DragonBones 4.1 is released

superlancelot

We have two parts of updates.

The 1st part is DB AS Library. We introduced FastArmature to great improve performance about 300% in starling framework. The secret of FastArmature is that it remove the animation mixing feature and add animation cache (back from 3.0)
You can download it here https://github.com/DragonBones/DragonBonesAS

The 2nd part is DB Pro the animation editor. We add Curve Editor, Onion skin tool and IK pose tool.
You can download it here http://dragonbones.github.io/

Hope you guys like it:)

FlashJonas

Cool!! Congrats on the release 🙂

paulDragonBone

Good job, superlancelot!!! It's amazing to get 300% in performance. I think DB can rival Spine very well.

arash

Great, and thanks for new release.
But when i import a png file it gives me error and nothing happen next !

samanosuke

Thanks for the update.

huyhungkun

Please provide User Guide and API english version. I really don't understand chinese and google translate doesn't very useful in this case 🙁.
And why export feature of DragonBones Pro doesn't have choice data merged (Data Format).

par128

Does Dragon Bones Pro provide support for vector based Flash animations?
Thank you for your work!

superlancelot

@arash,
The import feature is for import DragonBones Data including xml, json, data merged png, and so on. If you want to import png as a asset, please click import button in Library panel, or just drag the png into the DBPro.
@huyhungkun
The English version User Guide and API are mading by one of our team member. It still need some time to finish all of them.
@par128
Vector element are not supported, and we still have no plan to support Vector element. But technically because we used Flash AIR to implement the Editor, so supporting vector element will not be a hard thing for us.
May I know, why you have the requirement? What is expected workflow? Design assets in AI and import to DBPro to design animations? Does anyone else have this requirement? You guys can VOTE here, and we can decide the priority of this task 😛

Aymeric

Vector support and the awesome .dbswf format was the major reason I choose the DB way over Spine etc. I will be sad if it isn't in the plan anymore.

par128

@superlancelot I second @Aymeric.
We need vector support because our app on Windows and Mac displaying content with classic Flash.
No matter how large the display, the scaled picture looks beautiful.
Because the assets are vector.
The app: http://yowindow.com/download

Since this is Starling forum, you probably won't see many votes by Flash developers.
Trust me, vector support is the key feature of DB. Don't miss it.

urunky

@superlancelot

Do you have plan to update Design Panel? and Could you tell me the question in
http://forum.starling-framework.org/topic/using-dragonbones-40-with-designpanel-301-data-version-issue
?

below is my code.

var onProgress:Function = function( ratio:Number ):void
			{
				if ( progressFunc ) progressFunc( ratio ) ;
				if ( ratio >= 1 )
				{
					_loadComplete = true ;

					factory.addSkeletonData( XMLDataParser.parseDragonBonesData( _assetManager.getXml( name + "_skeleton") ) ) ;
					var sta:StarlingTextureAtlas = new StarlingTextureAtlas( _assetManager.getTextureAtlas( name + "_texture").texture, _assetManager.getXml( name + "_texture") ) ;
					factory.addTextureAtlas( sta ) ;
					if ( compFunc ) compFunc() ;
				}
			}
			_assetManager.enqueue( [textureImgPath, textureXMLPath, skeletonXMLPath] ) ;
			_assetManager.loadQueue( onProgress ) ;

Matse

@superlancelot

Wow awesome work guys, just switched from 3.0 to 4.1 : it went fine with just a few changes but XMLDataParser has a code line (n°83) which excludes 2.3 data. I tried my luck by just commenting that line out and then it worked (my data is exported from the 3.0 design panel, not sure if that matters)

Only problem right now is getting the DB Pro the animation editor, as the "Download Windows version" link doesn't work 🙂

superlancelot

The "Download Windows version" link is going to a Chinese server, so maybe slow from your country.
Plus, I just updated the 4.1 branch to fix the 2.3 unsupported version bug.

Matse

I'll try again later : the link worked the first time (earlier today) but the download broke before completion.

Now when I click on it I get a "The connection has been re-initialized" (translated from french), every time. Pretty much like a 404 but a different error code 🙂

YAYitsAndrew

DragonBonesPro-v4.1.1.exe failed to download because a virus was detected. Using Chrome on Windows 10

kevglx

Great work!
I actually develop an AIR application and the .dbswf format allows me to use big sprites animated in Flash CC for a very light size, it is a very good workflow.

For my experience with 4.1, I have a memory leak with it that I don't have with the 4.0
I can see in my showStats that the memory increase very fast.
I try with FastArmature and with Armature. Does someone else have the same result ?

Keep going, you're doing an amazing work,
Thanks a lot.

superlancelot

@YAYitsAndrew
We have fixed the Win 10 virus detected issue. It turns out our digital signature certificate didn't work. Now you can try download again.

@kevglx
Did you use the latest code in https://github.com/DragonBones/DragonBonesAS ?

kevglx

Yes It was with the last update and I compile with the AIR SDK 16.
I also update the starling library and try with the AIR SDK 18 but the result is the same.

superlancelot

@kevglx
Would you send your sample project to me?
My personal email is 113411552@qq.com

kevglx

Ok, I'm doing a sample project to send you