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Templates feature, new guided tours, and lots more!
15 March, 2022 ()
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After a short break we're back to our regular release schedule, and we have a big update for you today!
First of all is a new Templates feature. In short this lets you easily update entire sets of instances across your project. One instance can be set to be a "template", and other instances set to be a "replica" of it. Then whenever you edit the template, all the replicas automatically update. Normally we don't update the manual until the next stable release, but as this is a major feature we've posted this forum thread with more information on the new Templates feature if you want to find out more.
We've also got two new guided tours to help new users get started with timeline animations and JavaScript coding. As with the existing guided tour these take you step-by-step through the editor showing you exactly what to do. As there are now three of them, guided tours are now also listed in the Example Browser.
There's loads more changes, including updates for the Animations Editor, timelines and tweens, upgrades for various components, and a set of bug fixes too. Some of the bugs are relatively high risk so watch out for any breaking changes. See the changelog below for full details, and happy testing!
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Launch r286
New Features
New Additions
New examples 'Connect four', 'Hidden anagrams', 'Game of life'
New 'Get started with JavaScript' guided tour
New 'Get started with timeline animations' guided tour
Example Browser: also list guided tours
Show a 'Take a break' reminder every 2 hours while editor is open
Allow [code] tag in event sheet comments
Video: 'Set playback rate' action, 'PlaybackRate' expression
Timelines: option to automatically start a timeline on start of a given layout
Animations editor: option to generate sub folders with duplicate names when doing a bulk import of animations from a folder or a zip file
Changes
Tweens: tags are now case insensitive, in line with how tags work in other places
Timeline bar: preview timeline when using the toolbar buttons to cycle through keyframes
Rename 'Timeline' plugin to 'Timeline controller' to better distinguish it from timelines
Make backup and editor usage timers only count time while editor window visible
Update CodeMirror (text editor) to v5.65.1
Update Acorn (editor JavaScript parser) to v8.7.0
Windows WebView2 export: update WebView2 SDK to v1.0.1072.54
Bug Fixes
Sprite 'Spawn' action did not pick correctly when using 'On created' trigger
System viewport expressions not immediately updated after changing scroll/scale/etc.
Audio: changing master volume stopped all fades
Animations editor: collision polygon text input not updating properly in certain conditions (Firefox)
Animations editor: zip files with multiple sub folders not imported correctly
Animations editor: possible crash loading large zip files with nested content
Animations editor: lock the UI when loading a large amount of files
Timeline bar: bar was set to automatically close if free edition was detected
Timeline bar: instance variable, effect and behavior values not set properly on absolute timelines
Timeline bar: ensure duration of audio tracks is visible
Timeline bar: show the new keyboard shortcut for previewing a timeline in the toolbar button tooltip
Performance Improvements
Optimise effect compositor CPU overhead
Scripting updates
8 direction vectorY setter not working correctly
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