What version of Resolume for Wire patches?

[mowgli]

With the constant stream of new Resolume & Wire versions, I'd like to know if there's some way of knowing which is the minimum version of Resolume required for a particular compiled Wire patch without having to test the patch in every version of Resolume.

[Arvol]

Wire patches are not backwards compatible but are forwards compatible, so when you are building them out, just notate what version it was written in and make that note public.

[mowgli]

Does that mean doing a simple edit (like changing the value of a variable) using version 7.20 to a patch created in version 7.17 will render the patch incompatible with version 7.17?

[Arvol]

Whatever version you 'Save' or 'Compile' your output file in, is what version is needed to run that patch.

If you want a patch written in 7.13 to remain working in 7.13 you will need to save or compile in 7.13, even if you're just changing something as small as a float value or a Map Node's to/from values.

I stopped caring about this a year or so ago and just tell people to remain up to date on Resolume, problem solved

[mowgli]

Thanks for the clarification although I can't say it's good news!

[Arvol]

Unfortunately it's the nature of the beast.

If I created a project in After Effects 22 and then tried to give it to a friend to open on their After Effect version 17, I wouldn't expect that to work. Wire is no different. The 'Environment' get's updates (even minor one's we don't think about) so it's best for everyone to just stay up to date.