Friction 0.9.6 RC 1

Friction 0.9.6 Release Candidate is now available.

UI/UX

This release includes several UI/UX changes.

• Improved viewer and timeline UI
• Don't wrap item labels
• Improved "Fill and Stroke" widgets
• New UI layout handler (more flexible)
• Render Queue: Fix missing labels (-none-) on project load
• Added shortcut for bookmark color (B)
• Added shortcut for Pivot local/global (P)
• Don't allow group link to be dropped on it's target
• Render queue state fixes
• Various minor tweaks/fixes
• Updated icon theme
• Removed legacy icon code
• Icon fixes for HiDPI
• Check that recent file exists before adding to menu
• Added "Clear Recent Files" in edit menu
• Timeline settings menu renamed to "filters"

Renderer

The renderer now supports profiles on selected codecs.

• H264 (baseline/main/high)
• ProRes (proxy/lt/standard/hq/4444/xq)
• AV1 (main/high/professional)
• VP9 (0/1/2/3)
• MPEG4 (simple/core/main)
• VC1 (simple/main/complex/advanced)

Effects

• Effects can now be renamed

Windows

• Support window title bar dark/light theme
• Remove dependency on Windows Media Foundation (Support for Windows N)

Linux

• Removed Ubuntu native packages
  • We won't ship distro specific packages anymore, see universal build
• Removed Flatpak package
• Fixed broken RPM package
• Bundle xcb libraries for better compatibility
• Portable now includes a desktop integration script

Other

• Major improvements to the build process
• Started moving GUI code to frictionui library
• Moved more code to the frictioncore library
• Removed a lot of unused code
• Upgraded from Qt 5.12.12 to Qt 5.15.13
  • Should fix several UI issues on Windows
  • Might also introduce new issues
• Downgraded to known good (for us) FFmpeg version
• QtSvg and Qt image formats is not needed anymore

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
  • In general gradients needs some work
• There are still some minor issues with HiDPI
• Shader effects are still experimental and may introduce issues

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

Minimum hardware

• 4GB RAM available
• AVX x86_64 compatible dual core CPU
  • Intel Sandy Bridge Core i3/i5/i7
  • AMD Bulldozer
• OpenGL 3.3 compatible GPU and driver
  • NVIDIA GeForce 8 series (G8x/Tesla)
  • AMD Radeon HD 2000 series (R600/TeraScale 1)
  • Intel HD Graphics 4000 (Ivy Bridge)
• Audio device supporting WASAPI on Windows and PulseAudio on Linux

Recommended hardware

• 32GB RAM
• CPU
  • Intel Kaby Lake Core i5/i7 or newer
  • AMD Ryzen/Threadripper 1000 series or newer
• GPU
  • NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 or newer
  • AMD Radeon RX 560 or newer
  • Intel UHD Graphics 620 or newer

Supported systems

• Microsoft Windows (N) 10/11 x64
  • Visual C++ Redistributable 2017 or higher is needed on Windows 10
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9/8.x/9.x x86_64 and compatible
  • Generic Linux with X11 and glibc 2.17+ should work