Hype 1.6 makes HTML5 animation creation even easier
Tumult on Monday released Hype 1.6, a significant update to its tool for authoring and animating HTML5 creations that don’t require Flash. The new iteration of Hype adds support for CSS filter effects, improves the software’s action system, and introduces support for Retina-display Macs.
Tumult co-founder Ryan Nielsen told Macworld that by adding support for CSS filter effects, Hype continues its tradition of supporting “the bleeding edge of Web standards,” claiming that “Hype is the first app which natively supports” such effects. Those effects make possible “a whole new world of possibilities for HTML 5 animations,” Nielsen said.
The enhancements to Hype’s action system are numerous: One significant addition is the introduction of Timeline Actions—animation events triggered at specific times. Previous versions of Hype only allowed users to program events to occur in sequence or after specific user actions (like mouse clicks or key presses). With Timeline Actions, users can script more nuanced interactions.
Actions can also be chained together in sequence, allowing multiple actions to execute in sequence, which Nielsen says “eliminates many reasons [Hype] users needed to resort to JavaScript to build complex animations.” And Hype 1.6 adds new actions—for pausing or resuming playback and for jumping to specific points on a timeline. “These new actions unlock entirely new ways of composing animations,” Nielsen said.
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