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Now that I've tried the latest version (I've been using 0.11 before) I have to leave some negative feedback.

1. All my shortcuts were gone and it was quite cumbersome to assign them from the scratch.

2. I had a pxo-project with multiple layers and many frames (enemy animations for the game I'm developing) and when I tried to export some of the layers into spritesheets, the whole process was very cumbersome and slow. (My specs Ryzen2600x, RTX2070, 16 gb RAM)

  • Every time I made changes to settings, it took a while for them to happen (every time the program froze for few seconds) and some weird stuff started to happen. For example if I made 6 rows, as soon as I changed some other setting the program changed rows to 12. If I changed it back to six, the program doubled the amount of columns etc. This lead also to that it started to change scaling bigger, for example if I had scaling in 200% it was changed to 400% - the value in the settings stayed at 200%, but the size of the spritesheet was many times bigger (probably because the program doubled the rows/columns by itself).

I got so frustrated that I reverted back to the older version, but now I'm not able to load my pxo-project with it anymore. Now every time I try to load it with the older version, the whole program crashes.

I was finally able to make the spritesheets with the latest version, but it took some time and patience. Apparently if I want to change the amount of columns and rows, I can't write the exact amount using the keyboard. Instead I have to click the increase/decrease arrows and every time I click them, the program freezes for few seconds. So it took quite a while to change rows to 9 from 56 or whatever the amount was.

I love the older versions, because they are fast and easy to use with all the necessary features I need, but this new one is just slow and cumbersome. Definitely not worth the update for me, at least in this state.

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I decided to give the latest version another chance and while exporting and some other stuff are still slow, I'm starting to get by with them. I really hope there will be some performance improvements in the future, because this is still a great program.

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Hy, sorry for the trouble.

For the shortcuts and project, it was unavoidable because it was a breaking change (the way projects get saved is different now)

Regarding the slow export can you send a project file that is slow, and provide a video showing the bug (on discord). We'll look at it 😄.

Hello, thank you so much for reporting the issue! I tested a project with 256 frames, and there is indeed a significant performance decrease in v1.0 compared to v0.11 when changing any kind of setting in the export dialog (which includes the amount of rows/columns in a spritesheet). This is due to the new layer blending system that supports blending modes, which did not exist in v0.11. However, it is possible to make this faster by simply caching the blended frames once when the export dialog appears, instead of re-blending them every time something changes. I am currently working on this and it should be available in the next version, so you shouldn't experience any slowness when changing the number of rows/columns.

As for the 6 rows turning to 12 issue, I cannot seem to replicate it. If you have any exact reproduction steps, it would be very helpful!