Hypno.exe March 2025 Public Release

Hello everyone, well done surviving yet another month!

This month's public release is a doozy: Image Importing! The long await, feature-that-killed-the-previous-version release!

Seriously, this single Element took two whole months of work and still nearly did not make it. I like to think it is now both stable and versatile, so it you encounter any issues contrary to that please let me know. I will not be defeated by this damnable feature again.

Look forward to next month (I am not asking) when you get the Pendulum back in action.

And once again, if you are making cool Programs with Hypno.exe, I would love to see them (to help development, strictly professional), as would other users! The Hypno.exe Discord has a channel for requesting and sharing Programs (you can export them and upload them through Discord directly) and it would be amazing to see some of the thing people have created, even with the limited toolset at this time.

As always, please consider supporting development on either Patreon or SubscribeStar (or even a one-off on Ko-Fi). Every little bit helps both materially and psychologically. If that is not something you are able or willing to do, kind words through some social media platform are also always welcome and encouraging.

Changelog:

# Added

- Import Image Element!
    - You can now import your own images into a Program and display it proudly/melt minds.
    - Basic for now, will be expanded upon.

# Updated

- Turned off Instanced Stereo: I turned it on in anticipation of supporting VR in the distant future but in the present it was stopping people will older GPUs from being able to use Hypno.exe at all. Will burn this bridge later.

Hypno.exe February 2025 Public Release

Hello everyone, and once again welcome to another Hypno.exe release!

January and Feb both have felt incredibly short in length, and this month's public release reflects that:

I spent the entirety of both January and February working towards implementing the new Image Importing Element, and to that end I have succeeded; it is available in this month's Supporter release, ready to use. This also means, however, that last month's supporter release (this month's public release) was a little lack luster. It includes a lot of backend work you cannot see, and a shiny new "Getting Started" guide on the main menu to help users, new and old, better understand how Hypno.exe works and how to use it effectively.

So look forward to next month (or become a supporter today).

Changelog:

@ Added

- Add a "Getting Started" guide to the main menu.
    - It shows on open, but you can tell it not to via the settings. 
- A lot of backend work to support importing images. Not yet release-ready.

And once again, if you are making cool Programs with Hypno.exe, I would love to see them (to help development, strictly professional), as would other users! The Hypno.exe Discord has a channel for requesting and sharing Programs (you can export them and upload them through Discord directly) and it would be amazing to see some of the thing people have created, even with the limited toolset at this time.

As always, please consider supporting development on either Patreon or SubscribeStar (or even a one-off on Ko-Fi). Every little bit helps both materially and psychologically. If that is not something you are able or willing to do, kind words through some social media platform are also always welcome and encouraging.

Hypno.exe January 2025 Public Release

Hello and a happy Lunar New Year to everyone. January has certainly been a month, and I hope everyone has survived it as we continue to march into the new year.

The version of Hypno.exe entering public release is 2024.12! That is right, I changed the numbering system for no other reason than that the old one was annoying me. A simple [year].[month].[hotfix] system is incredibly convenient and straight forward. For reference, supporters are now getting version 2025.1.

2024.12 contains a big quality of life improvement: Autosaves. These will trigger every 10 minutes (configurable) if there are unsaved changes present, and will create an incremental save (up to 5 by default) but will not overwrite your actual saved Program. This seems like the most logical way to do this in my opinion, but feel free to let me know if you have any concerns or suggestions.

Finally, if you are making cool Programs with Hypno.exe, I would love to see them (to help development, strictly professional), as would other users! The Hypno.exe Discord has a channel for requesting and sharing Programs (you can export them and upload them through Discord directly) and it would be amazing to see some of the thing people have created, even with the limited toolset at this time.

As always, please consider supporting development on either Patreon or SubscribeStar (or even a one-off on Ko-Fi). Every little bit helps both materially and psychologically. If that is not something you are able or willing to do, kind words through some social media platform are also always welcome and encouraging.

Changelog:

    ## Added

    - Autosave! Another highly (twice) requested feature: the settings in can be changed as desired.

        - Autosave triggers whenever there are unsaved changes on the current Program

        - Autosaves save every n minutes (user defined, default 10)

            - Once a Program has been autosaved it will not be autosaved again until another change is made, but the Program will remain marked as "Unsaved"

        - They also increment without overwriting your actual saved program (amount of increments is user definable, default is 5)

    ## Updated

    - Supporter Credits is now automated from CSVs

        - You will not see or experience this, but I will no longer need to update the supporters list manually, instead simply importing a CSV. Useful for when I eventually have thousands of supporters, right? Right?

    ## Fixed

    - Bug where opening a Program while editing an Element could sometimes cause a crash