Storyboard Pro 24.0.1 Release Notes

Storyboard 24.0.1, build 23015 (2024-07-17)

Improvements

3D

  • Bones in armatures of 3D models are now displayed pointing to their children rather than using the orientation of their joint. A new preference named “Display Armatures as a Joint Representation” is available on the General tab of the preferences and can be disabled to use the previous display mode.

  • Enlarged the picking area of the rotation handles when using the Transform tool for the 3D rotation.

Fixes

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

General

  • Storyboard Pro may crash when making a selection in the Script text field of the Storyboard view after importing text and scrolling down. SB-5786

  • Optimized drawings generated from older versions of Storyboard Pro may appear blank and cause a crash during playback. SB-5788

  • Converting a scene to 2D needs to be done twice if there's a layer pinned to the camera. SB-5761

Drawing

  • There is a small delay when using the drawing tools with a mouse. HAR-9999

3D

  • Storyboard Pro crashes when importing a 3D model when the video card does not support Vulkan 1.1 or higher. HAR-9837

  • 3DS files are rotated 90 degrees when imported with Vulkan 3D Rendering enabled. HAR-10004

  • Textures from 3D models stored in TIFF format are not read when using Vulkan. HAR-9517

  • Bones that have the same name cause improper positioning of geometry in Storyboard Pro. HAR-9937

  • Bone position is reset to 0 when the bone is marked as Armature Root in the 3D file. HAR-10050

Effects Stack

  • Storyboard Pro may crash after editing effects of an audio clip from the Effect Stack then selecting it from the Timeline.SB-5753

  • The Playhead can’t be selected and moved after scrolling the Effect Stack forward in time. SB-5790

  • Making a box selection in the Effect Stacks selects hidden keyframes of collapsed effects. SB-5734

  • The left side of the Effects Stack view changes size when resizing the view. SB-5651

Scripting

  • setExpandRenderAreaToArtworks does not work with exportToFCPXML or exportToAAFSB-5774