PuppetPad

What's new in 1.7, "All Feedback Matters" ANIMATION CLIPS Drag an animation from the library onto the timeline and it lands as one bar with a filmstrip of its frames, not a trail of loose swaps. Drag the bar to move it. Its menu sets speed, loops, fade in and fade out. Outside the bar the layer draws nothing, so the clip is the layer's in and out. STRETCH, SLANT AND CROP ON THE CAGE Four new dots in the middle of the cage sides. Pull one outward to stretch that axis, slide it along the edge to slant the figure, double-tap to crop that side. Pins, bones and poses survive it all. CLEAN BACKGROUND The wand is now a panel that shows in red what will go away before anything changes. Keep only the subjects you want, drop a flat background by its color, and paint parts back in or out with a brush. Every step can be undone. ART FITS THE STAGE Art bigger than the stage comes in scaled to fit instead of spilling off the edges. Every pixel is kept, so you can enlarge it again later. Pasted art keeps its full resolution. ONE LAYER PER LIBRARY TAB Sequence, Animation and Lipsync layers, each with its own icon. A track only takes what belongs to it. Drop something else and a layer of the right kind is created right above. Every folder, mouth chart and animation has an "Add to project" button, and the library marks what the open project is using. BAKE TO THE LIBRARY Export can now bake the animation into the sprite library instead of a file: every frame rendered with a transparent background, cropped to one box and saved as a ready-to-use animation. The fast path for a heavy scene. AND MORE Animation thumbnails play in the library. Lipsync has a timing shift. Sprite sheets are sliced on the right grid. Drop a layer onto another to make a folder. Shortcuts for grouping and visibility. Right-click menus on the Mac. Plus a new sample project, "Sequence", and a long list of fixes. Maximum effort!