Several features and fixes... New option to automatically write tile set file when project is saved. Separated menu entries to load a color palette into load from palette and image file. Load from palette now uses the visual palette browser where palette previews can be seen. Add
Several features and fixes...
New option to automatically write tile set file when project is saved.
Separated menu entries to load a color palette into load from palette and image file. Load from palette now uses the visual palette browser where palette previews can be seen.
Added new color palettes and link to lospec.com to load palettes from there.
New function to Replace / Swap colors. Can be found in menu Colors > Replace / Swap...
Swap colors function affecting brush only has been moved to menu Brush.
Layer effect "layer mask" added. It allows to make parts of a layer being invisible without altering/removing the actual pixels.
Can also be used to add alpha transparency even when the project uses simple transparency (certain color index is transparent).
Added Shift movement lock to layer move tool.
Fix: Exporting Windows Icon with alpha transparency creates invalid files. Also added an error message when image size exceeds 256 pixels in either width or height, because this is the maximum size for the file type.
Fix: Crop + undo turned frame delay to 1ms.
Fix: Internal error when creating a very large project like 32000x32000 although having enough memory.
Fix: Misalignment with rectangle and circle tool and even sized brushes. In some situations the brush preview was not placed correctly before drawing starts and also it started to draw the circle/rectangle at the wrong position, shifted by one pixel.
Fix: Added "Name:" field to GIMP palette files so that Krita can open it.
Fix: Increased robustness for Gimp palette files by ignoring leading tabs and spaces at color value rows.
Fix: Inaccurate snapping after releasing mouse button with snap grid and line tool. The final line did not draw the same way as the preview. Instead it moved one pixel away.
Fix: When using "Animation/Create 3d Animation", the AnimBrush playback setting was ignored. It always played forward.
Fix: Light table (onion skin) shapes where rendered although the project had only a single frame.
Fix: Several functions in tile palette window could be used though sync mode was disabled but is required. Leading to problems.
Fix: Sometimes an internal error occurred when closing application while having tile palette window open.
Fix: Internal error in brush container. Did not appear in production for unknown reason.
Fix: Project settings option "Store Thumbnail" got lost when saving and loading a project file.
Fix: With some zoom levels < 100% the transparency pattern was shining through opaque pixels.
Fix: Display glitch when zooming or scrolling. Due to some rendering optimizations a glitch can appear that showed parts of the canvas pixels as transparent.
Fix: Memory leak with layer effect renderer for displaying other project.
Several features and fixes... Indicator layer for color constraints checks now updates on frame and layer changes. Menu Edit/Rotate and Flip actions now also work on an active transformation. New command for the plugin interface: GETLAYERNAME(idx). New option in preferences to en
Several features and fixes...
Indicator layer for color constraints checks now updates on frame and layer changes.
Menu Edit/Rotate and Flip actions now also work on an active transformation.
New command for the plugin interface: GETLAYERNAME(idx).
New option in preferences to enable/disable paint mode toggle.
New option to pipette tool to switch of color edit with double click.
Different performance improvements for larger project canvas sizes.
Added functions to the palette editor to copy color selection to stencil and vice versa.
Now finalizing active tool (e.g. transformation) when removing selection.
Reworking Tint paint mode. Added Hue paint mode.
Fix: Entering a "0" for fps value caused an internal error.
Fix: Progress bar kept showing when saving files during animation playback.
Fix: Problems when pasting non-alpha data to alpha project and using transform tools immediately. Caused invalid results being not undoable.
Fix: Scale3x preprocessing caused sometimes bad pixels at edges.
Fix: Crash when modifying gradients.
Fix: Temporary pipette and move tool not working after activating IME functions.
Fix: Blend mode "Color" did not use correct luminance.
Several features and fixes... Showing active file name in taskbar. Added live update while drawing. The following shortcuts can be used while using a tool and live feedback is given: - switching color - swap first/second color - switching color palette rows - switching gradient -
Several features and fixes...
Showing active file name in taskbar.
Added live update while drawing. The following shortcuts can be used while using a tool and live feedback is given:
- switching color
- swap first/second color
- switching color palette rows
- switching gradient
- switching between gradient colors
- flip gradient
- change brush size
Added "Find Shortcuts" function for Shift + Ctrl + P. Lists all shortcuts and lets you find, execute or modify them quickly.
Added shortcuts to inc/dec drawing opacity, opacity toggle and color mix toggle
For new projects the "Save as single images dialog" now presets to folder used last time instead of "documents".
Added shortcut to open effects settings of active layer.
Highlighting tile mapping sync mode check box if enabled.
Fix: Layer blend mode drop down showed scrollbar but should show all entries instead.
Fix: Mix option for paint mode with alpha transparency not working correctly.
Fix: Some custom shortcuts for timeline actions not working.
Fix: Changes to workspace handling. So far, the default workspace was used when you switch to a project having no explicit workspace assigned.
This had a the negative effect that if you change the workspace and switch to another project having no explicit workspace assigned, the default was enabled again, but this might not be what you want.
If no workspace is assigned to a project, switching projects do not switch workspace any more. This only happens if a project has a workspace assigned.
Also the home screen now does not reset to default workspace any more.
Fix: If a visual grid was defined in project preset config then it was not enabled for display when the grid was enabled. Also added 16x16 drawing grid to default project preset.
Fix: Layer deletion and undo not working with tile map projects when sync mode off. When tile mapping sync mode was off then drawing a layer, deleting it and undoing the deletion did not correctly rebuild layer contents.
Fix: Visual artifacts on canvas when drawing while animation is running.
Fix: Middle mouse panning not working with different interactive tools lite transform.
Fix: Error when opening some dialogs. Create text brush, Edit keyboard shortcut, edit formula settings.
Fix: When using ESC key to close a dialog then active canvas tools have been canceled as well.
Fix: Shortcuts for rotating a transform object used wrong direction.
Fix: Internal error when inverting selection that was not active any more.
Fix: UI overlap at paint mode panel with long paint mode descriptions.
Fix: Folder text display cut off when using display scaling in palette and halftone management dialog-
Fix: Internal error when color palette window was sized to small.
Fix: When switching between projects zoom level changed. If a zoom level below 1 was selected for a project, switching to another project and back, reduced the zoom level.
Same happened when using crop tool.
Fix: Movement lock (Shift) reset after each stroke with freehand paint tools. It's better to keep the Shift lock position (horizontal, vertical) with these types of tools, even if a stroke was done.
Fix: Some paint modes not correctly working when touching same tile at different position. When using (e.g.) paint mode Shade with a tile map project and drawing over the same tile that is placed at different positions then the shading was applied again, although a tile pixel has already been shaded before at a different position of the tile on the canvas.
Fix: Tile index numbers contained in the brush did not consistently highlight. When having tile index display enabled and grabbing a brush as tile from canvas, the tiles in the brush are shown as purple index numbers on the canvas.
If the sync mode is disabled, a different brush is grabbed and sync mode is enabled again, then the index of the tile is marked purple that was used before.
Several fixes and changes with window layouts (workspaces): - The wording "window layouts" has been used for historical reasons but workspace is more common. - Turning workspace buttons into drop down button. - Rearranged menu items in menu View/Workspaces. - Removed "Arrange Win
Several fixes and changes with window layouts (workspaces):
- The wording "window layouts" has been used for historical reasons but workspace is more common.
- Turning workspace buttons into drop down button.
- Rearranged menu items in menu View/Workspaces.
- Removed "Arrange Windows" function. It's not really needed anymore since the windows snap to each other now. It was often causing confusion when it has undesired results.
- Removed embedded windows mode.
- Reduced flickering when switching workspaces.
- When holding Ctrl on window move/sizing, snapping is disabled.
- When sizing main window then windows inside the main window keep their aspect ratio.
Middle mouse button on brush container slot deletes the slot.
Fix: Now stopping animation playback when dropping a file onto the UI.
Fix: Formula paint mode was applied multiple times during stroke.
Fix: Using "Save As" with brush container and cancel showed an error.
Fix: Color editing dialog not working correctly. When using the dialog for editing a single color in non-palette mode, e.g. in the preferences for the transparency checker pattern colors, then the RGB edit fields did not work correctly.
Also, a display glitch at the color range gradients of a single channel sometimes showed pure white instead of the gradient when opening the dialog.
Fix: Intro dialog interfered with canvas window and did not close.
Fix: A layer blend mode different than "Normal" could not be reset to "Normal".
Fix: It could happen that some of the application windows use a wrong width.
Fix: Fixed several glitches for the window layout management and window resizing Fix: With some pen/tablets an internal error occurred when using WinTab interface. This error is now caught so that the program can still be used. A message appears that pressure support is disabled.
Fix: Fixed several glitches for the window layout management and window resizing
Fix: With some pen/tablets an internal error occurred when using WinTab interface. This error is now caught so that the program can still be used. A message appears that pressure support is disabled.
Fix: Invalid file type preselected in single image export file dialog after previous usage.
Fix: Unwanted log file writing disabled.
Fix: Transformation options where not allowed for separate tools like scale, skew, rotate.
Fix: Internal error at start up.
Fix: Airbrush now supports transparency lock. Actually the AirBrush does not use a paint mode and the transparency lock is a paint mode setting. But since it's a painting tool it makes sense to also use the lock options with it.
Fix: Scrolling through blend modes in layer window rewinded when hitting a separator.
Fix: Animation playback got stuck if frame has a delay of 0ms.
Fix: Error when closing drop shadow effect dialog while trackbar of opacity input was visible.
Added some explaining message dialog to Window arrange and default layout functions
Project tab can now be closed with middle mouse button.
Improved key handling when stamping brush over frames.
When stamping a brush over frames is enabled for paint dotted/continuous tool by holding Ctrl + Alt then the cursor changes so that it can bee seen that this function is active.
Even if stamping a brush over frames (option "Stamp AnimBrush") is enabled then the temporary tool assigned to Ctrl key can now be used (which is the pipette tool by default). The stamp mode starts when also Alt is hold.
Added another interface to access pen pressure data for non Wacom tablets.
Fixing invalid positionion of tile palette window in default window layout.
Added audio track to animation playback. Play a WAV file along with your animation.
Added visual checkbox for handle toggle in transformation tool options.
Brush shade up/down now working on current gradient for single color brushes.
Added shortcut to append the active brush to the current project as frame(s).
Added option to hide grid in canvas window.
Window layout management improvements: Automatic arrangement has been improved in different ways. Auto save window layout when changing main form size. Added buttons to the main window that let you quickly select a predefined layout. Some bugs fixed when switching between layouts
Window layout management improvements:
Automatic arrangement has been improved in different ways.
Auto save window layout when changing main form size.
Added buttons to the main window that let you quickly select a predefined layout.
Some bugs fixed when switching between layouts.
Pinned windows now ignored when rearranging.
Window layouts can now be sorted.
Workspace Windows do now snap to other windows when moving or sizing.
Added new option to let the transformation reference point move relatively with the object.
Added keyboard shortcut to hide/show handles when in transformation mode.
Made layer effect settings window to be resizeable.
Pattern drawing settings now allow 100 x 100 repetitions.
When creating an animation in 3d then the frame preview option now shows all visible layers and not only the active one.
Included experimental multi threaded canvas rendering.
Fix: Importing an alpha transparent PNG image into an non alpha transparent project not working if frame sizes differ.
Fix: Importing an image to an existing project could not be made undone.
Fix: Error when turning layer into single image layer + undo/redo.
Fix: Stamping brush over frames (Alt + Ctrl) ignored last selected frame in timeline. Hints of freehand tools now only show extra key options if they are available (AnimPainting, AnimBrush stamping, stamping brush over selected frames) and usable.
Alt or Ctrl now don't activate layer move or color picker if multiple frames are selected in the time line to stamp on.
Fix: When toggling a layer group (open/close) while another layer was active, the layer list jumped to the active layer.
Fix: Error when using shortcut for "Restore Brush" when having the brush resize too active.
Fix: Menu item "Paste as new Layers" was always active.
Fix: Error when closing drop shadow effect dialog while trackbar of opacity input was visible.
Fix: Re-apply Color palette layer effect not correctly working on file export.
Fix: When loading a true color file that is defined to open PM, then the color reduction dialog was hidden behind the main window making the application defunct.
Fix: Editing palette color plus drawing plus undo also reverted the color modification.
Fix: When adding/removing frames along with undo/redo then previous palette changes where undone as well.
Fix: Crash when using extended oval/rectangle edit mode with stroke layer effect. If there is a definition of an oval/rectangle active with extended edit mode and a layer FX "Stroke" was added then the program closed due to an internal error.
Fix: Toggling "Grouping" in "Re-apply Palette" layer effect applied some internal value reset. When switching off "Use Grouing/Sub-Palettes" then internally the "Group start at" value has been reset to "0" leading to invalid rendering. Fix: "Create 3d Animation" not working corre
Fix: Toggling "Grouping" in "Re-apply Palette" layer effect applied some internal value reset. When switching off "Use Grouing/Sub-Palettes" then internally the "Group start at" value has been reset to "0" leading to invalid rendering.
Fix: "Create 3d Animation" not working correctly when moving from outside top left into visible area. The brush contents have been misaligned.
Fix: Pen eraser not working.
Dix: Internal error when defining a paint mode formula only for right mouse button and leaving left mouse button formula empty.
Fix: When loading a JPG file then color reduction with "use current palette" did not work correctly. It used the default palette instead.
Fix: Swapping a brush in the brush container with Alt + left click does not work with the last slot.
Fix: Internal error if a folder was selected for halftone patterns that is write protected.
Fix: Internal error, when number of dots for lines is set to 1.
Fix: When using right mouse button to open the context menu of a layer, then the layer was not always selected correctly.
Fix: Loading sprite sheets from plain image files not working correctly. The layout definition that can be done when loading a sprite sheet image (BMP, PNG) was not reset correctly when loading another file. Internally it always created an animation with the number of frames that where used for the first file that was loaded, no matter what the input dialog said. This led to corrupted frame contents.
Fix: Wrong delays when exporting individual frame ranges to animation files.
Fix: Transparency not loaded correctly from alpha transparent sprite sheets.
Fix: "top level FX" and layer opacity created wrong rendering on output. When having a layer with opacity < 100 and a layer FX that renders "top level" then the effect has been rendered twice leading to a doubled opacity of the output when exporting to image or animation.
Fix: Export file extension of project presets was wrong (.scc instead of .cfg).
Fix: Error when using Frame/Rotate Canvas and Frame/Flip Canvas when a layer group was selected.
Fix: If project defines FPS for frame speed instead of ms delays then the input field at the bottom right still stored a new value as ms delay.
Fix: Rectangle tool did not allow temporary Ctrl-Pipette.
Rectangular brush grab tool now enabled for auto scrolling.
Contains important bug fix. Changes Fix: Pixel perfect drawing removed pixels when crossing lines. Fix: Mouse wheel action for zooming now only applied when mouse pointer is on canvas. Fix: Middle mouse button executing canvas mover sometime drew on canvas instead of moving it Fi
Contains important bug fix.
Changes
Fix: Pixel perfect drawing removed pixels when crossing lines.
Fix: Mouse wheel action for zooming now only applied when mouse pointer is on canvas.
Fix: Middle mouse button executing canvas mover sometime drew on canvas instead of moving it
Fix: frames sometimes not loaded correctly. Some (mostly larger) frames might not load correctly due to a compression decoding fault.
Added auto scrolling mechanism to toolbox for when the height does not fit on screen
Brush transformation tools now allow adding frames without stopping transformation
Mainly a couple of fixes, but also an important feature: group/ungroup layers Changes Shape of cursor for freehand drawing made to be more slim again. Improved button visualizations in color palette window. Added layer group and ungroup functions. Using ESC key in the web color e
Mainly a couple of fixes, but also an important feature: group/ungroup layers
Changes
Shape of cursor for freehand drawing made to be more slim again.
Improved button visualizations in color palette window.
Added layer group and ungroup functions.
Using ESC key in the web color edit field in the color palette editor window now removes focus from the edit field.
Fix: If there was no other group/layer after a group then the layers of that (last) group could not be moved out of it by dragging to the very bottom.
Fix: When changing the delay of a frame directly in the corresponding input and using frame playback/control buttons, the delay was not correctly stored
Fix: When adding a layer and doing undo in a fast way while starting to apply tooling like fill on that canvas, an internal error occurred.
Fix: Shortcuts that are used for different working areas (tabs) in the color palette window where considered to be conflicting and the user had to choose one of the operations.
Fix: When having pixel perfect drawing enabled and the license key was removed then the application did not start correctly.
Fix: When using middle mouse pan and mouse wheel very quickly the same time then sometimes lines where drawn.
Fix: Freeform brush grab not working correctly if stencil is enabled.
Fix: ESC with freeform line tool was not working correctly.
Fix: Merging a layer group sometimes raised an internal error.
Fix: Extended edit mode with filled shapes did not work with interactive gradient fills.
Fix: Active tool did not cancel automatically when loading image/animation/project files leading to problems
Several improvements in 3d animation creation dialog. Improved calculation precision. All brush handle types now supported. Add switch to enable perspective distortion rendering. Default is now linear rendering. Revived B-button to acquire last brush stamp position. Made shortcut
Several improvements in 3d animation creation dialog.
Improved calculation precision.
All brush handle types now supported.
Add switch to enable perspective distortion rendering. Default is now linear rendering.
Revived B-button to acquire last brush stamp position.
Made shortcut for switching palette edit modes (select vs. edit) to be a global one.
Before it only worked when the palette window was active.
Fix: Several fixes and improvements in the palette editor window.
Undo/Redo keyboard shortcuts sometimes not working.
Now when there are pasted floating colors, they use a different highlighting to differ copy/paste and movement actions.
Fix: Internal error when starting with 125% scaling on some system.
Fix: When stamping down the brush during brush transformation, the stamped brushes where made undone when the brush transformation was finalized.
Fix: When moving a transformation then the rendering changed depending on the in-pixel position of the corners.
This happened because the movement was made on sub pixel precision and not on pixel precision. Now the movement always moves by whole pixels.
Fix: News contents not displayed correctly on some systems.
Fix: Number edit field in line tool settings always included an additional "2" when entering numbers.
Fix: Internal error (division by zero) when using FPS edit on a frame that has a delay of 0ms.
Fix: Memory usage display showed wrong hint and some beta disclaimer on click but shouldn't.
Fix: Crash when using WinKey for shortcuts.
Fix: Brush lost color palette when applying transformations.
Fix: When setting a color channel bit depth to 1 bit then the preview did not show correct colors.
Fix: Internal error when modifying color channel bit depth with projects having a layer group.
Pro Motion NG - V8 is released. Major features all tools have been revamped and enhanced for easier and more consistent use selection tool set including multi layer/multi frame move, copy & paste transformation of selections and brushes like free, rotate, scale, skew, also mu
Pro Motion NG - V8 is released.
Major features
all tools have been revamped and enhanced for easier and more consistent use
selection tool set including multi layer/multi frame move, copy & paste
transformation of selections and brushes like free, rotate, scale, skew, also multi layer/multi frame
linear and perspective transform rendering with quality optimizations
layer groups
symmetry options now available with all tools
extended edit mode for rectangles/ellipses for rotation and easier placement
even line stepping as part of isometric lock options
transparent canvas to display any graphic source behind the application and draw on it (e.g. for rotoscoping)
improved keyboard shortcut handling (conflict checks, keys for pipette/move tool now modifiable)
A new V8 beta version update release is available. Hopefully the final release will be available in February. You can either switch your current Steam installation to be the new beta or download a separate version to run it independently. Find all information you need at Beta Ver
A new V8 beta version update release is available. Hopefully the final release will be available in February.
You can either switch your current Steam installation to be the new beta or download a separate version to run it independently. Find all information you need at Beta Version Details
Please post feedback to Beta Version Forum CategoryChanges
Fix: Color selection indicators in gradient display did not scale properly with high DPI displays.
Fix: When switching between two projects with the same layout assigned to them, then default layout was used sometimes.
Fix: Displaying invalid 3d view (anaglyph) when stereo drawing base offset > project with half size. In that case 3d display is not applied now because it's an invalid setting.
Fix: Internal error when creating a text brush without giving a text.
Fix: Win key + M did not only minimize the main window. Other windows staid open.
Fix: The stereo drawing 3d view (anaglyph, interlace) only worked the stereo drawing mode was enabled. It's now independent from actually using stereo draw tooling. If 3d view is enabled then it's used.
Fix: Internal random error when adding a new gradient in the gradient selection window.
Fix: Free Edition allowed "even segments" line snap, but should not.
Fix: Random internal errors when using transformation tools.
Fix: "The System Font could not be loaded!" appeared when starting first time.
Fix: Magic Wand Brush Grab tool did not show current cursor position coordinates.
Fix: mouse wheel not usable on tool options dialog.
Fix: Error message appears when double activating a transformation tool (free, rotate...)
Fix: Font too large on time line with some systems, when using DPI scaling.
Improving high DPI scaling. Theer where still some UI elements that did not behave correctly.
Added some hint for the gradient list button
Auto brush handle with grab tools now allowed in Free Edition.
Animation playback start/end definition now allowed in Free Edition.
Default grid colors now darker (#505050).
Pattern grids now allowed in Free Edition.
Free Edition now allows using the selection tool set completely..
Now the program stops if documents folder can not be used to store config data. This prevents errors that follow later, because that data is required.
Settings folder is now \Pro Motion NG - V8 (- Beta)
Documentation (help file) updated.
A new V8 beta version update release is available. You can either switch your current Steam installation to be the new beta or download a separate version to run it independently. Find all information you need at Beta Version Details Please post feedback to Beta Version Forum Cat
A new V8 beta version update release is available.
You can either switch your current Steam installation to be the new beta or download a separate version to run it independently. Find all information you need at Beta Version Details
Please post feedback to Beta Version Forum CategoryChanges
Documentation updated.
Fix: Program did not start when VSCode update installer was active. If VSCode was running and detected a pending update then PM did not correctly start. Nothing happened and the application process got stuck.
Fix: When moving canvas with the canvas mover tool outside the limits then canvas started to flicker.
Fix: Quick selection tool (holding E-key) did not work correctly.
Fix: when selecting a single tile while having a duplicate of it in the tile set then the wrong tile index was placed to the tile map.
Fix: Middle mouse button usage while drawing led to not undoable changes.
Fix: Selection tools (rectangle, elliptic) did not properly reset after usage.
Fix: When using free form brush grab tool and exceeding canvas then the brush that was grabbed had a wrong size and repeating pixels where the selection exceeded canvas area.
Fix: Resize project, undo, draw, undo left artifacts on the canvas.
Fix: When transforming layer data that has no transparent color then the transformed object showed invalid colors at parts that are outside the transformed portion.
Fix: Loading alpha transparent files (BMP, PNG) having an additional color palette file shifted colors. When using alpha transparency and saving contents as BMP/PNG files with alpha then also the color palette is stored to be reloaded and used when the image is loaded. When loading such an image file an extra white slot has been added at position 0 shifting all other colors of the palette.
Fix: Invalid layer label positioning when using display with scaling > 100%.
Fix: Icon scaling with High DPI caused black artifacts.
Fix: Resizing a project using resampling removed transparency.
Fix: Pasting data multiply on canvas did not work when frame was switched after first paste.
Fix: Alt started AnimPainting with paint tool even if AnimPaint option was disabled in the settings.
Fix: Selection tools (rectangle, elliptic) did not properly reset after usage.
Fix: Clearing frame not working when floating selection active.
Fix: When turning an ordinary project into a tile map project then snap grid settings are set to the tile size but not updated in the settings window.
Fix: When turning a project into a tile map project then existing visual grid settings matching the target tile size has been overwritten by the tile default grid attributes (including color). Now an existing grid entry is reused if it exists (size, color etc. must match) and a new grid entry is added otherwise.
Fix: When using a color palette index as layer background with different color palettes per layer, the first layer's color was used instead of the active one.
Fix: Invalid positioning when drawing starts for different line tools. Position was sometimes offset by one pixel vertically.
Fix: When using a color palette index as layer background with different color palettes per layer, the first layer's color was used instead of the active one.
Fix: Corrupted colors when loading files using different color palettes per frame.
Fix: canvas window transparency did not re-enable when closing a project and opening a new one. It kept being disabled.
Added option "Layers" to fill tool to make the fill stop if pixels on any visible layer don't match.
Automatic scrolling on the canvas can now be turned of in the canvas window settings.
When creating a new project from copied layers then opacity, layer name and blend mode are now copied as well.
Disabled auto scroll when semi transparent canvas is enabled.
Tile selection tool now also works with snap grid when tile mapping is not enabled
Improved inverted overlay pixel line contrast.
Showing in-tile coordinates additionally in tile modification mode.
Removed unused shortcuts re-working paint modes in menu mode.
Foreground/Background color now called First/Second color.
A new V8 beta version update release is available. You can either switch your current Steam installation to be the new beta or download a separate version to run it independently. Find all information you need at Beta Version Details Please post feedback to Beta Version Forum Cat
A new V8 beta version update release is available.
You can either switch your current Steam installation to be the new beta or download a separate version to run it independently. Find all information you need at Beta Version Details
Please post feedback to Beta Version Forum CategoryChanges
Fix: Improved naming for file association options in Windows so that the application uses a true naming instead of "Pmotion"
Fix: Polygon tool allowed undo during drawing
Fix: Brush grab tools did not finalize a floating selection before starting
Fix: Line tool did not show the correct angle when Shift was hold to use position locking
Fix: Frame/Clear Frames not working correctly when floating selection was active
Fix: When removing a floating selection with "del" then the pixel selection was kept on the canvas
Fix: When removing a floating selection with "del" then undo also undid the action before
Fix: Home screen list boxes sometimes misaligned. If home screen was off when the software was started and then the home screen was enabled, the file list boxes had wrong alignment.
Fix: Corrupted image data after enabling tile map sync mode. When enabling tile sync mode and then using tools like "line tool", tiles where reset to wrong indexes and wrong pixels.
Fix: Cut brush did not propagate the remove of pixels to all pattern repetitions when in pattern drawing mode
Fix: Clearing frame ranges not working correctly if start frame was larger than 1.
Fix: Global mouse wheel actions also fired if a modal dialog was open.
Fix: AnimPainting ignored playback limit and cycled through all frames of animation.
Fix: AnimPainting with paint tool and pixel perfect drawing caused internal error.
Fix: Color cycling playback could not be stopped.
Fix: Curve tool did hide the the line after the first step (straight line + button release) if mouse was not moved immediately.
Fix: Invalid positioning when drawing starts for different line tools. Position was offset by one pixel.
Fix: When creating a new bitmap font project then the top left pixel used as character separator was not set up.
Fix: Internal error when exporting sprite sheets with multiple flattened layers.
Added simple application canvas transparency mode to show contents of applications underneath. Can be used for quick rotoscoping and similar.
With transformation tools Ctrl now stamps all frames, Alt stamps single frame only.
Removed unnecessary functions from 3d animation dialog.
Picking last brush stamp pos.
Trace function.
Also made preview images better to their headline label.
A new V8 beta version update release is available. You can either switch your current Steam installation to be the new beta or download a separate version to run it independently. Find all information you need at Beta Version Details Please post feedback to Beta Version Forum Cat
A new V8 beta version update release is available.
You can either switch your current Steam installation to be the new beta or download a separate version to run it independently. Find all information you need at Beta Version Details
Please post feedback to Beta Version Forum CategoryChanges
Fix: Pixel perfect drawing now working with stereo drawing.
Fix: Tile Mapping/Load connected Projects was disabled though one of the connected projects was closed.
Fix: Saving animation with a defined frame range caused error when using multiple layers.
Fix: Error when closing project while animation is running.
Fix: Menu entry "Save Copy As..." active when there was no project opened which led to an error.
Fix: Some elements in the color palette window wasted too much CPU time.
Fix: Moving pixels in tile map edit mode with sync mode off caused invalid results. When moving layer contents in tile map edit mode "Pick/Place Tiles" with sync mode off led to wrong final contents. Pixels where removed or where overwritten by tile data from the tile library which is wrong because sync is off. Only pixels may be moved then.
Fix: uppercase file extensions have been ignored and lower file extension added. Now the extension is always replaced by lower case extension.
Fix: Temporary canvas mover and temporary zoom tool stopped current active tool.
Fix: paint mode "erase" worked additive in alpha so that the erase effect was too strong.
Fix: internal error appeared instead of normal error message if FLC file could not be read.
Fix(1871): alpha transparent brush used full opacity for semi transparent pixels when drawing opacity was set to 100 instead
Fix: transformation object size was changed when moving on the canvas due to enabled snapping.
Fix: some problem with pixel selection and transformation. If transformation was applied to an existing floating selection that was based on a pixel selection then the final pixel selection was wrong.
Also undo/redo not working correctly.
Fix: Floating pixels buttons in tool settings window not removed when finalizing transformation without having a floating selection at the beginning of the transformation.
Fix: Temporary tools (canvas move, zoom) not working with tools using size interaction elements (crop, extended rectangle edit, transformation tools...)
Fix: Temporary canvase mover and temporary zoom tool stopped current active tool.
Fix: Space activated canvas mover although mouse is down (canceling a tool in progress, e.g. line tool).
Fix: When reselecting oval/rectangle tool in extended edit mode, then it did not remove canvas changes correctly.
Fix: Brush preview sometimes not showing when moving from -1 coordinat to 0 (rectangle, oval tools).
Fix: Coordinate display not accurate for oval/rectangle if rotated.
Fix: Rounding issues with symmetry and hollow oval/rectangle and even brush sizes.
Fix: When using tile map pick/place mode the selected and tile aligned area automatically increased more than it should.
Fix: The layer list jumped to the active a lock icon is used, wven if it was from a different layer.
Fix: internal error when deleting a tile map layer and using undo.
Fix: Free form line tool left brush preview on canvas when switching to a tool that does not use a brush preview.
Fix: Keyboard shortcut to toggle layer lock only changed active layer even if multiple where selected.
Fix: Tile palette window not showing when creating new tile map project.
Fix: Line snap (isometric, even steps) not working correctly of one part of the line went below 0-coordinates.
Fix: Imprecise coordinate display with negative values.
Fix: Line tools did show coordinate vale (x or y) as 0 although being -1.
Fix: With single frame layers the automatic pixel update when moving colors in the color palette did not work.
Fix: 8bit PNG files with additional 8 bit alpha plane file not loading correctly. This also caused alpha transparent brushes to not be displayed in the brush container.
Flip canvas function added.
Flip selection/frames function added.
Selections in pattern drawing mode not propagated to the repeated patterns anymore because this interferes with functions with transformation functions, scrolling etc.
Rotate frame/selection added.
Canvas rotation function added (90°, 180°).
Storing pixel perfect drawing option for next session.
New transparency pattern default colors #808080 and #c0c0c0.
When pattern drawing is enabled then the selection is not spread over all tiles but stays where it is.
Pattern drawing toggle now part of undo history.
Added shortcut to toggle layer group collapsing.
If layer group is closed that contains the active layer then the group becomes active.
If a layer is selected by tool then it's parent groups are now opened automatically.
Layer blend modes reorganized.
Support cmd/bat files as post processing tool when exporting tile map data.
Right mouse button click on brush tip button now opens context menu instead of starting brush resize mode
When using brush pick up then "trim" option is now ignored if snap grid is enabled.
Remove/empty unused tile function added to tile palette window.
Pick layer tool (Shift + T) now supports for multiple layer selection when holding Shift.
Move tool now supports selection of multiple layers when holding Shift.
Icons for visibility and lock now shown semi transparent if a parent group is invisible or locked.
Small update for V7 Fix: Loading projects of V8 containing layer groups raised errors Fix: When changing the second brush color in the color palette window then brush transparency was changed Fix: If a tile map project was saved with spare frame enabled then loading that project
Small update for V7
Fix: Loading projects of V8 containing layer groups raised errors
Fix: When changing the second brush color in the color palette window then brush transparency was changed
Fix: If a tile map project was saved with spare frame enabled then loading that project caused an internal error
Fix: In rare cases a mouse wheel action can lead to an internal error
Fix: Palette file problems. Gimp palette can have either spaces or tabs to separate RGB values. PM only supported tabs, now also supports spaces.
JASC pal format added.
Fix: As soon as you change lock grid settings animation play back is broken. Wrong frames are displayed between the animating ones. Only closing software solved the problem.
Fix: Moving tiles in the tile palette not working with single image layers. When having single image layers in a tile map project then moving tiles in the palette is nor working correctly. It leads to wrong tile indices in the tile map.
A new V8 beta version update release is available. You can either switch your current Steam installation to be the new beta or download a separate version to run it independently. Find all information you need at Beta Version Details Please post feedback to Beta Version Forum Cat
A new V8 beta version update release is available.
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When making a layer visible then all parent groups are set to be visible as well.
Display opacity on layer only if not equal to 100%.
Single Image Layer now called Static Image Layer.
Fix: Transformation or movement now rejected if only invisible layers are selected.
Fix: Floating pixels overlay ignored layer transparency.
Fix: some UI actions had lags, e.g. when selecting a color in the color palette Window.
Fix: when color palette window is active then some non window specific keyboard shortcuts did not work.
Fix: don’t allow pixel movement if not at least one visible layer is selected.
Some improvements to the move tooling. It now works like this:
“Auto select” mode (there is no pixel selection and no active floating selection)
Activate the layer that is under the cursor if only a single layer is selected in the layers window. If multiple layers are selected in the layers window or if a group is selected then it will move all the layers.
Do not keep the floating selection at the end (anymore). It’s fixated so that it “feels” like you used a layer move tool.
“Existing floating selection”
No matter where you click, the floating pixels are moved. No layer is changed.
“Pixel selection”
Pixel selection is turned into floating selection.
If multiple layers are selected then they are used otherwise the layer under the cursor is activated and used
Floating selection is not finalized so that you can continue moving
Fix: Transforming a floating selection without having a pixel selection before, created a wrong pixel selection when finalizing the transform.
Fix: Several fixes with floating selections.
When using move tool without pixel selection then a selection was created after the move.
When using ESC then a move that has ben started is now completely reverted.
When moving without selection in multiple steps and finalizing then undoing the movement did not revert the complete move but all the single steps in between.
Fix: Don’t create pixel selection when moving pixels without having a pixel selection.
Fix: random bug effects when using transformation tools.
RGB color sliders now snap depending on the channel bits.
Ctrl + Space now activating temporary relative zoom tool.
Fix: thumbnail in brush container sometimes cut off right or bottom pixels.
Windows are now rearranged if main window size changed.
Setting default window layout now does not maximize main window but leaves it as it is.
Fix: Removed some flickering that appears on first startup when initial window positions are applied.
Fix: if preview window is set to center when animating then it could hide behind the canvas/magnify window.
Stencil load/save moved to stencil edit area. Added selection load/save functions to menu Selection.
A new V8 beta version update release is available. You can either switch your current Steam installation to be the new beta or download a separate version to run it independently. Find all information you need at Beta Version Details Please post feedback to Beta Version Forum Cat
A new V8 beta version update release is available.
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This quick fix updates V8 Beta 5 concerning the following problems:
Fix: Several problems with layout management and switching.
Crop tool switched to default layout.
Manual switching between layouts not working.
Added "Save" function to store changes in a layout manually instead of doing this automatically. Only default layout is stored automatically now.
Fix: Every transformation tool finished action when hovering over it's content area. Caused by accidentally activating the temporary layer move tool which is not allowed for transformation tools and so stopped them.
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Fix: Temporary tool activation (pipette, move layer, move canvas) had some problems. Pipette and layer mover deactivated each other when using extra keys for additional options. Layer mover kept activated when using Alt + Tab.
Fix: Tile palette window has wrong position (out of screen range) when having a fresh install
Fix: When multiple layers or a group was selected and the visibility was changed then only the selected entry icon state was updated in the layer list.
Fix: Magic wand selection tool did not correctly reset selection when cancelling.
Fix: Using a selection tool twice, reverts the latest change.
Fix: "&" character not displayed in the character display when creating a bitmap font.
Fix: When using move layer tool then undo did not work correctly.
Fix: Some key shortcuts in layers window context menu not shown.
Fix: Tile set window always reopened when switching projects even if it was manually closed.
Fix: Incomplete canvas update with some tools. For example in some circumstances when using the brush resize (scale) tool then the brush preview was not correctly updated when moving mouse coursor out of canvas area.
Fix: When drawing with pen then translucent paint mode did not use pressure.
Fix: When saving keyboard shortcuts to file then a wrong extension (.stn) was added.
Fix: Double click on PMP file in file explorer did showed error when PM was already running.
Fix: Keyboard shortcut for symmetry tool not working.
Fix: Brush grab with RMB did not cut with tile map projects and sync mode off.
Fix: Move tool hint was not displayed.
Fix: Tolerance not working correctly with flood fill/magic wand tools.
Fix: Using the move tool with an active but empty pixel selection caused an internal error.
Fix: Extended edit mode with oval/rectangle selection caused problems when cancelling tool. In that case the pixel selection was not correctly reset.
Fix: Certain JPEG file types could not be loaded.
Fix: Frame focus vs. frame selection improvement with fill tool. When having different selected frames on the time line then the fill tool fills these selected frames. If you have a frame active that is not part of that selection then only this frame is filled now and not those that are selected.
Fix: When light table is enabled then the layer opacity has been ignored. It always used the main frame opacity definition of the light table settings (e.g. 100%) instead of combining layer opacity with the light table main frame opacity.
Fix: Pen and hover click problems. With mouse usage and drawing tools the contract is: if you start with mouse button A and then click mouse button B then the operation is canceled.
When using a pen with mode "Hover click" then this is now disabled because when doing a "right click" and pen is hovering and then putting the pen tip on the surface would cause a left click which cancels the operation. That's why hover clicks have been ignored to prevent this. Now the tool cancellation is switched off when using a pen and hover clicks are allowed again.
Fix: Importing transparent PNG image file not working correctly. The different combinations of alpha/non-alpha PNG and alpha/non-alpha project did not always process transparency the way they should.
Fix: Tolerance not working correctly with flood fill/magic wand tools.
Fix: Append single images caused artifacts if images where smaller then project size.
Fix: Importing image without alpha into a project with alpha raised an error.
Fix: Appending animation having no alpha data to an alpha enabled project raised and error.
Fix: Append animation + undo/redo was not working.
Fix: Some menu entries have been active even if no project was openend. This led to errors when using them..
Fix: Stroke layer effect renderer ignored "display on top" toggle.
Fix: Alpha value of (e.g. 70%) used 69% when drawing (rounding problem).
Fix: Canvas not updated when layers moved in layer list.
Fix: Corrected error message when trying to transform an empty layer group.
Fix: Fixing initial misplacing of brush transformation overlay when using brush transformation tool the second time.
Fix: Several fixes with stroke layer effect. Crashes when flattening effects and dong undo/redo fast. Not correctly working with alpha enabled projects.
Fix: Some tools did not correctly work with layer lock.
Paste to new layers function added.
Prevent closing application when animation is running.
Added foreground background color indicators to main window gradient display.
Added check box to limit font size of preview area in text brush creation dialog to a minimum of 10px to keep text readable with very small font sizes.
Added keyboard shortcut for toggling animation preview in canvas window.
Added shortcuts for changing spaypaint tool pressure and radius
Added foreground background color indicators to main window gradient display
Insert/remove pixel rows/columns now working working with all selected layers and frames
Creating backup file if project of a previous version is overwritten because the new can not be loaded in a previous version.
Flip frames now working with selected frames and layers.
Mouse pad gesture for zooming now supported.
Several improvements and fixes for brush container.
Fixed several issues (last brush not draggable/removable, insert first entry with keyboard shortcut not working, selection issues on remove/add).
Different colors for selected items and focused item.
New shortcut to send brush ton container after focused entry.
When clicking on border of brush slot then the brush is not picked up anymore. It just changes the slot selection.
"background fixed" menu entry removed from menu Frame because this function is available at the tool box.
Revived undo/redo buttons on tool box.
Shortcut definition (default: del) for layer window to delete layers.
New options for color picker. Different pick modes can be selected. Extra keys for picking opacity with alpha projects have been reworked.
Improved visualization of invisible layers. Caption becomes gray.
Included layer groups.
Rectangle tool and fill tool ignored layer lock. With all drawing tools: now layer lock allows drawing with paint mode "selection".
A new V8 beta version update release is available. You can either switch your current Steam installation to be the new beta or download a separate version to run it independently. Find all information you need at Beta Version Details Please post feedback to Beta Version Forum Cat
A new V8 beta version update release is available.
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Please post feedback to Beta Version Forum CategoryChanges
Fix: When having different window layouts for different monitors then switching between them did not maximize the main window.
Fix: Green layer ordering indicating line got stuck when dragging off layer area.
Fix: After flattening effects and applying further canvas operations, undo did not working correctly.
Fix: When no project is active the default palette did not show in the color palette window. Instead the last used color palette was still visible.
Fix: color quantization settings not fully working when importing true color sprite sheet. The color count limit was ignored. Instead 256 colors have always been used.
Fix: Inaccurate color quantization. If true color images have less colors than requested then no quantization should be done, because quantization always recreates RGB values and does not always use original ones. Instead the colors should be used 1:1 from the image.
Fix: Shape tools (rectangle, circle etc.) did not snap preview elements correctly when using grid snap. If grid snapping is enabled then the preview elements (brush dot or position rulers) did not snap to the grid positions. This happened to solid and hollow shape tools.
Fix: RMB strokes cancel themselves if using pen. When using a drawing tablet with its RMB assigned button to draw with second color then lifting the pen from the canvas canceled the operation.
Fix: Continuous paint strokes couldn't overlap themselves. Some paint modes don't allow overlapping (e.g. Invert, Brighten...) but it was also prevented with Color Cycling which was wrong.
Fix: Stereo drawing offset delta display not always updated. It sometimes got stuck to a certain value.
Fix: freeform line tool did not reset stereo drawing delta on finish.
Fix: inbound grid calculation not working correctly. Selecting something in tile map pick/place mode using (e.g.) rectangular selection tool did not correctly increase the selection to full tile sizes.
Fix: Internal error when using right mouse button at project tab area when no project or home tab was visible.
Project setting to save certain image files (png, bmp, gif) with least possible color depth is now off by default.
Allow pixel scrolling also when being in tile map mode "Place Tiles".
Removing some white flickering on main form on during startup.
Replacing paint mode "Behind" by extra paint mode setting to lock transparent or opaque pixels.
PMP file format thumbnails. Storing thumbnail data must be activated in the project settings, either per project or for all projects in the project default settings in the preferences.
Replacing paint mode "Behind" by extra paint mode setting to lock transparent or opaque pixels.
Close project commands reworked. Close other/all now in file menu and in project tab menu. Ctrl + W, Shift + Ctrl + W now used as short cuts
Some start up speed improvements.
Toolbar Revision. Reorganizing and renaming tools. Removing clear "tool" button and adding a menu entry Frames/Clear Ranges... that now clears ranges of frames.
Added Tile Selection Tool to the selection tools group in the tool box.