Synfig

High-Quality 2D Vector Animation

Synfig 0.61.06

Sunday, June 24, 2007 by pabs
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Page moved to the wiki: Releases/0.61.06

We've finally managed to squeeze out a new release. This one is mainly focussed on bug fixes (thanks to dooglus mostly) and a few new features. There are also some pretty new icons in the GUI done by PXEGeek.

As usual, we need your help. If you know C++, are an artist, can document things or are willing to learn, please join the mailing lists and IRC channel and start helping out.

Be on the lookout for an announcement about an IRC & gobby meeting that will happen soon.

Read on for some of the changes that were made...

ETL 0.04.09 (SVN 530) - June 20, 2006 - Bug fixes

  • Fix amd64 issue
  • Some tests fixes
  • Misc bug fixes
  • Add better code for finding closest point to a bezier (#1672033)

synfig 0.61.06 (SVN 536) - June 20, 2007 - Bug fixes

  • Add fontconfig support
  • Fix amd64 issue
  • Fix ffmpeg, gif, libav targets
  • Include more target modules in the Win32 package
  • Fix some crashes in synfigstudio
  • Fix some render artifacts
  • Fix some doxygen warnings
  • Some MacOS fixes
  • Misc bug fixes
  • Fix random number generation for 64 bit CPUs (#1698604)
  • Add parameter ‘fast’ to curve gradients allowing choice between fast or accurate rendering (#1672033)
  • Add new odd/even winding style for regions

synfigstudio 0.61.06 (SVN 543) - June 20, 2007 - Bug fixes

  • Fix amd64 issues
  • Fix corruption of gamma settings
  • Fix manipulating layers in the layer dialog
  • Disable the timebar instead of hiding it
  • Fix File -> Close & input devices close button
  • Fix targets that crash in synfigstudio
  • Fix some doxygen warnings
  • Fixes in the sketch tool
  • Fixes in the draw tool
  • Fix several crashes
  • Fix bline looping
  • Misc Win32 fixes
  • Add optional GNOME thumbnailer
  • Rework several dialogs to use GNOME HIG
  • Disable several tools, see FAQ to re-enable
  • Disable the empty Palette Browser dialog
  • Add mousewheel support in canvas windows
  • Add tooltips to preview window & give it a default size
  • Display HTML values in the colour dialog
  • Add an icon for the curves dialog
  • New Tango ArtLibreSet styled icons by PXEGeek

18 Comments for “Synfig 0.61.06 ”

  1. raphael Says:
    Sunday, June 24, 2007

    Congatulation to the team ! it is the fist chapter of a long story... people are going to ear about synfig. Thanks !

  2. Wai-Tung Leung Says:
    Tuesday, June 26, 2007

    How's the Mac build getting along? Did someone volunteer to work on it? I can't provide any assistance since I have no experience in programming. I can't wait till a Mac version is ready, SynFig has had my attention for a while but I've never had the opportunity to test it. Would like to help a bit with the wiki and such. Talking of which will you be applying a prettier style sheet for the wiki in the future cus it's looking a bit grim at the moment.

  3. pabs* Says:
    Wednesday, June 27, 2007

    madsen was looking at it, but then he went offline for ages. He just came online again today, so hopefully he will work on it. We need to find new hosting for the wiki and other infrastructure so that more people have access to it so they can fix things.

  4. Madsen Says:
    Wednesday, June 27, 2007

    Yeah, I'm back on the mac-build. Sorry for leaving everyone in the dark - it won't happen again.

    Yesterday I built Synfig Core and Synfig Studio on an Intel Mac (10.4.10), which turned out fine. Now I just need to figure out how to best make an app-bundle out of it. As of now, it seems that the bundle will come to a size of some 70 MB and I suspect it can be done a LOT smaller - I just don't know how.

    Anyways, it's running on OS X now! :) See: http://lillesvin.googlepages.com/synfig-osxnew1.png http://lillesvin.googlepages.com/synfig-osxnew2.png

  5. Alan Horkan Says:
    Wednesday, June 27, 2007

    Always great to see progress being made on Synfig.

    Not so sure about the icons. They are a great start but using grey for both the Gradient and the other icons means it looks confusingly like the Square. It should be possible to use a few more colours while still staying within the Tango palette. A high contrast monochrome theme would be useful though and I do hope these are just a start of new graphics for Synfig and part of a move to allowing users to use standard themes. The icon naming specification may not get the attention but in truth it is the vital technically important part of Tango as it make so much else possible.

    @Madsen the linked screenshots in your comment no longer seem to be working.

  6. Madsen Says:
    Wednesday, June 27, 2007

    @ Alan Horkan Thanks! It appears that some underscores mysteriously disappeared from between ‘osx’ and ‘new’. The working URLs are: http://lillesvin.googlepages.com/synfig-osxnew1.png and http://lillesvin.googlepages.com/synfig-osxnew2.png Don't know what happened in the paste.

    And I agree with you on the square and gradient icons - they are confusingly alike. Perhaps making the gradient fade from completely black to completely white would help a little.

  7. Madsen Says:
    Wednesday, June 27, 2007

    Why on earth do the underscores get cut out?!?

    Anyways, here they are again with names without underscores this time.

    http://lillesvin.googlepages.com/synfig-osx1.png http://lillesvin.googlepages.com/synfig-osx2.png

    Hope this works out better.

  8. Wai-Tung Leung Says:
    Thursday, June 28, 2007

    Looks promising Madsen, in all it's X11 glory hehe. Keep up the good work Madsen, same goes for the rest of the Synfig team!

  9. Romer!can Says:
    Friday, July 6, 2007

    Have y'all considered a possible timeline for introducing some sort of training solutions? Video tutorials for free would be great, of course, but at this time I'm particularly referring to some kind paid “in-person” training programs (twice a year, depending on interest?) that can help new people learn to use the software effectively and quickly while providing a revenue source that helps support development.

    Just curious.

  10. caroonmonkey Says:
    Saturday, July 7, 2007

    Is there an easy way to enable the pressure sensitive brush stroke in the windows build? I like to live dangerously. :-)

  11. pabs* Says:
    Saturday, July 7, 2007

    caroonmonkey: If you mean the draw tool, see the last item in the FAQ (just updated it with a link to a page about setting environment variables on windows).

  12. caroonmonkey Says:
    Sunday, July 8, 2007

    Like this? http://www.cartoonmonkey.com/sfg.jpg

    No dice with the above.

  13. pabs* Says:
    Sunday, July 8, 2007

    Without 'export '. That is Linux shell script syntax.

  14. Andy Says:
    Monday, July 23, 2007

    I have been keeping track of Synfig since late last year. I am a double-major in mathematics and computer science and I would be willing to help out a little bit here and there - C++ is certaintly not my perfered language, but I can work in it (I have most of my experience with java and I am a smalltalk guy at heart). I can work a bit before the summer is up and school starts again... after that I can't guarentee how much time I will be able to put towards it (unless you can give me a great year-long senior project dealing with math and computer science that I could write and contribute... that would be great!)

  15. pabs* Says:
    Thursday, July 26, 2007

    Andy: excellent, please join the IRC channel and mailing lists and let us know about any work you may have done on synfig.

  16. antonio Says:
    Wednesday, August 29, 2007

    thank you

  17. we Says:
    Friday, September 14, 2007

    I do not know synfig

  18. pabs* Says:
    Sunday, September 16, 2007

    You can get to know synfig by reading the wiki, downloading it and playing around.