The Storyboard Suite 4.1 release includes stability and performance enhancements. Storyboard 4.1 will automatically convert Storyboard 3 and earlier workspaces and project files. Once converted to Storyboard 4.1 format, Storyboard projects are no longer compatible with Storyboard 3 and earlier projects.
In addition to these enhancements, the following changes have been made to Storyboard Designer and Storyboard Embedded Engine.
There have been a significant number of positive changes to the animation timeline to improve its usability and aesthetics which include ...
The ability to copy and paste entire rows of animation steps
Use alignment controls on animation timelines
Editing within the properties view
Updated color coding to easily distinguish between animation elements
Minor enhancements to the application model view have been made to improve productivity such as ...
Double click to edit Lua Scripts
Change Lua Script action label to include the Lua function name
Double click the Action for editing to do something contextual
The properties view has been cleaned up to be less cluttered. Tabs have replaced the expanding shelves making it easier to see what render extension is active and currently being modified.
Groups are now highlighted upon selection in the Application Model or if they are ALT-selected in the editor. The selection displays the outline of the group contents and allows for resizing. Groups are also shown in the wireframe and outline mode.
A new page has been added to the PSD re-importer that allows the user to review and accept location changes of re-imported images.
When Eclipse tries to update / install plugins it doesn't request an escalation in privileges which causes the update to fail with a strange error. Always run Storyboard Designer as administrator when doing an update or installing plugins.
Storyboard Designer requires Mac OS X 10.8 or greater due to the requirement by the Java 8 runtime from Oracle.