MotionArtist Changelog

What's new in MotionArtist 1.3 Build 14633

• HTML5 export using images with certain non-ASCII characters in their names results in images that fail to load on some servers. We now strip out all non-ASCII characters.
• Made some changes to audio to allow playing of audio if page is launched from the local file system using "file://". The audio will revert to an older api in this case. Otherwise, for other urls, such as "http://", Web Audio, which is a newer api is used.
• Fixed a few issues with background audio. First, the Web Audio version wasn't playing. Second, the Web Audio version wasn't looping.
• Added support for specifying a separate project file to display for the preview in the project template dialog vs. the file that is actually the template that will load when that template is selected.
• If you use a static image in your display file, the image should be included in the same folder with the template project and display project.
• Editing layer start frame now supports Undo.
• If the user folder exists but not the Templates folder within it, MA will now create the Templates folder for the user, in order to allow saving templates.
• Help Menu Community item now loads MotionArtist Forum at Runtime DNA.
• Integrated new Activation client library v1.9.3b (NSA 1.8.1).
• The stop point dialogs can now edit the values for multiple selected keyframes.
• Partial fix for bug 29301. Rotation knobs can optionally allow for negative angles. This option is used in the stop point dialogs.
• YouTube uploading now uses OAuth2. Login info no longer comes from the application prefs settings.
• In Object Stop point dialog opacity and blur now send constant messages when changed.
• Added padding to Export Movie dialog height in order to fit the output format menu within the bounds of the window.
• Prevent multiple Insert Text dialogs from appearing.
• Added Preview HTML5 item to File menu. Moved Publish to MotionArtistTV to Share menu. Removed timeline toolbar buttons for Share, Save, Export Movie, and Preview HTML5.
• Alpha is now settable for stroke and shading color in Make Snapshots dialog.
• Added "Reverse fade and toggle after first completes" checkbox to the Sequence Visibility dialog. This make it easier to do something such as take a sequence of images and show them one after another for a limited number of frames, like a movie. (If you start with all of the frames invisible then toggle and reverse).
• Added Reveal Source Image button to Image tab in Layer Settings dialog.
• Added Arrange menu item Reverse Layer Order. When selected it will reverse the order of the selected layers in their respective group(s).
• HTML now references the production server to get the player javascript. Also, player javascript now resides in the iBooks widget bundle.
• Make Snapshots dialog now has a "Prompt for frame range" checkbox. If selected when you click the button to make snapshots the app will prompt you to specify a frame start, end, and increment. You can use this to quickly make snapshots of every nth frame. This feature is only available if the selected media has multiple frames.
• The Edges settings for 3D scenes (from Anime Layer Settings) have been added to the dialog.
• iBooks widget export is implemented.
• Save As A Template. This item allows a user to create a new template from the currently open document. A dialog appears when selected that lets the user set the display name and description for the template. The template is saved to the user's custom content folder. Besides the obvious, this is helpful for coping with the escaping requirements of strings in json files, since it does the work for the user. If the user has not set up a custom content folder, when Save As A Template is selected the user will be asked to set one up. When that is done the user will need to reselect Save As A Template to save the document as a templates.
• In the Layer Settings for a scene, in the Scene settings, there is now a setting for the scene background color. The default for all scenes is the background color set in the Project Settings. While you can edit the color at present, the color setting is not yet applied to scenes.
• Added Default Demo as a Startup document choice, so the prior startup behavior can be chosen.
• There is no longer a Startup folder in the factory default support folder. The default startup document has been moved to the Templates folder in MA.
• Work in progress - There is a new dialog that appears when you select New from the File menu, or if your preferences are set to open the default startup (which is now labeled "New From Template" on the menu), it will appear at launch.
• There is a new item on the file menu named New Empty Document that the user can select to directly create a new empty document.
• Changed the Sequence Visibility dialog to make it easier to understand and configure the settings.
• You can now apply settings changes to multiple selected layers in the same way you can in Anime via the Layer Settings dialog.
• Added webaudio.js to javascript sources. Audio is now played with Web Audio rather than the tag.
• Latest Media Plugins.
• When loading a Poser Scene or exporting an animation, an assertion warning dialog was appearing blocking the application.
• Setting layer start frame now applies to all selected layers.
• All 1.3 builds support importing Anime 10 documents.
• Added preference to open newly gathered file after gathering a document.
• Added support for editable keyboard shortcuts.
• Fixed a crash when removing text preview due to page tabs needing updating.
• Added text field to filter fonts list in text dialog.
• Document thumbnail previews are working on Mac.
• Added product activation support.
• Added auto-update support.