Chaotica 1.5 animation features and user interface improvements

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Throughout the 2013 December holidays development continued on Chaotica's keyframe animation support, which will allow you to create stunning motion-blurred animations by simply dragging the timeline around while you're editing. Everything works as you might expect from a professional animation product, and future versions will include a powerful curve editor in the animation editor window.

The additional controls are relatively simple, as can be seen in this screenshot of the work-in-progress animation editor window:



Also visible in this shot is the improved world editor window which hides unused pre_ and post_ transform slots, and has display options for node types so you can hide ones you're not concerned with (for example, if you only want to edit the transforms, or change the colouring).

High quality motion blur is crucial for animation rendering, and the exceptional results possible with chaotica can be seen in this still frame:



An upcoming video will demonstrate the new animation capabilities, and this will be followed soon by a beta release on the chaotica forum.