marks which event owns each point.
• New: Show Events filters the guides to the events you tick.
• Visualization and Output are reorganised into tabs.

Bug fixes and improvements

• Fixed: a bounding object left as a primitive sphere restricted an arbitrary subset.
• The node help page is rewritten for the 1.4 feature set.

Version 1.3

30 August 2026

Force output

• Fixed: Force mode now drives an RBD Bullet Solver.
• New: Create Connected RBD Sim wires the solver for whichever Output As mode is set.
• New: Force Scale sets the force multiplier.
• New: Scale Gravity to Scene matches solver gravity to your input's size.
• The Force Attribute now defaults to av_force.

Scale

• New: world-space speeds size themselves to your input when geometry is first connected.
• New: Measure Input Scale reports the measured size and what it set.

Events

• New: Copy From overwrites the event you are on with another event's data.

Bug fixes and improvements

• Fixed: the point-source placement state ignored input size.
• Fixed: the Documentation button opened a stale docs URL.
• Clear Setup now parks the playhead at the range start.

Version 1.2

29 August 2026

Bug fixes and improvements

• Fixed: the event timeline HUD did not draw when the node sat inside a transformed object.
• Fixed: ten tooltips on the Velocity from Motion and Curl Noise streams described the exploding velocity.
• Fixed: the pulse waveform icon shifted position when the Pattern changed.
• New: a Website button in the Utilities link row.
• The Ballistic Return node is now called Advanced Velocity Ballistic Return in the tab menu.
• Removed a stray placeholder parameter from the top of the panel.
• Interior network tidy-up.

Version 1.1

3 August 2026

The first public release — version 1.0 below is the feature set it launched with.

Ballistic Motion

• New: a second output delivering the pieces already flying, with no solver.
• New: Return to Home — one slider flies every piece back to exactly where it started.
• New: Return Shaping — arc, swirl, extra turns and staggered arrivals.
• Optional return-path guides.
• New: Ballistic Return, a second node that applies the return to a finished simulation.

Event Strength

• New: per-event strength sliders at the top of the Velocity Mixer.

Visualization

• New: Ghost Style for the motion preview — Full Wireframe (the default), Bounding Boxes or Points.
• Preview Motion no longer switches itself off on heavy inputs.

Bug fixes and improvements

• Fixed: the three Point Source menus could display the wrong entry, and Point Source could not be picked from the Origin menu.
• Fixed: Output Guides Only now respects Preview Motion.
• New: Propagate to All buttons beside each event's Mute Gravity and Release Mode.
• Panel tidy-up, and creating an event now switches the Events list to its tab.

Version 1.0

The launch feature set.

Velocity types

• Six velocity types on one node — Basic, Directional, Exploding, Velocity from Motion, Curl Noise and Angular.
• Adjust and Mask controls on every type, plus a one-click Randomize row.
• Directional velocity with a Direction Bias continuum from at-target through orbit to away.
• Exploding velocity from the whole object or a Point Source, with interactive viewport placement.
• Velocity inherited from animated input.
• Divergence-free curl turbulence with fractal detail and time evolution.

Timed Events

• Bake the setup into events at different frames and play them back as one timeline.
• Per-event Attack / Hold / Release envelopes in frames, with curve presets.
• Pulse timing — Hit, Build or Wave — as an alternative to the envelope.
• An on-screen event timeline with per-event state markers.
• Motion preview — guides and a tumbling ghost advanced to where the events predict.
• Rest-position attributes per event.
• Stagger Points, with an optional ramp and a choice of order.
• An Injecting Now output signal for gating an RBD solver.

Mixing and output

• Additive mixing with per-type gains, or weighted mixing, under one Master Speed.
• Incoming Velocity as its own stream, on by default.
• Velocity output for the RBD Bullet Solver, or accumulated force for POP and Vellum.
• Per-event Mute Gravity, plus Create Connected RBD Sim to wire a solver up in one click.
• Scale by Piece Size, from a mass attribute or each piece's real size.
• Speed clamping, per-stream exports and an Activation Age export.

Visualization

• Per-type guide trails scaled by each stream's real contribution to the mix.
• Guide density control, per-type colours and scales.
• A Utilities toggle to output the guide curves for rendering.

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