Stopmagic gives you the power of creating amazing Stop Motion animations faster and easier than ever before.

• The addon will now assert that the active object should be of MESH type. If not, the appropriate operators will be inactive

• Fixed issue that artists were not able to override keyed value in an existing keyframe

• Fixed https://github.com/aldrinsartfactory/stopmagic/issues/9 that the Initialize Frame Handler had to be manually invoked by artists periodically to avoid issues. This has been fixed by calling the frame handler every 180 seconds, and also after a file is loaded

• The panel will now display a warning if there are no active objects and also when the active object is not of MESH type

• The active object's validity is now checked properly for all operators that depends on it.

• Fixed issue that incorrect number of poses were displayed for the future variant for Onion Skin

• Fixed issue that if the operators were invoked when the active object is None, it would throw errors

• Added ability to change the display type of Onion Skin feature. There are two available options: POSE & RANGE. POSE will display a specific number of frames before or after a current frame. RANGE will display all poses within the specific range provided.
• Updated the material display of Onion Skin objects. The onion skin feature used to switch the shading type of the scene to OBJECT automatically. This was disruptive and also was not intuitive at all. This has been replaced by the new system where the Onion Skin objects will be displayed properly with less opacity, in multiple modes including Render, Viewport, Material Preview and also if the shading type is changed to OBJECT.
• Changed the behaviour of clearing the onion skin objects when the feature is disabled, so that multiple objects with the same name is not created
• Updated Panel UI. Sections are now separated into boxes and can be expanded or shrinked by the user. Also added a contributions section to allow users to make a contribution to the addon.
• The upgrade option will move to the top, if the addon is sure that the latest version of the addon available online is different from the installed one. If the request gives an invalid response or if the network is unavailable, then the option will be at the very bottom.
• The Status Options section has been moved to the bottom as it is technically a legacy feature at this point.
• Added custom icons to be displayed on the contribution section

• Fixed issue #1 that if you moved a keyframe to a different position, you won't be able to add another keyframe for the mesh after it
• Fixed issue #2 that the Find Keyed Frame jumped to frames that previously had keyframes

Major Warning

The addon doesn't work properly if you are in sculpt mode and if you have Dynamic Topology or Dyntopology enabled. This is due to a limitation caused by Blender's native behaviour. Make sure that you have a look at #3 for a detailed explanation of this behaviour.

• Onion skins feature has been added to the addon. This is an experimental feature and also creates additional objects and meshes in your Blender scene. You can provide a frame range for past and future and also change the color of both objects.
• Added ability to jump to the previous or next frame that has a keyed mesh in it.
• Added button to upgrade the addon if there is a new version available. If there is network, this will open the download url of the latest version of the addon. If there is no network or fetching data failed, this will open url to the releases section on github.
• Improved UI and the panel looks more intuitive than before, at least for me it does.

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• The values entered into the Addon Preferences will now be used when you create a new file. This was absent in the previous release
• The project structure of the addon has been improved to support subdirectories and submodules.
• The project is more organised.

This release does not have any visual changes. This is an experimental release.

The prerelease value of the version tag has been changed to beta as the project is actively accepting feedback and bug reports from the public

These are the changes:

• Addon has been renamed to Stopmagic
• Frame skipping feature has been added
• You can choose whether the addon should add keyframe after frame skipping or not
• Refreshed panel for the addon
• Version of the addon is displayed in the addon's panel
• The buttons have a better layout and are more intuitive than before
• Added shortcuts for frame skipping. These and all other shortcuts in the addon can be customized.

This is an experimental release