What's new in Radi v0.6
2011.07.12
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Layer properties in the Inspector now have a Toggle keyframe button with a key icon:
This button is pressed if the property has a keyframe at the current frame.
Click the button to toggle a keyframe. (The other button with the wavy icon opens the Curve Editor for the property.) -
The Publish functionality has new options that make it easier to embed Radi documents in other web pages:
When exporting a HTML fragment, only JavaScript code and HTML elements are published from Radi. The fragment can then be included into a web page either statically (copy-and-paste) or dynamically.
I wrote a little tutorial about this topic: Embedding Radi (link to tutorial on the Radi wiki).
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There is now an integrated context help system in Radi. It shows up as pop-up windows when you're doing something new:
The windows are shown only once, but you can review them from the Help menu. If you don't want these help windows to appear, they can be disabled from the Help menu as well.
Also, there is now a wiki for Radi documentation. It can be accessed through the Help menu or directly here: Radi Documentation Wiki.
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At startup, a Starting Point window is presented. It offers help links and a couple of templates that may be useful in getting started. These templates are documents with an empty Canvas or Video element, and a specific size. (Better than nothing, I guess.)
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All layers now have an anchor point. This is the center of rotation for the layer. The anchor is visible in the canvas, and can be dragged directly. You can also set the anchor by using the Inspector. Its position can be keyframed, just like the X/Y position of the layer.
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The document canvas view now has dynamic cursors. This makes it easier to see when the mouse is over a draggable control like the corner of a layer or a control point.
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Clicking the document window's Maximize button now takes the Inspector's location into account, so that the two windows are more nicely tiled.
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The empty document that's visible at startup is now closed when an existing document is opened, if it has no changes.
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Fixed bugs with Undo/Redo.
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Fixed bugs with editing keyframes using the Curve Editor windows.
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Fixed bug where applying a Conduit Filter to a Shape/Text layer would result in incorrectly scaled rendering.
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Fixed bug with Shape/Text layers overwriting their contents or not reflecting property changes.
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Fixed crash bug with video exporting when the input file doesn't have a compatible audio track. (Thanks to Bart Buerman for the report.)
Looking for more? Each Radi version tends to focus on slightly different features. Find out more about what happened before, all the way back in February:
What's new in Radi 0.5.6
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