Release date: work in progress 🚧
- Support for MPEG-H Part2/HEVC (H.265) codec
- Preview the rendering of the map
- Make the content of the information box configurable
- Show the time left when rendering the video
- Configure the width of the pre-draw line
- Delete cached map tiles in preferences dialog
- New configuration option to specify the user agent when downloading map data
- New speed unit (/500m)
- Time per distance speed units now display as m:ss
- GPS status with timeout (OK/LOST)
- Smooth line drawing between track points
- Support for multi-track GPX files
- Filter unsupported map types (now all shown maps should work)
- Photos are now displayed correctly oriented based on their metadata
- No more automatically selecting Cambodia map after map update
- GPX Animator has a new home: https://github.com/gpx-animator/gpx-animator
- The GitHub repository now uses the All Contributors bot and CLI
Release date: 2021-08-14
- Realtime preview while rendering is in progress (can be disabled)
- System notifications when rendering stops or finishes
- Map data update over the air (manually via
Filemenu) - Specify a separate font for waypoints (optional)
- Read speed from GPX file (if present) for more accurate speed data
- All important features in the menu are now accessible via hotkeys
- Recently opened files can be accessed via hotkeys
- All dialogs can be closed using the
Esckey - License information can be found in the
Helpmenu - New plugin support for extending GPX Animator easily
- Delay the start of the animation (keep first frame)
- Force mandatory map attributions (if needed)
- Disable tail color fadeout on request
- Accidentally cropping of photos
- Crazy path information with dots in filenames
- Incorrect handling of keep last frame option
- Incorrect handling of photo directory in saved configurations
- Incorrect handling of background image in saved configurations
- Fixed oblique right text alignment
- Fixed incorrect path handling when saving a configuration
- Fixed links in dialogs not opening the browser
- Fixed
NoSuchElementExceptionwhen loading empty GPX files - Fixed a bunch of (possible)
NullPointerExceptions
- Improve some German translations
- Replaced the end of life Xuggler library with JavaCV
- Updating Java to v16
- Switching to Zulu JDK in preparation for native Apple M1 support
Release date: 2021-03-14
- Fixing date time parsing error when time zone information is missing
- Fixing date from the 1970s when forced point time interval option was set
- Fixing waypoints do not require a time anymore
- Fixing negative total time crashing the rendering process
- Accepting uppercase file endings of GPX and PNG files
- Adding trim options to command line help
Release date: 2021-01-09
- Adding multiple GPX files at once
- Adding an animation to smoothly fade photos in and out
- Providing alternative speed units (km/h, mph, min/km, min/mi, knots...)
- Adding support for moving map
- Adding support for pre-drawing a track
- Adding support to change the pre-draw color per track
- New error dialog with additional internal information for better error reports
- New and clear error message on missing track data in GPX file
- Fixing
NullPointerExceptionwhen starting GPX Animator the first time - Fixing
NullPointerExceptionwhen showing the Changelog - Fixing a bug causing image series export to stop working
- Migrating to Java 15
- Fixing a bunch of compiler warnings
- Adding a Motorcycle icon
- Adding support for choosing an external PNG file as a track icon
- Track icons can now be mirrored to match the general direction
- Adding font selection for the text in the animation
- Margin for track, logo, attribution and information can be set separately
- Positions of logo, attribution, and information are now configurable
- Logo, attribution, and information can now be hidden
- Adding support for background images (including transparency in PNG files)
- Adding support for track point comments in GPX files
- Fixing error in video frame size calculation with user specified bounding box
- Fixing some errors in animation length calculation when total time was set
- Fixing errors with incomplete latitude/longitude (bounding box) settings
- Fixing 21 broken background maps
- Removing 8 broken background maps
- Up to 15 % faster rendering
Release date: 2020-08-21
- Improved error messages
- Fixing a bug which prevented disabling the text in the animation.
- Fixing a bug in percentage calculator (never reached 100%)
- Fixing crazy behaviour of Latitude and Longitude spinner
- Fixing spinners not being able to go negative using the down arrow on first attempt
- Automatic repair of broken files produced by Sigma Rox 12 bicycle computer
- Show correct version number when using a saved file from an older version
Release date: 2020-08-07
- Fixing a bug that prevents photos from being shown in the animation
- Fixing a bug that does not load the photos' directory from saved files
- Fixing a bug that broke the command line use since v1.4
- Fixing a bug that shows an old status message on the progress bar
Release date: 2020-07-03
Most important changes for users:
- Show the changelog on the first start after install/update
- Adding a button to easily select common video resolutions
- Adding a bunch of new track icons
- Adding profile picture / logo to the animation
- Making video background color configurable
- Fixing UI on HiDPI (high-resolution) displays
- Fixing loading of Keep Last Frame configuration option
- Default output directory is no longer the application directory
- Saving a configuration as a default setting
- New application wide settings (File > Preferences)
- Adding preferences to set a custom default track color
- Adding preferences to configure the map tile cache
- Tile cache now enabled by default (24 hour caching)
- New installers for Windows, macOS and Linux systems
- Integration of automatic application updates using the installer
- New translation for German users (give feedback, please)
- New support e-mail address on the website
- New application icon and splash screen
Most important changes for developers:
- GPX-Animator now uses Gradle to build the project
- Integrating Spotbugs to search for potential bugs automatically
- Integrating PMD to search for potential bugs automatically
- Default Java version for GPX Animator is now Java 11 LTS
- Using logging instead direct console output
- Internationalizing the codebase for easier translation
Release date: 2019-12-20
- showing speed in animation
- adding photos to the animation
- adding coordinates to the animation
- asking before overwriting an existing output file
- adding link to the FAQ in the help menu
- adding "Open Recent File" menu
- adding new map source: OpenTopoMap
- adding optional map tile cache to reduce download size
- adding optional icons to the current track position
- allow negative time offset for GPX tracks
- UI consistency: Make all labels upper case words
- GPX-Animator now has a custom domain: https://gpx-animator.app
- fixed incorrect zoom factor calculation
- fixed time offset problem with negative time offset values
- fixed a lot of minor issues
Release date: 2018-07-31
- fixed some issues and added compatibility for Java 9+
Release date: 2015-11-22
- configurable bounding box
Release date: 2015-11-02
- fixed #18 (error saving configuration)
Release date: 2015-08-23
- fixed NPE on empty attribution
- fixed not showing marker when tail was empty or zero
- updated maps
- removed unused --debug option
Release date: 2015-01-18
- fixed NPE when adding new track
- preselect different color to newly added tracks
Release date: 2015-01-11
- handle all ISO 8601 date formats in GPX
- remember directory in file dialogs
- store relative paths in project XML file
Release date: 2014-02-03
- preparation for interactive map view configuration
- fixed bug in computing video dimensions
Release date: 2013-06-24
- configurable map attribution
- display track label in GUI tab title
- hide inactive marker after tail timeout
- added program icon
- fixed reading of alpha channel
- fixed alpha channel interpolation for tail
- fixed parsing of GPX dates with milliseconds
Release date: 2013-03-23
- added configuration GUI
- direct video rendering support
- minor rendering improvements
Release date: 2013-02-09
- added waypoint support
Release date: 2013-02-05
- added support for forced time intervals of GPS points
- configurable flashback color and duration
Release date: 2013-02-04
- added video dimension settings
- added track offset support (per track)
- skipping idle video frames
Release date: 2013-02-03
- outlining texts
- improved user experience ;-)
- fixing some indexed PNG background map tiles
Release date: 2013-02-03
- indicate inactive locations
- track multi-segment support
- direct color specification
Release date: 2013-02-03
- background map support
Release date: 2013-02-02
- configurable hues
- more parameters to configure
- marker labels
- multi-track support
- improved tail highlighting - now based on time
- customizable tail length
Release date: 2013-01-31
- initial version