[Niels]

Thanks both of you! Bahadir – as usual, you got a point. Noted!

[Niels]

Some features work on multiple drawings selected – but not lasso cutouts unfortunately. This is something we want to do for the future. On our list!

Also lassoing from multiple layers is something we are contemplating. Thanks for asking for it!

[Niels]

You just turn on Hue-shift, then your frames are different in color (hue). But this only works on lines that is already a color (blue, red or green – for now – custom colors too, when we have implemented support for that). Anyway, the point is that hue shift doesn’t work on grey/black lines, like you have in your example. I like this feature, because then you can deliberately choose to have some layers in grey/black, if you want it not to have colored (hue shifted) frames, while the ones you want to see colored in your lighttable can actually have it – simultaneously.

I hope I explained this well enough to not get too confusing! 😀

[Niels]

Thanks Ridvan. Yeah, I have been debating exactly that in my head for a long time 😀 I guess it wouldn’t hurt to let the user turn the thing off by clicking the indicator. I’ll think about it some more 🙂 Thank you for mentioning it!!

[Niels]

Hi Bahadir – your post turned up finally! 😉 (Sorry again)

I think I get what you are saying. Thanks for explaining!

Just for clarity – couldn’t you do what you want by marking the drawings you want as “key” and then let the backlight only show the keys? But maybe that’s too inefficient.

[Niels]

Thank you Bahadir. Sounds like the way forward. I will see if we can make this already for the beta, which is our next release.

I am so happy for people like you and Ridvan and everybody who have such good feedback for me. I am truly grateful and excited – because this is exactly how we can keep making Animation Paper better. Thank you!!

Earlier, you talked about the missing ability to see the frame number when you slide/move drawings. I totally agree with you. Here’s what we have done so far – this will be part of the beta:

FrameNumberUpdateRecording.mp4

Thanks,
Niels

[Niels]

I truly appreciate your input! Very helpful, both of you Bahadir and Ridvan! Thank you!

I think I get it now. If you set a layer to invisible, then you cannot accidentally draw on it. But that is not what you mean. You are talking about adjusting a layers timing in the X-Sheet – which you can do by accident also if it is set to invisible. I see. Interesting.

So “locking” a layer would mean, it is not editable, right? Meaning you can not add or delete any drawings (or clones) in it. Just having a little lock icon/button on it, like we already have on the audio track, could be one way to do it.

Of course we would need to work out what should happen if the layer is also linked. I guess the lock would have priority over the linking, so nothing could be changed on a locked layer, even if its linked layer is changing.

What do you think?

Thanks a lot,
Niels

[Niels]

I forgot to answer you regarding searching the forum. Yes, you can. Just go to the main forum page: https://animationpaper.com/forums/

 

[Niels]

It’s a good idea. I’ll put it on our consider-list!

[Niels]

OK, thanks. Appreciated!

[Niels]

This is a feature that has been suggested a few times before – and we have it on our todo list. It is quite important and high in our list. Thanks for mentioning it though!

[Niels]

Hi Ridvan – Does it behave the same in other software? Could it be because both Wacoms are mapped to both screens (making the cursor move double the area/distance)? Just a random guess though.

Please get back to me on this. If there’s something we need to adjust inside AP I want to know, so we can fix it. Thanks a lot for your help!

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi Ridvan,

Thanks for writing about this. This is a known bug on Mac, that we are currently working on fixing.

Animation Paper IS recognizing your headphones, but ONLY when it is launched. – And then it will work for the whole session.

If you first run AP and then connect your headphones, then AP is not recognizing the correct audio output (your headphones).

This will be fixed for the next release, but for now, just restart AP 🙂

Please let me know if you are still having problems!
Niels

[Niels]

I will definitely consider changing these percentages. Thanks a lot.

And thanks for your kind words!

[Niels]

If I helped you – by accident – then you’re welcome 😀

I understand why you would be confused by the 75% at the maximum. I am not too happy about this myself. The reason was that you could compare it to the other pen tools and their opacity – however, it might be more confusing than helpful 😀

Anyway, thanks for testing! Keep it up – and please report anything else you might find weird.

Thanks,
Niels