index.json

{
  "releases": [
    {
      "title": "Rasterize selection",
      "body": "Select elements in Figma or Illustrator and transfer to Ae as a rasterized PNG.\n\nWorking with vectors can sometimes generate elements that are too complicated for After Effects to draw with shape layers, or maybe require a dozens (or hundreds) of paths to draw correctly. Whether working with background layers or simply an element that only needs layer transforms, **Rasterize** is a new super power for working between apps. ",
      "version": "2.5.0",
      "date": "2025-02-03",
      "url": "https://battleaxe.co/docs/overlord-rasterize",
      "unlocked": false
    },
    {
      "title": "Figma connection",
      "body": "The wait is over. Figma is now connected to Overlord. The power of bringing Ai art into After Effects is just as simple when working in Figma –for both web and desktop versions. Vector shapes, text layers, and images are all there. If you used AEUX before, you are gonna like this. ",
      "version": "2.4.0",
      "date": "2024-11-11",
      "url": "https://lore.battleaxe.co/figma-overlord",
      "unlocked": false
    },
    {
      "title": "Image export",
      "body": "Overlord can now export images from Illustrator artboards. Select elements and push/pull to Ae and images on disk will be imported automatically. Images that are missing from the disk will be rasterized and imported with shapes.",
      "version": "2.3.0",
      "date": "2024-09-23",
      "url": "https://lore.battleaxe.co/overlord-image-export",
      "unlocked": false
    },
    {
      "title": "Per-character text styling",
      "body": "Editable text from Ai to Ae is only possible with Overlord, now with kerning, multiple fonts, weights, sizes, colors and any other text style attribute you can think of.",
      "version": "2.2.0",
      "date": "2024-08-26",
      "url": "https://lore.battleaxe.co/per-character-styling",
      "unlocked": false
    },
    {
      "title": "Import Ai file",
      "body": "Import Ai files with Overlord. For when art can't, or shouldn't be a shape layer. One click brings the current Illustrator file into After Effects as layers. ",
      "version": "2.1.0",
      "date": "2024-08-13",
      "url": "https://lore.battleaxe.co/import-ai-file/",
      "unlocked": false
    },
    {
      "version": "2.0.0",
      "date": "2024-07-29",
      "unlocked": true,
      "title": "Quality of life in 2.0",
      "body": "Version 2 is here and opens up a world of simplicity for working between Illustrator and After Effects. \n\n- More intuitive layer creation from groups\n- Split all shapes to layers with parenting hierarchy\n- Precompose and Decompose groups \n- Modernization for working with new Ae systems\n- Fixes\n",
      "url": "https://youtu.be/53Lm2kZ10-0?si=MhroHENywFqWXR9p"
    },
    {
      "version": "2.0.0",
      "date": "2024-07-21",
      "unlocked": true,
      "title": "Non-destructive shape expanding",
      "body": "Shapes in Illustrator can often be too complicated for Ae to draw. Now when Overlord hits one of these shapes, it will automatically expand it, get the data, and then return it to its editable state in Illustrator.",
      "url": "https://youtu.be/53Lm2kZ10-0?si=MhroHENywFqWXR9p&t=312"
    },
    {
      "version": "2.0.0",
      "date": "2024-07-05",
      "title": "Clipping masks",
      "unlocked": true,
      "body": "Thanks to the new universal track matte system in After Effects, it is now possible to replicate clipping masks with much greater accuracy.",
      "url": "https://youtu.be/53Lm2kZ10-0?si=MhroHENywFqWXR9p&t=163"
    }
  ],
  "news": [],
  "betaNews": [],
  "betaIcons": {
    "AEFT": "25.2",
    "ILST": "29.3"
  }
}