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TMC Hub & TMC Plugins – Improvements and Bug Fixes
The changes to TMC Camera, Light Rays, Clipboard and Typo Designer, along with the GPU memory improvements, that were released on Mac only in the October 4 update now come to Windows with this update.
TMC Hub Update Notes (1.1.8)
- Applied security updates.
- Fixed activation being lost when Hub received a response from something other than the TMC server, such as a public Wi-Fi login page or a company proxy.
- Fixed Hub automatic updates not installing on Mac. In particular, when Hub had started automatically with your computer, pressing Update did not install the new version.
TMC Toolbox Update Notes
- When Wave Bone finishes, the Controller is now selected instead of the last guide layer created, so you can adjust it right away.
- Joint Bone, Physics Rigging and Pin Control now also finish with the next layer you will work on selected.
*Joint Bone selects the IK Controller, Physics Rigging selects the Controller (after applying and after Un-bake), and Pin Control selects the guide layers it has just created. - Fixed Pin Control skipping one of the pins, or Wave Bone, Joint Bone and Physics Rigging applying only to the first layer without any notice, when puppet pins with the same number were selected on different layers.
- Fixed Preview Screenshot failing to save in heavy compositions with an error saying the file was not created. It now waits up to 120 seconds for the render without holding up After Effects, then saves.
*A message is shown if the wait times out or a previous capture is still in progress.
TMC Typo Designer Update Notes
- NEWMin Stroke Width: Sets a minimum thickness so that thin strokes such as serifs do not disappear first when you thin the text with Edge FX Choke. The default of 0 is off.
- NEWFollow Size: A new Word Box option. Follow Char Alpha now affects only the opacity of the box. Turn on Follow Size to have the box size shrink with the characters as before.
*Existing projects that fade characters under a Word Box keep the box size, so they may look different. Turn on Follow Size if you need the previous look. - Changed how character outlines and Edge FX are calculated, greatly improving render speed. The difference is largest on text with a large Scale.
- Fixed areas pushed outside the characters by Edge FX Spread or Rough being filled with white. They now take the colour of the nearest character.
- Fixed the enclosed spaces of letters such as e, o and H being filled with colour when tracking was tight or characters overlapped.
- Fixed semi-transparent ghosting on every other frame, or Word Box and Edge FX appearing to jitter, when Motion Blur was used with stepped animation such as Animation FPS.
- The Edge FX Rough pattern now moves together with the characters when they shake or move.
- The Choke (+) / Spread (-) slider range is now ±5% (in 0.01 steps), and the Rough Amount slider maximum is now 25%, making fine adjustment easier.
*The range you can type in directly, and the values in existing projects, are unchanged. - Show Overlay (Comp panel) now starts off when the effect is newly applied, and redrawing the composition view is lighter when it is on.
TMC Light Rays Update Notes
- NEWDetail: A category that carves fine strands of light into the rays. Amount, Density, Sharpness and Length Variation control the strength, density, thickness and length variation of the strands. They are drawn at output resolution, so they stay crisp even in large renders.
- NEWContrast: Added to Rays. Darkens the dim haze of the rays so the strands separate clearly.
- Fixed banding (concentric rings) or broken, dashed patterns appearing around the source as Ray Length was raised and the rays grew longer.
- The default Samples for a newly applied effect has been raised from 48 to 128. Existing projects keep their saved value.
TMC Camera Update Notes
- NEWShake Amount: Controls the whole HandHeld shake (position, rotation and perspective) at once. Keyframe it to ease the shake in, or to let it settle down smoothly.
TMC Clipboard Update Notes
- When you paste an image, it is placed directly above the selected layers and matched to their length (from the earliest start to the latest end), the same way as TMC Toolbox's 'Add Adjustment'. If no layer is selected, it is matched to the length of the whole composition.
- Videos, animated GIFs and audio are pasted at their original length, starting at the beginning of the composition's Work Area.
- Fixed the newly pasted layers not being selected after pasting. Previously the originally selected layer stayed selected, so your next action was applied to that layer.
TMC 3DStroke Update Notes
- Fixed style parameters such as Color not showing their expression result in the render when Edit 3D Path was on and the parameter had an expression but no keyframes. Only the value in Effect Controls changed, or the stroke froze at the value from the moment you edited it by hand. Expressions now apply to all paths, just like keyframes.
*Projects that do not use expressions render exactly as before. - Fixed textured particles (Usage: Single) being drawn larger on some frames only (and taller still with a 16:9 texture).
TMC ColorGrading, ColorGrading 2 Update Notes
- Fixed After Effects becoming unresponsive or crashing when Browse Looks or Edit Look was opened on an adjustment layer in a heavy composition.
TMC Plugins Update Notes
- Partly fixed a long pause before playback starts when playing an already cached preview in a very heavy project.
- Fixed frames that fell back to the CPU because GPU memory (VRAM) ran short failing to render with an out-of-memory error, even when there was RAM to spare.