[jerry forder]

Hi Niels

I have just been exploring animation paper this morning after being recommended to look at it. Are the paint tools not functional yet on the Beta version or am I just not see how to implement them ? Also will there be an option to import different brushes into the program ?
Love the simplicity and 2d interface…looking forward to the finished product

[Niels]

Great – thanks Jerry!

It is in fact only an alpha version. Beta means finished, but could have bugs. Alpha is still missing features. And that is the case with the paint/coloring tools. They are still to come. You can see what’s planned in the menus, but as disabled (greyed out) functions.

We do want to make a brush system at some point. On the list for next major release.

Cheers,
Niels

[jerry forder]

ahh ok my bad…

Any update on when the next release will be.

Cheers

J

[Niels]

Our plan was to release alpha 3 three weeks ago. But we have run into some issues that includes problems reading various audio formats, etc. So until these issues are overcome things are delayed a bit. Sorry. We just need to get it right. I’m guessing we should be ready with alpha 3 in a week or two.

[alfonso mendieta]

Hi! I just used the program and i wondered the same. I wanted to use the transparency in black with the pencil or marker in white and i couldn’t. It would be a good idea to be able to do that and include a tool bar with some shapes like straights lines or circunferences (just like paint program). Will these features be included in the final version?
Regards

[Niels]

Yes, you will be able to set your line color exactly as you want. Also all the coloring will come as mentioned above. Straight lines and circles are “controversial” because I want to keep everything straight forward and as “analogue”/nonetechnical in feel. Of course it can be highly technical and complicated under the hood. But we are contemplating doing lines and circles in an easy and user-friendly way. We’ll see how it goes. 🙂

By the way, you can actually change your white transparent background to black (or gray) in the current alpha. Try to see if that works for you and let me know: Paint -> Transparency Shown As -> Black.

Thanks!

[alfonso mendieta]

Yes, there were no problems changing the background color. Thanks!