Stickman Changelog

What's new in Stickman 5.6

May 14, 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

New in Stickman 5.5 (Nov 22, 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.

New in Stickman 5.3.5 (Nov 22, 2009)

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

New in Stickman 5.3.4 (Nov 20, 2009)

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

New in Stickman 5.3.3 (Nov 6, 2009)

  • New speech bubble tool in Stickman

New in Stickman 5.3.2 (Nov 4, 2009)

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

New in Stickman 5.3.1 (Oct 24, 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...

New in Stickman 5.3 (Oct 12, 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.

New in Stickman 5.2.41 (Sep 28, 2009)

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

New in Stickman 5.2.40 (Sep 2, 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

New in Stickman 5.2.39 (Aug 6, 2009)

  • Fixed a small bug in Stickman

New in Stickman 5.2.38 (Jun 8, 2009)

  • Fixed some small bugs in Elemento.

New in Stickman 5.2.37 (Mar 21, 2009)

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

New in Stickman 5.2.36 (Mar 21, 2009)

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

New in Stickman 5.2.35 (Mar 20, 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.

New in Stickman 5.2.34 (Mar 19, 2009)

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

New in Stickman 5.2.33 (Mar 18, 2009)

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

New in Stickman 5.2.32 (Mar 16, 2009)

  • Added new stickman logo

New in Stickman 5.2.31 (Mar 16, 2009)

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

New in Stickman 5.2.30 (Mar 14, 2009)

  • Improved export to web of stdoc documentation format.

New in Stickman 5.2.29 (Mar 11, 2009)

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

New in Stickman 5.2.28 (Mar 9, 2009)

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

New in Stickman 5.2.27 (Mar 4, 2009)

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

New in Stickman 5.2.26 (Jan 26, 2009)

  • Improved time line.
  • Two bugs are fixed.

New in Stickman 5.2.25 (Jan 22, 2009)

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

New in Stickman 5.2.24 (Jan 16, 2009)

  • Made online content download faster.

New in Stickman 5.2.23 (Aug 9, 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.

New in Stickman 5.2.22 (Aug 7, 2008)

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

New in Stickman 5.2.20 (Aug 5, 2008)

  • Offline Library is now included with installation

New in Stickman 5.2.19 (Aug 2, 2008)

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

New in Stickman 5.2.17 (Jul 27, 2008)

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

New in Stickman 5.2.16 (Jul 26, 2008)

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

New in Stickman 5.2.11 (Jul 17, 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.

New in Stickman 5.2.7 (Jul 4, 2008)

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

New in Stickman 5.2.4 (Jun 23, 2008)

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

New in Stickman 5.2.3 (Jun 20, 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.

New in Stickman 5.2.2 (Jun 16, 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

New in Stickman 5.2.1 (Jun 10, 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.

New in Stickman 5.1.11 (May 24, 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.

New in Stickman 5.0.1 (Feb 11, 2008)

  • New figures, more functions

New in Stickman 4.10 (Dec 28, 2007)

  • All functions, with flash rendering included