So I skipped the October update post – my bad. I figured you guys couldn’t take another “the update will be out soon” post. But there’s good news now, the update is released – for Android, iOS coming soon!
See this video before reading on:
Sounds for Pro users!
Yep, it’s finally here. The hands-down most-requested feature has finally arrived – sound effects.
I’ve been working on this update since mid-July – MID-JULY. Let that sink in a little. It’s been nearly four-months in the making and boy, was it a headache to get this working.
I know some of you are already at your keyboard ready to tear me a new one calling me greedy and asking for sounds in the Free version, but hear me out.
This was the biggest update to Stick Nodes since its release over a year ago. Like I said, it took me four months to develop – in fact there were quite a few times I was ready to give up due to it seeming impossible. Asking for $2 as a solo developer for all of this work isn’t greedy, right? That’s less than half the price of a typical morning coffee. Plus, from a technical standpoint, only Pro users can export MP4 videos – it wouldn’t make sense for Free users to use sounds since they can’t export them (GIFs obviously don’t have audio).
I hope you guys understand that. And don’t get me wrong, I completely understand that some of the younger users are just simply unable to buy any app, whether it be due to your parents or lack of money – trust me, I was in your shoes at one point. To you I can only recommend asking your parents really, really, really nicely and hoping for the best 🙂
This update also comes with 40 sounds to get you started. You can of course use your own MP3 files as sounds, but with the app comes numerous DBZ sound effects, punches, weapons, swishes, and many other miscellaneous sounds for use in any animation!
Please feel free to let me know of any other specific sounds you’d like to see included with Stick Nodes!
Changelog
Besides sounds, there are also a few other changes, here they are:
- (Pro only) SOUNDS have been added! You can now add sounds to your animations and exported MP4 files!
- Exporting GIFs/MP4s no longer locks up your device.
- Users can now permanently delete projects/stickfigures from their device.
- Import/open list is now always alphabetized.
- Fix for crashes when saving large projects/stickfigures.
- Fix for bug where sometimes saving a stickfigure didn’t save it correctly.
- Tons of other tweaks and fixes!
And that’s about it for now. Tomorrow I begin work on attempting to port this over to iOS. I can’t give a release date yet, this port can either go smoothly or be very, very difficult – we’ll see.
Is you are smart you will convert the gif into a mp4 video and add sounds with a video editor, yep… that’s about it <3
If you don't want to do just… do something if you can't buy the app.
No. Lazy.
Ralph, what will include the next update? Im curious :3
*pray god to get that damn selection tool*
Hey Ralph :p, I was going to ask the same question that DmLan lol, could Stick Nodes at some point be able to add transparency or kind of blur a stick figure?
Once again its not gonna happen. Maybe on very very future versions.
DmLan and his question-answering skills are on point.
But yeah, due to CPU limitations and how I have the app structured at the moment – blurring/transparency isn’t going to happen, sorry.
Haha, i never miss your answers so i know everything about sticknodes now >:DD
OK can you answer this whenever i post something it doesn’t go through
still dont see the bugdom sticks but i see that new one you did thats named after yourself
@jonathon – Are you talking about when commenting on a stickfigure page? For whatever reason, comments don’t work on newly-uploaded stickfigures for a few hours, then it suddenly fixes itself. I have no idea why this is.
@peppa – I never received any bugdom sticks. You should make them yourself and submit them, lol.
i meant when i upload my own stick figure and it doesn’t go through but then a exact better copy comes then
Hey ralph is it possible that stick nodes can have like users accounts? (I mean, if someone changes of device it will work to don’t loose all your animations)
Probably not, because that would require some online services to manage that, and I’m in no position to do something like that. Plus it’s a simply act of copying/pasting the files from one device to the other and you’ll have all of your projects/stickfigures/etc…
“I’m in no position to do something like that.”
“I’m stupid, lol.”
Deez Nuts
Transparency should work cause in Photoshop and other apps… It works!!! Dum dum
Yeah, but each limb is a separate object that needs to be turned transparent, once you start making them transparent, you can see the other limbs behind it where they overlap.
Why dont you make the segment invisible with thickness on 0?
Duhhhhh
But then how will you see it?
Also everyone go make something for these competitions – http://animationalpha.com/animation-of-the-week/
Too lazy to make an animation. Also a small fact about me:
Im better at animating in non tweened projects.
Yeah, dont ask me how it is possible.
There’s also a stickfigure one. Plus you could win a $5 Amazon Gift Card.
Dat $5 tho.
Does the characters have to look like DBZ….or can I use the pivot sticknodes characters
You can use whatever characters you want as long as it feels like DBZ. So effects, common themes, powering up (like Super Saiyan), energy blasts, etc.
*works on sticknodes to make something nice
But still gonna fail because the lazyness is lazy and thz lazy of the lazy is the lazy
Drunk. sorry.*
can you post a pic of your bugdom sticks
How?
Yeah just a note, I still never received those Bugdom stickfigures.