Change Log

3.0.56

2024-06-11

Compatibility

  • Odyssey available as a plugin for Unreal Engine 5.6 on Fab

  • Windows and Mac

  • Better stylus input

  • Animations work in Runtime for games

  • GPU-based layer blending modes

GUI

  • Palette Editor + better interface + possibility to rename Sets

  • Contextual menu with right click will work also in 3D mode

  • No more issue with the Top Bar when changing tool (replaced by Editor Toolbar)

  • Tools, Tool Settings and Brush Selector got merged

  • Passepartout / Camera bound with Odyssey Viewport Mode

  • Icons to select shapes instead of a dropdown menu

  • Export options are back in the Content Browser

  • No more data about Epos / Iliad

  • All HUD work in 3D

  • Ctrl shortcuts are replaced by Cmd on Mac

2D Animation:

  • Inbetweener with Vector Layers

  • Animation Actors instead of Media Plate Actors

  • Layers and Cells are displayed within a Level Sequence and Shot Sequence

  • Animation Actor faces the POV when dragged and dropped into the Level through the Viewport

  • Start frame = 1

  • Light table opacity eases in and out

  • Reset Out of Pegs with arrows will work now

  • Default Materials when added into the Level is better

  • Flip works with several opened Animations

  • Cut&Clear Tool in Timeline Tools

Storyboard

  • Animation Actors replace Texture 2D + Material Instances

  • Animation Actor is automatically selected after being created

  • Distance: Pick up another Actor to move the Animation Actor closer

  • Margins up to 200%

  • Same tool bar in the Sequencer for Shot and Board sequences

  • Clicking on a key moves the cursor

Vector

  • New erasing mode (delete entire path)

  • Choose the HUD color

  • Better Gap detection for the Paint Bucket

  • Better responsiveness of the Path Drawing Tool with stylus

  • Show Engine Content checked by default to display brushes

  • Lock / Unlock vertices change color (dark red / grey)

  • Eye icon in Vector Scene Tree View to hide / show path

  • More options in Linear and Radial Paint Gradients

  • Modifiers got an interface in the ToolBar

Raster

  • Can use Palettes (not indexed though)

  • No more offset with HUD if scale is not 100%

  • Transform in undoable without the need of validating the change

We dedicate this version to the memory of our friend Don Perro.

2.1

2024-10-14

2D Animation

  • Flip (scrub) your 2D animations with lots of possible settings available in the Editor Preferences

  • A new widget to place your 2D animations in the 3D Level through a Level Sequence

  • Thumbnails visible in Cells

  • Post and pre behaviors have icons

  • Remote control now have a key to navigate between Cells

  • Out-of-pegs got a “Reset current” and “Reset all” button in Tool Options

Tools

  • A new interface for the Vector Color Palette, including a “save” icon

  • Create a new Palette will duplicate the current one

  • Raster Transform can flip vertically and horizontally the selected area

  • Raster Selection actions available in Edit Menu and right click (2D editor only)

  • Crashes caused by Raster Selection have been fixed

  • Raster Paint Bucket has new default config

  • Improved Vector Paint Bucket

  • Subpixel modes available in all Raster tools (when needed)

  • Uniform / Snap angle option is back in Raster tools (when needed)

  • Raster Transform will select the whole canvas if there is no selection

Canvas

  • Automatic resampling methods when zooming in / out the canvas

  • Icons to flip Horizontally and Vertically the canvas

  • Rotate arrows icons are rotating in the right direction

Storyboard

  • No more default camera key to prevent unwanted camera moves

  • Camera shake settings are back!

  • Toggle off all Light Tables option

  • Convert Board Sequences into Level Sequences

  • Drawing-cloning will no longer suffer from “refresh” issue

2d/3d Work

  • Fix issue that prevented to select Media Textures in 2D/3D painting

  • Improved Mesh and Screen Paint

  • New Widget to create Level Sequences with an empty Animation or from an existing Animation

  • Toolbar is not “overlay” to prevent an issue when drawing in the Toolbar area (to be fixed in the next update)

Pipeline

  • API to create your own custom widgets

UX

  • Search fields in Blending Modes

  • Export Texture As is fixed (could be missing from time to time)

  • Flatening Folders can be undone

2.0

2024-07-16

YouTube video: https://youtu.be/l3UBBrfQ4Cs

UX

  • Based on UE5.4

  • Automatically creates a Translucent Material that casts shadows when dragging and dropping a Texture 2D on a Static Mesh.

  • Invalid panels definitely removed

  • Better layout for the Storyboard Viewport

  • Moving Layers into a folder remembers their order

  • A Layer cannot be cleared any more when locked

  • When adding a Layer: belongs to the selected Folder (if it’s open)

  • Empty panels will display an information to let you know why they are empty

  • Duplicating a Texture in the Content Browser will have a Layer selected by default (and prevent empty panels)

  • HUD is displayed in Iliad EdMode (for out-of-pegs or selections on Planes)

Animation

  • Out-of-Pegs / Shift and trace

  • Cell mark + shortcuts

  • Cut tool won’t work anymore with right click

  • Iliad EdMode can import/export

  • Level Sequence default FPS is 24

  • Undo will also undo the position of the cursor in the Timeline

  • Cross Fade option in Raster Layers

  • Stagger cells can now be converted into Raster Cells

  • To navigate in the Sequencer, R and T have been removed to prevent inconsitencies between Sequencer and 2D Timeline

  • New widget to easily create a Level Sequence out of an Animation asset has been added

  • Shortcuts + and - now works with Vector Layers

Raster tools

  • Raster Paint Bucket is AlphaLock & Selection sensitive

  • Selection tool is separated from Transform tool and can use Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V and Ctrl+D to deselect

  • Paint bucket: “Include Color” option available

  • Use Blend2D to draw shapes

  • Shapes will work in any type of Texture 2D

  • Selection tool uses the same shapes as shapes

  • Lasso painting (freehand filled shape) is available

Storyboard improvements

  • Auto-key off will now let you snap a new Camera position in Board Viewport

  • No more issues with cloning Drawing or Shot Sequence

  • Show Engine Content is enabled by default to access Storyboard’s MPMC

  • Default Camera focus is 200

  • Creating a new Shot Sequence will disable Camera piloting

  • Scrubing in the Sequencer with Camera piloting on will automatically switch from cameras to cameras

Vector tools

  • Paintgroup issue when undoing stitch has been fixed

  • Issue fixe when a section is colinear with the segment and other section

  • Constant Stretching option added to texturized vector brushes

  • Merging 2 Layers will no longer erase the Paint buckets

  • Vector Cut tool got merged with Vector Path Edit Tool

  • Foregound color for lines in the Vector Scene Tree View can now use colours from the Palette

  • Selection in Vector Scene Tree View has been fixed for Animation assets

  • Cmd will replace Ctrl on MacOS

Crashfix

  • Refreshing issues with Iliad Editor Mode

  • Prevent the opening of the same Texture 2D which could lead to a crash

  • No more crashes when opening Texture2D that are not BGRA8

1.1

2024-04-02

Drawing tools

  • Raster Primitive: Interpolation Step makes no sense

  • Raster Selection: Freehand by default

  • Add shortcuts to switch between Raster / Vector tools (Drawing, Eraser, Transform, Paint Bucket)

  • Improve Palette UI to match UE5 design

  • Proxy cache issues with vector layer

  • Improved Raster Eraser

  • Importing PSD with special characters

  • Viewport Drawing: Smoothing enabled will no longer create large dot at stroke begins

  • Undo “Clear” while painting in 3d will no longer be an issue

  • Show Engine Content enabled by default to display brushes

  • Shortcut to Increase / Decrease Brush size will work

  • Palette: won’t select multiple colors sometimes anymore

  • Raster Transform tool has now the right behavior in Uniform mode

  • Vector: “Intersects Canvas” option for paintgroups

  • Stitch tool will no longer works on unfocused vector objects

  • Cut / Paste for objects in vector layers

  • Improve handles when stitching vectors

  • Path Edit Tool: select on simple click works better

  • Take rectangles in consideration for vector blocks

  • PaintGroup’s bounding box are now updated after the adding/removal of a child

  • Ctrl + click on bucket toggle the “propagate” state

  • In vertex mode, segment handles are no longer ignored by the GridTool to provide a better deformation

  • Vector coloring: no more issue with connected segments that go in opposite directions

  • Fix duplicate issue with vector layers

Animation

  • Import image sequence directly from PNG / JPG file

  • Convert Animation Asset to a Flipbook

  • Removed “Hold” mode Stagger Cells

  • Export as image sequence (PNG / JPG)

  • Add Export Image Sequence Panel

  • The timeline widget now releases the capture of the mouse after moving the time cursor

  • Flipbooks will no longer lose their content after being closed

  • Add buttons in animation cells context menu to add/remove/set length of selected layers (+ shortcuts)

  • Vector layer not randomly not showing when creating a new cell: fixed

  • Alternative shorcuts to Step Backward / Forward (Viewport) in Sequencer

  • The timeline’s cell cut tool will now cut at the frame highlighted by the indicator

  • Display FPS in 2D animation editor and allow to change it (Animation Detail Panel)

  • Add Animation Player shortcuts (Play / Stop / etc….)

  • Add Shortcuts to switch between 2D animation timeline tools

  • Make the timeline frame selection select cells instead of individual frames

  • Change mouse cursor when hovering the timeline handles

  • Animation /Media Palte can be edited from a Level without a Level Sequence

Storyboard

  • Media Plates in Board Sequence won’t crash anymore

  • Storyboard Viewport display locked on wrong frame when importing image sequences as Board Sequence

  • Add a Japanese PDF Storyboard Template

  • Fix issue with Takes

UX

  • Harmonize Create Animation and Create Texture windows

  • Top bar will not longer “jump” when switching between different Tools

  • Tools Icons: add margin within the box for the icon

  • Rename Animation mode to 3D Animation

  • Change Cursor when hovering the 3D viewport to indicate when you cannot draw

  • Arcball activated by default

  • No more pop-up messages when opening a projet

  • Ctrl+N to create a new layers is fixed (focus on the new layer + add a cell when created in an Animation asset)

  • Auto-Save frequency is 60 minutes

  • Create a OdysseyStartupSubsystem to manage startup config variables (load and save)

  • Remove warning about opening previously opened assets at first launch of a template project

  • Add a shortcut to break the current 2D Animation Cell at the current frame

  • Add selection of default layer type when creating a Texture or a 2D Animation

  • 2D Viewport Zoom Value no longer jump when resizing it in “fit to screen” mode

  • Change 2D viewport cursor when tool can’t draw/work

  • Layout fixed and can be reset

  • Pan, zoom and rotation available for the 3D viewport

  • Can open Bridge to access Quixel content

Crashfix

  • Crash in FOdysseyRasterBlock when closing Odyssey

  • Crash when reloading animation asset

1.0

2024-02-12

First release of Odyssey on Windows.