Friction 0.9.4

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

This is an old and unsupported release, please update. Binaries are still available on GitHub or Sourceforge.

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.

Published 4 September 2023.

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