Hotfix

• Unlock Scale art to comp width preference

Added

• Figma connection

• Transfer elements as a single Ae layer

• Scale art to comp width preference

• Collapse Transform precomps is a preference

• Customize visible buttons in the Overlord app (Hosts section)

Changed

• Update properties is now its own button

Fixed

• Non-English Ae was creating multiple Overlord folders when precomping

Fixed

• Per-character text not working in CC 2025

• Line breaks in text layer names breaking expressions

Fixed

• Error on line 5286 - Images in clipping masks

• Occasional unresponsive transfer button needing multiple clicks

Fixed

• Art in comp center

• Ae → Ai broken

• Update props undo mismatch

• Single shape in unnamed group now inherits layer name

Changes

• Rollback of centering art if artboard mismatch

Fixed

• Oversized artboard scale factor

Hotfix

• Ae → Ai broken in 2.3.0

Added

• Image export from Ai

• Rasterize unlinked images in Ai file

• Relative path from AEP file

Changed

• Layers will be centered in comp if the artboard sizes do not match

• A new comp will be created if one isn't open

• New comps will be created using the framerate of the open comp

• Clear the layer name Isolation Mode

Fixed

• More reliable preference loading in extension

Added

• Image export from Ai

• Rasterize unlinked images in Ai file

• Relative path from AEP file

Changed

• Layers will be centered in comp if the artboard sizes do not match

• A new comp will be created if one isn't open

• New comps will be created using the framerate of the open comp

• Clear the layer name Isolation Mode

Fixed

• More reliable preference loading in extension

Fixed

• Error BridgeTalk is undefined

• Ghost menubar icon on macOS

• Per character text error on 24.0

Fixed

• [object Object] layers created bug

• macOS permissions error when installing the Adobe extension redirects to troubleshooting

Added

• Ae app switch has returned

Changes

• New Ae layers are selected after creation

• Shape and group naming is more intuitive

Fixed

• Install extension update

• Missing extension in 2.1.1

• Image extension undefined

• Twirl closed layers

• Support live paint elements from Ai

• Better check for existing layer names in the comp

• Opacity on nested groups

• Blending modes on nested groups

• Decompose error when multiple layers selected

• App layout bug where updates overlapped one another

Changes

• Shapes and groups without a name, at the root level of an Ai layer, will inherit the layer name (more like v1)

Fixed

• Hotfix for trim is undefined

• Decompose error when multiple layers selected

• App layout bug where updates overlapped one another

Added

• App switch returns

Fixed

• Install extension update

• Missing extension in 2.1.1

• Image extension undefined

• Twirl closed layers

• Support live paint elements from Ai

• Shape group names are default instead of taking the Ai layer name

• Better check for existing layer names in the comp

• Opacity on nested groups

• Blending modes on nested groups

New

• Import Ai file button

Changes

• Option to launch the app in the background instead of seeing a popup every time you restart your computer

• The Overlord project folder may be nested up to 2 folders deep

• Extensions reload when updating from the app

• Parametric shape detection is now optional

• Clipping masks may be visible

Fixes

• Refined rectangle and ellipse detection

• Shape blending modes apply to shape groups

• Grouped shapes inner opacity is respected

• Box text alignment

• Oversize artboard text properties

Fixed

• Locale error breaking the panel from displaying in some languages

Fixed

• Auto start app checkbox

• Group opacity was doubled on the layer

Changed

• Launch in the background is now a checkbox rather than a default to provide clarity to new users

• Detect parametric shapes option in context menu

• Hide Ray option if Swatches button is hidden

• Continuously Rasterize Ai layers (prep for Ai file import)

• Search for Overlord folder now goes 2 folders deep past root

• Reload extensions when installing an update

Changed

• App starts in the background if unlocked

• Slight change to socket url for added stability

Fixed

• Apply group blending mode

Fixed

• Ellipse detection

• Grouped shape inner opacity

• Box text alignment

• Oversize artboard box text size

Fixed

• Refined rectangle detection

• Blank panels do to ZXP signature bug

• Error on line 4139

Fixed

• Blank extension panel for non-English users

Added

• It's a desktop app now

• Auto updates

• (theoretically) unlimited layer creation

• A ton of speed in creating layers

• Group management buttons

Changed

• Extensions are still used but are now installed from the app

• Layers are always split

• Anchor points are always centered

• Rectangles and ellipses are always parametric

• Create group layers as parents for art layers

• Visual feedback for which apps are available to transfer to

• Right-click to hide less common buttons

Fixed

• Gradient end-point alignment

• No more accidental opening of beta versions

Removed

• Small switches to modify transfers

• Switch apps button

• Break symbols button

Changed

• Better support for working offline

Added

• Disable app switch button to prevent opening multiple versions of Ae

Fixed

• Update license authentication system for better stability

Changed

• Migrate off Gumroad license authentication (hotfix required for any keys purchased from gumroad.com)

Fixed

• Extending the 1.23 macOS fix to Windows

Fixed

• (macOS 12) Sending shapes from Ae to Ai

• Switch button opening multiple versions of Ae

Changed

• More intelligent handling of nested groups with center anchor point enabled

• Support for clipping masks with center anchor point enabled

• Removed debug code that introduced errors on line 1920 and 1178 on text layers with center anchor point enabled

• Bug that tried to download updates like the updatable version

Added

• Both panels open is no longer required. Just open the one you like using. Thanks to Remco Jansen for the help on this.

• Native Ae guides support for CC2019+

• Support for All Caps text options by transforming text

• Support for Ai symbols with Break Symbols button

• Text layer blending modes

• Deauthorize button for removing license key from a shared machine

• Holding SHIFT when pressing the New Artboard/Comp, does the inverse –new Ai comp button (orange) becomes a new comp button (purple). Thanks to Lars Jandel for the idea.

FIxed

• Zeroing anchor points from v1.11 failed to fully move paths

• Center layer did not work on text layers

• Text not aligning when comp and artboard were different sizes

• Error when holding shift while a lower level property group is selected

• Text layer opacity

• Text layer rotation

• Holding shift when transferring text with a shape selected

• Prevent error when dropping file into panel

Changed

• Reintroduced an old behavior with a preference when updating shapes to respect comp position or local layer position

• Moved parametric shape positions to the group transform rather than the shape itself

Removed

• Updatable version has been removed for added stability

Fixed

• Accidentally left some debugging code in v1.11 release

• Error on line 1745

• Error on line 1331

• Error on line 1822

Changed

• Zeroing out the anchor point on paths and parametrics when Center Anchor Point is enabled

• Removed redundant fill opacity and replaced it with group opacity to reduce stroke transparency as well

Fixed

• Error on line 1247 - clipping masks on compound shapes

• Error on line 1247 - clipping masks on groups. Single clipping groups on a layer become layer masks to simplify layers.

• Text along a path isn’t supported but now the won’t make transfers fail

• Better detection of group blending modes

• Better detection nested group opacity

Added

• Support for Ai gradient fills and strokes (yayayayaya)

• Update fill and stroke colors from Ai

• Support for clipping masks

• Factored in Ae layer Position/Anchor Point transforms when transferring to Ai

Changed

• Hidden Ai objects within a group will not be transferred to Ae

Fixed

• Text alignment

• Text leading (supported in Ae CC2017.2)

• Empty text layers broke the whole transfer

• Text not transferring from Ai CC2014

• Further corrected the addition of type name line breaks

• Smarter layer adding when Ae layers selected

• Moved parametric shape positioning into the parametric group itself to simplify keyframing and make converting to bezier much cleaner

Thanks: This update would not have been possible without the generous testing time of: Kyle Martinez, Jeff Salvado, Drew Jackson, Nicolas Doretti and Wojciech Piekarczyk.

Added

• Support for Ai Spot Color tints

• Preference to use New Artboard button to create a new Ae comp from an artboard’s dimensions

Changed

• Created two install versions: Updatable and Stable. Updatable will allow the panel to be updated by opening Settings and downloading directly without needing to download, install or restart Ae/Ai. For users experiencing issues with the panel not displaying buttons immediately, the Stable version provides a less dynamic system of loading the required files. With Stable, Overlord updates will need to be downloaded manually from gumroad.com/library.

• Optimized Settings panel

Fixed

• Accidentally added line breaks to text layer naming which broke expressions that used a layer name

• Unnamed shapes were naming their shape groups “null"

Added

• Preference in settings to disable app switching when pushing shapes to Ae. Some Windows users report Ae resizing when switching which is terribly annoying.

Fixed

• Layer blending modes (Color Burn, Color Dodge, Soft Light, Hard Light, Saturation, Color) failed to transfer

• Compound paths failed when explode modifier enabled

• Empty layer name when Ai=Ae when sending a single, unnamed layer. Now it defaults to an incremented layer name.

• Panel failed to resize on some systems (requires zxp install)

• Core CEP now overwrites existing bundle files

• Removed error when transferring Ai pattern fill/stroke

Fixed

• A glitch with the licensing unlock

Initial release