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What's New with V6?

With pro motion 6 there are more new features than with any other upgrade before. Here is a short list of the most important improvements, changes and new functions in random order. In detail there are some dozens of smaller and larger changes.

  • Support for alpha transparency
  • Redesign of zoom and preview windows for better handling including zoom below 1:1
  • Unlimited undo/redo concerning bitmap or palette changes
  • The extended palette editor with realtime copy, paste, move, insert available as plugin for V5 is now a built in feature.
  • Improved layer engine to create layered animations and images
  • Advanced tile map editor with realtime tile library optimization
  • Masking based on colors (stencil) or based on a mask map (like in Photoshop & Co)
  • New paint modes like
    • Multi shade - shades colors based on gradients
    • Formula - define your own formulas to be used as paint mode
    • Erase - to quickly erase when using simple or alpha transparency
    • Selection - to use any drawing tool to modify the drawing mask
    • Halftone - to increase color depth by using dither patterns
  • Ordered dithering as option for every paint mode
  • Automatic emergency backups
  • Advanced drawing grid engine to define grid layers. Any type of grid shape can be created ike octagon, isometric, hexagon.
  • Full screen mode
  • Advanced print function
  • Floating settings windows for tools
  • Load/save keyboard shortcuts
  • Improved anti aliasing
  • Projects can be stored in a single compressed file