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Get the latest Moho 13.5.2 update! Includes many new features!
Available now! FREE for all Moho 13.5 owners.
Download your update here
https://mohoanimation.com/download


Moho 13.5.2 update fixes several issues and also adds some exciting improvements.

More Audio and Video support
Moho now supports lots of video and audio files to import and export! The list is bigger than ever!

New Live Mesh creation!
Create amazing animation in minutes with the new live triangulation tools. Creating Smart Warp layer has never been this easy.
Simply draw lines over the parts and details you want to animate and let Moho do the rest!



Greatly improved Photoshop files import!
The way Moho handles .PSD files is faster, more stable and flexible than ever.
Moho now uses a new system to keep track of the imported layers, making it easy and safe to add, remove and modify layers in Photoshop, Clip Studio or other illustration software.

New Copy Deep Frames feature!
Copy full frames from one character to another, including animation from every layer inside of the character. Sharing full animation (bones, vectors, switches, meshes, etc) between similar characters now only takes a couple clicks.

New 13.5 Characters in the Library
The Library now includes new characters that use Moho's new features to play and study: Vitruvian Man, Fox, Broccoli, Cuervo, Horse and Night Boy
Find them in Factory Content Library -> Characters -> Moho 13.5

And much more!










Release notes:

* Big overhaul of media I/O handling:
Many more support movie formats for both import and export
Alpha channel support reintroduced for movie files
Brought back support for MP3 audio (and more audio formats)
H.265 video requires an NVIDIA GPU (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_NVENC)
* Smart warp improvements
Automatically generate a smart warp mesh for an image layer (Draw->Create Smart Warp Layer)
When a vector lauyer has triangulation turned on, the triangulation is "live"
As you edit the layer (add/move/delete points), the triangulation will update
There's so much more to say about this than can go in release notes.
* Feature: Copy Deep Frame / Paste Deep Frame (in the Animation menu).
* Preview Animation function creates a higher-resolution movie now.
* Improved quality for exported JPEG images.
* When rendering out a project that has never been saved, the output goes to the Desktop folder, not a hidden temp folder.
* In the export dialog, added back the ability to remove export locations from the destination popup menu.
* Fixed audio recording on Mac.
* Added some safeguards around project saving in case Moho crashes while saving.
* Photoshop file improvements:
Better tracking of layers in Moho as they get modified/added/moved/removed in Photoshop
Layer selection dialog has a bigger and better-aligned layer preview area
Intelligent automatic trimming of imported layers (useful for many exporters of PSD files like Procreate)
Support for layers masks in PSD files
If you use the "Select Image" button in the Layer Settings dialog, and choose a PSD file, you will get prompted to select a layer from that file
A Moho layer that is imported from a PSD file maintains a link to the PSD layer's name - if you change it in Photoshop, it will change in Moho
* PSD fixes
Fixed loading PSDs if there's a non-English character in the path, like é
Fixed an app freeze with PSD files
Fixed Soft Light blend mode
* Faster Undo when working with a Bone layer that has lots of PSD layers inside it
* Added some small new menu scripts (Pro only)
Animation->Noisy Point Animation
Animation->Randomize Switch Layer
* Added a new option in layer settings, "Ignored by layer selector"
This makes the layer be ignored by the Layer Selector tool (or Alt+right-click)
Useful for things like overlays or guides that you may never want to pick, but coverttover layer that you do want to pick
* Added an option for the image tracing dialog to trace an image's alpha channel
* Changes to the Bind Points tool
When binding, only attach the points that are selected, don't detach unselected points
Added an Un-Bind Points button to change the selected points back to flexi-binding
Selected points show their binding colors when using this tool
* Improvements to auto-triangulation
Users can change the color and width of "user lines" in an auto-triangulated mesh
* The Wind effect can now have negative strength values, making it easier to reverse the wind direction
* New 13.5 Characters in the Library

Stay tuned for more for more details
Download your update here

Excellent set of new features and fixes:

- Glad to see MP3's back
- Huge additional range of Export options - including ProRes !!
- The Smart Warp Layer wizard - is Wizard !
- New sample content to play with
- Like the enhancements to Point binding and Ignore Layer
- Lots of great features for working with PSD's
- Yet to try the Deep copy...

Looking forward to using them all ...

Note: The installer and file properties dialog both reference 13.5.2 Beta, and I don't think the PDF docs have been updated yet.

Im getting virus warning can't install:

Threat type: Heuristic Virus. Detection of a threat based on malware heuristics.
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Moho1352_Win.tmp Threat name: Heur.AdvML.B

I did a search on the Norton forum and it does appear to be a false positive. So I excluded this Virus and was able to install it on my desktop. I did the same with my laptop but it saw errors with an audio file and the moho.png ??? and wouldn't let me install. I believe this happened before but don't remember what I did to fix it. Anyway it did install on the desktop and runs fine, no issues.

SuperSGL wrote: ↑Tue Nov 09, 2021 12:59 pm Im getting virus warning can't install

It looks like a false positive. We are checking what could be going on.

SimplSam wrote: ↑Tue Nov 09, 2021 12:57 pm Note: The installer and file properties dialog both reference 13.5.2 Beta

Thanks, we will fix that. I'm happy you liked the update

Here's a tutorial I made during the beta. It explains some of the new features.
It's a bit long, but you can always set a faster speed on Youtube

Very nice to see such a range of improvements on this schedule.

FYI, I tried "check for updates" in my Mac /13.5 Moho after reading this and it said there were none available... (I'll try again later).

cgrotke wrote: ↑Tue Nov 09, 2021 2:59 pmFYI, I tried "check for updates" in my Mac /13.5 Moho after reading this and it said there were none available... (I'll try again later).

That option will be available in a couple days.

Very Practical Updates and fixes.
I Love this features:

* Preview Animation function creates a higher-resolution movie now.
* Photoshop file improvements:
* Added a new option in layer settings, "Ignored by layer selector"
* Changes to the Bind Points tool
When binding, only attach the points that are selected, don't detach unselected points
Added an Un-Bind Points button to change the selected points back to flexi-binding
Selected points show their binding colors when using this tool

specially "Ignored by layer selector" and Preview Animation Improvements

So happy to have the whole gamut of import/export options not only back but even extended.

Víctor Paredes wrote: ↑Tue Nov 09, 2021 1:57 pm Here's a tutorial I made during the beta. It explains some of the new features.
It's a bit long, but you can always set a faster speed on Youtube

thanks for this great demonstration.

its great if moho does smooth interpolation when distort image.

' Ignored by layer selector ' . Best new features for me Thank you Moho family.

Next uptade idea: auto find in sequencer tab when i click on the layer . It's really hard to find the selected layer on sequencer tab

opeth wrote: ↑Wed Nov 10, 2021 8:37 am Next uptade idea: auto find in sequencer tab when i click on the layer . It's really hard to find the selected layer on sequencer tab

+1 to that - and formal request submitted...

hayasidist wrote: ↑Wed Nov 10, 2021 10:43 am

opeth wrote: ↑Wed Nov 10, 2021 8:37 am Next uptade idea: auto find in sequencer tab when i click on the layer . It's really hard to find the selected layer on sequencer tab

+1 to that - and formal request submitted...

Thank you Hayasidist for your support

Is there a complete list of export formats available somewhere? I've certainly become an advocate of the benefits of image sequences, but an editing codec that doesn't require me to re-sync the voices would shave off some time between animating and editing.