Stickman 5.6 - Changelog

What's new in Stickman 5.6:

May 14th, 2011

· Drawing tool/animate/onion skins/infinite canvas
· Draw on all figure layers
· Photoshop/GIMP link with onion skins
· Pivot Stickfigure 2.2.5 direct support!!
· Slide physics/gravity/use the force
· Duplicate figures with Ctrl+D
· Capture screen or webcam
· Analyze music with "Let's Rock"
· Skeletonizer for fast rigging in Elemento
· Drag & drop masking in Elemento
· Drag elements on image to mask picture
· Drag elements on line to draw border
· Many bugs are fixed
· New WIKI
· ElementoLib is going OpenSource

What's new in Stickman 5.5:

November 22nd, 2009

· The category buttons in Stickman are removed.
· Draw Order is renamed to "Display Order".
· Figure list and display order is moved to the right side of screeen.
· The left side changes when the user selects a tool.

What's new in Stickman 5.3.5:

November 22nd, 2009

· The Quick Character interface is redesigned.
· Fixed bug when changing draw order.

What's new in Stickman 5.3.4:

November 20th, 2009

· You can now render directly to MP4, MOV and other formats by selecting file type when exporting.

What's new in Stickman 5.3.3:

November 6th, 2009

· New speech bubble tool in Stickman

What's new in Stickman 5.3.2:

November 4th, 2009

· New image paint action added to Elemento.
· Export of animation data for use in game engines added to Stickman.

What's new in Stickman 5.3.1:

October 24th, 2009

· Quick Character enabled directly in the Add Stickman Dialog.
· You can now create figures in Elemento based on a figure from the library using File->New Based On...

What's new in Stickman 5.3:

October 12th, 2009

· Stdoc tutorials are made easier to navigate.
· Added howtos to work area.
· Tools are now faster.
· Easier to set offset in animation.
· Selected frame is animated under preview.
· Trial expanded to 30 days.
· Saving disabled in trial version.
· News removed from startup dialog.
· "New Figure" menu added to Stickman.
· "New Scene" menu added to Elemento.
· "Create Character" renamed to "Quick Character".
· Quick Character is improved.
· Bug fixed in curve tool.

What's new in Stickman 5.2.41:

September 28th, 2009

· Object Browser updated.
· Low resolution rendering in Stickman when using the tools.
· View->Selected functionality is removed.

What's new in Stickman 5.2.40:

September 2nd, 2009

Stickman:
· Replaced category list with buttons.
· Fixed volume and pan interface.
Elemento:
· Replaced category list with buttons.
· Fixed height of toolbar in Elemento.
· "New Layer" and "Rename" buttons added to draw order.
· Fixed bug in recursive.ReplaceVariable expression

What's new in Stickman 5.2.39:

August 6th, 2009

· Fixed a small bug in Stickman

What's new in Stickman 5.2.38:

June 8th, 2009

· Fixed some small bugs in Elemento.

What's new in Stickman 5.2.37:

March 21st, 2009

Elemento:
· Added tools for testing 'Edit Fonts and Colors' and 'Walk Tool'.

What's new in Stickman 5.2.36:

March 21st, 2009

Elemento:
· Attach action disappears for matrix nodes that are attached.
· Clear action disappears for nodes that are empty.

What's new in Stickman 5.2.35:

March 20th, 2009

· Design improvements, using more black and white to make things clearer.
· When adding a deformed picture, stickman asks whether to shrink the
· picture if it has so high resolution that it slows down the program.

What's new in Stickman 5.2.34:

March 19th, 2009

· A small design improvment to the toolbars at left side.

What's new in Stickman 5.2.33:

March 18th, 2009

· Elemento: Added right-click menu with 'Fill Color' to rectangle tool.

What's new in Stickman 5.2.32:

March 16th, 2009

· Added new stickman logo

What's new in Stickman 5.2.31:

March 16th, 2009

· Elemento: Added right-click menu with 'Fill Color' and 'Remove all points'

What's new in Stickman 5.2.30:

March 14th, 2009

· Improved export to web of stdoc documentation format.

What's new in Stickman 5.2.29:

March 11th, 2009

· When selecting a rope, rigid, bone or feedback under 'Variables', they are show with lime color in bone tool

What's new in Stickman 5.2.28:

March 9th, 2009

· Zorder elements can now be edited in 'Edit Fonts and Colors' dialog in Stickman.
· This solves problems related to body part draw order.

What's new in Stickman 5.2.27:

March 4th, 2009

· Improved code editor in Elemento.
· The action 'Draw' is renamed to 'Insert in Draw Order'.

What's new in Stickman 5.2.26:

January 26th, 2009

· Improved time line.
· Two bugs are fixed.

What's new in Stickman 5.2.25:

January 22nd, 2009

· All matrix nodes works as containers, empty or not.

What's new in Stickman 5.2.24:

January 16th, 2009

· Made online content download faster.

What's new in Stickman 5.2.23:

August 9th, 2008

· Added more body parts to the 'Create Character' utility.
· Fixed a bug in the 'Create Character' utility when the user press the middle mouse button.

What's new in Stickman 5.2.22:

August 7th, 2008

· Fixed a bug in the 'Create Character' util.

What's new in Stickman 5.2.20:

August 5th, 2008

· Offline Library is now included with installation

What's new in Stickman 5.2.19:

August 2nd, 2008

· The activation system is improved to work with slow internet connections.

What's new in Stickman 5.2.17:

July 27th, 2008

· Elemento: Fixed bug that object browser didn't display any data.

What's new in Stickman 5.2.16:

July 26th, 2008

· Fixed bug in the activation system that it didn't work in some cases with
· slow internet connection.

What's new in Stickman 5.2.11:

July 17th, 2008

· When pressing left mouse button and drag in 'Select Tool', matrix tool is activated automatically.
· This makes it easier for new users to learn how to move a figure.
· In all tools you can now click to select if the tool accepts it.
· Saves time when building figures and animating.
· Path tool is improved to show where the figure moves along the movement path.
· Matrix animation interpolation is improved to give better 3D movement.
· The specialized catmull algorithm used in animation interpolation and curve shapes is improved.

What's new in Stickman 5.2.7:

July 4th, 2008

· When double-clicking a child relation, the child relation figure is selected.

What's new in Stickman 5.2.4:

June 23rd, 2008

· Fixed bug that failed rendering high quality pictures inside clip nodes.

What's new in Stickman 5.2.3:

June 20th, 2008

· New function 'Edit->Clean Matrix Nodes'.
· >This function is useful to make non-absolute border consistent.
· 'Attach' action suggests two control points to attach.
· 'Attach' action uses 'Points' as standard attach type.
· 'Add Point' is now standard mode for curve.
· 'Hide Intersection' now suggests transform matrix node.
· 'Optimize Drawing' hides draw instances of empty matrix nodes that
· does not work as containers.
· 'Create Skeleton And Attach Graphics' now use two control points with
· longest distance to each other to get best movement stability.
· Fixed minor bug in 'Low Resolution' action for images.
· Fixed bug that did not select draw instance when hit variable button.

What's new in Stickman 5.2.2:

June 16th, 2008

Stickman:
· Sorting elements alphabetically in 'Edit Fonts and Colors' dialog.
· Marking selected figure, control points and switch in the toolbar.
Elemento:
· View->Object Browser for short description of all expression functions and elements

What's new in Stickman 5.2.1:

June 10th, 2008

Stickman:
· New function for creating figure library in Add Stickman dialog.
· Offline Library may be installed separately to avoid problems with multiple user account.
· Suggesting file name when converting sound.
· Optional Wav filter added when adding sound.
Elemento:
· New setup action for recursive.
· Ins shortcut for Draw action.
· Bone tool shows selected control point with green color.
· Improved X and Y axis.
· Optimize drawing removes duplicates of draw instances.
· Internal improvements and synchronization of controls.
· Action 'Select Variable' is no longer necessary and therefore removed.
· Edit->Create Skeleton And Attach Graphics that creates skeleton by control points.

What's new in Stickman 5.1.11:

May 24th, 2008

· New function for goto frame by type number (Shortcut Ctrl G).
· Bug fixed that pictures drawed inside a mask did not get clipped.
· Smoother animation preview.
· A new 'clock' showing the animation cycle when previewing.

What's new in Stickman 5.0.1:

February 11th, 2008

· New figures, more functions

What's new in Stickman 4.10:

December 28th, 2007

· All functions, with flash rendering included