New Firefly 1.0.0.68 Now Available!

It's been a while since we've had a new Firefly update... but finally... the wait is over! I'm excited to release Firefly version 1.0.0.068 which has several new features and enhancements.

There are also several new computer vision tools and enhancements. There are two new components which allow you to save snapshots of different Firefly bitmaps to a directory on your computer. One gives you an immediate snapshot whenever you click a button, whereas the other saves a sequence of images based on a time frequency. There's also been a few enhancements to the Kinect tools.

While we're on the topic of computer vision... I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the new Leap Motion Finger Tracking component. If you haven't seen this impressive piece of hardware, make sure you check out (https://www.leapmotion.com/). The Firefly Finger Tracker gives you immediate access to real-time location and orientation of all your detected fingers and pointers. You can also turn on/off different features like finger trails, finger mesh representations, and palm plane orientations. It's incredibly fun and has the potential to radically change how we work with computers.

In addition, the Firefly/Arduino Stepper motor workflow has been completely re-worked and now features a call-back (or echo) function which allows you to wait until the stepper has reached its destination before feeding it the next movement command. Simply connect a list of absolute movement values, and it will wait until it has finished the last command before issuing the next command. However, if you connect a single value, like that of a slider, it will automatically move to the most recent value to avoid latency. Now, you can choreograph all of your intricate stepper movements til your hearts content!

There are many more features, so make sure you read the change log that comes with the installer. As usual, you can download the latest version of Firefly on the official website. Please leave any comments if you find any bugs or errors with this build.

Click Here to Download Firefly 1.0.0.68!

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Yoshi Fukumori on July 18, 2013 at 8:27am

amazing Andy! Thanks for sharing this new update!

Permalink Reply by michael Peng on July 23, 2013 at 5:35am

Why the components didn't show when the installation finished?

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on July 23, 2013 at 5:53am

Do you have a custom Ribbon inplace, if so then you will need to change back to the default or manually add the firefly components after installation

Permalink Reply by Andy Payne on July 23, 2013 at 6:11am

Also, could you specify which version of Rhino (including 32bit or 64bit versions) that you are using?

Permalink Reply by Yasser Hafizs on July 25, 2013 at 3:46am

Hi Andy,

I got an error message, "this installation package is not supported by this processor", I'm running Win7 32-bit, Rhino 5.0 32-bit. Did I'm miss something?

Permalink Reply by Andy Payne on July 25, 2013 at 6:04am

Try removing the C_sawapan_media_x64.dll from your roaming folder. Does that fix it?

Permalink Reply by Yasser Hafizs on July 25, 2013 at 11:27am

Still don't work, although I has been removed it (C_sawapan_media.dll, I don't have C_sawapan_media_x64.dll) and redownloaded the installer.

Permalink Reply by Andy Payne on July 25, 2013 at 11:44am

If you re-download the latest installer, when you install it, it should put two copies of the C_sawapan_media.dll file in your roaming folder. If you don't see two of these (one with the x64 appended to the end of the name) then something likely went wrong in the installation. However, you only need one of them and in your case you only need the one without the x64 attached to the name. So, after reinstalling, please delete this dll file and restart Grasshopper. Let me know if this fixes it.

Permalink Reply by Yasser Hafizs on July 25, 2013 at 12:02pm

I can't even running the installation, error message appeared when the installation begin,

Permalink Reply by Andy Payne on July 25, 2013 at 12:04pm

Whoa. That's strange. Can you post a picture of the error message?

Permalink Reply by Yasser Hafizs on July 25, 2013 at 12:26pm