DP Animation Maker News

[p]We're pleased to announce the release of DP Animation Maker 3.14.0, which includes new features, animations and improvements. Here is the full list of changes:[/p][p][/p][h3]New Animations and Features:[/h3]

• [p]Clock object was reworked and 43 new parameters were added.[/p]
• [p]Caustic Brush has been added.[/p]
• [p]New Smoke Brush: A versatile tool for adding dynamic smoke effects to your projects.[/p]
• [p]Crawling Text animation has been added.[/p]
• [p]Typewriter Text animation has been added.[/p]
• [p]Electric discharge 4 has been added to the Animation Library.[/p]
• [p]Electric arc 1 and electric arc 2 have been added to Animation Library > Lines.[/p]
• [p]WAV, OGG, and FLAC sound formats are now supported in Playlist[/p]
• [p]Fade in/out parameter added to soundtrack in Playlist[/p]
• [p]Timings Support has been added for the Erase Brush.[/p]
• [p]Turn and Fold Brushes: Revamped to simulate correct perspective distortion.[/p]
• [p]Heat Distortion Brush: Reworked for more realistic waves and perspective.[/p]
• [p]Flow Brushe (Linear): Perspective controls have been added.[/p]
• [p]Pivot Point Adjustment: You can now change the pivot point of imported images to better suit your needs.[/p]
• [p]Image Export Option: Easily export your imported images for use in other projects.[/p]

[h3]Animation Constructor:[/h3]

• [p]Animated Perlin Line Image: Now available in the Animation Constructor for more creative possibilities.[/p]
• [p]Magic Waves has been renamed to Wiggling Lines 01 and moved to the Template section of the Animation Constructor.[/p]
• [p]Magic Hair has been renamed to Wiggling Lines 02 and moved to the Template section of the Animation Constructor.[/p]
• [p]Wiggling Lines 03 template has been added to the Animation Constructor.[/p]
• [p]The Electric Bolts template has been added to the Animation Constructor.[/p]
• [p]The wide line and curve algorithm has been rewritten and now produces the correct shape.[/p]

[h3]Bugfixes:[/h3]

• [p]Bug with loading Zoom animation of Typewriter text fixed[/p]
• [p]Bug with displaying animated wallpapers on some desktop setups fixed[/p]
• [p]A bug with non-Latin characters has been fixed in the text tools.[/p]
• [p]A bug with the Sum blend mode has been fixed for the Light Brush.[/p]
• [p]A bug with the Apply to Previous Layer mode has been fixed for the Lighting Brush.[/p]
• [p]Crash on activating group path has been fixed.[/p]
• [p]Bug in dissolution animation has been fixed.[/p]
• [p]The font selector now displays font families instead of font faces.[/p]
• [p]An image wrap issue has been fixed for imported animations.[/p]
• [p]Incorrect responses for some controls have been fixed in the Animation Constructor.[/p]
• [p]Typo Fixes: We’ve addressed some known typos to improve your experience.[/p]
• [p]A bug with the starting segment for drift in source space has been fixed.[/p]
• [p]A bug with fade-in timing has been fixed in Lightning and similar animations.[/p]

We're pleased to announce the release of DP Animation Maker 3.13.0, which includes new features, animations and improvements. Here is the full list of changes:

• New Animations:
  
  • A new Paint Splashes brush has been added.
    
  • A new Sand Brush has been added.
    
  • A new Fire Sparks brush has been added.
    
  • Four new animated types have been added: Bubble, Fire, Smoke, and Wet.
    
  • A new Layer Eraser Brush tool has been added.
    
  • A new Exude Brush has been added.
    
• Animation Constructor:
  
  • A new Random Polyline particle has been added.
    
  • A new Paint Splashes particle has been added.
    
  • A new Splashes particles have been added.
    
  • A new Spots particles have been added.
    
  • A new Fog Clouds particles have been added.
    
  • A new Thin Smoke Clouds particles have been added.
    
  • A new Dust Particle image has been added.
    
  • A new Fluid Flow motion has been added.
    
  • A new Text origin feature has been added.
    
  • A new Freeform Region origin has been added.
    
  • A new loop origin has been added.
    
  • The Fractal Line particle drawing algorithm has been updated.
    
  • A new Length mod has been added for the Fractal Line particle.
    
  • A new Shape mode option has been added for the Fractal Line particle.
    
  • A new quality option has been added to the trace style.
    
  • A new draw order option has been added to the trace style.
    
  • The Drift position mod now supports Trace style.
    
  • Two Frame templates have been added to Animation.
    
• Bugfixes:
  
  • Fixed an error with saving/loading speed parameters in the Fractal Line particle.
    
  • A bug with mask drawing after cloning brush layers has been fixed.
    
  • The names for properties of Rectangle origin in the Animation Constructor have been corrected.
    
  • A bug related to exporting the Lightning animation has been fixed.
    
  • A bug with brushes above the particles with shadows has been fixed.
    
  • A bug with brushes above the particles with glow has been fixed.
    
  • Fixed a visual glitch around the boundaries of imported images.
    
  • Fixed a crash that occurred when deleting a layer referenced in the Background Copy Brush.
    
  • Corrected the issue of incorrect selection after importing an image into the middle of the layer list.
    
  • A bug with the background copy brush has been fixed.
    
  • The issue of incorrect brush drawing on vertical pictures has been fixed.
    
  • The crash that occurred when entering zero values into group motion timings has been fixed.
    
  • The typo on the My Library tab has been fixed.
    
  • Some others typing errors have been fixed.
    
  • A memory leak has been resolved.
    
• Others:
  
  • An option to save settings has been added to the MP4 export dialog.
    
  • Added a glow color option for the Fire Sparkle Animation.
    
  • A new loop path template has been added to Import Image.
    
  • Introduced a preview image for the Background Copy Brush.
    

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We're pleased to announce the release of DP Animation Maker 3.12.0, which includes new features, improvements and bug fixes. Here is the full list of changes:

• New groping option has been added to Animation List.
  
• A new path option has been added for Group layers.
  
• Group positioning support for the following brushes has been added: Wave, Zoom, Rotation, Turn, Stretch, Fold, Radial, Flow (Radial), Flow (Linear), Drift, Bend, Background Copy.
  
• New timing control has been added to the Animation Constructor
  
• New Drift in source space option has been added to Blinking Spots and Fixed Spots motions.
  
• Starting segment option has been added to Wide Line and Wide Curve origins.
  
• Reference frame option has been added to Vibration mode.
  
• Magic Tube animation has been reworked and moved to the Templates list of Animation Constructor.
  
• New color gradient mod has been added to the Animation Constructor
  
• Mode option has been added to the Rotation brush.
  
• Angle parameter has been added to the Rotation brush.
  
• One-way mode has been added to the Shine brush.
  
• A new “Disable Relative Positioning” option has been added for all motions in the Animation Constructor.
  
• Crash on stand alone exe has been fixed
  
• The issue with the Pointing Arrow animation has been successfully addressed.
  
• A minor bug affecting the copy/paste functionality of animation layers has been rectified.
  
• Bug causing interference between Heat distortion and Light brushes has been fixed.
  
• Bug causing incorrect phase in brush sharp mode has been fixed.
  
• Import button in the add animation dialog has been fixed.
  
• Bug with save/load of angle property of imported animations has been fixed.
  
• Bug with save/load of loop animation property of explosion particles has been fixed.
  
• Fixed an error related to loading certain old projects.
  
• Resolved desynchronization issues when resetting timings.
  
• Significantly reduced desynchronization for GIF and frame-by-frame animations.
  
• Some misprints in user interface have been fixed
  

We're pleased to announce the release of DP Animation Maker 3.11.0, which includes new features, improvements and bug fixes. Here is the full list of changes:

• New Saturation brush has been added.
  
• New Saturation wave brush has been added.
  
• New Color shift brush has been added.
  
• New Pointing Arrow animation has been added to the Standard Library and the Animation Constructor’s template list.
  
• New Shooting Stars animation has been added to the Standard Library and the Animation Constructor’s template list.
  
• New Searchlight animation has been added to the Standard Library and the Animation Constructor’s template list.
  
• The Magic Rain template has been reworked, renamed to Meteor Shower and relocated to the Animation Constructor template list.
  
• Scrolling effect and template have been added to Imported animations
  
• A “Change image” button has been added to Imported objects
  
• “Rays of light” animation has been renamed to “God Rays 1.”
  
• “God Rays 2” animation has been added to the Standard Animation Library.
  
• Magic Star animation has been renamed to Sparkler 01 and moved to the Animation Constructor template list.
  
• Animation Constructor changes
  
  • New Line particle has been added to Animation Constructor.
    
  • Fractal Line has been added to the particle list of Animation Constructor.
    
  • New Size Gradient Mod has been added to the Animation Constructor.
    
  • New Translucency Gradient Mod has been added to the Animation Constructor.
    
  • Fixed Spots motion has been added to Animation Constructor.
    
  • A new Deformation mod group has been added to Animation Constructor.
    
  • Deformation mod has been renamed to Oscillation.
    
  • New Length/Width Variation mods have been introduced to Animation Constructor.
    
  • New Length/Width Dynamic mods have been added to Animation Constructor.
    
  • Angle > Align to Source Edges mod has been added to Animation Constructor.
    
  • Lasers template has been included in the Animation Constructor template list.
    
  • Sparkler 02 template has been added to Animation Constructor.
    
  • Shadow style has been added to the Animation Constructor
    
  • New delay option has been added to Animation Constructor emission settings.
    
  • Orientation parameter has been added to properties of particle animations.
    
  • A new Gradient profile has been included in the Graph Edit plot.
    
  • Pin button has been added to Graph Edit plot.
    
  • Graph preview control has been improved.
    
  • Texture atlas/Sprite sheet support has been added to the Animation Constructor
    
  • Explosion particle has been added to the Animation Constructor
    
  • Asteroid particle has been added to the Animation Constructor
    
  • Shard set particle has been added to the Animation Constructor
    
• Bug fixes
  
  • Bug with the Spin effect in import has been fixed.
    
  • Bug with multiple warping brushes on imported layers has been fixed.
    
  • The bug caused by the 0 value of Spot lifetime has been resolved.
    
  • Names of some animation properties have been fixed.
    
  • The rotation direction of Angle mod in Animation Constructor has been fixed.
    
  • A bug with saving/loading some Animated particle templates has been fixed.
    
  • “Through Space 01/02” templates have been corrected.
    
  • A bug with the “Restore before export” option has been fixed.
    
  • The crash that occurred when entering a zero value into the emission period control has been fixed.
    
  • The bug affecting saving templates in Animation Constructor has been resolved.
    
  • The bug that affected Lattice motion timings has been fixed.
    
  • Bug with rotation control has been fixed for Imported objects
    
  • Force mods have been fixed in Animation Constructor
    
  • Black border issue has been fixed for Warping brushes
    
  
  
  

We're pleased to announce the release of DP Animation Maker 3.9.0, which includes new features, improvements and bug fixes. Here is the full list of changes:

• New dissolution animation has been added. It can be found in the Line branch.
  
• Through Space animations has been reworked and moved to the Animation Constructor template list
  
• Magic Halo animation has been reworked and moved to Animation Constructor template list
  
• Magic Vortex animation has been reworked, renamed to Tunnel and moved to Animation Constructor template list
  
• Magic Spiral animation has been has been reworked and moved to the Animation Constructor templates section
  
• New Falling Stars and Spiral templates have been moved to Animation Constructor
  
• Animation Constructor changes
  
  • New Orient in motion mod has been added
    
  • New Spiral Flow motion has been added
    
  • New Blank particle has been added
    
  • New Spiral Arms source has been added
    
  • Tunnel Flow has been added to the motion selection list
    
  • Hyperspace template has been added
    
  • Trace width now depends on particle size
    
  • New Normal Flow motion has been added
    
  • New Wide Curve source has been added
    
  • New Wide Line source has been added
    
  • Center option has been added to Radial, Circular and Spiral motions
    
  • New Vortex template has been added
    
  • New glowing particles have been added
    
  • Tangent Flow motion has been added
    
  • New Background Texture mod has been added
    
  • Lattice motion has been added to to the motion selection list
    
  • Default parameters of Trace style have been improved
    
  • Source shape now visible on each step of creating Animation
    
  • Option to reset animation before export has been added
    
• Import
  
  • New Perspective path template has been added
    
  • Exploding Object template has been added
    
  • Timing options have been added to the Path templates
    
  • New Spin effect has been added
    
• Bug fixes
  
  • Bug with the preview mode has been fixed in DP Animation Maker
    
  • Shine and Light brushes bug in exe and preview mode has been fixed
    
  • Bug on loading animation with Circle source has been fixed
    
  • Issue with Sum blending has been fixed in Animation Constructor
    
  • Bug with loading some projects has been fixed.