What’s New in OpenToonz

In this section you can find a list of Highlights in the latest release of OpenToonz; these may include New Features, Bug Fixes or Enhancements to already existent features. Here, you can also find links to past versions“ Release Notes, to keep track of OpenToonz development history throughout time.

v1.6

Highlights

  • new Rhubarb integration for automatic lip-syncing [Tahoma2D port, with modifications].
  • new Xsheet/Timeline: Ability to Shift + drag an exposed cell to move it, while automatically adjusting neighbouring hold cells.
  • new Xsheet/Timeline: Restored original Toonz feature for changing parent of a column from the XSheet header [Tahoma2D port].
  • new Xsheet/Timeline: Cell Mark feature for identifying desired cells using colored dots.
  • new UI: Xsheet Minimum Layout for ultra-compact column size.
  • new UI: Xsheet zoom control.
  • new UI: Zoom in/out and fit floating panel geometry commands.
  • new Color Display: 30bit color display feature.
  • new I/O: Export Xsheet to PDF.
  • new I/O: Export to TVPaint JSON file format.
  • new I/O: OpenEXR image format support.
  • new I/O: File Path Processing Using Regular Expressions.
  • new Cleanup: Enabled to Cleanup without Line Processing, allows applying Autocenter, Rotation, etc. without further processing of the images.
  • new Rendering: Multi-Thread FFMPEG option for faster rendering.
  • new Brush and Paint Brush Tools: Lock Alpha setting for Toonz Raster and Raster level types.
  • new Style Editor: Hex editbox for color values in Style Editor.
  • new Style Editor: Hex color names editor.
  • new Effects: Linear color space option for all Layer Blending Ino effects.
  • new Effects: Conical Transform option for Fractal Noise Iwa effect.
  • new Effects: Image Size option for the Input Size parameter for Tile Iwa effect.
  • new Effects: GPU HSL Blend shader effect.
  • new Effects: Bokeh Advanced Iwa effect.
  • new Effects: Compass Gadget for Radial and Spin Blur effects.
  • new Camera Capture: Camera calibration.
  • enhancement Audio: Improved Audio Recording.
  • enhancement Xsheet/Timeline: Enhanced Note level column.
  • enhancement Viewer: Enhanced Flipbook playback.
  • enhancement Schematic: Allowed Renaming Pass Through Nodes (Tahoma2D port).
  • enhancement I/O: Enabled to set Raster level frame number format.
  • enhancement I/O: Enabled to use PNG for new Raster levels.
  • enhancement I/O: Enhanced FFMPEG GIF export.
  • enhancement File Browser: Enabled to view palette files from the File Browser.
  • enhancement Palette: Enabled to paste style’s color into a color field.
  • enhancement Effects: Fx Intensity parameter for controlling global effect intensity.
  • enhancement Effects: Redesigned Pass Through effect node.
  • enhancement Camera Capture: Enabled inputting frame with suffix in Camera Capture.
  • enhancement Stop-motion: Enhanced Stop motion feature.
  • enhancement Packaging Opentoonz for Fedora distribution.
  • fix Crash on showing snapshot in flipbook.
  • fix Crash on saving scene containing missing palette level.
  • fix Crash on undoing tool.
  • fix Crash after starting a pen stroke from inactive window.
  • fix Crash on Stage Schematic Column Right click.
  • fix Crash on rendering ArtContour fx.
  • fix Crash on rendering PaletteFilter Fx (and other fxs) with hyphen.
  • fix Crash on cleaning up zerary column.
  • fix Crash on creating a zerary fx in the camera column.
  • fix Crash on creating Macro Fx from the Fx Browser.
  • fix Crash On Inserting Fx.
  • fix Crash on clicking shortcut tree.
  • fix Crashes when using Type tool.
  • fix Crash on deleting control point while dragging.
  • fix Crash on switching scenes while selecting raster level frame.
  • fix Undo Malfunction.
  • fix File browser assertion failure.
  • fix «Show Folder Contents» command for UNC path.
  • fix Viewer playback.
  • fix Flipbook wobbling when dragging while playing.
  • fix Pressing Shift key loses focus when renaming cell.
  • fix Autorenumber of Raster Level.
  • fix Cell Selection on Click.
  • fix GIF rendering on older versions.
  • fix Saving TLV.
  • fix Output file name for movie format.
  • fix PSD loading and level format preferences.
  • fix Backtab key to work for moving styles shortcut scope.
  • fix FrameIDs Inconsistency in Level Strip Commands.
  • fix Memo Popup Background Color.
  • fix FX gadget picking.
  • fix Margin of Directional Blur Fx Iwa.
  • fix Zerary Fx bugs.
  • fix Friction parameter behavior of the Particles Fx.
  • fix Rendering Fx After Xsheet Node.
  • fix Channel clamping behavior in Layer Blending Fxs.
  • fix Fx Gadget Offset.
  • fix Bokeh Fxs Artifacts.
  • fix Schematic node placement fix.
  • fix Shortcut loading from file.
  • fix Tool options“ shortcuts to work without opening tool options bar.
  • fix Camera capture’s level control.
  • fix Mesh file naming.
  • fix Wheel scrolling on the output settings popup
  • fix Missing Checkboxes in Menu Item
  • fix Convert to TLV Palette Saving
  • fix Raster Deformation Slowness

…and much more!

Please see the v1.6 Release Notes hosted in GitHub, for the full list of new features, enhancements and bug fixes.