0.2.0
Rawbit and collaboration are here
The full version is out on itch.io! Collab is rebuilt from scratch: invite who you want and draw together at the same time, without stepping on each other’s work. Plus some major improvements for smoother and lighter tiles, files and timelapses.
New
- Buy Rawbit on itch.io and paste the download key from your purchase to unlock saving and exporting in the demo, from Preferences > License. No reinstall needed. A key works on up to 2 of your computers, and keeps working offline.
- Private collab sessions: you can let people in or refuse peers, remove them at any time, and choose who can edit or save a copy. See everyone's cursors, selections and ping live.
- Flip and rotate tiles and objects as you place them, from the place toolbar. These rotations are non-destructive, so each instance keeps its own orientation.
- Notification sounds for things that need your attention, like collab requests, updates and errors. (You can turn these off in Preferences).
- Rename and duplicate sprites from the Assets panel, and see how many times each one is used and which ones are unused.
- A Help menu to activate your license, check for updates and see the app version.
Improved
- Finding and joining a collab session is quicker and more reliable.
- Drawing together is safer, undo and redo only take back your own pixels, and a fill, paste, transform or filter only touches the pixels it changes, never someone else's strokes in the same area.
- Layers, frames, tiles and placed objects sync change by change, so two people editing different things no longer overwrite each other, and strokes made while someone joins are no longer lost.
- While someone changes the canvas size, everyone else's editing pauses, so no strokes get lost to the resize.
- Other people's cursors move smoothly with interpolation.
- Joining from mobile data or a strict network now connects through a relay when a direct connection isn't possible.
- Joining a collab session opens the host's document in its own tab, and your open documents stay as they are. Tabs show which document you're sharing or have joined.
- Files are smaller and save faster, especially ones with a long timelapse, which can shrink to about half. Older files open as usual and convert the first time you save them.
- Files with a long timelapse open instantly and use far less memory: the timelapse only loads when you open the viewer.
- Crash recovery saves only what changed, so it keeps your unsaved work at most about 20 seconds behind instead of two minutes.
- Timelapses stay light on big canvases and long sessions and playback with undos is up to 20x faster.
- Preferences are grouped more clearly, and keyboard shortcuts can be searched by key as well as by action.
- Refreshed menu and status bar pixel art icons.
Fixed
- Moving a selection on a pixel layer after painting in a sprite or tileset no longer drops its pixels.
- Deleting a sprite, or undoing its creation, no longer leaves the tab marked unsaved after saving.
- Shrinking a selection and enlarging it again keeps its original detail.
- Canvas and sprite size dialogs warn when a size is over the limit instead of silently cropping.
- The first save after opening a file with a long timelapse no longer freezes the app for several seconds.
- Tooltips and menus show above open dialogs.
- The Subtract and Divide blend modes now show on the canvas, in exports and when merging layers, instead of looking like Normal.
- Double-clicking a
.rbitfile opens it in Rawbit, also when Rawbit is already running. - Rotating or flipping the canvas now works with tiles and placed objects, turning them along with your art.
Removed
- The demo no longer recovers unsaved work after a crash; crash recovery is part of the full version.
