The Animator

Hi all, just pushed out a release - please refresh your page before using the editor!

Short explanation:

- Made animation saving more reliable - will no longer break your animation and lose your work if any frames fail to upload

- You can now cancel an animation save if it stalls

- Animation loading should now not crash the editor completely if frames fail to load

Long explanation:

Ever since The Animator was created, saving your animation worked the same way - your animation images were all uploaded immediately, overwriting the old images on the server. The database (which stores your animation sequence) was updated before the image upload.

This created a reliability problem - if any images failed to upload because of your internet connection - your animation would be left in an inconsistent state where the sequence didn't necessarily point to images that existed.

This problem has become more common now that there are multiple layer images and so many more images need to be uploaded.

This release aims to fix these reliability problems by doing the following:

- Image uploads are now batched up into 5 images at a time

- Images are uploaded into a new versioned folder and the database is not updated to point to the new version until all the frames have uploaded

- Once all the frames have uploaded successfully, the database is updated and the old version is cleaned up

- Cancelling the save will not update the database and you can try to save again without losing anything

Thank you so much!

I tried animating and it seems to be running smoothly now. :)

cheers :0

Further update - you can now change the colour of your username pill separately in your "My Studio" theme settings.

In the interim, all user name pills are a semi-random colour.

This is so helpful thank you :D