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We're still focused on stability & usability for now, with cool features like motion paths (shown below) in the pipeline. 0.8.6 Change Log Changes and Enhancements Strokes now attempt to subdivide based on the length of the stroke rather than an arbitrary triangle size Massive optimizations to many stroke rigging operations Bug Fixes Fixed a bug where changing zoom immediately after clicking a mesh could sometimes cause the mesh to resize Fixed a bug where newly created contour points would fail to have any effect until another action caused the rig to refresh Fixed a bug where sometimes newly created contour point verts would be affected by the wrong point's movement Fixed a bug where undos on the creation of new contour points would sometimes not work correctly Fixed a bug where adding a second child to a stroke would corrupt the hierarchy state resulting in unpredictable behaviour Fixed a bug where adding a child to a stroke after a mesh was already added would cause the original mesh to inverse resulting in the mesh being squished at the origin Fixed a bug where zooming immediately after selecting an object could still cause the object to get stretched under certain circumstances. Fixed a bug where attempting to drag a mesh attached to a stroke, that other objects as children to the stroke would cause visual artifacts Known issues Stroke keyframes still show value editor even though you can't edit the values by right-clicking a keyframe Non-mesh children of strokes don't update in real-time when using ik motion path demo.mp4

This is the second release of the past week, though we didn't post an announcement for the other one. This changelog reflects all of the changes of both. 0.8.5 Change Log Additions Added Select All with Control A for objects when hovering the canvas and for all visible keys when hovering the timelines Added Revert All Objects To Rig State and Key with Control K Added ability to multi-drag (position) of multi-selected objects by dragging one object Added ability to horizontally resize the timeline label view Changes and Enhancements Large optimizations for many mesh and rig manipulation actions Tweaked the way certain sub-menus react to hovers and clicks to add more consistency to the ui feel. Bug Fixes Fixed multiple undo/redo bugs for various actions. Fixed a bug with paint to select that didn't allow multiple overlapping objects to be selected at the same time Fixed a bug that allowed attempts to add change the hierarchy outside of rigging mode, resulting in unpredictable behaviour Fixed a bug where right-clicking a value keyframe would often not make the keyframe value and curve editors appear Fixed a bug where revert and key didn't work if the property wasn't already keyed at some point in the animation Fixed multiple bugs where taking actions immediately after dragging and dropping a mesh would cause the mesh to revert to original pre-drag position or cause other unexpected behaviour Fixed multiple bugs when attempting to rename entity states or create new ones, etc Fixed a bug where children of other objects could create unnecessary keyframes after making a change (e.g. creating x, y, and angle keyframes, when only the angle was changed) Known issues Stroke keyframes still show value editor even though you can't edit the values by right-clicking a keyframe Non-mesh children of strokes don't update in real-time when using ik

This is the third release of the past week again, though we didn't post announcements for the other two. This changelog reflects all of the changes of all three. 0.8.3 Change Log Additions Added multi-bone ik with a chain of bones of any length (with multiple bones selected, hold shift) Added length-constraint to strokes. hold control (along with shift) when redrawing a stroke to constrain the length of the new stroke to the length it was prior Added ik for stroke, either drag the new drag control at the end of a selected stroke or, continue to hold control while creating a length-constrained stroke to transition from drawing to pulling the stroke once it reaches the target length Changes and Enhancements Made meshes attached to strokes automatically subdivide further Made it so strokes can have alternate easing curves Bug Fixes Fixed a bug where opening a project that had strokes in it would automatically begin to draw a stroke when first clicking a mesh in animation or rigging preview mode. Fixed a bug that allowed you to add contour points outside the contour's outline. Fixed a bug where using incremental save when you hadn't already saved your project would bring up the old file dialog. Fixed multiple undo/redo bugs. Fixed a bug that would allow you to create an invalid stroke outside of rigging mode Fixed various bugs with hierarchies involving strokes Fixed a freeze if alt and shift were both held down when creating a stroke Fixed a bug where manipulating the multi-drag gizmo on the control points of non-contour deformers could result in erratic results Fixed a bug where loading certain projects with deformers would cause control point lines to appear upon load not tied to their deformers resulting in unstable behaviour Fixed a bug where repositioning the reference mesh of a mesh that was connected to a contour deformer would distort the mesh. Internal Implemented several internal testing, debugging, and troubleshooting systems. Known issues Stroke keyframes still show value editor even though you can't edit the values by right-clicking a keyframe Non-mesh children of strokes don't update in real-time when using ik

Hello everyone! This is actually the third release of the past week, though we didn't post announcements for the other two. This changelog reflects all of the changes of all three. 0.8.0 Change Log Additions Added a shortcut to make all changes to currently dragged items key as Ease In and Out (hold E when dropping object(s) you are moving or rotating in animation mode) Added a shortcut to select all object keyframes at the time the mouse is hovering in the timeline (press O while hovering the timeline Changes and Enhancements Massive optimizations to most undo operations Added ability to hold control and double click to deselect all points in a contour or border (previously you could double click to select, but not deselect) Changing a keyframe's easing curve by right clicking (a property key) now affects all selected keys instead of just the key that was clicked Bug Fixes Fixed multiple critical undo/redo bugs Fixed a bug that caused easing curves to not work properly for the final keyframes in a looping animation if the first key frame wasn't at zero Fixed a bug where double clicking to create a key at that time would always round up clicks between frames to the higher frame, instead of going to the closest frame Fixed a bug where you couldn't clear key selection by clicking the background of the timeline area Fixed a bug where object selection tools would still work while hovering the timeline thing2.mp4

0.7.6 Change Log Additions Added selection highlighting for meshes Added inverse proportional aspect ratio (automatic squash/stretch) drag to resize gizmo (hold Alt) added a feature to limit multiSelection tools (marquee and paint to select) to only mesh objects or only non-mesh objects (points, bones, and strokes) by holding Control-Shift or Control-Alt respectively Changes and Enhancements Massive optimizations to PSD import Massive optimizations to certain undo operations Universal tooltips now remembers visibility between sessions Bug Fixes Fixed a bug where undoing a change to contour points would leave the project in an unstable state Fixed a bug where the initial contour outline often had a notch in it Fixed a bug where you couldn't drag lines for deformers Fixed a bug where you couldn't add points to the lines of deformers Fixed a bug where a multi-drag operations could fail in many cases if images were imported from a PSD Fixed a bug where after importing a psd, the top-most layer's image mesh would be selected 076silent.mp4

0.7.5 Change Log Additions Made timeline resizable by dragging from the top Made timeline only display currently selected objects Bug Fixes Fixed a bug where changes to color wouldn't revert after confirming the color picker dialog Fixed a visual bug in one of the radial menus

hello. I apologize for the late reply, but if you're still having the issue, would you please send the project (c3 project would be best, but spriter project would still be helpful) to mail@brashmonkey.com, and we'll take a look.

0.7.4 Change Log Additions Added an additional feature to PSD imports that allows to automatically designate a group in photoshop to be used to create swappable images by ending the group name with the suffix "__swap" (with two underscores)

The latest release of Spriter Pro 2 includes a change to the way radial menus are handled, based on your feedback. This should make it more intuitive to use and allowed us to put tooltips on all radial menu items. Check out the changelog for more details: 0.7.3 Change Log Additions Added tool tip text for all radial menu items Changes and Enhancements Changed radial menus so you can either right-click, hold, and release on an icon or left-click on an icon to activate it. Icons no longer automatically activate when you hover them (except if you are holding the right-button and hover an icon that opens a submenu. A dark-grey ring is now used to mark icons that open sub-menus) Undo/Redo buttons in the application menu no longer close the menu when activated, to allow multiple undos and redos using this menu

0.7.2 Change Log Additions A system for optimizing 2D meshes attached to multiple bones by subdividing them in a way that minimizes vertices in non-deforming areas and maximizes triangles in curved areas, resulting in a smoother bend when the mesh is deformed by bones while also avoiding unnecessary vertices. Added keyboard shortcuts (1 and 2) to skip the time to the previous and next keyframes in animation mode

Hello everyone, We hope you're having a wonderful holiday season! We just wanted to update you on the current state of Spriter 2 and what you can expect moving forward. First, we released a new version last week, which included a large number of new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. Today's release mainly focuses on usability updates, including a new tooltip system to make it much easier to understand the ui and how to use all the features. We're sorry for the delays in Spriter 2's development. We know it's been frustrating and we apologize for the wait. The latest big delay was due to a severe underestimation of the work required for a specific change to the way Spriter 2 handles bone deformation, and in order to prevent it from taking any longer, we rolled back the last several months of code, and continued from there. Those months weren't wasted. We learned a lot, and we'll reintroduce many of those changes gradually after you have a fully functional 1.0 in your hands. We've also identified the reasons for our history of inconsistent communication and releases. We fell into a trap of wanting to make up for delayed releases by making sure each new release would be big enough to justify the wait, which inevitably compounded the delays and our wanting to make up for them, ad infinitum. This isn't an acceptable excuse, but we wanted to be transparent, and we've adjusted our internal practices to keep this from happening again in the future. We're back on track and working towards the feature complete beta in the near future, and we're committed to regular releases and open communication going forward, regardless of the state of any particular build at release. Thank you for your patience. We can't wait for you to see what we have in store. Best regards, lucid 0.7.1 Change Log Additions Added tooltip window to help guide new users. Click the (!) icon at the top of the screen to toggle tooltip visibility Added ability to double-click a keyframe to jump to that time Changes and Enhancements Made the help icon more visible Changed the wording on certain options to make them more clear Bug Fixes Fixed a bug where available armed tools wouldn't be current for the Alt-Shift-MouseWheel shortcut until the tool dropdown was manually clicked after switching modes Fixed a bug where the tool selection ui was visible on the title screen Untitled.mp4

Spriter 2 Update Build 0.7 is available. We'll release another build and give you the details on what caused the delay before Christmas. Thanks for your patience. 0.7 Change Log Additions Added scale to multi-select options (w/ optional resize from pivot (ctrl) and uniform scale (shift)) Added arbitrary scale angle option to multi-select (right-click rotate Added rectangular marquee selection tool Added paint to select tool Added action and selection tool menus and indicators in the bottom right of screen Added shortcuts to navigate tool and selection menus without needing to directly click on menus (ctrl-shift mousewheel to switch current within current tool type or tab to switch between action and selection tool types) Added right click item in animation mode to objects to prevent a specific property from being keyed in that animation Added fall-off drag tool (soft drag) Added smudge drag tool (soft drag) Added contour mesh distortion (alt click along a line to add additional points. alt-click on a mesh to add a new contour. alt-clicking with a single contour end-point selected continues that contour Added right click item in animation mode to restore object selected properties to rig state Added right click item in animation mode to key or unkey specific properties Added double-click to select all control points of a mesh Added the ability to flip images on unconfirmed meshes Added the ability to see ghost images of swappable images when positioning unconfirmed mesh sprites Added transparency option for gif exports Added alpha channel transparency to png exports Added background color options for all exports Added ability to crop and pan export box and set export scale separately from window size Added button to crop export box to fit animation Added visual resizing and panning to export box Meshes can now be added to a single bone, even if the bone is in a chain Changes and Enhancements Added gradient background for images in image picker dialogue for greater visibility of some sprites Switched to a native file browser for loading and saving Made it so you can switch images that are already deconfirmed Multiple areas of the programs optimized for increased speed and responsiveness Faster png sequence export Mesh deformers can be added to all selected meshes at once Added separate tool to spawn strokes (with tool selected, alt-click to spawn, shift-click to redraw the currently selected stroke Upgraded Unity Engine version for stability and performance improvements Now adds one pixel transparent border to images on import to avoid texture edge stretching Removed pin deformation (replaced and superseded by contour deformation) Zoom is now based on original image pixels (100% default zoom will display undistorted image meshes at exact pixel size) Made export dialog much more compact Export initially crops and pans to fit animation Meshes now start out as basic quads until deformers are introduced Bug Fixes Fixed a bug where double clicking an already confirmed mesh by mistake could affect future drag operations on control points unpredictably Fixed a bug where under certain circumstances changes to children weren't keyed correctly resulting in objects shifting after being moved Fixed bug where color picker would always initially open with color black selected Fixed a bug where incremental saves would fail for base filenames less than 5 characters in length Fixed a bug where all rigging points were visible after loading a project Fixed a bug where redoing creating a new mesh made it no longer drag-droppable in realtime in rigging mode Fixed bug where redoing creating a new mesh by dragging an image from file palette would flip the mesh Fixed multiple slowdown bugs that occured during ui updates Fixed multiple bugs where under certain circumstances if a UI element's animation was canceled part of the way through it could cause future animations to animate to the point where it was cutoff (resulting in smaller or half faded ui elements) Fixed a bug where under certain circumstances hidden points for unselected meshes would reappear when applying changes to unrelated objects Fixed a bug where sometimes a popup menu's enable animation would play twice Fixed a bug where under certain circumstances it was possible to break the positions of some popup menus resulting in them continuing to appear in the wrong spot for the remainder of the session Fixed a bug where hovering over the invisible deformer control lines of an unselected mesh would prevent a click from selecting the mesh Fixed a bug where hovering over the invisible deformer control lines of an unselected mesh would prevent the hover mesh glow effect from showing Fixed a bug where you could drag the invisible deformer control lines of an unselected mesh Fixed a bug where control points for mesh deformers wouldn't register hovers under certain circumstances Fixed a bug where the transform tool would restore back to zero degrees upon making a new selection Removed a bug where some superfluous wireframe generation operations during the triangulation would slightly reduce efficiency during the initial drag out of images Fixed a bug where cancelling too quickly after choosing new or load project would make the menu invisible Several general stability improvements to the rigging system Fixed a bug where after creating a multi-bone chain and adding a mesh, the cage control points wouldn't reappear when reselecting a bone Fixed a bug where attempting to drag and drop a mesh attached to multiple bones would start an unintended stroke drawing operation

@RohitPardhiI will get a chance to look into any issues with the plugin as soon as I finish the current sprint of Spriter 2. Unfortunately, a change a while back in Construct 3 seems to have broken runtime loading. The last known version of Construct 3 where runtime loading works is r260.

Hello again, everyone! We're still hard at work on the next version. This will be a larger update than usual with over 30 new features and enhancements, and over 20 bug fixes so far. We look forward to showing you what we've been up to.

Hello everyone, We're happy to announce that this upcoming build of Spriter 2 will be feature complete for the official 1.0 release. That doesn't mean this version will officially be 1.0, but all the main features will be there. There is still a bit to do before this release, including fixing all the known bugs, and polishing up the UI for the latest features, so thank you for your continued patience, and we'll keep you updated along the way. There are also quite a few additional features (some of which we've mentioned in the past) we plan to add as free updates after 1.0. While we're still not ready to announce a firm release date for this upcoming release or 1.0, after releasing this build to our community of testers (anyone who owns Spriter Pro or pre-ordered Spriter 2) and once we've had time to gather feedback we'll be in a better position to make a real estimate. Here's what's left on the roadmap to 1.0: 0.9 (in development) Fix all currently known bugs Polish UI for latest features 1.0 Finalize save format Unity runtime Mac version Linux version All community bugs Possible QoL additions based on testing and feedback

New contour-based deformation feature coming to the next Spriter 2 alpha build Music provided by Argofox: Wontolla - Black Cat https://youtu.be/cEH0PXdpwzs

New rigging and animation features coming to the next Spriter 2 alpha build Have a safe and happy holiday, everyone! Music provided by Argofox: Meizong - Helios https://youtu.be/_CwzyhZ5JHU

Soft drag features coming to the next Spriter 2 alpha build Music provided by Argofox: NEREUS - Tacenda youtu.be/NowWqCDPZOs

Here's several improvements to the transform tool coming to the next alpha build. We want to spend a bit more time to increase usability before its release. In the meantime, we'll release more videos showing off some really interesting stuff coming to the next version.

0.6.7.0 (released 10/13) Change Log Additions Added the ability to create entity state groups" Right-click on the entity state (animation) name when you have more than one entity state. States in a group can be played back from within other animations. Added sub-entity state players: Automatically created when you create an entity state group. The player will be visible when a state that is not in its group is selected. The player controls can be repositioned and rotated from Rigging Mode. In Animation Mode or Rigging Preview Mode, clicking on the state name will allow you to change the current state of the player, and clicking and dragging on the timeline will change the current time ratio within the state. Known Issues Meshes above a certain number of verts cause pin deformer to fail and leave the program in an unstable state Undo and Redo don't always function correctly with the new features Changes to z-order in rigging mode not reflected in animation Occasional visual glitches while editing animations Save and Load not working reliably in all situations Images saved from certain image editors will acquire artifacts when they have antialiased edges where the alpha isn't fully opaque or transparent. These issues aren't exclusive to Spriter 2 and will affect any game engine that doesn't preprocess them. These pre-processing functions will be introduced in a future version, and can be ignored for now. When changing curvature of a ligament with real-time preview in Rig Preview Mode, display temporarily changes to whatever image is set as default in the rig

0.6.2.0 Bug Fixes Fixed a bug introduced in the previous version where holding shift to use ik no longer functioned. Fixed a bug where the animation name was missing, also making it impossible to change or create a new animation. Fixed a bug where text might not be toggled off for deformers when no longer available for a mesh in its right click menu. Known Issues Meshes above a certain number of verts cause pin deformer to fail and leave the program in an unstable state Undo and Redo don't always function correctly with the new features Changes to z-order in rigging mode not reflected in animation Occasional visual glitches while editing animations Save and Load not working reliably in all situations Images saved from certain image editors will acquire artifacts when they have antialiased edges where the alpha isn't fully opaque or transparent. These issues aren't exclusive to Spriter 2 and will affect any game engine that doesn't preprocess them. These pre-processing functions will be introduced in a future version, and can be ignored for now. When changing curvature of a ligament with real-time preview in Rig Preview Mode, display temporarily changes to whatever image is set as default in the rig It's possible to make an object the child of multiple other objects causing unpredictable behavior.

0.6.1.0 Bug Fixes Fixed a bug where children of stroke would shift angles when moved or redrawn outside of rigging mode. Fixed a bug where children of strokes would shift angles after bring dragged and dropped when in rigging mode. Fixed a bug where adding a mesh to a bone after adding the bone to the stroke would break the hierarchy and cause unpredictable behavior. Fixed a bug where in certain edge cases, children of strokes would have their local positions calculated extremely inaccurately, causing unpredictable behavior. Fixed a bug where having a mix of bone with stroke children and strokes with bone children would cause edits in one part of the rig to affect other parts of the rig. Fixed a bug where in certain edge cases stroke children could have their inverse positions permanently stuck at the wrong value, causing undesirable behavior. Fixed a bug where attempting to redraw a stroke while hovering another another object would cause that object to get selected and dragged instead. Known Issues Meshes above a certain number of verts cause pin deformer to fail and leave the program in an unstable state Undo and Redo don't always function correctly with the new features Changes to z-order in rigging mode not reflected in animation Occasional visual glitches while editing animations Save and Load not working reliably in all situations Images saved from certain image editors will acquire artifacts when they have antialiased edges where the alpha isn't fully opaque or transparent. These issues aren't exclusive to Spriter 2 and will affect any game engine that doesn't preprocess them. These pre-processing functions will be introduced in a future version, and can be ignored for now. When changing curvature of a ligament with real-time preview in Rig Preview Mode, display temporarily changes to whatever image is set as default in the rig It's possible to make an object the child of multiple other objects causing unpredictable behavior.

Thank you for your patience everyone. I'm fully settled into the new place, and all the issues that were preventing me from working have been resolved. Releases should be roughly every two weeks again, beginning now. It may take more than one release per item, but here are the remaining features that will be implemented before the beta. From there it will just be bug fixes, working on initial implementations, and making small quality of life changes until 1.0. Image swapping Linking deformers Hierarchical deformation Sub-Entities Miscellaneous workflow and UX enhancements (smaller, simpler features that will be quick to implement) 0.6.0.0 Change Log Additions Added the ability to add additional images to a texture set and swap between them: While in rigging mode, right-click a mesh, and select add image to set, and click and drag an image as usual from the file palette. When you confirm the position of the new image, it disappears. You can now right click on your mesh, and mouse over select image to choose between all the meshes in the set. Each textures's relative position, angle, and flip (more on this below), is retained, and you can edit this by choosing the image you want to edit, right-clicking the mesh, and choosing reposition mesh. While in rigging mode, you can also re-order images by dragging and dropping them in image picking dialog. Added the ability to flip meshes horizontally and vertically: When editing mesh position (either before confirming for the first time, or by right clicking the mesh and choosing reposition mesh), you can right click the mesh, and mouseover one of the flip icons to flip the mesh. This menu won't disappear until you click away from the menu or confirm your mesh, so you can toggle both axises freely without having to right-click again. Clicking an a flip icon while already hovering it will toggle the flip again. The image will also be displayed flipped (or not) in the image picking dialogue. Smaller additions, Changes, and Enhancements Added the right click options from Animation Mode to Rigging Preview Mode, so you can now edit colors, opacity, z-order, and swap images while previewing your rig. Added a small indicator on parent strokes when editing child strokes and child bones, to show where along the stroke the child object is attached. Added an icon to confirm mesh when editing the position of meshes. Alternatively, you can still just double-click to confirm a mesh as well. Cleaned up right-click menu for meshes in rigging mode, completely hiding options that aren't available depending on whether you are currently editing a meshes position instead of dimming them. Color dialogue now appears offset from the mouse for easy reach while not obstructing the spot where a mesh was clicked to bring up the dialogue. Bug Fixes Fixed a bug where attempting to add a stroke with a child mesh to another stroke would fail and leave the program in an unstable state. Fixed a bug where children of strokes would still reevaluate their relative positions when moved outside of rigging mode resulting in incorrect behavior and shifting movement on other keyframes. Fixed a bug where redrawing a stroke in Rigging Mode would alter the position of child strokes and bones. Fixed a bug where adding a child stroke that had a mesh child of its own would distort the child mesh. Fixed multiple related bugs dealing with nested stroke hierarchies shifting unpredictably when parents or children were altered. Fixed a bug where the "drives" shortcut was not working in the file dialog, making it impossible to switch to other drives. Fixed bug where projects with ligament rigs would load improperly. Fixed bug where it took multiple undos to undo the creation of a stroke. Fix a bug where after the creation of a stroke, it wouldn't be visible until an attempt to redraw the stroke. Fixed a bug where you couldn't add a second non-deformable mesh to the same bone. Known Issues Meshes above a certain number of verts cause pin deformer to fail and leave the program in an unstable state Undo and Redo don't always function correctly with the new features Changes to z-order in rigging mode not reflected in animation Occasional visual glitches while editing animations Save and Load not working reliably in all situations Images saved from certain image editors will acquire artifacts when they have antialiased edges where the alpha isn't fully opaque or transparent. These issues aren't exclusive to Spriter 2 and will affect any game engine that doesn't preprocess them. These pre-processing functions will be introduced in a future version, and can be ignored for now. When changing curvature of a ligament with real-time preview in Rig Preview Mode, display temporarily changes to whatever image is set as default in the rig

Hi everyone, The move that had paused Spriter 2 progress is now mostly over, but there are ongoing necessary renovations slowing progress significantly. I've been able to start making slow, steady progress again for the last couple of days. And in a week or two, when the renovations are complete, I should should be back to work unhindered and under much improved working conditions than prior to the move.

Hello everyone, We had hoped to post this announcement along with the latest build, but there's still a bit more to do before it's ready. However we can update you on the progress of Spriter 2 and a couple of other relevant details about the upcoming builds. First, I will be moving home and office to a new city in July. Unfortunately, this means after the upcoming build, we don't know when update builds will be released until after the move. On a happier note, there is not that much left to do before Spriter 2 is out of alpha, and onto a feature complete beta. There may be some minor features added during the beta, but it will essentially be version 1.0 aside from bug fixes, documentation, runtime implementations, and non-Windows OS's. We still won't be giving an ETA today, but these are the remaining features before the beta. Each feature may take longer than one 2 week release cycle, and won't necessary be released in this order, but it should be easy to follow progress until the beta from here on out: Image swapping (in progress) Linking deformers Hierarchical deformation Sub-Entities Miscellaneous workflow and UX enhancements (smaller, simpler features that will be quick to implement) 1. Image swapping This is what will be included in the release I'm currently working on. Image swapping will work somewhat like it does in Spriter Pro with the pop-up image selection bar, but much more customizable. For instance, if you have 3 frames for a head turn to the right , you will be able to create the full 5 frame left to right head turn, mirroring and positioning each frame, and then placing them on the selection bar in whatever order makes sense to animate with: 2. Linking deformers Currently, you can add a single quad or bezier patch deformer to one or more images. This feature will allow deformers to share their control points allowing you to link one or more deformers together to deform objects of arbitrary complexity, simulate perspective, etc. 3. Hierarchical deformation Currently a deformer can be the child of a single bone, this feature will explore how far this can be enhanced. The goal will be allow defomers to be the children of strokes or multiple bones. We will also explore the feasibility of whether we can make deformers be children of other deformers. 4. Sub-Entities This will be an enhanced version of the experimental that was in Spriter Pro. It will allow you to create sub-animations that can be controlled from within other animations. For instance, you could animate a head turn using multiple images, deformers, alpha fading, etc, and then tie it to a single slider that can be used to turn your head at any time. Unlike Spriter Pro, the inner-workings of this and related features are part of the DNA of how Spriter 2 was designed under the hood, so the workflow should feel seamless by 1.0. This was originally going to be an Alchemist-only feature, but since things have been delayed by so much longer than anyone anticipated, we wanted to give something back to everyone who's been so patient all this time. 5. Miscellaneous workflow and UX enhancements These are several smaller features, enhancements, and just the final touches to other features that are needed to flesh out the program and make it feel complete and easy to use. There are several, but some examples are: Export options such as trimming, etc to flesh out the export to image/video feature Ui missing for any feature that currently requires a keyboard shortcut Better timeline visibility options to filter to current to the current selection, be able to arbitrarily expand the timeline size, etc One last pass on the save format to mark it as final. We also want to separate the format into editor-specific and runtime sections to make it possible to save even smaller saves for runtimes, while maintaining the ability to have feature rich saves of future editor states. Once again we want to thank everyone for your support and patience. We're on the home stretch now. We hope that you enjoy the final product and our vision for how easy and fun a powerful 2d animation program can be. There is more planned for after 1.0, but we'll save that for after its release.