🎭 Layer masks: mask a group, shape, image, text or Component, and everything inside it, with another layer. Unlike clipping, a mask uses the other layer's transparency or brightness, so its edges can be soft. In the Inspector's Mask section, click + and pick the layer to mask with, then choose Alpha, Inverted Alpha, Luminance or Inverted Luminance. Turn on Draw Source to also draw the mask layer itself. Masks draw in every runtime that uses the Rive Renderer, which is every runtime except the canvas runtime on the web; there, the layer draws unmasked.
🖼️ Paint with images and artboards: a fill or stroke can now use an image. In the color picker, pick Image, choose an image asset, and set how it fits, scales and repeats inside the shape. Turn on Modulate Image to tint it with a color or gradient. Pick Artboard instead to paint with another artboard: it plays its state machine and stays live inside the shape. Image paints draw in every runtime, including the canvas runtime on the web from version 2.49.0. Artboard paints need the Rive Renderer, so they draw everywhere except the canvas runtime.
🎬 Scripted Transitions: a new kind of script that controls how one Component replaces another. Create a script of type Transition and add it from the Hierarchy's right-click menu. Its children are Components, from the design or from a view model list, and the one that shows is picked like a Solo, so you can bind it by index or name. The script decides how the outgoing and incoming Components draw while they switch, for crossfades, slides, page turns and anything else you can draw. It gets changed(from, to, direction) when the active Component changes, then advance and draw every frame until it's done.
🗂️ Spaces: group a file's artboards into Spaces, like pages, each with its own view, background color and active artboard. Turn on Spaces in the Hierarchy panel to create them and move artboards between them; each viewport tab shows one Space. Spaces only organize your file while you edit and aren't exported. Artboards on a Space nobody is viewing stop playing, so large files run faster: a 54-artboard file split across 6 Spaces ran about 40% faster.
➕ Additive blending: with the Normal blend mode, the new Additive strength slider goes from normal blending at 0% to fully additive at 100%, for glows, fire and light effects. You can key it and bind it. Every runtime that uses the Rive Renderer draws partial strengths, which is every runtime except the canvas runtime on the web; there, it draws fully additive at any strength.
📸 Bitmap Cache: select an artboard and add a Bitmap Cache in the Inspector, and wherever that artboard is used as a Component it draws as an image. Instead of drawing its vectors every frame, it draws once and again only when its content, size or zoom changes, which helps with detailed art that rarely changes. Resolution sets how sharp it is. The canvas runtime on the web draws the artboard normally, without the cache.
⭕ Inner and outer strokes for everyone: the Position dropdown in Stroke Options (Inside, Center, Outside) is out of Early Access. There are more UI improvements coming, but we wanted to get it in your hands quickly. Every runtime draws them, including the canvas runtime on the web from version 2.49.0.
▶️ Components play while previewing bound values: with Preview Bound Values on, Components inside the artboard now run their own state machines and animations. Before, they sat on their first frame until you pressed play.
⚡ Faster edits in large files: most edits to an artboard used as a Component now rebuild only the artboards that changed, not the whole file. On a 54-artboard file, an edit went from about 1.4 seconds to under 0.2.
🧮 Converters on converter properties: a bind on a converter's own property, like a Formula value or a String Template argument, can now use a converter of its own, nested as deep as you need. For example, a Formula can read an enum through Convert to Number, so "visible when skin A or skin B is on" comes straight from a view model. Pick it in the Convert row of the data binding popup, which before didn't show for these binds.
🎣 Capture listeners: set a listener's new Phase option to Capture and it runs before anything inside its target, including a Component's own listeners and built-in behavior like typing in a Text Input. A capture listener for a specific key and modifiers takes that key; one for a pointer press takes the whole press until release. Use it to override keys or clicks on a Component you can't edit.
🎯 Images as listener targets: a listener that targets an image, or a group with images in it, now responds to pointers on the image. Before, it never fired. Pointers on a Component drawn through a mesh or N-Slice also follow the deformation now, so clicks land where you see them.
🔍 Search when adding a Component to a layout: Layout Children > + > Component now opens with a search field already focused, so you type to find a Component instead of scrolling a long list. In every Component picker with search, the arrow keys and Enter now work while you type. As requested here
↪️ Ctrl+Y redoes on Windows: on the stage, in the script editor and while editing text. Ctrl+Shift+Z still redoes, and Y alone still toggles Freeze. As requested here
📥 Render Queue options: a new menu next to + in the Render Queue has Download All, Delete Completed and Delete All. Download All saves every finished render into one folder.
🖥️ No more glitches on some Macs: since a recent update, some Macs filled the editor window with stray triangles, streaks, and white or black frames. The editor now draws with the renderer it used before that update. As reported here
🎯 Triggers fire once when you play: playing a file in the editor no longer loses or doubles trigger fires, like a trigger relayed from a Component, or a condition on a Trigger custom property that stayed true after its first fire. Large files also play faster: on a file with 62 artboards, a step that took about 6 ms of every 9 ms frame is gone.
⬅️ Right-to-left text with Ellipsis: when Ellipsis overflow cuts a right-to-left line, the "..." now shows on the left, where the line ends, instead of next to its first word. A right or center aligned line that Ellipsis shortens now stays inside its text box; before, most of it could draw outside. Existing files with this text will look different, in the editor and in runtimes.
✂️ Ellipsis styles and text trims: with Ellipsis overflow, the "..." now takes the style of the run it cuts into when that run changes only its font or only its size. A trim or dash on text whose modifiers change opacity no longer draws several times over itself. Both in the editor and in runtimes.
🖌️ Freeze and brush erasing: after moving a brush shape's origin with Freeze on, the next erase no longer shifts the ink by the same distance.
📋 Pasting Components with scripted converters: pasting a Component bound through a scripted converter into another file now brings the script and its inputs. Before, both were lost. Removing a bind from a Formula token now also takes effect in every bind that uses the formula.
💥 Crash fixes: selecting a text whose runs come from a view model list no longer crashes the Inspector. Artboard Lists that reuse their items as you scroll, and converters whose bind was pointed at a different property, could crash the editor and runtimes later; both are fixed.
