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- Changes from V4.0 to V4.0.1
-
- * When switching between projects they remember their current frame
- * Circle now supports AnimPainting (ALT+CTRL)
- * When you work with a requester that has a frame range input (i.e. "Delete Range of Frames") then
- you can doubleclick on the "Last Frame" input field to automatically fill this field with
- the last frame of the current animation.
- * KNOWN PROBLEM: When using scale values for the animation window which are larger than "1x"
- then the playback becomes very slow under NT. This happens when you have your desktop set
- to a higher color depth than 8bit. PM uses 8bit bitmaps and for some reason(?) NT is very
- slow when converting 8bit bitmaps to another color depth (i.e. 16bit).
- * Now there is a MINIMIZE function contained in the brush menu. It reduces the brush size
- to it's minimum bounding reactangle that is used by non-transparent pixels.
- * Redo can now be executed with either "i" or "Shift+u" (Amiga Brilliance Shortcut)
- * If you use unequal frame delay values then they are now recognized by the AVI-saver.
- AVI only supports equal frame delays. So frames are repeatedly saved for larger
- delay values. Please do not import such AVI-files, because they usually contain
- too much frames to be handled by Pro Motion
- * If a brush is copied from the clipboard, then the current background color
- is choosen to be transparent
- * When drawing a line, the length and angle are also displayed besides width and height
- * ALT key activates menu if not used while drawing
- * RGB sliders for the palette window have been added
- * Automatic color remapping after "Get Colors from Brush" has been disabled
- * Now the transparent brush color can be selected using a color table display
- * +/- resizes the brush using percent values that can be set in the Preferences
- (section Miscellaneous)
- * Brush rotation now uses slight AntiAliasing (AntiAlias-switch on the toolbar must be activated)
- * Brush "double" and "halve" functions can now be used in any order without data loss
- * Preferences section "Directories" got an option added where you can select the maximum
- number of Undo-steps
- * BUG FIXED: Asymmetric Circles
- * BUG FIXED: Some object functions (line, circle etc.) have shown wrong with and height info
- (one pixel too less)
- * BUG FIXED: AVI-import now works with low color AVI (<=256 colors)
- * BUG FIXED: +/- did not resize a brush taken from the container
- * BUG FIXED: Sometimes a text brush became invisible when selecting certain colors
- * BUG FIXED: Brush outline caused horizontal lines at the bottom of the brush
- * BUG FIXED: Animation Requester and recent brush dot selection didn┤t work correctly
- when using a custom grip
- * BUG FIXED: Access Violation Error when zooming
- * BUG FIXED: Color Quantization of 24bit images did actually not support reduction
- to <8 colors (now possible)
- * BUG FIXED: Paint Single Color ... now shortcut ALT+F2 instead of CTRL+F6
- * BUG FIXED: Remap Brush Colors did not keep the transparent color
- * BUG FIXED: Undo is flushed after color remap operations
- * BUG FIXED: Copying a frame to the clipboard sometimes caused black lines on the right border
- * BUG FIXED: Load from single images did not work with long directory names
- * BUG FIXED: Color 0 has always been set to black, regardless which default table was loaded
- * BUG FIXED: The built in interactive movement/rotation requester of the keyframer did not
- display the background image correctly
- * BUG FIXED: Loading a custom palette sometimes caused an Access Violation Error
- * BUG FIXED: Sometimes an "Access Violation in Kernel32.dll" message appeared and made the
- whole system crash (win95)
-
-
- Changes from V3.31 to V4.0
-
- * Function to count used colors (menu COLORS->COUNT COLORS USED)
- * The paint mode settings (menu MODE->SETTINGS) requester now has
- a palette for different dither patterns
- * Zoom levels 1-9 can be set using CTRL+1..9
- * Palettes can be sorted by Hue, Saturation, Brightness and Color
- (menu COLORS->SORT PALETTE)
- * Modified Anti-Aliasing algorithm. More scalable now.
- * New fill modes for flood filling
- * Flood filling with tolerance value
- * Stencil colors can be selected using a tolerance value
- * Shortcuts for the animation playback control have been changed
- (See shortcut list in the online help)
- * Some new prefences (menu FILE->PREFERENCES)
- * Function to revert a range of animation frames
- (menu ANIMATION->REVERT FRAMES)
- * New transition effects (menu FILE->EFFECTS)
- * To create symmetric objects (square, circle) the ALT-key must
- be held now
- * Flood filling can be applied to all following frames by holding
- the ALT-key
- * The scroll frame functions can scroll all frames now
- (menu FRAME->SCROLL->SCROLL ALL FRAMES must be enabled)
- * IFF animations (Anim5) are now supported for reading with all
- color depths up to 256 colors.
- * Each frame can get an own file name for saving
- * Shortcuts for loading and saving animations/images have been changed
- * New paint modes: SMEAR, BLEND
- * Add/Delete frame buttons have been added to the animation control
- panel
- * The zoom grid was improved (menu OPTIONS->ZOOM GRID->ADJUST ZOOM GRID)
- * Shortcut for brush color remapping
- * Preferences for JPG export
- * Delete/Insert Frames (menu FRAME->...)
- * Default colors button to make the current foreground color to be white
- and the background color to be black
- * Improved Stencil creator
- * New preference to create text brushes as single color brushes. When a
- brush is single colored it's color can be changed.
- * You can create an animation from the undo buffer. That means an animation
- is created from your drawing steps (menu ANIMATION->CREATE FROM UNDO BUFFER)
- * New shortcut for adjusting the lighttable
- * BMP files can now be saved with least possible color depth
- (see FILE->PREFERENCES|MISCELLANEOUS)
- * New clipboard functions (see menu CLIPBOARD). Also 24bit images can now be
- imported.
- * The animation window can be centered to the screen and placed back to the old position
- using ALT+V.
- * 24bit images are supported for reading (BMP and JPG files). Can be reduced to X colors
- using optimized or custom palette and optional Floyd/Steinberg dithering.
- * The requester for loading an animation from single images (menu ANIMATION...)
- has been changed to support 24bit import options
- * The "remap colors" functions for brush, frame and animation have been moved to
- the COLORS menu
- * The "remap colors incl. system" functions have been removed
- * Resample colors functions can be found in the COLORS menu. Works like remap colors
- but applies Floyd/Steinberg dithering to increas quality
- * Color reduction supports dithering now (menu COLORS->REDUCE COLORS)
- * One palette function is now SINGLE PALETTE (menu COLORS) and supports dithering
- * An AnimBrush can be stamped down on a range of frames by using the paint dotted
- tool together with ALT+CTRL (was ALT before)
- * The menu COLORS has been changed
- * When using the ALT-key with single dot, continuous painting, lines and curves starts
- AnimPainting (frames are flipped while drawing)
- * Gray button has been added to the gradient editor
- * New functions to remove unused or duplicate colors (menu COLORS->REMOVE COLORS)
- * The brush distortion functions MIRROR, ROTATE, SHRINK, OUTLINE, OUTLINE INVERT can now
- be used with AnimBrushes too
- * AVI saver now supports all installed CODECS
- * "+" and "-" to increase/decrease the brush size now work with all brush types
- * Gradient cycling settings can now be saved and loaded with the lbm/iff file type
- * Functions to swap foreground and background colors within image or brush
- (menu COLORS->SWAP FG<>BG COLOR)
- * Improved GIF89a export plugin. Has better size optimization.
- * Separate Pro Motion player software has been added
-
-
- Changes from V3.0 to V3.31
-
- * The interactive move/rotation-dialog (appears when clicking on the
- first or last frame image in the "create animation"-dialog)
- has now an option that lets you display the corresponding frame
- as background. This makes precise positioning much easier.
- * The magnify-tool lets you now define an area that is to be zoomed.
- * The "New Animation"-requester now offers a list of predefined
- screen sizes.
- * New preferences dialog box. Preferences are sorted by sections.
- * It┤s possible to select whether the "New Animation"-requester
- is to be displayed on startup (see File|Preferences|Windows)
- * The "X"-button on the magnify-window now brings up the "New Animation"-
- requester instead of minimizing the window
- * The toolbox got two new buttons added ("Edit Palette","Edit Gradient").
- * Holding ALT+N lets you move the canvas with your mouse
- * SHIFT+LeftClick on the brushcontainer swaps current brush with the one
- in the container
- * On the right side of the six project-buttons a trash-button has been added.
- Click on it to delete the current project
- * LeftClick on the project-button of the current project brings up the
- "New Animation"-requester
- * After creating a brush from current image using box/free/polygon selection
- the last used painttool is activated instead of activating the single
- dot painttool (see Preferences|Miscellaneous)
- * Colorcycling now works with the 3d-keyframer (was a bug)
- * The swap-, copy-, ramp-functions in the "Edit Palette"-Dialog now work
- more DPaint-like. I.e. if you click on "Ramp to" the cursor becomes a crosshair
- and you have to click on a color to ramp to, beginning with the currently
- selected foreground color (white box).
- * Settings for adjustable paintmodes like "brighten", "darken" etc. and
- the lockgrid-values are now saved automatically
- * It's now possible to render a 3d-animation backward. That means the first
- frame may have a higher number than the last frame when using the keyframer
- * The brush grip can be set to a custom position. This very useful when
- working with the 3d-keyframer
- * Shortcuts for Zoom out/in are now "<" and "Shift+<"
- * "+", "-" increases/decreases brush size (only works with round or rectangular
- brushes)
- * Tile-painting is now available (see lockgrid-settings); works only
- with single dot/continous painting, (filled) rectangle, (filled) circle,line
- * Filled circle/rectangle buttons have been removed from the toolbox.
- Doubleclick on the circle/rectangle button to choose between filled and
- hollow mode
- * Support for Microsoft Color Palettes has been added
- * Centered circles are now possible (see File|Preferences|Miscellaneous)
- * Windows are now docking to each other
- * 256 color icons (*.ico) and animated cursors (*.ani)
- are now supported for reading and writing (see FILE|PREFERENCES section AniCursor/Icons)
- * Shortcut CTRL+F4 for "Paint Single" was changed to CTRL+F6
- * Some new shortcuts:
- SHIFT+P : Put Frame to Clipboard
- SHIFT+G : Get Frame from Clipboard
- SHIFT+L : Load Animation as single Images
- * Default Page Size and Zoom can be set (see File|Preferences|Miscellaneous)
- * Colorcycling now works with line/rectangle/circle
- * The filltool now supports brush filling (pattern & wrap)
- * The Create Text Dialog has been improved
- * Autotransparency -> if you create a rectangular brush and all four corner-points of
- the selected region have the same color then this color is automatically used as
- transparent (see File|Preferences|Miscellaneous)
- * New paintmode "Replace" like normal paint, but without transparency
- * The zoomlevel can now be selected from a drop down list (on the toolbox)
- * Doubleclick on zoom-tool jumps to zoomlevel 1
- * Rightclick on the "get brush"-tools restores last brush
- * New copy-frames dialog (see menu Frame|Copy)
- * Scale property for animation window (removed from options)
- * You can define different window-positions when using the zoom-tool.
- (See Options|Windows|Save Positions/Sizes (Zoom) and File|Preferences|Windows)
- * Gradient-dialog got a color cycle function
- * The keys for advancing through the palette (default: [ ] ) can now be changed
- (see File|Preferences|Controls)
- * uncompressed AVI export
- * the brush is now also displayed when using the spray tool together with brush mode
- * when resizing a brush the ALT-key can be used to switch between normal and proportional
- stretching
- * when using the spare frame as background in the "Create Animation"-requester, the
- spare frame is now only displayed where the current background color is used (background color
- =transparent). This makes it possible to apply a background to a previously animated
- section.
- * Stencil now works with "Create Animation"
- * "Update Color" checkbox was added for the Palette and Gradient Editor -> immediately
- applies color changes to the current image
- * Gradient cycling is possible while drawing (see Help for the Gradient Editor)