Release Note

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FCS 25.07.03

-Date: 2025/06/25

  • Version: 25.07.03

  • Stage: Beta

Bug fixes

  • Fixed shortcut keys triggering when modifier is active (Triggering Period when Ctrl + Period is pressed)

  • Fixed deleting profile leading to app crashing

Misc

  • Remove distribute button in the processor tab (we will release it once the CLI app is complete)

FCS 25.07.02

  • Date: 2025/06/16

  • Version: 25.07.02

  • Stage: Beta

Bug fixes

  • Fixed Gallery Renders from Maya not getting deleted when renaming a profile

  • Fixed batch processing generating scene and video even when not checked

  • Fixed certain text input field blocking keyboard shortcuts

  • Fixed the gallery display mode when switching from picture to render

FCS 25.07.01

  • Date: 2025/06/09

  • Version: 25.07.01

  • Stage: Beta

New manual

Added a new advanced manual for technical artists at fcs-doc-advanced, with algorithm benchmarks and other evaluations to help you understand the amount of effort you need to put into to obtain the result you want.

Character Preview

When you save a profile, FCS will now attemp to save a screenshot of the character, so you can see double check your profiles without Maya. You can also change the display of the gallery from showing the HMC image to showing the character image.
This features is automatically on, but requires you to have the Maya camera setup (otherwise it would just shows a blank image). You can turn this off in Settings.

Denosing (Previously ‘Smoothing’)

We renamed the feature that generates more animator-friendly curves from smoothing to denoising.
This more accurately describes what this feature is supposed to do for the animators.
We also add our first new, non-smoothing denoising method, peak-preserving denoising.
It essentially flattens the animation curve while trying to preserve as much of the peaks as possible.
As a part of the new denosing pipeline, we added a preview feature, that allows you to see what an animation curve could look like before and after the denosing operation, and allows you to quickly play around with the parameters etc.

Misc

  1. Added Maya 2026 support

  2. Added a new postprocessing feature: Gaze-freezing, you can now automatically freeze gaze animation when the eye is closed.

  3. Improved security: We now sign all executables (e.g., exe, dll) not just the installer. This should make it less likely for security software to flag FCS. If your anti-virus still flags us, please kindly let us know.

FCS 25.04.09

  • Date: 2025/05/23

  • Version: 25.04.09

  • Stage: Stable

Fixes

  1. Fixed the Robust Pipeline

  2. Fixed From Maya causing crashes

FCS 25.04.08

  • Date: 2025/05/13

  • Version: 25.04.08

  • Stage: Beta

Fixes

  1. Fixed a bug that create more profiles during Auto Profile than specified

  2. Prevented the app from crashing when the application does not have read/write access to the $HOME folder, show an error instead.

  3. Improved app stability

Update

  1. Changed the update CDN from AWS to Github. If you are not able to connect to github directly, please consider using a system-wise VPN to download the update via the application, or use a VPN in your browser and download it directly from Github.

  2. Optimize the tooltip (hovered text)

FCS 25.04.07

  • Date: 2025/04/23

  • Version: 25.04.07

  • Stage: Beta

Fixes

  1. Fixed a bug where non-HMC(head mount camera) footages are processed as HMC footages.

  2. Fixed a bug where footages encoded when highly compressed video will drop frames when being processed. There is a very low chance of happening if you ingress raw video footage off your camera prior to processing it with FCS. On the other hand, if you process video footages encoded with libx265 with very few I-frames in between (high b-frames ratio), there might be a chance that you were affected. In which case you might notice the timing of the animation does not match the timing of the footage (the character’s blink might happens faster/earlier than it is in the footage). We inherented this memory issues from the library we used to process video footages when using multiprocess. Explicit multiprocessing has since been disabled for footage process, leading to a slightly longer processing time in some systems but more accurate animations. An upcoming fix in 25.07 will speed up the processing.

  3. Fixed a bug where missing controller in the Maya scene lead to other following controllers to fail to be sent/received.

  4. Fixed a bug where prioritizing profile does not work when profiles are very cloes to each other (within the user-defined window, defaults to 1 second)

Update

  1. Updated Terms of Service

FCS 25.04.06

  • Date: 2025/04/08

  • Version: 25.04.06

  • Stage: Stable

Fixes

  1. Fixed a bug where processing videos would take longer time during process spawning

  2. Changed the border color of tabs

  3. Removed old dlls

FCS 25.04.05

  • Date: 2025/04/03

  • Version: 25.04.05

  • Stage: Stable

New features

  1. Gallery

    1. Added new sort method: “Randomized”

    2. Added batch tagging for profiles

    3. Added a dropdown to limit how many profiles to display at a time

Fixes

  1. Fixed gallery sorting order being inconsistent in some cases

  2. Fixed an issue where deleting smoothing profile can crash the app

  3. Fixed an issue where right click menu can stay out of screen

  4. Fix rearranging controller crashes the app

  5. Fix controller renaming crashes the app

  6. Disallow adding empty or duplicated profile tag

  7. Disallow layout with no name

FCS 25.04.04

  • Date: 2025/03/27

  • Version: 25.04.04

  • Stage: Beta

New features

  1. Added support for Maya 2025

  2. Added toggle in Editor to hide the image panel

Fixes

  1. Fixed an issue where exporting a session would not work with Assets folder

  2. Fixed an issue where deleting smoothing profile can crash the app

  3. Fixed an issue where right click menu can stay out of screen

FCS 25.04.03

  • Date: 2025/03/24

  • Version: 25.04.03

  • Stage: Beta

Fixes

  1. Fixed controller table bug that causes the application to crash

  2. Optimized keyboard shortcut responsiveness

  3. Modified the text for the process feature that allows the user to re-process only a segment of the video

FCS 25.04.02

  • Date: 2025/03/19

  • Version: 25.04.02

  • Stage: Beta

New Features

Timeline

  1. Added a new feature that allows processing part of the video

Bug Fixes

  1. Fix unstable issue with timeline checkboxes

  2. Fix a bug where sorting controller table would not work as intended

  3. Fix a bug where shortcut input does not function

FCS 25.04.01

  • Date: 2025/03/05

  • Version: 25.04.01

  • Stage: Beta

Changes

Timeline

  1. Moved buttons from timeline to right click menu (matching behaviour in Maya)

Shortcut Key

  1. Changed the timeline shortcut keys to match the ones in Maya

New Features

Timeline

  1. Added looped playback support

  2. Added audio playback support

Settings

  1. Added a new feature to import user setting from a previous version

  2. Added AV1 codec support for better web support

  3. Added support for a new set of symbols for shortcut keys

Bug Fixes

  1. Fixed a bug where long video might the process in some systems

  2. Fixed a bug where batch renaming controllers crashes the application when there is no profile at all.