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TVPaint Animation 11.7.0 is now available! We have a lot of new things for you

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What’s new in TVPaint 11.7.0?

General:

• The TVPaint Converter is available!
  It is a new application that can be used to convert your TVPP files to various video formats. It can also be used to convert your video files to TVPP. More info can be found on the Documentation page (link here).
  Please keep in mind that the TVPaint Converter is only available with the dongleless Professionnel Edition of the software. If you do not have the dongleless version yet, or are using the Standard Edition, please use our Contact Form and our team will be happy to help you.
  
  The Converter is available on Windows and macOS (starting from 10.15 Catalina).
  Due to technical issues, there is no Linux version of the Converter yet. It will be ready for version 11.7.1, scheduled to be released before the end of the year.
• New Interface scaling options are available: 1,5x and 2,5x.
• The Color Group panel now refreshes itself when modifying layer’s color groups.
• Added a marker to indicate an image has been flipped X/Y

  

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• In the Light Table, you can now put the pegbar in the middle of your image.
• A tooltip has been added to the “Hide Empty Shape Line Preview” option in the Preferences panel.
• Right clicking on non-drawing tools in the Main Panel will no longer open the Shape Settings panel.
• The Demo version icon now tells that this is the Demo version.
• A button has been added to lock the position of floating panels when they are outside the drawers:

  

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• You can now rename a brush saved to the bin (up to 5 characters).

New Project Creation:

• When creating a new project, you can now set a DPI value:

  

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  That value is saved when exporting in PNG and JPG.
  That value is also saved when exporting in PSD from Project: Display and Clip: Display tabs only.
• When creating a project with very high dimensions, a warning will appear telling you that a high dimension can impact performance.

Export / Saving:

• When exporting a project with very high resolution, the high dimensions warning will appear again telling you that performances can be impacted .
• New export format for images: PDF.
  One image per file, and one file per image (single images as well as image sequences). Images in the PDF file are full sized. Exported PDFs do not have DPI stored in them.
• When exporting a Custom Panel, the "Name" field should be the custom panel's name.
• When exporting named images (instances where the name is set by the user instead of the default name), the “Ignore duplicates” and “All images” checkboxes are now exclusive to one another.
• When using the “Save as” option, a pop-up will ask for confirmation before replacing an existing file.
  Clicking “No” will reopen the save dialog so you can choose another name.
• [Windows] WebM export is now available.
• In the Export Panel, a checkbox has been added to replace existing files when exporting.

Timeline / Layers:

• You can draw on a layer when a mask/stencil is enabled once again by enabling an option in the Preferences panel. By default for new configurations, this setting is disabled.
• Layer Opacity is undoable once again. However, in order to not disturb people used to the current behaviour, we have added a new option in the Preferences panel to opt out of it.
• It is now easier to catch the layer handles, as they are wider, and their color change to blue when grabbed

  

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  You can change the size of the handles in the Preferences panel.
• Empty instances are now easily recognizable:

  

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  You can also choose to mark them with an “X”, in the Preferences > Display panel:

  

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• In the Clips tab, clip thumbnail should change depending on if you use the project view or the camera view.
• You can now select and move several clips altogether.
• You can now delete all inactive layers at once.
• You can now delete all empty layers at once.
• You can now select all inactive layers at once.
• When saving your project at a certain location in the Timeline, opening the project later will now display the same location in the Timeline.
• A preference setting has been added to disable preview autoplay when hovering a clip in the Clip view.
• You can now delete a Keyframe (from the Keyframer FX) by right-clicking them on the Timeline, and choosing “Delete Key”.
• A “Focus on current group’s layers” option has been added in the Timeline. Click on the little eye icon on top of the Timeline to see this option in the dropdown menu. This will minimize layers in other groups.

Sound panel:

• You can now import audio files by dragging and dropping them in the interface.
• An option has been added to clear the Soundtrack list.
• When loading a track using the Clip > Load Sound… option, the Sound panel will open.

Storyboard view:

• You can now move, delete and hide several clips at the same time.
• When drag and dropping one or more clip, you can hit escape to cancel the move.

Image Library:

• You can now add the selected layers to the Image Library.
• You can now delete selected images in the Image Library.
• You can now delete unused images in the Image Library.

Color Panel:

• When right-clicking another color in the Palette, that color is now highlighted.
• More resize options have been added to the Palette.
• A Color and B Color now have separate history.

Custom Panels:

• Embedding a custom panel into a project will now create a copy of the panel, that will be remain available in the software.
• Embedding a panel in the software will now mark the project as modified.
• Removing an embedded panel from a project will also mark the project as modified.

Shortcuts:

• A shortcut has been added to change the project’s frame per seconds setting.
• A shortcut has been added to select all areas that are painted with A/B Color
• A shortcut has been added to select all areas that are not painted with A/B Color.
• Shortcus have been added to the stopwatch: Capture time, Clear list, Reset, and Start/Pause.
• Shortcuts have been added to change selection mode. By default, those are:
  • V - Replace
  • G - Add
  • H - Substract
  • J - Next Mode
  • K - Previous mode

What has been fixed and/or improved in TVPaint Animation 11.7.0?

General:

• In order to prevent issues when exporting (projects, clip structure…), we have implemented some restrictions on name files. You can no longer use characters like /, \, *, >, <,…
• When using the TVPaint File Requester, hovering over a file should now correctly display the file name.
• TVPaint Animation should no longer freeze when loading a project with a missing external dependancy.
• Leaving sleep mode should no longer cause TVPaint Animation to crash.
• Better management of recent files: the last file/folder now appears on top of the list.
  Also, the recently introduced sub-menus (with the “Recent projects/folders/multimedia files” categories) have been deleted for smoother navigation in the menu.
• Modifying a project that has a Grid Guideline should no longer change the values of the Grid.
• The Selection tool should now remember the last selected mode.
• Stamping a custom brush in place should work correctly now.
• When deselecting a Custom Brush that uses a Paper, the Paper is instantly de-activated.
• Panels should no longer get stuck behind the main menu.
• You can now move a layer below the last invisible layer.

Preferences:

• Window visibility slider should be able to move from 0 to 100, and not get stuck to 28%

Export:

• Fixed the “Export failed / Error avio_open: -21” pop-up message.
• Fixed an issue that prevented exporting a range of selected images.
• Using the Slate should no longer change the aspect ratio when resizing the project.
• Lossless PNG export should now correctly work with MKV, MOV and MP4 formats. Please note that these videos will still not open in QT player on macOS 10.15 (Catalina) and higher.
• When exporting named images (instances where the name is set by the user instead of the default name), the “All Images” checkbox should correctly export all images (1 frame = 1 image file).

Storyboard view:

• Moving a clip at the bottom of the view should no longer move all other clips to the bottom.
• Joining clips together should no longer cause a crash.

macOS fixes:

• [macOS only]: In the Tool Panel, the title is no longer truncated.
• Using Flip Horizontally/Vertically in Room 2 no longer causes a crash.

Color Panel:

• Various resizing bugs have been fixed with the Color Panel.
• Color Panel no longer resets to blue and black colors

Localisation:

• Layer “density” has been changed to layer “opacity”.
• The “Mark In = Mark Out!” message should now be more explicit.

Known issues

TVPaint Animation 11.7.0:

• DPI information is not shown in the Project Information panel.
• [macOS]If you open the software with the Startup Panel while your Interface scaling is 1.5 or 2.5, the Startup Panel won't be displayed in its entirety. You can hit the "Enter" key to skip the Startup Panel and finish opening the software.

Both of these issues will he addressed in a hotfix as soon as possible.

TVPaint Converter:

• External drives and USB keys might not appear in the TVPaint Converter’s file browser. This will be addressed in a hotfix as soon as possible.
• TVPP files with dependencies will not be exported by the TVPaint Converter. This will be addressed with TVPaint 11.7.1.

Hello everyone,

We've just released a hotfix adressing the following issues:

General

• Instance handles size is no longer 0 by default in the Preferences Panel.
• Cancelling instance handles size and reopening the Preferences Panel no longer resets the size to 0.
• You should now be able to correctly use the Pick Layer shortcut and functionality again.
• DPI value is now displayed in the Project > Project Information panel.
• The tv_ClipSaveStructure George command should no longer produce unwanted images.
• Brush renaming should now persist after reopening the software.

Timeline

• Delete All Layers > Empty Layers should now work as expected.
• Select Layers> Empty should now also work as expected.
• You can once again extend a layer when the timeline is zoomed out.

Import / Export

• Importing image as a new layer no longer causes the new layer to start one frame before the other layers.

Windows-only

• Webcams should be visible once again using the Video-In panel

macOS-only

• Using the Startup Panel with Interface Scaling at 1,5 or 2,5 should no longer cause the panel to be displayed incorrectly.

Japanese localisation

• All choices should now be displayed in the Shortcut panel for the "Select mode".

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