Harmony 22.0.1 Release Notes

Harmony 22.0.1 build 22.0.1.19338 (2023-03-01)

Fixes

The following issues are fixed in this release of Harmony and later.

Using the Close Gap tool while drawing with a tablet may cause a crash. HAR-8828
The Paste Drawing Object in Place option doesn’t work when the focus is in the Timeline or Xsheet. HAR-8606

The Shift and Trace tool doesn’t display the drawing as it’s being repositioned. HAR-8458
Peg holes and cross hairs for the previous drawing disappear after moving the drawing using the Shift and Trace tool. HAR-8038

Create Cycle messes up the layer’s timing and is not undoable. HAR-3867
Frame Markers are not reversed when using the Paste Reverse command. HAR-7385
A layer set to Outline Mode in the Timeline always displays black in the Camera view. HAR-8573
[Windows] Playback can get stuck when Loop and Sound are enabled. HAR-8808

A vector drawing connected to a Planer Region node that is defined to use Vector Drawing, connected to a Sprite Emitter may cause a crash. HAR-8763
Certain shading effects may show inconsistent results between 16 bit and 32 bit renderings. HAR-8721
Shine effect produces artifacts when alpha attributes are not set to default values and scene is set to render in 32 bits. HAR-8752
Bokeh effect shimmers when there is slow camera movement. HAR-8803
Bokeh and blur effects render with artifacts when Enable Graphic Card Acceleration is enabled in the Preferences. HAR-8802

Show Snapshot in the Camera view doesn't display certain effects correctly. HAR-8735
The camera far clipping plane limit cannot be raised over 1000 units. HAR-8805

3D models and 2D layers disappear when rotating the Perspective view 90 degrees. HAR-8758

Minimum and Maximum Distance circles displayed for weighted deformers are not the proper size on a Retina/HiDPI displays. HAR-8610
Minimum and Maximum Distance circles displayed for weighted deformers do not scale with the drawing. HAR-8609
Using the Transform tool with Control Selection Mode enabled does not work on a newly created deformation chain. HAR-4650

Crash when entering text in Node View search field. HAR-8850
A Channel Swap node directly connected to a Display doesn't render correctly. HAR-8728
Crash after enabling Publish Attribute Mode and the Drawing attribute in the Transformation Switch node. HAR-8848
Timing Columns options in the Transformation Switch node don’t work correctly. HAR-7796
Rendering is incorrect when an art layer selector node is set to flatten and used in combination with the Animate Pencil Texture node. HAR-8809
Reducing the alpha channel using a Matte-Resize node doesn’t work if the source image doesn’t have antialiasing. HAR-8582

Importing images from scanner locks up after previewing the images. HAR-8818
PSD files from Adobe Photoshop 2021 and later are blank in Harmony. HAR-8819
Images and 3D models disappear from the scene if the file name ends with a v and three digits (-v001). HAR-7118
[Windows] Pasting an image copied from a web browser does not work. HAR-8796
Precision loss and colour banding when writing 8 bit images in JPG, TGA, TIF and SGI if there is a colour space conversion. HAR-8826

Toon Boom Python API cannot be loaded unless a license with database is available. HAR-8832
Add Python Interface Documentation to Help menu. HAR-8769
A drawing created using Python script is not flagged as existing on the file system, and cannot be immediately loaded and rendered. HAR-8856
TB_ExportCamera script inverts the camera when some axes are rotated 180 degrees. HAR-8647
[Linux] Plugins/Scripting packages are not loaded on startup. HAR-8812
TB_GameExportWindow.js is not packaged in Harmony 22. HAR-8811
Add a scripting method, setNumberOf to SCR_FrameInterface, which sets the scene length (moves the end red handle) without deleting the drawing or keyframe. HAR-7358
Add missing functions to the ColorOverride class to add and remove colours. HAR-6671
Harmony crashes when rendering a 3d model via the python scripting interface. HAR-8750

[macOS] Harmony sometimes crashes when waking from sleep mode. HAR-8359
[macOS] When running in Japanese the Licence Wizard may crash when installing the licensing service. HAR-8694
The Save Scene Automatically preference does not work correctly when Harmony is left to idle. HAR-6564
Top and Side views take a long time to refresh while thumbnails are being rendered. HAR-8760

[Windows] Wacom tablet touch gestures for zoom, pan and rotate are not working. HAR-8739

[Windows] When sizing the Preferences window it may disappear offscreen if display scaling is not 100%. HAR-8566

The Update Database Scene error reporting is uninformative and sometimes wrong. HAR-8843
Scene lock information is not displayed correctly in Control Center. HAR-8049
[macOS] After closing a scene in database mode, Open, Palette Operations and other commands may stop responding. HAR-8766

Palettes and palette lists are potentially locked during normal batch rendering. HAR-8667
Harmony does not work with the LucidLink cloud NAS file system on macOS. HAR-8806
Workstations that do not have a GPU may not have the OpenCL libraries installed and will fail loading the plugins for OpenCL effects such as Blur. HAR-8693
Harmony is in "Not Responding" state for a long time before generating and uploading a snapshot preview from Producer. HAR-8817
tbprocess/queue dependencies between rendering jobs are not correct. HAR-8816

When there’s not enough space to display all buttons in a toolbar, the extension that is opened to access the buttons will be hidden under views that use OpenGL. HAR-8186
When using Harmony on macOS Big Sur, Harmony may crash when saving a colour in macOS’s native colour picker. HAR-8032
Database scenes that have a custom path cannot be copied using Control Center. HAR-6386
Stroke remains in place after removing the last point of a branch with the centreline editor. HAR-5994
When using an iPad Pro in Sidecar mode with Harmony, every second click registers as a double-click. HAR-8801
Updating the operating system to macOS Ventura may help fix this issue.
On macOS Mojave, GateKeeper prevents launching Harmony unless the quarantine extended attribute is removed from the application bundle. HAR-7775

The quarantine extended attribute can be removed using the following command in the Terminal:

$ sudo xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Toon Boom Harmony 22 Premium"