Cavalry 2.8.0

What's new in 2.8.0

New Features
General
- MCP - Automate repetitive tasks in Cavalry by giving natural language instructions to an AI assistant.
- Canva Sheets support for the Spreadsheet Utility.
- AI Studio Window - Harness the power of AI to assist in video Background Removal, Vector Generation and splitting images into Layers.
- Affinity (.af) file asset support.
Shapes
- Metaballs Shape - Combine multiple Shapes into an organic blob.
Utilities
- Custom Dropdown - Create custom dropdowns which can be used to set properties including color, alignment and text from a fixed selection of custom, defined options.
Effects
- Lighting Filter - Add contact shadows and point lights to Shapes to create long shadows.
- Twist Filter - Rotate a Shape's materials around a centre point.
- Ripple Filter - Distort a Shape's materials using linear, concentric or spiral wave patterns.
- Curves Filter - Color correct the RGB, alpha and hue/saturation components of a Layer with editable curves.
Scripting
API
- getMagicEasing
- loadCanvaSheet
- replaceCanvaSheet
- getCanvaSheetAssetURL
- isCanvaSheetAsset
- controlCentreSetLayout
Cavalry
- getMaterialAtIndex
Script UIs
- SegmentedControl
Enhancements
- A new Posterize Time attribute for Shapes (Advanced tab).
- The Sound Behaviour has been rewritten along with some bug fixes and improvements. Note that legacy scenes will continue to use the legacy Sound Behaviour.
- SVG import now supports:
- Gradients (Linear, Radial and Sweep).
- Opacity.
- Text.
- Clipping Masks.
- Reordering and grouping in the Control Centre.
- Favourites can now be set for Font inputs.
- Performance improvements for video playback.
- Performance improvements for audio playback.
- New Output Channels option for Audio Settings Viewport options.
- Several updates to the Graph Editor including:
- When the Graph Editor is in an empty state, instructions are added to the window on how to load keyframes/animation curves.
- New Snap to Keyframes and to Snap to Whole Numbers options have been added to the Snapping settings.
- It's now possible to use a lasso to select keyframes. Hold Option/Alt and click + drag in an empty part of the window.
- A new Continue mode for the Looping > Loop Before/After menu items.
- New Loop Settings... including Limit Loops and Filter Last Keyframes.
- Option/Alt + double click an animation curve opens the new Loop Settings... popover window. …

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