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Disguise releases Designer r34.0.4
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News summary
The documentation highlights colour-management and HDR workflows, DMX control and lighting workflows, RenderStream. The official source lists the release date as 2026-09-09. Designer r34.1 adds OpenTrackIO camera tracking and a refreshed Japanese translation of the Designer interface, along with a Captury MoCap driver and improvements to IP-VFC and OmniCal.
Designer r34.0 is a major release because it changes the default blend mode behaviour. For details on the blend mode behaviour pre and post r34 see Mask Blending. To understand our release naming scheme and what can prompt a major version change, see Designer Release Versioning Conventions. This change will be highlighted in Designer when upgrading a project from a pre-r34 version of Designer.
Designer r34.0 brings a set of colour, lighting and workflow improvements including HDR / non-sRGB GUI support in OCIO colour-managed mode, custom DMX fixture types with new 16-bit monochrome channels, Anchor Layers, and faster remote diagnostics collection along with sequencing and RenderStream stability fixes.
Technical notes
What to review
- Disguise: outputs, mapping and external control to test in a mirror environment.
- Disguise: performance changes with the real layers, effects and content.
- Disguise: rollback plan and previous version available when the show cannot take risks.
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