Tumult, developer of the user-friendly HTML5 web site and animation builder Hype, today announced two major updates to the powerful OS X application.
Hype 3 ($49.99) is a free upgrade for Hype 2 owners, refreshing the app with a new user interface — notably with a Yosemite-matching Light color theme — while making improvements to HTML accessibility, timing functions and timeline adjustments. Using Hype, even amateur designers can create interactive HTML5 web sites that work perfectly on desktop, laptop, tablet, and smartphone screens; no coding is required.
An improved engine for responsive layouts is one of the top features in Hype Professional, which is offered as a $49.99 in-app purchase. The new layout engine lets designers specify breakpoints (such as common screen sizes and orientations) at which the page’s design will change, automatically applying the designer’s pre-determined adjustments to images and text layout.
A physics engine includes collisions and natural movements with adjustable gravity, bounce, friction, density, and air drag. Hype Pro also adds a Dark Yosemite theme and rearrangeable interface, a grid layout system, templates, and a Symbols system to create reusable elements.
Hype 3 and Hype Professional are both available now from the Mac App Store, as well as Tumult’s web site.
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Looks awesome! just added to my todo list
Very very cool… Ordering my copy !
It has a lot of great new features. The one and only thing that I don’t like is that they went from the tabbed pallet UI (which I don’t like) to a tabbed palette permanently stuck inside the interface window (which I absolutely loathe).
As a pro, I have to get things done well and done quickly. Sometimes I may have a deadline that is an hour or less!) and for years I have always had my palettes docked together on my second monitor. Apps with a single window interface drive me nuts particularly because they put the second monitor totally to waste. There is a noticeable drop in productivity when every time you want to use a tool you have to first click on a tab. With Hype I’m constantly going back and forth (and back and forth, and back and forth) between the Metrics and the Element tab.
If I could have them both up at once I wouldn’t be having to chase these tabs all day. At least with Hype 2 I could park the Inspectors in one spot and resize the stage and timeline any time I want. Now, whenever I resize the window, the inspector moves with the window. The only choice is to move the inspector to the left or live with it. (By the way, the dominant eye and the dominant hand tend to be on the same side. It is natural for me to dock my palettes to the right.)
This new release of Hype has some really great stuff going for it and I congratulate the team for doing such a great job, but they went totally the wrong way with the palettes. Totally. If I were an amateur and worked on Hype projects at my leisure it would not be such an annoyance. I was a heavy hitter with Flash and I push Hype to the bleeding edge, but I tend to work at a level where everything has to be perfect and it has to be _right_now_. I can’t talk the boss into letting me hire any help and the backlog never ends. If this is a “Pro” app, I would prefer that it allowed me to work like a pro and not like an enthusiast.
Thanks for your feedback about the palettes. We (I’m writing as Daniel, but also as the support lead at Tumult) completely understand and we may allow undocking the interface. We focused heavily on the consolidated one window interface and making it adjustable within that one window interface for this update but we understand it is not for everyone.
One thing you might like in the meantime is ⌘ + 2 and ⌘ + 3, which lets you quickly switch between the Element / Metrics inspectors. These shortcuts can be adjusted in System Prefs. A few more keyboard shortcuts can be found here: http://tumult.com/hype/documentation/3.0/#keyboard-shortcuts
This conversation is why comment sections exist. Keep up the good work, jfairweather and Daniel!
Hi all, if anyone knows how to stop the Soundcloud widget playing while exiting to another scene in Hype 3 pro, Please let me know!!! Much appreciated. Jim A
Great tools for building responsive design. To my mind, it is much more important to make your website responsive than to have a mobile version of it ( even if it is more expensive that RD)