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In reply to: Scene Settings
In reply to: New version of animation paper
Hi Essey, thanks for asking 🙂
It was supposed to have been released months ago. As we are working on new additions, we also try to fix the bugs found in the previous Alpha version. We have one really annoying bug, that we can’t seem to get rid of. It’s a freeze that happens to only a few people while exporting png or jpg files. We want to have this fixed before we release Alpha 8. So it is hard to set a date.
New stuff is so far this:
Drop vector data option (to not have the lasso slowness problem. Huge!)
Autosave
Scale option for movie clip export (export in, say, double resolution with perfectly crisp lines)
Save and use pen settings
Touch gestures on touch screen computers
Reset rotate view with double click
Stamp floating selection in all selected drawings
Reverse sequence
Many bugfixes and smaller improvementsIf you want me to explain some of the above – feel free to ask. (But maybe you can tell already what they are about).
Best,
NielsIn reply to: Software Consistently Crashing
In reply to: Where is the Activation Key???
Yes, these are same you get right away when you open Animation Paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO7sxaZonhA&list=PLOIsjJw30Ol-KuYyfShg3qWOHENVWbf3V
We will be making completely new tutorial videos as soon as we finish Animation Paper 5.0 – to cover every feature and trick. The current tutorials are a bit old by now – covering only Alpha 1, but still it gives you a nice overview for now.
For information on all the features we have done since these videos (Alpha 1) I recommend you check out my blog posts here on this site regarding the added features for each Alpha release we did up until now (Alpha 7).
Happy animating!
NielsIn reply to: Where is the Activation Key???
Hi!
It seems you by accident used a wrong email – including the one you used here above.
Isn’t it supposed to be mentorx96@gmail.com?
You have tried registering with mentorex96@gmail.com, which is bouncing with an error saying the email doesn’t exist.
Try again 😉
Best,
NielsHi Nikos! For some obscure reason your post only today popped up in my system. So I just now approved it and is answering. Super sorry that you had to wait this long.
Thanks so much for showing your stuff! It looks great and I like your music too! YOU guys rock! 😉
To answer your questions here goes: We plan to do camera movement (panning/zooming) at some point in one of the next major updates, so this will come! Also actual colouring and paint will be implemented. This is already for the first free update (v5.1) after the one we work on right now (v5.0). The colors you so masterfully have utilised in the current version, is mostly for “colorcoding” the layers – to visually make you set them apart while working. Actual colouring will come soon!
About the cursor not being visible enough – have you tried turning off the “Faint Cursor” option in the Draw menu? I hope this will make it visible enough also on the dark backgrounds. Let me know.
Thanks again for your kind words! Good luck with your further endeavours!
Best,
NielsIn reply to: paint
In reply to: Software Consistently Crashing
In reply to: Software Consistently Crashing
Hi Gabriel,
Thanks for letting me know. This is a well known issue – not that it crashes, but that it turns increasingly slow the more you lasso something, stamp it and lasso it again, and so on. If you use the lasso/cutter many times on the same drawing, the data builds up and it ends up slowing down and taking up a lot of memory. You must hav gotten a warning about this – a window pops up and explains this and how to remedy it. I hope you got that warning?
In the next version we are going to release (Alpha 8) we have done much more to help people in your situation. You will then be able to “collapse” the data and therefore get everything running a full speed again.
Here’s how the warning looks in our current internal version. This might be subject to change, but basically, this is it:
Right now, with your current version (Alpha 7), I would trace your problematic drawings/frames on to new blank frames and delete the old ones. Then you’ll see you filesize go way down and your lasso work a full speed again.
When we release Alpha 8, make sure to download that, to get the Collapse button you see above. 😉
I hope this helps you.
Best,
NielsIn reply to: copying frames to loop a animation
Hi, Andrew! Sure! 😉
Click your first frame (first thumbnail in the X-Sheet), hold down Shift and select your last frame. Now all drawings are selected.
Then go to the menu: Edit -> Cycle Selected Drawings Once
Voila! 😉
By the way: You can achieve the same, by again selecting all your drawings, and then use Ctrl C / Ctrl V (copy/paste).
In reply to: what types of video files can i import into ap?
In reply to: Some suggestions for test animation
In reply to: Completed a school project
In reply to: Some suggestions for test animation
Hi Ezekiel,
Yes, we are going to soon implement import of mov and mp4 video.
But already now you can import video as long as it is in the form of a sequence of png files or even an “animated” gif.
Also, you can hear your audio if you scrub the playhead in the timeline below. And you can even scrub from anywhere if you just hold Shift and scrub left/right with your pen or mouse.
Maybe you already knew these things?
Best,
NielsIn reply to: what types of video files can i import into ap?
Hi Kale,
Animation Paper will soon be able to import mov and mp4 files directly. But that doesn’t help you now 😉
So I would convert your mov file to a sequence of png files. Those can easily be imported. Just go to File -> Import and click the first png and Shift-click the last one, to select them all and import. You will automatically get a reference layer with your pond area camera movement.
Best,
Niels
