[Niels]

Sorry no news on this topic yet. We have had to concentrate on a few planed (and super important) features.

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi Joshua,

No, not in the current version. But thanks for mentioning this! It has been requested a few times before – and we are going to implement it soon for one of the next alpha releases.

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

I like that idea very much! We’ll get this alternative short cut done (we can have both).

Thanks very much Constantin!

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[Niels]

We are working on this as we speak. Yes, it will be a kind of mix, so you as a user can choose to collapse a drawing up to that point. Still figuring it all out though 😉

[Niels]

Hi Bert,

Thanks for mentioning this. Actually this is a bug that has just last week been fixed in our internal version. 🙂 So this fix is part of our next release.

To get rid of this problem in the current public version (Alpha 7), you can hit Shift when it happens.

Looking forward to be able to release the next version for you and everybody else.

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

Oh! That’s great BK!

I just checked and it seems my email to you, with the solution that I wrote many days ago, for some reason never left my email server. Then I could have saved you the trouble of reinstalling. Sorry. Hopefully it was worth it for other reasons.

Anyway, happy animating!

Cheers,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi BK,

Yes, I think I know what that is. This happens on a few older kinds of on board graphics cards. I have a solution. Please send me an email, then I can email you back with a file and a few steps you must go through. My email address is the one you got your activation key from.

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi Bert,

I haven’t put that much thought into that I must admit – the tool tips are a standard system thing. The position is the same for the other tools in the tool bar and controls bar as well. And actually the same in other programs and for the rest of the system I believe.

It does make sense to have them NOT below, but above the tool though. I agree. I wonder if it is possible to change a setting in the OS preferences or if we can change it for Animation Paper. I’ll have to look into this… 😉

Thank you!
Niels

[Niels]

Thank you so much for your nice words and for your list!

 

I can tell you that some of it is already there. I’ll comment on your points below…

– The pen tools do have close-to-each other shortcuts too! The erasers are 1,2 and 3 and the pencil/marker/brush are 4, 5 and 6.

– Hovering the curser over the tool will actually show the “tool tip” – ie the name and the shortcut. Maybe you didn’t wait long enough for the first tool tip to appear? The next ones are instant, so you can “browse” around.

– Buttons in the X-Sheet are on our todo list. Coming soon! But already you can right click and get everything as a context sensitive drop down menu. Be aware, that the menu changes depending on what you are hovering over (1 – thumbnail (aka drawing), 2 – column (layer) or 3 – other area inside the X-Sheet.)

– I don’t remember hearing from others that the grid is hard to see. I suspect it depends on your monitor settings of course. It might be a good idea to include some kind of opacity adjustment though. Noted! Thanks!

– Ruler, lines. Sure! It’s on our list!

 

Looking forward to being able to release updates including these things – to make life just a little bit easier for you and others! 😉

Thanks again!
Niels

[Niels]

OK, thanks a lot Alan.

I will have a deeper look into this. I see the need. To create this functionality can seem simple on the surface, but it can have all kinds of implications. So it is a matter of doing it right. It have to be straight forward for the user. I like this challenge 😉

It is all noted and added to our todolist. Thanks again Alan!

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

OK, I see. Are you using the layers (colours) for different parts of a drawing, like torso, head and arms of a character?

[Niels]

Hi Dave,

So the “proper” way to do the next drawing is to start with a blank and use the lighttable – and trace the part you need to reuse. This way you do not multiply the data – and you won’t have any problems. Of course the lasso works as well as long as you don’t keep lassoing, stamping, lassoing, stamping, and so on many times in the same drawing.

I do appreciate that some people like to use the lasso a lot – especially of course if you are using your mouse. This is why we have now made an option for the user to drop the built up vector data. This will completely take care of your problems in your situation. You will not be able to transform and scale without some degradation/blurring (normally you can scale all you want and all lines keeps crisp and clear), but at least you will not have this locked up situation.

This will be part of our next release (alpha 8) coming soon.

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

Yes, others have asked for that too. It’s on our list. Thanks for mentioning it though! Important for me to get a feeling for how many people miss something. Thank you!

[Niels]

I believe this has changed at some point (window type). Anyway you are right. I’ll put it on our todo. Thanks for noticing these small things! Those are actually just as important to get right.

Thanks,
Niels

[Niels]

OK, thanks!