What’s new since version 5
Name your steps
- There’s now a “Step name” box at the top of the Step tab. Give a step a name and it shows up in the step dropdown, the header, and the Monitor — so it’s easy to tell steps apart once you have a lot of them.
- Leave the box blank to keep the normal “Step 1, Step 2…” names.
- Names save with your scene. (This works in older versions too if you ever open the scene there — nothing breaks.)
Much better memory use (fewer slowdowns and crashes on long sessions)
- Fixed a memory leak where Synergy slowly used more and more memory the longer VaM stayed open — a little was lost every time you opened a modifier menu or loaded a scene, and never given back. Now it’s freed properly, so memory stays stable.
- Removing the plugin or reloading a scene now cleans up properly too (it used to leave old pieces behind).
Small speed improvements
- The Light modifier no longer searches for its light every single physics frame — it remembers it and only looks again if you change the atom.
- Trimmed a tiny bit of extra work the plugin did on every frame.
