Toon Boom Harmony Premium 20.0.3 Build 16743

Harmony Premium:
Complete professional edition for studios, small creative businesses, freelancers and schools working on the most demanding projects. Adds ability to create sophisticated cut-out rigs, very natural and realistic character movement plus unlimited special effects for any style of animation.

Benefits of Harmony:
- Unlimited creative freedom on your terms
- Flexibility, functionality and sensitivity of tools allows you to create with the highest quality
- All-in-one tool for efficient animation - from drawing to final production
- Cost and time savings
- Reliable team that stands behind their software and services; we are reachable - speak with our team live.
- Value; while we do not have the lowest prices, we do ensure the highest quality ensuring the integrity of your artistic expression
- Chosen by the leading animation studios worldwide who are setting the industry standard, for over 25 years
- We don't say we are the best, our Emmy-winning 2D animation technology has the awards to prove it
- Our community and network makes us unique; we were built for animation professionals and we intend to stay that way

Discover the Industry Leading Production Animation Software:
- Most advanced brush engine
- Defined colour pallets and painting
- Unlimited traditional paperless animation
- Innovative cut-out animation and rigging
- 2D/3D integration for limitless possibilities
- Deformers for even more textures and depth realism
- Special effects and compositing
- Pipeline integration for seamless end-to-end animation - all in one tool

New NOTEWORTHY FEATURES included in Harmony 20:
- The smoothest texture deformation with the Weighted-Deform Node
- Create depth, volume, and more realistic animations with new Lighting & Shading
- Advanced color management environments and effects give artists and studios full control over the accuracy of their project's colours from initial illustration to final export
- New colour effects nodes: colour curves, colour levels, gamma and colour-fade
- Drawing and creativity live hand-in-hand and snapping Alignment Guides make it faster & easier
- Drawing improvements made for animation artists make animation creation quicker and easier

System Requirements:
- Windows 10 (64-bit)
- Windows 8.1 (64-bit)
- Windows 7 (64-bit, excluding Starter and Home Basic)

Whats New:
Fixes:
The following issues have been fixed in this release of Harmony:

General
• Harmony crashes on Big Sur when there is a texture in the colour palette.
• Morphing hints don't display properly anymore.
• Service Launcher's default path is wrong on macOS Catalina.
• Temporary files created in the ToonBoomSessionTempDir, when importing PSD files or using a script, are not deleted if a Wacom driver is installed on Windows.
• Pressing the spacebar does not reset the Transform tool manipulator.
• Transform tool manipulator does not follow properly when rotating the Camera view.
• Selecting multiple drawings with the Transform tool changes the active pivot.
• The Reset Current Keyframe command in the Deformation toolbar doesn't reset the rotation on Free Form Deformer points.
• The Kinematic output does not work properly when a Static Transformation node is used with a deformation chain set to Default Transformation.
• Selecting a 3D model with the Transform tool does not work when another layer is locked.
• The second controller of a Two Points Constraint node cannot be selected when there is a Transformation Gate node under it.
• Scene with corrupted bezier curves causes Harmony to crash when opening.
• The Camera view becomes unresponsive if a peg with a scale of 0 is above a weighted deformer.
• The Pose Copier does not remember the Fill to Next Key Exposure state.

Drawing Tools
• Delay drawing with the Brush tool when using a mouse or a drawing tablet that has a high polling rate on macOS.
• Straight line changes to a curve when lines are connected using Line Building Mode.
• There's a delay when drawing using a textured pencil in a scene in Database mode.
• Tools presets don't work with bitmap layers.
• Random crashes when drawing straight lines with the Pencil tool by pressing SHIFT.

Timeline
• Dragging keyframes on a Colour Curve, Colour Levels or Subnode Animation layer extends the select to layers below.
• Audio scrubbing offsets and plays audio from the wrong frames.

Node View
• Entering or exiting a group using cable navigation does not work anymore.

Master Controllers
• MC Function Wizard: Invert Slider option does not work.
• Keyframes that have identical values are not added to the tbState when creating a master controller.
• Poor performance when scrubbing the Timeline while Deformers on Deformer is displayed in the Camera view.
• Reset Current Keyframes does not always properly reset the position of a Deformer on Deformer curve.
• The curve to manipulate a Deformer on Deformer does not always follow properly.
• Only the min and max values work properly when creating a SliderWidget from a Transformation Gate using the Function Wizard.

Export and Rendering
• Rendering frames in batch reports sound engine errors when launched from a service, causing deadline to report errors even when the render is good.
• Exporting OpenGL frames using the openH264 codec does not work.
• The selected format in the Export Movie dialog switches to QuickTime when clicking the browse button.
• The Use Source/Matter Colour option does not work with effect nodes that have the blur type set to Directional.

Importing
• Harmony fails to import video files that don't have audio or if their resolution does not match the scene resolution in Windows.
• No error messages when importing an unsupported video file on Windows.
• Importing an interlaced 16-bit per channel PNG does not work.
• Crash when importing Alembic files with out of bound colour values.
• Some WMV files import with missing frames onWindows.

Database
• Drawings can be lost when using the Update Database Scene command if elements were renamed or duplicated offline.
• The dbserver will attempt to close the table twice when upgrading a table to a new format.
• The Force Unlock Scene command in Control Center doesn't release all the locks.
• Jobs remain in the In Production list after moving them to completed.
• Auto flatten does not work with the Brush tool if the Pencil tool has Line Building Mode enabled.
• Thumbnails are not rendered in library folders located on a database if Harmony is running on Windows and uses a shortcuts.conf file to connect to the server.
• Scene is locked for editing when a preview render is generated for WebCC.
• The Queue application randomly freezes and does not update job statuses properly.

Scripting
• Palette::setTextureFile does not flag palette as modified.
• The Pose Copier Paste button has to be clicked multiple times to work with some template.
• Pasting an action template that does not contain groups does not work when using copyPaste.pasteActionTemplateIntoNode.

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