The video attached at the top of this post features an outstanding work by Veer Metri, who has made a set of 100 vector animations and also published sources for all of them.
Greetings to all Synfig users! Here’s what’ we’ve got for the last week:
We have fixed issues with building Windows packages in our Docker scripts. That means we are ready to continue with release procedures for Synfig 1.4.3 and 1.5.2.
Also, we have updated version of NSIS, which is used to generate Windows installers. This fixes the issue with starting Synfig installer from a folder with Arabic symbols (see issue #2142).
Improved output readability of unit tests for test_base.h (#2583).
The animation attached at the top of this report features awesome work by @microvswind. You can find more of his works in this thread.
Many thanks to all contributors and stay tuned for the next report!
P.S. You probably noticed this report is released one day late - on Tuesday instead of Monday. And I will probably stick with Tuesdays from now on, as it better fits my new schedule.
We have made testing packages for Windows and Linux with all latest features from the master branch. Please help us to test them and report all found issues here.
Greetings to all Synfig users! We are finishing preparations for releasing version 1.4.3. Here are the latest changes made for that:
We have updated the version of Python shipped with the Windows version of Synfig. Also, we have switched Python to “embed” build, which is more compact and should result in faster installation of Synfig (#67),
The 64bit version of Synfig now uses 64bit build of Python (previously it was using 32bit build). As a result, now it should work slightly more effectively on 64bit systems (#68).
Fixed module search path for Lottie Exporter (#2621).
We also have prepared testing builds of the upcoming version 1.4.3. I invite you to try them and check if there are any critical regressions (things to pay attention to: sound-related functions, plugins).
Greetings to all Synfig users! Here are the changes we’ve got for last week:
Fixed crash when deleting last Waypoint of an Exported Value (#2587).
Fixed video render in Windows package and AppImage builds (#2628).
Added basic support for Icon Themes (#2632).
User can choose available icon themes from the Preferences dialog (see screenshot). At the moment there is only classic theme available, but we will have some alternatives soon. Currently, icon themes are searched in “share/synfig/icons/” inside of installation dir. You can find “classic” theme there and use it as an example for new themes.
Greetings to all Synfig users! Lots of news for the last week!
We’ve got two applications accepted to participate in Google Summer of Code. Let’s welcome our new contributors!
Hesham Essam (@hesham) with the project “Building Synfig with the MSVC Toolchain & automate the build process using Conan”
Mohamed Adham (@mohamed.Adhamc) with the project “User Interface improvements”
We would like to thank all the applicants who reached us - this year we’ve got a lot of great applications, but unfortunately not so many mentors to handle as much as we wish.
Congratulations to accepted contributors!
And here is what’s new we’ve got in Synfig code for last week:
Added .glade/xml files for Menus and Toolbars, which is (#2638). This is par of ongoing work to migrate from the deprecated Gtk::UIManager class to modern Gtk::Builder class.
That’s all for today! Many thanks to all contributors and stay tuned for the next report!
