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Christmas is getting close, and it's nearly fourth dimension to unwrap ane of the presents for you. Then yes, information technology has finally happened:

Pencil2D 0.6 was released today!

Please download it here. Let'due south take a look at what's inside.

0.half dozen is much more stable than 0.5.four

Cheers to all the contributors, tons of bugs have been stock-still in the 0.6. Nosotros can say with confidence that Pencil2D v0.six is more stable than onetime v0.5.four. Now you can just savour animating without worrying too much about losing your work.

But please go along in listen, there are still some known issues and developers are working hard to resolve them. Please don't hesitate to tell united states if y'all encounter whatsoever bug. Your report will help us make Pencil2D better.

Color Bicycle

Take a expect at the new Color Wheel! Choosing colors is not frustrating anymoe.

Previous versions v0.half-dozen
Old color wheel screenshot

Color Grid

Information technology's at present possible to bear witness your palette as a grid, which is handy for those who don't rely on labelling their colors. In addition, you can now too modify the size of the swatches.

Color grid demo

Colored Onion skins

Onion skin example

Difficult to know what are in previous frames or next frames? Display the onion skins of "previous frames" as red and the onion skins of "next frames" as blue to encounter them clearly.

Export your animation to mp4, avi or blithe gif

Finally, the flick export is working. Go to the menu → File → Consign and export your animation to the following formats: gif, avi, mp4 or wmv.

12 languages bachelor

Pencil2D are making things easier for not English speakers. Thanks to all the hard work of volunteer translators, 12 languages are now bachelor inside Pencil2D, includes:

English language, Czech, Danish, German language, Castilian, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Traditional Chinese.

You can besides change languages in preferences if you like.

At that place is still a lot of work to practice. If Pencil2D is not yet bachelor in your language, you tin can translate information technology or improve the existing translations past joining our Transifex translation project.

Timeline Improvements

  • Playback in a given start/end frame range.
  • Relative/absolute mode of onion skins.
  • Select a range of frames (Shift + LMB).
  • Select/deselect private frames (Ctrl +LMB)
  • Select a frame and all the frames subsequently it (Alt + LMB)
  • Motion a single frame (LMB Selected + Drag)
  • Move a frame and all the frames at its right (Alt + LMB +Elevate)
  • Added an pick to change the number of frames of onion skin in prefrences.
  • Brush quick-sizing (Shift + Drag Left/Correct)
  • Castor feather quick-sizing (Ctrl + Elevate Left/Right)
  • Fast Hand Tool (belongings Space bar).
  • Fast Eyedropper (Alt).
  • Move tool can rotate option area by Ctrl + Elevate Left/Right.
  • Smudge tool is at present working on bitmap layers for creating oil painting-like effects. Concur Alt to get liquify effects.
  • 3-level stroke stablizer.
  • Dotted Cursor available in prefrences.
  • Improved Fill up Tool bitmap algorithm and added a threshold slider.
  • Removed Fill Tool bleeding into other layers.

Interfaces Improvements

  • Show/Hibernate Filigree (Grand)
  • Show zoom % ratio on the status bar
  • Added a Windows carte du jour to bear witness/hide panels.
  • Added a menu selection Lock Windows to lock panels.
  • Changed Layer display lodge.

More Features and Improvements

  • Added alpha aqueduct to colour palette.
  • Added .pcl/.pclx file associations and icons on mac Os.
  • Added command line interface (run with the -h flag for details)
  • Colour selection beliefs was separated Bitmap & Vector Layers (Using the colour wheel on bitmap layers will merely affect the active colour and not the Color Palette swatches. In Vector Layers, changing any swatch will affect only vector colors)
  • Implemented canvas "freehand" rotation. (ALT + RMB and drag)
  • Implemented persistent camera frame ("passepartout") to preview canvas & export size (Tin be hidden by hiding the photographic camera layer)
  • Implemented selection horizontal & vertical mirroring ("Flipping")
  • Export movies in a given range.

Fixes

  • Re-implemented Camera Motion Interpolation ("tweening").
  • Removed unused gradient background choice from preferences.
  • Fixed sound import and timeline playback.
  • Fixed auto-save feature.
  • Stock-still shortcut mappings.
  • Misc issues fixes.

Known Problems

  • Vector Engine is beingness reworked, the functionalities are limited and it's not yet set for production utilise.
  • You volition be able to undo a "delete frame", but cannot redo it.
  • Smudge tool (Bitmap) fills the groundwork with white color, which should exist fully transparent. Plus you cannot disengage information technology'south behavior properly, yet.
  • Polyline Tool: Bezier mode is experimental and does not create proper splines in Bitmap Layers. In vector layers, it's working by default and cannot be disabled.
  • Preview manner is currently disabled since it'southward pending implementation.
  • Multi-Layer Onion Skin selection is not working, pending implementation.
  • The original Pencil PDF manual has been removed. Nosotros will piece of work to create a new online user transmission accessible for everyone.

Support Pencil2D

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