Discussion here:

http://www.kelleytown.com/forum/animato ... PIC_ID=671

The following is a correspondence with Smith Micro, in its entirety (make your own conclusions): Me> ASP 7 introduced a bug that made embedded layer scripts unusable do to multi-thread rendering. I am a script(tool) writer that has supported the user community, but has been hobbled by this bug. As s...

For using layerscripts in ASP7, which introduced the multi-core render bug that wasn't fixed in the version it was introduced in, and to utilize layerscripts with multi-thread rendering in 8, could you explain what needs to be done to make layerscripts work with that bug?

Once again, where was the big announcement? SM, if you want to get ahead of this 'bad handling' feeling a lot of people have been getting around here, you might try saying something like: "AS6 releases tomorrow!" Any heads up at all is always much better than "oh, look, someone stumb...

Damn, now I can't export animation again. I could swear it was working for a while.

Yeah, I had to restore my PC back to before the unholy demon spawn of the Walmart release touched it. (buggy damn beta) That thing even fouled up 5.6 when I tried reinstalling it to test. SM will be lucky if they have any repeat business from that retail sale.

What else...unfortunately I couldn't export a movie with sound unless it was from frame 0 (or frame 1, can't remember) but exporting from, say, frame 20 won't include the sound. Not TOO much a biggie I guess. I distinctly remember someone saying that was fixed in ASP6. Seems to be the general trend...

Mikdog wrote:Smith-Micro posted in the Announcements thread.

Dude.

That was some time after the original poster here mentioned it.

Rhoel wrote:And their link in Forum announcements to ASP returns a 404.

If I say it, I'll get banned.

I feel the same way, man. No dissension in the ranks you soldiers!

And let's see how many upgrades TBS makes you pay for before the next paid ASP upgrade.

I'm betting SM will need some more paying upgrades to offset their investment in AS.

Once again, where was the big announcement? SM, if you want to get ahead of this 'bad handling' feeling a lot of people have been getting around here, you might try saying something like: "AS6 releases tomorrow!" Any heads up at all is always much better than "oh, look, someone stumbl...

That is a bit nuts. More fuel for the Toon Boon supporters.

InfoCentral wrote:I just don't see how you put software in a retail box and say its not a final release?

My thoughts exactly! But I'll refrain from going into details, as I'm afraid the forum police will come round me up.

You basically want to start with the highest parent bone you plan on tracking. From there, you only track the tip of the bone if the parenting chain is handling its base. And you want to run the tracking for each bone individually, so that you can do this.

When switching from a bone layer to one of its vector layers, it doesn't automatically select the point tool. If the point tool is selected, I have no trouble. 5.6 always selected the point tool when switching to any vector layer. I'm not sure I understand that change either. I'm sure Vern can expla...