What's New in Beta: July 17, 2020

What’s New in Beta: July 2020 

Summer is here! Slather on the sunscreen, grab a lemonade, and get animating while you try new Beta features like Limb IK and Merge Takes. See below for more details. And we’d love to hear your feedback.  

 
New Beta features include 

• Limb IK 
• Timeline improvements 

• Merge takes 
• Different colors for take rows 
• Refined search filtering 
• Collapse or expand all takes or keyframes on a track 

 
Other notable changes 

• When the Timeline > Link Recording Selection option is enabled and replays are triggered during a recording pass, the recorded takes for the triggered replays are now treated as linked recordings separate from other recorded takes.  
• In the Project panel, refine the filter with an additional search term: 

• kind:value (where value = audio, puppet, scene, folder) 

Notable Bug Fixes 

• Command-dragging (macOS) / Ctrl-dragging (Windows) a group or layer into the Triggers panel was causing an error. 
• Adjusting a MIDI control in a scene that contains non-puppet (e.g., audio, camera, scene) tracks was causing an error. 
• Pressing Command+F (macOS) / Ctrl+F (Windows) when a puppet or camera track was selected and the Properties panel focused was not moving focus to the search filter field. 

Community spotlight 

• July Community Spotlight from @okaysamurai. https://youtu.be/SSip-i7Q7oc 
• Adobe Character Animator: 40 Secrets https://youtu.be/sv--jURQOGc 

Let’s see what you’ve created with Character Animator. Share your creations on social media with #CharacterAnimator . 

Happy Animating! 
- The Character Animator team