Release 5.6.3

Hi there,

This is a maintenance release with a lot of bug fixes and a few improvements.

New Home App

Learn Giraffe, fast.

Quick learning videos, cool templates to explore, and a level-up system to get your motivated.

New draw tools

How do I draw a circle? Well, now you can just grab it from the generic draw tools in the draw bar.

New draw tools:

• circle
• curve (catmull-rom)
• line with radius corners

Subdivide Rectangles Beta

Divide a rectangular area into dwellings, by area or width. Set a mix. Choose to stretch or fill excess area with Cores.

Use with Skeleton Editor to make Wrap-style buildings with ease.

Bugs Squashed:

• Grid and project origin bugs fixed
• terrain origin (shifted terrain) fixed
• solar origin fixed
• grid is now defined in scratchpad
• terrain performance boosted
• published / view only fix left bar controls, empty bottom bar
• Better “Edit Team” screen
• Prevented duplicate team members.
• Improved mirroring tool to handle child features and different geometry types.
• Fixed joinLines logic to better merge line segments into polygons.
• Improved “Pack Contents” preview to handle layer groups (flattening/displaying hierarchy).
• Added analytics tracking for creating/editing content packs and importing packs.
• Scratchpad base layer group expanded by default. (edited)

Flow Papercuts

• Shift + A multiple times to cycle through detail edit mode in nested flows
• Error Handling: In hypersonic mode, nodes with warnings will be orange and errors will be red
• New node status output on all nodes
• Set "allowed" shapes for flows so "draw with" from content library is more consistent
• Replaced inline drawing options with a dropdown menu supporting multiple shapes.
• Added preview popovers for flow cards.
• Added ability to pick geometry type for flow input parameter
• Publish parameters command
• Transform vs Parameters mode for many generative nodes
• Renamed explode to get segments
• New node: Minimum Bounding Rectangle
• Improved UI for Skeleton editor transform properties

Miscellaneous

• Quickly add the Parking Lots flow to any parking geometry. Just click the button in Properties!

• Refreshed log in experience with better handling for SSO and third-party authentication
• Revised "start project" UI to match other editor modes
• new command (space bar) : Consolidate Blocks to Layer Command
• controls for giraffe engine now shown next to engine status in bottom left of screen. Topology controls (for facade calcs) have moved here too.