And Harmony Premium will be roughly equivalent to Toon Boom Animate Pro as a full-on animation package for cut-out style animation as well as paperless. At the same time, new features will be introduced in the new release of Harmony 12. Toon Boom Harmony 12.1 Release Notes. Version 12.1 Here are the new features, changes, improvements, and bug fixes in Toon Boom Harmony 12.1.
Installing Toon Boom Harmony
Now that you have verified the minimum requirements and configured your hardware and software, you are ready to install Toon Boom Harmony.
You will perform the following tasks:
| 1. | Upgrading from a Previous Installation |
| 2. | Installing Toon Boom Harmony |
Upgrading from a Previous Installation
If you are not upgrading from a previous installation of Toon Boom Harmony, go to Installing Toon Boom Harmony.
If you are performing an upgrade, pick a time when Toon Boom Harmony production is slow or stopped. During the upgrade, no users can run any of the Toon Boom Harmony modules and all rendering jobs must be stopped or completed.
Before you can update a previous installation of Toon Boom Harmony, you must stop all services, including:
| • | Database server |
| • | Batch processing |
| • | License server |
| • | HarmonyWeb Control Center server |
Stopping Services Affecting Harmony
How to stop all services affecting Toon Boom Harmony- Make sure that no one is running Toon Boom Harmony. All instances of Harmony must be closed on the server and on all the clients.
- Make sure that all batch rendering or vectorizing is complete or that the queues are empty. In the Control Center module, use the Queue menu to open the Vectorize and Render Queue for all environments. The queues should be empty or the status of all jobs should be 'Completed'.
Upgrading from versions 7.8, 9.2, 10, 10.3, 11, 11.1, 11.2, 12 and later:
From the Start menu, do one of the following:
| ‣ | Windows 8: Start > Apps > Harmony [version] [edition] > Control Panel. |
| ‣ | Windows 7: Start > All Programs > Toon Boom Harmony [version] [edition] > Tools > Control Panel. |
The Harmony Control Panel dialog box opens.
Upgrading from a previous version of 7.3:
| ‣ | From the Start menu, select All Programs > Toon Boom Animation > Toon Boom Harmony > Tools > Harmony Control Panel. |
The Harmony Properties window opens.
Upgrading from version 7.2 or earlier:
| ‣ | From the Start menu, select All Programs > Toon Boom Harmony (or Opus) > Configuration Tools > usa_cfg. |
The USAnimation Properties window opens.
- From the Process Starter menu, select Stop. Do this for every Toon Boom Harmony-related process running on the machine.
You can also stop tbdbserver on the server and tbprocess on workstations that are set as a batch render.
- Turn off all the client machines and the render farm.
Stopping the License Server
How to stop the license server- On the License server computer, from the Start menu, do one of the following:
Toon Boom Harmony 12
Upgrading from version 12 and later:
From the Start menu, do one of the following:
Toon Boom Harmony 12 Premium V12.0.0 Macosx
| ‣ | Windows 8: Start > Apps > Harmony [version] [edition] > FlexLM Tools. |
| ‣ | Windows 7: All Programs > Harmony [version] [edition] > License Tools > FlexlmTools. |
Upgrading from version 7.8:
From the Start menu, do one of the following:
| ‣ | Windows 8: Start > Apps > Toon Boom Harmony [version] > FlexLM Tools. |
| ‣ | Windows 7: All Programs > Toon Boom Harmony [version] > License Tools > Flexlm Tools. |
Upgrading from version 7.3:
| ‣ | From the Start menu, select All Programs > Toon Boom Harmony [version] > License Tools > Flexlm Tools. |
The LMTOOLS window opens.
- In the Start/Stop/Reread tab, select the license service from the FLEXnet license services installed on this computer list.
- Click Stop Server.
- In the Config Services tab, click Remove Service to remove the license service.
- Close the LMTOOLS window.
Removing Harmony-related Environment Variables
To complete the installation, you must remove some environment variables set by the previous installation.
- Open the Windows Control Panel.
- Double-click on System and select the Advanced system settings link in the left panel.
- In the Advanced tab, click Environment Variables.
- In the System Variables panel, select LM_LICENSE_FILE (if listed) and click Delete to delete LM_LICENSE_FILE.
- Delete any of the following variables if they appear in the System or User variables lists:
| ‣ | TOONBOOM_LICENSE_FILE |
| ‣ | USADB |
| ‣ | USADIR |
| ‣ | USAROOT |
Backing Up Configuration Files
You also need to back up any necessary configuration files from the machine in case you want to reuse them. You can also back up the license.dat file as well.
How to back up configuration files- Do one of the following:
| ‣ | Version 12 and later: Program Files (x86)Toon Boom AnimationToon Boom Harmony [version] [edition]etc |
| ‣ | Versions 11.2, 11.1, 11 or 10.3: Program Files (x86)Toon Boom AnimationToon Boom Harmony [version] etc |
| ‣ | Version 7.8: Program Files (x86)Toon Boom AnimationHarmony 7.8etc. |
| ‣ | Version 7.3: Program Files (x86)Toon Boom AnimationHarmonyetc. |
| ‣ | Versions 7.2 and earlier: usaetc folder. |
- Back up any of the following configuration files:
| ‣ | Scan.conf if this workstation is to be configured as a scanning station. |
| ‣ | VectOptions.conf on any machine (including the server) that is doing batch vectorization. |
| ‣ | Any other.conf file that is required to be used later. |
- Back up the
license.datfile in following folder:
| ‣ | Version 12 and later: flexlm |
| ‣ | Versions 7.3 and 7.2: /usa/etc/flexlm |
Uninstalling the Previous Version of Toon Boom Harmony or Opus
Now you will uninstall the previous version of Harmony or Opus.
How to uninstall the previous version of Harmony or Opus.- Open the Windows Control Panel.
- Double-click on Program and Features and select Harmony or Opus.
- From the top menu, click Uninstall.
- Reboot the machine.
- Back up the database. For the server upgrading process, back up the database by exporting the entire database. This will prevent you from losing any data during the upgrading process. You can, however, back up the current /USA_DB and /usadata by renaming them (this procedure can only be used when installing on the same server). This requires extra caution. If you are at all unsure, contact your system administrator or Toon Boom Support.
Installing Toon Boom Harmony
In a client-server network or in a standalone setup, you must install Harmony, as well as the following services on the server or the standalone computer:
| tbdbserver | Controls access to the database. |
| License service | Controls the number of licenses and features available to Harmony users. |
| Batch processing | Controls batch vectorizing and rendering queues. |
| Link server | If you are installing Harmony on a Mac OS X server that will support Windows clients, you must install the Link server. |
To install Harmony programs and services, you must run the installation package. Before you start the installation, make sure you are currently logged in the system with administrator rights on your local computer.
How to run the installation script- Download the build of Harmony that you are going to install.
- Double-click on the Harmony InstallShield executable.
- Select the language for the installer and click OK. This will only affect the language of the installer, not the Harmony software.
- In the InstallShield Welcome window, click Next to continue with the installation.
The License Agreement dialog box opens.
- Read the license agreement and decide if you accept its terms.
| ‣ | If you accept the terms in the license agreement, select I accept the terms in the license agreement and click Next. |
| ‣ | If you do not accept the terms in the license agreement, click I do not accept the terms in the license agreement and then click Next. |
The installation will stop immediately and Toon Boom Harmony will not be installed on your computer.
The Destination Folder dialog box appears. You can click Cancel to interrupt the installation and then click Yes to stop the installation completely.
- Select the drive on which you want to install Toon Boom Harmony and click Next.
The Setup Type dialog box appears.
- Select the type of installation you want to do. Select the Complete option to install all the Harmony Network components.
When installing a server, it is possible to do a custom install and install only the server component. However, it is recommended to always do a full install as this will give you access to all the applications from the server if need be.
- Click Next.
The Ready to Install the Program dialog appears.
- Click Install again to begin the installation.
- When this process is complete, click Finish.
Toon Boom Harmony Premium 12.2 Win
Title: Toon Boom Harmony Premium 12.2 Win
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Toon Boom Harmony (formerly Toon Boom Symphony) ? Like Opus, this software is based on a centralized database system and is used in the Film and TV animation industry. It contains all the Opus features and has additional tools that can be used for cut-out animation style. These tools include pencil lines with textures, the deformation tool, morphing, inverse kinematics, particles, built-in compositor and 2D-3D integration. Harmony can also be used as a paperless animation solution, drawing animation directly into the software, using a Wacom tablet. In April 2015, Harmony 12 was made available in 3 editions and also via desktop subscription.