Friction 0.9.5 RC1

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Pre-release of Friction 0.9.5. Please report any regressions or issues that should be fixed before the 0.9.5 release.

Changes

Changes since 0.9.4.

UI

• Fixed several HiDPI (scaling) issues
• Fixed "Fit to canvas" UI update
• New about dialog
  • Includes licenses for bundled software and some additional docs
• Render queue
  • UI fixes
  • Added play button
  • Added clear button
  • Added new button
  • Instance state bugfix
• Timeline
  • UI fixes
  • Improved handle and ticks
  • Added new shortcut for "play from first frame" (SHIFT+SPACE)
  • Added prev/next keyframe buttons (for selected objects)
• Added render button in toolbar
  • Will open queue and add a new job if none exists
• Various minor UI tweaks
• Updated some icons

Auto save/backup

Friction now features auto save and backup of projects.

• Support backup on save (see general in preferences)
  • On each save create a backup file in folder
• Added auto save option (see general in preferences)
  • Will auto save project after X time, should be combined with backup on save
  • Note that some actions/changes in Friction will not trigger document changed, this will be worked on for the next release

Scene dialog

The scene dialog now support resolution and frame rate presets.

• Friction include a small set of default resolutions and fps
• Friction will remember new resolutions and fps for easy access later
• The presets can be configured in preferences

Multi-window mode

Friction now features initial multi-window support.

• The timeline can run in it's own window (View => Timeline Window)
• The render queue can run in it's own window (View => Queue Window)

Linux

• New universal binaries for Linux (vfxplatform CY2019+ compatible)
  1. Portable tarball
  2. RPM package
  3. AppImage
• Force static library on Linux (no more libfrictioncore.so)
• Skia can now be built against system libraries on Linux (recommended)
  • Add -DUSE_SKIA_SYSTEM_LIBS=ON
  • Requires expat, freetype2, libjpeg, libpng, libwebpmux, libwebpdemux, zlib, icu-i18n, harfbuzz
• Added Ubuntu 23.10 package

Windows

• Friction can be installed through winget (Windows Package Manager)
• Convert shaders if needed, fixes Intel GPU issues on Windows

Security

• Skia: fix for CVE-2023-4863

Other

• Bundle expression presets in-app
• Preferences: added interface scaling options
• Preferences: added raster effects CPU/GPU option
  • Select if included raster effects should prefer CPU or GPU

Full Changelog.

Known Issues

• Friction is beta quality software, expect issues and missing/broken features
• CSS style sheets are not supported when importing an SVG
  • SVG's from Adobe Illustrator (and others?) may have issues due to this
  • In some circumstances this might result in an invalid undo state after import
• SVG gradients may not import correctly

And more, see our issue tracker for more information.

Support

• If you find an issue with the application please report it on our issue tracker (requires a GitHub account).
• For general discussion, feature requests etc use our forum (requires a GitHub account).

For other inquiries use support at friction dot graphics.

System Requirements

Hardware

• Minimum 4GB RAM (16GB+ recommended)
• Minimum AVX compatible dual core CPU (Modern quad core or better recommended)
• OpenGL 3.3 compatible GPU and driver (Intel UHD Graphics 620 or better recommended)
• Working audio device

Software

• Windows 10/11 x64
  • Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable 2017 or higher is needed on Windows 10
    • In most cases this is already installed, if not you can download it here
• Ubuntu 22.04/23.04/23.10 (X11 x86_64)
• Linux X11 x86_64 (vfxplatform CY2019+)
  • glibc 2.17+
  • libgcc 4.8.5+
  • pulseaudio

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This discussion was created from the release Friction 0.9.5 RC1.