Toon Boom Harmony 20.0.3 Release Notes

Here is the list of changes in Harmony 20.0.3, build 20.0.3 16743 (2021-02-09):

• Nodes and Compositing
• Master Controllers
• WebCC
• Fixes

Nodes and Compositing

Master Controllers

WebCC

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. HAR-6759

• Morphing hints don’t display properly anymore. HAR-6430

• Service Launcher's default path is wrong on macOS Catalina. HAR-5663

• 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. HAR-6539

• Pressing the spacebar does not reset the Transform tool manipulator. HAR-6858

• Transform tool manipulator does not follow properly when rotating the Camera view. HAR-6859

• Selecting multiple drawings with the Transform tool changes the active pivot. HAR-6596

• The Reset Current Keyframe command in the Deformation toolbar doesn't reset the rotation on Free Form Deformer points. HAR-5928

• The Kinematic output does not work properly when a Static Transformation node is used with a deformation chain set to Default Transformation. HAR-6293

• Selecting a 3D model with the Transform tool does not work when another layer is locked. HAR-6659

• The second controller of a Two Points Constraint node cannot be selected when there is a Transformation Gate node under it. HAR-6770

• Scene with corrupted bezier curves causes Harmony to crash when opening. HAR-6836

• The Camera view becomes unresponsive if a peg with a scale of 0 is above a weighted deformer. HAR-6647

• The Pose Copier does not remember the Fill to Next Key Exposure state. HAR-6701

Drawing Tools

• Delay drawing with the Brush tool when using a mouse or a drawing tablet that has a high polling rate on macOS. HAR-6749

• Straight line changes to a curve when lines are connected using Line Building Mode. HAR-6263

• There’s a delay when drawing using a textured pencil in a scene in Database mode. HAR-6654

• Tools presets don’t work with bitmap layers. HAR-5788

• Random crashes when drawing straight lines with the Pencil tool by pressing SHIFT. HAR-6726

Timeline

• Dragging keyframes on a Colour Curve, Colour Levels or Subnode Animation layer extends the select to layers below. HAR-6225
• Audio scrubbing offsets and plays audio from the wrong frames. HAR-6721

Node View

• Entering or exiting a group using cable navigation does not work anymore. HAR-6352

Master Controllers

• MC Function Wizard: Invert Slider option does not work. HAR-6080

• Keyframes that have identical values are not added to the tbState when creating a master controller. HAR-6551

• Poor performance when scrubbing the Timeline while Deformers on Deformer is displayed in the Camera view. HAR-6187

• Reset Current Keyframes does not always properly reset the position of a Deformer on Deformer curve. HAR-6217

• The curve to manipulate a Deformer on Deformer does not always follow properly. HAR-6722

• Only the min and max values work properly when creating a SliderWidget from a Transformation Gate using the Function Wizard. HAR-6673

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. HAR-6667

• Exporting OpenGL frames using the openH264 codec does not work. HAR-5544

• The selected format in the Export Movie dialog switches to QuickTime when clicking the browse button. HAR-5802

• The Use Source/Matter Colour option does not work with effect nodes that have the blur type set to Directional. HAR-6484

Importing

• Harmony fails to import video files that don’t have audio or if their resolution does not match the scene resolution in Windows. HAR-6543

• No error messages when importing an unsupported video file on Windows. HAR-5909

• Importing an interlaced 16-bit per channel PNG does not work. HAR-6716

• Crash when importing Alembic files with out of bound colour values. HAR-6844

• Some WMV files import with missing frames onWindows. HAR-6805

Database

• Drawings can be lost when using the Update Database Scene command if elements were renamed or duplicated offline. HAR-6586

• The dbserver will attempt to close the table twice when upgrading a table to a new format. HAR-6718

• The Force Unlock Scene command in Control Center doesn't release all the locks. HAR-6688

• Jobs remain in the In Production list after moving them to completed. HAR-6408

• Auto flatten does not work with the Brush tool if the Pencil tool has Line Building Mode enabled. HAR-6717

• 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. HAR-6809

• Scene is locked for editing when a preview render is generated for WebCC. HAR-6773

• The Queue application randomly freezes and does not update job statuses properly. HAR-6684

Scripting

• Palette::setTextureFile does not flag palette as modified. HAR-6727

• The Pose Copier Paste button has to be clicked multiple times to work with some template. HAR-6672

• Pasting an action template that does not contain groups does not work when using copyPaste.pasteActionTemplateIntoNode. HAR-6652