Friction 0.9.4

Introducing Friction 0.9.4. This release includes several fixes and generic improvements to the user experience.

Generic changes and fixes

• Fixed full screen on Windows
• Fixed several build warnings
• Viewer/Canvas now supports panning with ALT modifier
• Easing expressions bugfix
• Expression dialog bugfix
• Don’t add locked object(s) to selection (bugfix)
• Font widget bugfixes
  • Fixed regressions introduced in earlier releases
• Removed more legacy code
• Improved settings dialog
• Settings are now Preferences (Ctrl+P)
  • Moved from edit to file menu
• Scene settings dialog fixes

Improved audio device handling

• Better failsafe
• Restore last used device (if possible)
• Select audio output device (in preferences)

Improved shader effects support

• Support shaders in application bundle (not used yet)
• Don’t allow duplicate shaders
• Recursively scan for shader plugins
• Optional custom shader path
• Removed file watcher instances
  • The implementation was flawed and needs a rewrite
  • Changes to shaders now require a program restart
• Added basic shader manager (in preferences)

Improved timeline UX

• Support timecodes on the timeline
• Simplify bottom scrollbar
• Scrolling on the timeline now supports modifiers CTRL and SHIFT
  • CTRL + wheel will now scale in/out the frame range as if you used the scrollbar
  • SHIFT + wheel will now pan the frame range as if you used the scrollbar

Full Changelog.

Notes

• Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable 2017 or higher is needed on Windows 10
  • In most cases this is already installed, if not you can download it here
• Windows setup/portable are not signed and will trigger warnings during installation and/or first run

Friction is beta quality software, expect issues and missing/broken features.

Known Issues

• HiDPI (display scaling) on Windows does not work yet
  • Fixed in 0.9.5-beta1
• Adjusting shader effect parameters might trigger a crash on Linux
• CSS style sheets are not supported when importing an SVG
  • SVG’s from Adobe Illustrator (and others?) may have issues due to this
  • In some circumstances this might result in an invalid undo state after import

And more, see our issue tracker for more information.

Support

• If you find an issue with the application please report it on our issue tracker (requires a GitHub account).
• For general discussion, feature requests etc use our forum (requires a GitHub account).

For other inquiries use support at friction dot graphics.

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Published 4 September 2023.

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