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Werwack edited this page Mar 15, 2022 · 12 revisions

News from the development side

Hi,

My name is Julien Blervaque, I'm the designer of Shot Manager, the main developer and the current maintainer. To me Shot Manager represents a real step forward to organize, explore and shoot animation in a 3D scene. I believed in it and it proved to be very efficient in production and really suitable to needs of layout and previsualization.

Shot Manager currently has many features and is pretty stable. There are still several things and paradigms I would like to experiment with it in the future.

  • 2022/03/15: Today, as for a month now, I'm working on the new Storyboard module. My surprise of the day comes from the fact that in order to avoid an import cycle issue between classes Shot (UAS_ShotManager_Shot) and GreasePencil (GreasePencilProperties), which are each one refering to the other, the use of a PointerProperty introduced in a Monkey Style leads to a read-only attribute. Weird. See this thread as an illustration: Custom pointer property is read only?. So I ended up introducing a CollectionProperty instead, which will do the trick.

  • 2021/12/04: After 1 month of hard work I eventually release V1.6! New UI choices and solutions for more flexibility in the workspaces, more stability, better performances... And a bunch of new cool features such as the conversion of camera binded markers to shots!! Enjoy!

  • 2021/10/19: Release 1.5.73 now has OpenTimelineIO 0.13 on Windows! Big step here! Plus improvements and robustness on the Retimer tools and a few nice small features. Next step: the doc! (again)

  • 2021/09/21: Shot Manager 1.5.65 released yesterday, now available on Blender 2.93 !!! Youhou!! Well, EDL import and export have been removed so that the add-on can work without OpenTimelineIO, but this is a necessary feature in production so it will come back soon ;)

  • 2021/09/14: I'm working on improving the documentation on ReadTheDoc and implementing a more robust mechanism of feedback in order to inform the user if something went wrong during the installation process. Next release is expected at the end of the week, stay tuned!

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