=================================== NEWS =================================== 0.9 --- + Restructured all the menus (more user friendly options). + New XML format for the menus. - Removed menu scripting customization. - Removed screen saver. + GUI enhanced: + more borders for windows and more spacing between widgets. + better mouse behavior (in Windows). + Added support for PNG files (through libpng). + Finished the support for ICO files. + Finally screen scaling supported (with double-buffering). This means that you can use a screen of 320x240 between a window of 640x480 (screen-scaling x2). This is the new default video mode for ASE. + Fixed compilations errors for Allegro 4.2 0.5 --- + Added features-requested by Carl Olsson: + better "snap to grid" support for box-like tools (rectangle, ellipse, etc.). + floating selection now "snap to grid" also. + added a subpixel movement for zoomed-cursors in the editor, to known where we are inside the pixel. + Better support for the mouse wheel and middle button in the sprite-editor (to scroll and zoom). + GIF support to save file fully supported by default. + Fixed compilation with Allegro 4.2.3 SVN (and fixed a bug in Allegro with key_shifts). + Now the full-screen or windowed state is remembered (thanks to Manuel De Miguel Moreno to report it). 0.4 --- - Removed the console mode. + Changed Film Editor shortcut: TAB key. + New feature: Each animation frame has duration. + New Palette Editor (F4 key). + Now sprites support multiple palettes: Each frame can has its own color palette. + Added support to load GIF files (by Elias Pschernig). + Added a combobox to file-selection to handle the bookmarks. + Added rotation!!! Now you can scale and rotate what you paste from the clipboard. 0.3.1 ----- + Fixed the creation of session files when an exception (fatal error) happens in Windows. + Added es.po and tips.es files. 0.3 --- + Added session manager (if the program crashes the session is saved automatically). + Added a tool to draw text (finally). + More documentation and tips. + Improved the frame adding process. + Fixed important bugs. + Added a mapgen utility (original code by Johan Halmén and Anders Andersson). + Spanish language support (now works in Windows too). + Internal code improved (mainly GUI parts, and functions names). 0.2.4 ----- + More stable undo: with limit and without the strange redo-after-overwrite-undo feature. + New median filter to despeckle images. + Updated alternative support to load/save JPEG files with JPGalleg 2.3 library, thanks to Angelo Mottola for this. + Fixed problems with non-US keyboards: the Alt key can't be used for shortcuts. Some combinations changes: + <~> to <`> (open film editor) + to (mask by color) + to (close current editor) + Added Cut, Copy, Paste! + Added AutoCrop (before known as Trim). 0.2.3 ----- + Fixed routine to save JPG files. + Fixed and improved various parts of GUI. 0.2.2 ----- + Added some documentation to write Lua scripts. + Film Editor was improved. + Fixed errors with the graphics cursor, some keyboard problems, and various minor bugs. + New tips with text and images. This will be very useful for beginners. + Onionskin feature is done. + Added (optional) ordered dithering to render RGB images in 8 bpp. + New actions: Merge Down, New Frame, Copy Frame, change Image Type!, Load Script File. + Optimized the drawing speed with tiled mode. 0.2.1 ----- + Fixed in Windows version: spray and some errors saving file-names in the configuration file. + Added libintl support and the Spanish translation (only for Linux, but I have planned make this usable in Windows). + More undo support: insert/remove layers and mask modifications. + Filters Convolution Matrix and Color Curve are back. + Added more basic operations (with undo support): flatten layers, duplicate layer, duplicate sprite, horizontal/vertical flip, crop frame. + New .ASE format (in alpha status, please test it!). + Easy script routines: now are a high-level layer of routines (easy to use and understand), and the low-level routine's set (for internal or more specific works). - Removed all the interpolation stuff between key-frames: yes, after thinking, this make too hard the animation edition (so the "fancy spline interpolation" was removed). + Optimized the editor's speed in scroll movements. + The Film Editor is almost done for layers and frames handle. + Fixed filters using mask with displaced layers. + Support to apply filters to various frames/layers at the same time. + Added differents screen layouts in main.jid (see FAQ.txt to see how change between them). + The tool bar is back! 0.2 --- + Fixed a lot of bugs. + Added optional support for JPEG with JPGalleg 2.0 library. + Added draw mode: Opaque (normal), Glass (transparent), Semi (pattern). + Added brush types: Circle, Square, Line. + Implemented a fake-palette system to make the GUI usable with any sprite palette (mainly to avoid "black-screen" situations when open sprites with ugly palettes). + The palette editor has more improvements (like the possibility to move the selection range). + "menus" file modified a bit. Some keyboard bindings have change (and new ones added), you can see the "docs/QuickHelp.html" file for more help. Anyway, I try to leave the compability in the more used commands. + Full scripting support with Lua-5.0. Sprites and GUI controllable from same scripts, to give you an idea, various of menus actions are programmed directly with scripts. + Complete selection handle (mask regions). You can select irregular areas (add, subtract, intersect, by color), save and load them in the .MSK Animator Pro format. + Multiple editors. Now you will be able to edit an image with zoom and see the results in other editors (updated in real-time). + New Gfx-core. All sprite/image/layer/prop/key stuff was reprogrammed. The more big change, was to property/keyframe level (the properties can be with lineal or spline interpolation, also, have a ending flag to make circular movements or patterns of movement). + New GUI. The look and the internal code was reestructured completelly, I made a new GUI library: Jinete (rider). 0.1.2 ----- + New RLE Gaussian Blur effect (from The GIMP source code). + Blender modes are back!: Normal, Multiply, Screen, Overlay, Hard Light, Darken, Lighten, Addition, Subtract, Difference, Hue, Saturation, Color, Luminosity. + Better the GUI look: With colors, this should be less boring :-) + Added a graphics selection dialog where you can specify any resolution (this could be useful for windowed modes). + Back again to the good-and-peaceful-allegro-like makefiles. Ok, ok, the GNU style was the worst change in ASE, but now is fixed :-) - Removed the .DLL or .so capability for plug-ins. After some weeks of thinking, I decide to strip off this feature because is too hard to do a good system to attach new plug-ins with the current menu implementation. The most user are just "user" and don't will copy the plug-in and modify the `menus' to add a new entry with a little script-string to call the new plug-in action. Also, this save me a lot of headaches :-) + Added multiple filter application: Now, you can apply effects to every layer, to every animation frame, or both. + Added the "Recent Files" list. + A complete set of scripts routines to handle paths. + New selection type: "shrink", to shrink the selection to the current layer bitmap bounds. + New "trim_sprite" action. 0.1.0 ----- - Removed the `move' tool to displace layers (it was redundant). + New interface to load Plug-Ins in a dynamic way (DLL, .so). + Complete new support for JPEG files (RGB/grayscale) load/save: athwart the Independent JPEG Group's JPEG Library. + New actions: + trim_layer_bitmap: trim the current layer to the selection bounds. + merge_down: to merge the current layer with the next one. + make_undo_animation: to make an animation from the undo operations (to see all the progression of the graphics). + undo_history: to undo/redo various operations. + color_curve: to make color conversion effects pixel by pixel. + Improved the `Color Replace' command (with `tolerance' and `preview'). + A new optimized layer-bar, to handle all the keyframe/properties stuff. + Various things rewritten to Plug-Ins: + file formats, + actions for menus (also, now these actions can be used from scripts). + Replaced the old `color depth' system to the new `image types': From now, an image can be: RGB, Grayscale, or Indexed type. + New ASE Library, with a complete new design to handle: images, layers, bitmaps, properties, keyframes, etc. + Source code to GNU style: with configure.in, Makefile.am, etc. 0.0.7 ----- + New scripts routines: request(), apply_filter(), load_sprite(), and save_sprite(). + Support to load FLI/FLC and to save FLC files. Yes! Now with ASE you can make FLC animations with a good compression performance. + Added the posibility to load/save sequences of bitmaps: like ani00.pcx, ani01.pcx, ani02.pcx, etc. + More undo functionality. I re-wrote the entire `undo' system. + New rectangular-selection tool: Now you can cut, copy, paste and clear. + New RLE compression for 8 bpp in .ase files. + Support to load .ase files of `0.0.6' and `0.0.7 CVS (important stage)': I recommend you upgrade all your .ase files to the `0.0.7 release' version. + New properties for keyframes: now each keyframe has its position and alpha, with this you can make animations of objects moving only the keyframes (all the intermediate frames will be calculate automatically). + Now the program remember the configuration (through `ase.cfg'). + Added a new draw-tiled mode. + New full-screen editing mode. With resizable layer-bar. + Added an options to draw the previous frame in transparent mode. - Removed the `background' properties of layers: from now, a layer will be transparent (masked-blitting) ever. With this are fixed a lot of problems with load/save routines in old versions. + New `reload_menus' command. 0.0.6 ----- - I still don't recommend you the .ase format (just for temporary usage): there are planes to change it. + Scripting capability athwart Lua language (http://www.lua.org/): now, you can make automatic tasks programming your own scripts (included some scripts as example). + Independent `alpha' (global transparency) and `blender-mode' for each layer (like in GIMP and Adobe Photoshop). + Improved the layer/frame-control: Now add/remove/move/copy layer and frames are really-very-easy with the new layer-panel (like in Macromedia Flash). + More easy tool-configuration. + New drawing tool: real-pencil, with a unique and original algorithm. - Removed all the use of the Allegro GUI. + New original (and ugly) GUI look: now, the colors are in harmony for the eyes. 0.0.5 ----- + More facilities to handle colors with different `alpha'. + New animation control: need test (see `bugs.txt' to report errors). + Optimized the color-selection dialog: now you can make gammas between *four* colors. + Added a `preview' in the apply-filter dialog. + New improved gui system (for the users and for the developers). + New `tile' and `reload' option for the filters. + New view-tile option in tool-menu (for make tileable patterns). 0.0.4 ----- + Modificable draw properties: thickness, alpha color, spray random factor, and spray radius. + Undo support for all tools. + Multiple drawing tools support: pixel, pencil, fill, spray, line, rectangle, and ellipse; + New improved layer control. + A lot of optimizations in the status bar. + New duplicate sprite option. + New session manager, for load and save your work. Other utility of this, is if the program crash for any reason, it auto-backups your data. - Bad news: the old .ase format is incompatible with the new one: I recommend you don't save in .ase until the 0.1 release. + New "visible" property for hide and show the layers. + New change color-depth function. + Added a set-gfx-mode option in the system-menu. + New duplicate layer support. 0.0.3 ----- + New .ase format (for save the layers). + More keyboard shorcuts (with a new `keys.txt'). + New layers operations: insert, move and remove. + RGBA (alpha channel) bitmaps support. + New filter capability, with some examples of filters. + An incredible new way to create dialogs (for programmers only). + More "Windows friendly" text files. + New optimized status bar. + New improved look of the GUI. 0.0.2 ----- + New "infinite" Undo & Redo support. + Some importants bug fixed. 0.0.1 ----- + One tool: interactive line. + Color selection support. - Poor palette modification capability.