Magpie Pro Version History
03/06/2011 - Version 2.2.5
- Bug fixed: certain jpeg or png image files did not load into the software.
- Bug fixed: on Windows, sometimes the render option showed the error "cannot create ouput file".
05/03/2010 - Version 2.2.4
- Chain poses are now available for 2d actors
- Lightwave MorphMixer export plugin has been updated for compatiblity with latest LW9 releases
- Bug fixed: PDF temp files generated during printing are now saved to current user's temp directory
- Bug fixed: Preview is now accurate when moving through a project with left and right arrow keys
08/10/2008 - Version 2.2.3
- Frame rates are now expressed with 3 decimal digits instead of 2
- Bug fixed: random crashes in batch exports
- Bug fixed: file sequence export sometimes failed to write any files
05/07/2008 - Version 2.2.2
- Bug fixed: timeline repaint issues with very long audio files
- Bug fixed: crash when loading certain lwo objects that have unsupported texture formats
- Bug fixed: crash when replacing audio files of different lengths
04/15/2007 - Version 2.2.1
- Added native support for Intel based Macs
- Frame rate changes are more accurate than before
- Bug fixed: crash when running on a non-privileged user account
- Bug fixed: occasional audio playback problems
- Bug fixed: occasional crashes when using Undo
09/05/2005 - Version 2.2.0
- Added support for 24 bit audio files
- Insert frames now allows to type in a number
- Added new export option to generate image sequence with alpha channel
- New print options to enable or disable printing of waveform, comments and selections
- Automatic check for updated versions
- Bug fixed: pose sliders don't update when using left and right keys to move frame by frame
- Bug fixed: texture coordinates of some 3ds objects were not being loaded correctly
- Bug fixed: playback of 24fps video in video pane was skipping frames
- Bug fixed: frame offset was being reset back to 0 each time a project was reloaded
- Bug fixed: entering quotes in recognition dialogue
cause project to corrupt
- Bug fixed: bad rendered quicktime movies at small sizes
- Bug fixed: Softimage/XSI script minor bug fixes
03/20/2005 - Version 2.1.2
- Text export now allows to export extra comment tracks
- Bug fixed: playback speed on some systems was one or two frames less than the expected rate
- Bug fixed: German speech recognition issues with words that begin with 'J'
- Bug fixed: crash when importing certain objects with texture maps
01/09/2005 - Version 2.1.1
- Projects generated with Magpie Pro 1.x can now be imported
- Bug fixed: Custom Export and Recognizer scripts with only boolean parameters had display problems.
12/04/2004 - Version 2.1.0
- Two new languages are now supported by the speech recognition engine: German and Latin (thanks to Dieter Lange for contributing these two!)
- Two scrub modes are now available, the old frame based and a new "Continuous" mode
- New "Zoom to Selection" command
- Import actors based on 3DS, OBJ and image files in one step similar to the import for LWO and PSD
- Up to four independent comment tracks can be used
- Export selection as a quicktime audio file
- Stereo files are not converted to mono anymore
- Playback slider is now enabled during playback
- Comments in the timeline can be optionally edited with single click instead of double click
- Marks for each second or foot appear in the waveform display in the timeline
- Bug fixed: Comments weren't displayed correctly when timeline was set to vertical mode
- Bug fixed: In previous versions it was required to press Enter to accept a comment, this is not required anymore
- Bug fixed: 3ds objects used on poses now do not require materials
- Bug fixed: comments that were only spaces could crash the program while loading
- Bug fixed: In text export empty keyframes were being omitted from the export
- Bug fixed: speech recognition engine now better detects pauses in speech
- Bug fixed: changing frame rates sometimes crashed the application
- Bug fixed: using a later for the default image of a 2D actor wasn't supported
- Bug fixed: default pose in a 2D actor wasn't always displayed when no keyframes were present
06/18/2004 - Version 2.0.7
- Bug fixed: alpha channel transparency in photoshop images wasn't working
- Bug fixed: insert/delete frames did not work correctly on the keyframes in the curve track
06/03/2004 - Version 2.0.6
- Added support for Ligthwave 8's new MorphMixer file format
05/11/2004 - Version 2.0.5
- Bug fixed: feet/frames units were not calculated correctly
- Bug fixed: playback on very long files (10 minutes or more) stopped before the end
- Bug fixed: crash when loading some very long audio files
05/03/2004 - Version 2.0.4
- Bug fixed: crash while importing some 3ds object files
- Bug fixed: keyframe times in Lightwave MorphMixer exported files were not accurate
03/21/2004 - Version 2.0.3
- Bug fixed: problems when opening some 24 bit Photoshop files
- Bug fixed: garbage pose error message tooltips on Windows version
- Bug fixed: resize to fit did not work in Video pane
- Bug fixed: errors in Hash Animation Master export script
- Added link to External Plugins folder in Start Menu (Windows version)
02/20/2004 - Version 2.0.2
- Bug fixed: crash when loading a project that has no current actor set
- Bug fixed: Keyboard Setup dialog box shows garbage
02/01/2004 - Version 2.0.1
- Bug fixed: boolean arguments were not handled correctly in export and recognizer lua scripts called from batch processing scripts.
- Bug fixed: settings were not being stored in projects generated through batch processing.
01/02/2003 - Version 2.0.0 - official release!
- Added full support for head models generated by FaceGen Modeler.
- Added Portuguese language support in the Phonetic Alignment recognizer (thanks go to Pedro Freire Costa for this contribution)
- Added progress bar when loading pose 3d models and images.
- Added pose error message to alert of missing base 3d object in actor.
- Bug fixed: Lightwave objects with multiple UV maps are now displayed correctly.
- Bug fixed: more improvements in zbuffer handling in the 3d preview.
- Bug fixed: noise when rendering a quicktime movie from a project that has extra frames inserted at the end.
- Bug fixed: crash when rendering a quicktime movie with no audio.
- Bug fixed: commas in pose names were causing problems in export and recognizer scripts.
- Bug fixed: 3d preview loses texture maps when docking or undocking pane.
- Bug fixed: some texture maps could not be loaded because of an incorrect handling of their pathnames.
- Bug fixed: png and jpg images and textures failed to load.
- Bug fixed: support for accented characters in Phonetic Alignment recognizer when using non-english languages.
- Bug fixed: several minor fixes to Spanish pronunciation in Phonetic Alignment recognizer.
- Bug fixed: crash when reading some psd files made out of scanned photographs.
12/08/2003 - Version 2.0.RC2
- Added documentation pages on image and 3d object formats supported and their limitations.
- Added APIs to the scripting interface to access Photoshop image layer names and Lightwave endomorph names.
- Added preferences options to select the range of the Y axis in the curve editor.
- Added warning message before printing or exporting about trial version limitation of first 16 frames used.
- Bug fixed: materials in 3ds object files were mixed up in many cases.
- Bug fixed: Phonetic Alignment recognizer returned confusing error message when dialogue transcript was empty.
- Bug fixed: automatic recognition on part of the project erased all keyframes before the recognized section.
- Bug fixed: the Stop command should not select the last frame played (only Pause should do that).
11/03/2003 - Version 2.0.RC1
- Softimage XSI support.
- New 3D Studio Max import script that does not require any plugins installed.
- Added "External Plugins" directory, which includes plug-ins and scripts to import Magpie Pro data into third party applications.
- Bug fixed: cannot read .png and .jpg images.
- Bug fixed: OpenGL depth buffer artifacts displayed for some objects.
- Bug fixed: After Effects export generates the wrong poses.
- Bug fixed: boolean values were not handled correctly in export and recognize scripts.
- Bug fixed: macro and chain poses were included in the export to 3D applications.
10/26/2003 - Version 2.0.beta5
- Batch processing of files added.
- Keyboard shortcut customization added.
- Select last frame played when pause (Magpie Pro 1.25 does this and it was omitted in 2.0).
- Added minimum and maximum arguments to Amplitude recognizer for increased flexibility.
- Hourglass cursor is now used while loading large 3d objects.
- Added documentation on scripting interface for custom exports, recognizer and batch processing scripts.
- Added a new tutorial about batch processing.
- Bug fixed: crash when loading certain Photoshop files where the size of a layer is bigger than the canvas.
- Bug fixed: crash when loading certain Lightwave model files that have UV maps.
- Bug fixed: some Lightwave endomorphs deformed incorrectly.
- Bug fixed: 3ds and obj extensions where only recognized as objects when they were in lowercase.
- Bug fixed: Phonetic Alignment recognizer sometimes issued a "Phonetic Mismatch" error when used with French dialogue.
- Bug fixed: Moho export issued an error when exporting empty frames.
- Bug fixed: Lighting setup did not work for very small 3d objects.
- Bug fixed: Front clipping plane in 3d preview was set incorrectly.
09/28/2003 - Version 2.0.beta4
- Recognize feature added with two recognizers: "Amplitude" and "Phonetic Labeling".
- Moho export added.
- Added two new tutorials about automatic recognition.
- Bug fixed: work area and stored selections weren't affected by a frame rate change.
- Bug fixed: end work area frame after a double click was one less than it should.
- Bug fixed: chain poses weren't working.
- Bug fixed: crash when opening a project and then opening a second one that was shorter.
- Bug fixed: crash when printing a project with one or more empty frames.
- Bug fixed: crash when printing a project that has groups set to be invisible in Actors pane.
- Bug fixed: end of selected range was displayed incorrectly in status bar.
08/24/2003 - Version 2.0.beta3
- Stored Selections feature added (replaces the Selections view from v1.25)
- Edit Actors now has a button in the toolbar.
- Bug fixed: tabs in Actors pane show garbage text after opening a dialog box.
- Bug fixed: moving a bezier handle changes selected frame.
- Bug fixed: audio playback speed is wrong after replacing audio file in existing project.
- Bug fixed: Set Group Keyframe ignores the slider position and always sets keyframe at 1.0
- Bug fixed: PDF generated from the Print command is bad until the page size is changed.
- Bug fixed: actor groups that are hidden in Actors Pane should also be hidden in Timeline pane.
- Bug fixed: default name for new poses was New_Morph_Pose, it is now New_Pose.
- Bug fixed: changed Time Ruler #1 and #2 units defaults to frames and timecode respectively to match tutorial.
- Bug fixed: redo of a discontinuous selection does not work
08/03/2003 - Version 2.0.beta2
- Render command added (located in File menu and toolbar) to output a Quicktime movie or numbered image sequence of the current project.
- Selection start and end frames are now shown in the status bar.
- Bug fixed: problems reading Lightwave objects. Multi-layer LWO objects are now fully supported.
- Bug fixed: export settings used for a project file are not recalled next time that project is opened.
- Bug fixed: new projects are assigned a frame rate of 29.97 frames per second regardless of the "New project frame rate" setting in the preferences dialog box.
07/26/2003 - Version 2.0.beta1b
- Fixed MacOS user license problems
07/25/2003 - Version 2.0.beta1
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