After a decade of being unavailable Nimi Visuals project gets a new release 20260211! It has been refurbished and now supports modern operating systems and high DPI environments.
Previous version of Nimi Visuals project had been released over a decade ago. As there were issues with the project requiring complex fixes, but there was lack of resources to work on those, soon project download had been disabled. Finally, it has led to project being automatically marked as "no longer developed".
Making project operational again was challenging (even if changelog length does not indicate that), especially along with Nimi Places project development and other projects. A lot of code had been ported from Nimi Places project, but also a lot of has been ported to it in the process. Notably, whole event detection has been thoroughly revised. Important change is that now, there is only single executable and distribution package for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures.
We would like to emphasize, that latest release is by no means perfect. It is as it is. During development, it was codenamed Orb-95, as in early development stages its behaviour had been highly unpredictable. We encourage project Users to keep in mind that it is kind of artifact of its time (project started in 2008).
Nonetheless, we hope that Nimi Visuals will once again bring smile to its Users around the World.
- Added caching pixi dust effect particles during animation.
- Added checking for minimum window size for shuffle effect.
- Added custom DPI support.
- Added digital signatures to project executables and libraries.
- Added multi-display support for warp on edges effect.
- Added multi-display support to window focus effect.
- Added multi-window support for keep momentum effect.
- Added multi-window support for warp on edges effect.
- Added multiplexing project windows and dialogs.
- Added randomizing pixi dust effect particles rotation direction.
- Added support for saving RECT type in database.
- Added tray icon generation.
- Changed core code to ported from Nimi Places project.
- Changed system toolstrip progress bar size to match size of themed toolstrip progress bar in settings.
- Changed to disable Start menu settings section, instead of hiding it, when Start menu is not available.
- Changed to use single executable for all architectures.
- Changed window bounce effect to ignore partially maximized windows.
- Ported compile toolchain changes from Nimi Places project.
- Revised and unified window opacity and visibility handling.
- Revised to use timers instead of threading.
- Revised window position handling to support newer operating systems API changes.
- Fixed and optimized stopwatch implementation.
- Fixed and revised animation curves calculations.
- Fixed and revised closing architecture bridge.
- Fixed and revised reconnecting to architecture bridge.
- Fixed architecture bridge not having config file.
- Fixed attempting to toggle window system animations on older operating systems under certain conditions.
- Fixed event detection could fail due to hard-coded constants.
- Fixed internal message system using invalid message ranges.
- Fixed opacity muxer could stop adjusting opacity on certain condition.
- Fixed pixi dust angle and opacity not animated separately.
- Fixed redundant Place type container context menu initialization check.
- Fixed reordering window below others.
- Fixed settings window title casing.
- Fixed trying to resolve system animations use per window on newer operating systems.
- Fixed updating transforms to bendable thumbnails on certain conditions.
- Removed unused type format from database used by Nimi Places project.
- Optimized window warp effect animation.
- Revised and simplified keep momentum effect.
- Revised corral collections.
- Revised post-size and move window moving to muxer.
- Revised push other windows effect.
- Revised resources management.
- Revised settings adjusting effect combinations availability.
- Revised Start menu detection to be universal.
- Revised supportive libraries.
- Revised themed toolstrip progress bar control.
- Revised themed toolstrip renderer.
- Revised window capturing.
- Revised x86 architecture bridge.
- Updated license agreement.
- Updated localization.
- Updated system colorization handling.
- Move supportive libraries and executables to package.
- Other changes, fixes and updates.
- Port core code from Nimi Places project.
- Ported dynamic code generation from Nimi Places project.
- Ported icon generating code from Nimi Places project.
- Ported license agreement code from Nimi Places project.
- Ported localization code from Nimi Places project.
- Ported localization system from Nimi Places project.
- Ported network request code from Nimi Places project.
- Ported opening URLs code from Nimi Places project.
- Ported operating system resolving code from Nimi Places.
- Ported path resolver code from Nimi Places project.
- Ported registry access code from Nimi Places project.
- Ported update code from Nimi Places project.
- Revised single-instance code.