Motion Canvas v3.8.0

New features 🎉

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  The brand new Video (FFmpeg) exporter lets you render your animations directly to a video file. It's included by default (with the option to opt out) in all new projects created with npm init @motion-canvas. Check out the docs to learn how to install it in your existing projects.

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  An improved rendering button provides visual feedback about the rendering process.

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  A new OUTPUT DIRECTORY button lets you reveal the current output directory in your file explorer. You can find it directly below the RENDER button.

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  Collapsible panels are now animated.

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  Array values, such as points of a Line, are now displayed in the inspector.

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  The create package now supports command-line arguments for providing answers without having to go through the interactive prompt:

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  npm init @motion-canvas@latest -- --name Hello --path ./hello --language ts

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  Meta fields can declare descriptions. When hovering over the field in the editor, the description will be displayed in a form of a tooltip.

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  New hooks let plugins extend the behavior of the player (The plugin documentation will be available soon).

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Fixed bugs 🐛

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  Correctly support URLs to external images.

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  Remove the yellow dependency pre-bundling warning.

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  Fix editing the audio offset by dragging the waveform.

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  Ignore children with disabled layout.

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  Prevent Color tree shaking.

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Check out the Update Guide for information on how to update your existing projects.