[Niels]

Thanks a lot Devin. Yes, we do plan on releasing the finished 5.0 this year. We will soon be in beta and after that we can finally begin to sell licenses to get some income 😉

Remember that “beta” means all the planned features are implemented, but bugs can still remain and will be fixed. What I mean is that we are not far from feature complete in the latest release. Coloring will come as one of the very first point updates (5.1 or 5.2) after our 5.0 release. These point updates will be free for 5.0 license owners.

[Niels]

Yeah, we have that transform-multiple-frames feature on our todo list already. It will be great and super useful.

[Niels]

There’s not an actual crop tool. But you can crop your whole animation by changing the resolution in Scene Settings.

So, as an example, you have a HD scene (1920×1080) and want to crop off some unused space along the edges, you can type in a lower resolution/size, let’s say 80%, which is 1536×864.

After this operation you can scale right back up to HD, so your output still ends up at 1920×1080, but you keep your cropped framing. I hope this makes sense?

This method of course only works with a centered crop. If you need to crop a smaller part in like one of the corners, you can’t easily do that and you have to move drawings manually.

I am on vacation right now, so I don’t have Animation Paper in front of me, so everything is by memory. 🙂 But I think you can make a scene have many frames from the beginning. So instead of starting with a 1 frame scene, import audio, and then add clones – you can start by making a New Scene, set an approximate number of frames, then import audio, and adjust the number of clones if needed. That must be a much faster workflow.

Let me know if you want me to explain anything better?

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

Thanks a lot Devin!

[Niels]

Hi Devin, thanks a lot. I’m delighted you enjoy AP!

Oh, I understand why you are put off by those tags. I’m very sorry. It’s spammers who post bad stuff every day and just as fast I delete it. However I must have missed this tags. I’ll get rid of them now… thanks for letting me know.

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

OK, I get your point. And it’s an important one. Must be annoying if you are fast like you are.

The good thing about using Ctrl drag (Cmd on Mac) for quickly adjusting the pen size and opacity is that this is kind of standard in other software as well. We already use Shift drag for a quick way of scrubbing the playhead.

Again, your point is very valid. Maybe it would work if we changed it from Ctrl to Alt (Option on Mac). Can’t remember off the top of my head if this has other implications. Will look into it. Thanks!

Anyway, as you say, once you can do your own key bindings in AP, this would not be a problem. But again, the default keys have to be good of course.

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

No problem at all! I’m grateful you did the testing. I will think long and hard over this and see what solution we can come up with. Maybe it will be one of your suggestions. Anyway, thanks a lot!

[Niels]

I’m pretty sure we haven’t changed anything in this regard for a long time. But still it is interesting to see if you find any difference nevertheless. Please let me know!

I have uploaded Alpha 8 for you here: https://animationpaper.com/files/AnimationPaper_Alpha8.exe

This is the Windows 64bit version, let me know if you need Mac or Linux instead.

Thanks!

[Niels]

Thanks for mentioning it Momomo! More data for us. Appreciated.

[Niels]

Actually, I must be confused 🙂 Current frame is NOT always centered. That is how we HAD it at some point. 🙂 It doesn’t work like that anymore because we changed it due to similar problems to what you talk about. Anyway, I will give it a fresh look!

[Niels]

Thanks a lot for your very valid point. I think I understand your complain. If you have an original drawing centered in the X-Sheet and you drag it a few frames up or down you can lose track of where it is, because when you let go after the dragging – it will be re-centered (current frame is always centered) in the X-Sheet. Of course your new timing is intact, it’s just disorienting as you say.

I know about this problem – and we have actually tried to not center and tried other solutions as well, but they become problematic in other regards. So it is a difficult UX problem to tackle. We have it on our todo-list already – but I will give it another look asap now you bring it up. Thanks for that! 🙂

[Niels]

I’m glad I can help 🙂

[Niels]

No problem – look towards the bottom of each layer in the X-Sheet – that’s where you adjust opacity. I know, it could be more obvious. 😉

I have marked it in your picture here…

[Niels]

Hi Whipple, thanks for letting the forum know about this solution. Cool!

But am I understanding correctly – you don’t have pressure sensitivity now?

If that’s the case, that is not optimal to say the least. 🙂 I’m not sure this will help, but it’s worth a try: Locate the file “qt.conf” (probably here C:\Program Files\Animation Paper\qt.conf). Rename it (to save it in case you want to reverse this). Then launch Animation Paper again.

My hope is that this fixes the pressure problem in Animation Paper.

Please let me know.

Thanks,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi Whipple, thanks for the recording. It’s a bit difficult for me to be sure I get the problem exactly – but it seems to me that sometimes the cursor stays in a frozen position while you draw the line (the line updates fine while you draw it). Is that correct?

I haven’t seen this behavior before, so it’s a bit puzzling…