Toon Boom Harmony 12.1 Release Notes

Toon Boom Harmony 12.1 Release Notes
Version 12.1

Here are the new features, changes, improvements, and bug fixes in Toon Boom Harmony 12.1:•Features on page 1•Changes and Improvements on page 3•

What's Fixed? on page 4

FeaturesFeatureDescription
Create New Deformation Chain Tool
A new tool called Create New Deformation Chain lets you create new chains ofdeformers for new drawings by adding a Transformation-Switch node to yourdeformations. You can find this new tool in the Deformation toolbar.
Transformation-Switch NodeA new Transformation-Switch node lets you connect chains of deformations, Pegs,Mesh Warp, Quadmap, Quake or Ortholock nodes. The timing of drawings in a layer
determines which chain is used.
Converter Script
A converter script called TB_ConvertLegacyDeformation.js changes old deformation
chains into the new Harmony 12 style.
Deformation Toolbar•

A new button called Enable Deformations lets you show deformed state of all
deformed chains while drawing. It's a bit like the Set Up button in previousversions. Enabling this button shows the onion skins and other layers withimages deformed or not.

•The Reset Current Keyframe button lets you copy the set up position as
keyframe values at the current frame (like the Copy resting position to Current
in Harmony 11).

•The Transformation Selector lets you easily change the deformation chain
associated with specific drawings. When using this, it changes the associateddrawing in the Transformation Switch.

Deformation(Harmony Premium)

Convert to New Drawing and Add Deformation Chain
This feature creates a new drawing from the deformed current drawing and thenassociates it to a new deformation chain that has all the same deformer nodes as theoriginal chain. It copies the values of the current keyframes and pastes them as theinitial values of the new chain.
Rename Transformation
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deformation chains or any other type of chains made of peg, Mesh-warp, etc.

Web Control Center

The Web Control Center lets you perform most of the operations that the Control
Center does but through a web browser. You can create, delete environments, jobs,scenes and users, as well as export from and import to the database from anothersite or onsite. There are movie and thumbnail previews of scenes, and you can send
scenes to render.
Remove Duplicate Key Exposure

Timeline

There is a new button in the Timeline toolbar for removing unnecessary drawing key
exposures that were created when pasting with the Enforce Key Exposure option
selected (for example).
Enforce Key Exposure
A new paste option lets you decide whether to create key exposures or not. This
option is located in two places:•Timeline view menu (Edit > Modify Paste Presets)•

Paste Special dialog box

Paste Mode for Pasting Keyframe and Exposure Values
You can change the way the normal paste works. There were two presets; one forkeyframes and one for exposure. Now there is a third one for pasting both keyframeand drawing exposure values at the same time. Also, you can customize the threepresets to your liking.
Timeline(Harmony Premium & Advanced)

Tip: You can also use these three presets as a quick way to change how the paste
works if you don’t want to limit them to keyframes or exposures.
All three presets are available from the Timeline view menu (Edit > Modify Paste
Presets).
Extend Timing and Swap Drawings
Two new options allow you to extend the timing and swap drawings when dragging,copying, cutting or pasting in the Timeline and Xsheet views. The Fill Gap withPrevious Drawing option is used at the source of the cut and the Fill to Next Key
Exposure is used at the destination of the paste.
These options are located in two places:•Timeline view menu (Edit > Modify Paste Presets)•Paste Special dialog box.

Extend Exposure of Previous Drawing
When this option is selected, drawing something in a blank frame will create a newdrawing and extend the timing from the previous exposed drawing (like in olderversions of Harmony).
Preferences

This option is called Extend Exposure of Previous Drawing and is located in thePreferences dialog box:
Harmony Essentials: General tab, Timeline section.
Harmony Advanced and Premium: Exposure Sheet tab, Drawing Creation section.

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Toon Boom Harmony 12.1 Release Notes(Harmony Advanced and Premium) Overriding Exposure and Keyframe During
Drag and Drop
A new option lets you overwrite exposure and keyframes while dragging anddropping. This option is located in two places:Drawing•

Timeline toolbar, Toggle Override Exposure and Keyframe During Drag andDropbutton•

Preferences, Timeline tab(Harmony Premium & Advanced)

Using bitmap brushes with a complex set of properties has been optimized to be twoto three times faster!

Customer Experience Improvement Program

Harmony now includes the optional Customer Experience Improvement Program
whereby usage information is collected and sent to Toon Boom. The data does notcontain any personally identifiable information and cannot be used to identify you. The
data will consist of a basic hardware description, a project summary and usage
information. We will only use this information for software improvement purposes, aswell as sharing the information with third parties for the same reason.
The Customer Experience Improvement Program is enabled by default but isvoluntary. If you prefer not to participate, you can opt out when you first launch thesoftware, by using a global preference, or by a command line argument.

Changes and Improvements
Changes and Improvements

Description

Deformation
The Deformation tool properties retain their state when you restart the application.
(Harmony Premium)Updated Dictionaries with Web Control Center
Web Control Center

You must update the comp.dict file in the database so Web Control Center works
properly. It is now possible for the path to be longer when sending a scene to batchrender (Harmony Premium and Advanced).

Preferences

Added number of undos in preferences for Harmony Advanced and Essentials.

Nodes

Insert a node into the Node view automatically by pressing Enter while you have anode selected in the Node Library view.
•The Export to Harmony.zxp extension for exporting files to Harmony from
Flash is now included with Harmony. You no longer need to request theextension from us. For the locations of the extension, see .

•When importing SWF files, you can import files that have a compression of
Photo (JPG) or Lossless (PNG).

Flash Import(Harmony Premium & Advanced)

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What's Fixed?
Item Fixed

DescriptionFixed crash

When using Colour-Override while keeping the softrender active and adjusting theColour-Override values.
When importing a SWF file with faulty tag for JPEG image.
The picker from the Colour Picker window works differently to support picking
outside the application. To pick a colour, hold down the mouse button as you movealong the desktop to preview colours, then release to select the colour.
If the Sticky Eye Dropper option in the Preferences dialog box (Drawing tab >Options section) is selected, the dropper will not have this new behaviour.
Parts of a drawing were not showing in OpenGL preview.
The trial version of Harmony Essentials did not see the drawings just created.
The Onion Skins of new Bones and Game Bones unintentionally change as you edit thebones.
Four-digit numbers don’t fit in the Frames, Start and Stop fields of the Playback toolbar.

Fixed issues

The Blur-Radial-Zoom from Harmony 10.3.1.9206 gave a different result in Harmony
12.
The pencil lines of drawings do not retain their size after copy/pasting them into a
new drawing layer.
Duplicating a drawing removes all the key exposures of the current drawing.
When the Onion Skin is set to Outline Only, it didn't work on drawings withdeformers.
A template that includes a deformation has a thumbnail generated that does notinclude the bounding box of the deformed drawing. This results in the thumbnail showing only the other undeformed drawings.
The render of small pencil lines did not produce nice curves but rather angular results.
The palette-list was not saved in a new scene if you did a Save As New Version insteadof Save.

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Fixed export of deformation to SWF.
Fixed wrong compositing order with legacy scenes with symbols.
Fixed cel swapping from the Library view when you have symbols.
Fixed unreadable palette and scene when a colour swatch name contains a backslash(\).
Fixed wrongly displaying the internal peg controls of a drawing layer when displaying
the deformation controls.
Fixed import of AI file with name of 43 characters.
Fixed texture shifts on mouse up when using the vector brush tool.
Miscellaneous

Fixed the somewhat random order of cables when dropping a parent between twochildren in the Timeline view.
Fixed incorrect behaviour of Toon Boom bitmap image when using the Colour-Override nodes. They were blocked when using Render Selected Colours or Render Selected Colours and Bitmaps.
Fixed animated Collada files that do not import properly.
Fixed disappearing drawings in scene with symbols converted from Animate 3.
Fixed Show Strokes option that didn't show them in Line Art in Camera view OpenGL.
Fixed wrong directory path when importing a scene with Control Center from a shellcommand.
Fixed Vectorization dialog box: strictness and pegSide or fieldChart settings.

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