Hi Animaze Community,

We’re thrilled to present you with an exciting update that adds lots of new features to the Animaze app, including support for Elgato’s Stream Deck!

Here’s the full list of new things you can enjoy in the app:

New Home Screen: Based on the feedback we’ve received from the community, we reorganized the app with a slick new design.

Emotes: Add flair to your streams with our new animated reactions. Here's a sneak peak:



Also, find out how you can make your own emotes from our new documentation available here

New Content Release: Meet Lily the Octopus, the newest member of the Animaze squad. Lily is cheerful and playful, but tired of seeing the oceans bottom, her royalty decided to leave, seek new adventures and make friends.

Stream Deck Functionality: You are now able to use your Elgato Stream Deck to trigger your customized reactions and recalibrate on the fly. Find more information about this functionality here.

Documentation on animated normal maps and animated emissive maps: Learn how to harness the power of Animaze hybrid avatars and use Live2D surfaces to add more details or emissive light effects, just like we did with our new Octopus Avatar right here

Language Localizations Update:We’ve updated all the app’s functions for Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, and Russian!

New Default For Repositioning Hot Keys: We’re keeping it simple and using the arrows as the default hot-key to move your avatar on screen. Yearn for the good old days? Change the hot-keys back in Settings>Controls.

A New Image For The “Offline” Virtual Camera

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An In-App How To Install Your Virtual Sound Card Tutorial:: Based on your feedback, we’ve added a step-by-step tutorial on how to set up voice effects on your stream.

New Category For Imported Props: holdable

Puffed Cheeks Special Pose: Find the trigger for puffed cheeks in the Animations gallery.

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Other new features include:

• Enhanced Body Movement For Live2D Avatars: Check out the enhanced body movement we’ve added to the advanced configurations. When you lean one way, the avatar model moves too. Note, this feature is OFF by default.
  
• Beta feature in the Animaze Editor - You can now override Live2D model parameter mapping. This allows you to take full advantage of our tracker inputs - and map any of them to both standard and non-standard Live2D model inputs.
  

We’ve also tackled and added the following bug fixes:
Fixed Issues With iPhone Bridge Preview Feed
Newly Imported Live2D Avatars Will import At a Higher Resolution
New Delay Second Slider
Audio Engine Improvements
Fixed issues with iPhone Bridge preview feed

Known issues:
Be sure to reload your 2D avatars so that all your special actions and poses appear in the animations panel. The workaround is to just go to Avatar Gallery -> Imports and reload the avatar
There is a known app crash when you try to hit the "Manage Subscriptions" button if you are not logged in your account. We are currently looking into a fix for this problem.

Let us know what you think about all the new features! Tell us what you’d like to see added to Animaze next! Join our Discord server, email us at support[@]animaze.us, or message us on Twitter!

Happy Streaming,
The Holotech Team