Anime Studio 6.1

[Lost Marble]

As you may have seen, version 6.1 is about to be released. Sarina, the new product manager for Anime Studio, announced the "headline" features already: Facebook uploading, French and German localizations, and entering non-English characters in text fields.

But there's more stuff that, while not especially exciting for a press release, will be of interest to experienced users here on the forum. Here's more of what's new in 6.1:

Bug fixes (more than this, but here are a few highlights):

• Fixed a cycling bug
  Fixed timeline slowdown when the document's end frame is 0
  Fixed a problem with extra edges on shapes that share a construction curve
  Improved auto lip sync in Pro
  Fixed a bug when importing external objects
  Fixed audio playback stopping after six minutes
  Lost more bug fixes from the 6.0 bug threads here on the forum

Improvements:

• Preview audio clips in the Library browser by clicking on them
  Added a shortcut for Blend Morph Targets
  Can enter non-ASCII characters in all text fields
  Batch window (Pro only):
  • User has the option of choosing an output folder
    The current document is automatically added to the Batch list when you open the Batch window (you can always remove it).

Scripting:

• Fixed Lua syntax checking
  Expanded the scripting API by user requests:
  • Ability to blend morph targets in a script
    Scripts can work with Actions
    Scripts can work with Styles
    Scripts can access the animation channel for point curvature
    Scripts can delete layers

I'll be happy to answer any questions you might have.

-Mike

[rave]

Yes, that is great. AS living.

[Genete]

\o/ Great news! \o/

-G

[ulrik]

The entering of non-english characters is great!

Does the fix of imported external object include the styles of external anme files? If so, I love it

Preview audio is really nice and also the ability to choose folder for batch endered files

The extended scripting API also looks very promising.

Overall I'm very happy to see all this fixes and improvements

Can't wait to test the new update Thanks Mike!

[Lost Marble]

Does the fix of imported external object include the styles of external anme files? If so, I love it

Yep, that's fixed. I also made the import dialog's preview area match the aspect ratio of the document you're importing from. This should help prevent objects being outside the visible area and hence, un-previewable.

[Víctor Paredes]

Fantastic new, thanks Mike!

[Rudiger]

Scripting:

• Fixed Lua syntax checking
  Expanded the scripting API by user requests:
  • Ability to blend morph targets in a script
    Scripts can work with Actions
    Scripts can work with Styles
    Scripts can access the animation channel for point curvature
    Scripts can delete layers

-Mike

Oh my God! This is absolutely huge! Thanks so much Mike. This is now the second time you've made my entire year!

[Danimal]

Excellent news! I see I finally have no excuse NOT to upgrade..

[Mikdog]

sweet

[Farbklecks]

...French and German localizations, ...

German?
No joke?
AS Pro in German?
Help files also?
Really?


Hm, let's wait and see...

[Lost Marble]

German?
Really?

Yes, really. The application and help files are also in German now. (French too)

[Lost Marble]

In case you didn't see the announcement thread, the download link for version 6.1 is now live. When you get to the updates page, scroll down past the paid upgrades to find the free 6.1 update.

viewtopic.php?t=14517

[dueyftw]

400 meg download? Can have just the update of the program? I have dial up and to download it I have to use Star Downloader just to get the update.

Dale

[Mikdog]

I also vote for just the .EXE or .APP being available. It's like, 6 MB zipped or something.

I'm a total fan of small, clean, unbloated programs. Moho used to be free of bloatware. Now its chocca.

[ulrik]

Scripting:

• Fixed Lua syntax checking
  Expanded the scripting API by user requests:
  • Ability to blend morph targets in a script
    Scripts can work with Actions
    Scripts can work with Styles
    Scripts can access the animation channel for point curvature
    Scripts can delete layers

I'll be happy to answer any questions you might have.

-Mike

I just tested the anme import from library and the styles are imported and working, and also the prelisten works great except if you have long audio files inside the library, I tried to load a 4 minute long song and could not manage to do that, when clicking at the file it plays but if you double click it thinks for a while and then starts to play again but it never get imported, the smaller files is working fine. I will try some more with larger files and see if it's behaving the same again.
Is there some additional scripting dokuments available for the new functionality?