📝 CHANGELOG — Warlock-Studio v2.0

Release Date: June 6, 2025

🚀 Major Features

🧠 AI Frame Interpolation Support (New Module):
- Introduced a new class AI_interpolation, providing frame generation capabilities using RIFE-based ONNX models.
- Allows generation of 1 (x2), 3 (x4), or 7 (x8) intermediate frames, including slow-motion variants.
- Enables temporal upscaling of video via AI.
🎥 RIFE Models Integration:
- Added RIFE and RIFE_Lite to supported models.
- Interpolation model list introduced: RIFE_models_list.
- Extended AI_models_list to include all model types: SRVGGNetCompact, BSRGAN, IRCNN, and RIFE.

🎨 Visual/UI Redesign:
- App renamed to "Warlock-Studio" (with hyphen).
- Background and widget colors updated: darker tones (#121212, #454242).
- Text color changed to bright white (#FFFFFF).
- App name highlighted in red (#FF0E0E).
📂 Version-Specific User Preferences:
- Preferences now saved under versioned filenames like Warlock-Studio_2.0_UserPreference.json.
- Prevents conflict with previous versions' configuration.
🧬 Modular and Scalable Layout System:
- New GUI constants introduced (e.g. offset_y_options, column_1_5, column_2_9, etc.).
- Enables more fine-tuned interface arrangement.
💾 Extended File Type Compatibility:
- Added new image/video file extensions to supported_file_extensions and supported_video_extensions.
- Ensures broader compatibility with input formats.
🚀 Improved GPU Execution Support:
- Enhanced logic for selecting GPU via DirectML.
- Supports up to 4 GPUs (Auto, GPU 1 to GPU 4) via provider_options.

🧹 Better Model List Structure:
- Models now grouped logically by type with MENU_LIST_SEPARATOR.
- Makes UI dropdowns cleaner and more organized.
🧪 Advanced Interpolation Logic:
- Support for dynamic multi-frame generation with tree-based logic (e.g. A-B-C from D).
📊 Improved Numeric Precision and Postprocessing:
- Improved handling of floating-point range and normalization.
- Enhanced logic for RGB/RGBA conversion and alpha blending.

📏 Resizable Message Dialogs:
- MessageBox window can now be resized by the user (resizable(True, True)).
👌 Improved Dialog Formatting:
- Better spacing and ordering of message elements.
- Cleaner font use and default value display.

🔧 Fixed UI typo: corrected ttext_color to text_color.
🪯 Enhanced inline comments and structural organization for better readability and maintainability.

Release Date: May 20, 2025

⚡ Program Startup Optimization: Startup time has been significantly reduced.
📦 Model Loading Improvements: Improved loading speed for models.
🔧 General Performance Optimization: Refactored core components. Background processing is now more efficient and uses fewer resources.