[Niels]

I am most familiar with Wacom tablets. They have a touch/gesture feature on/off switch build in.

But maybe we need to do a switch. We haven’t come to gestures yet. It’s on our todo list.

I was thinking, maybe you would benefit from having AP running with Windows Ink? You could try it and see if it changes anything for the better. Do this:

Find the file “qt.conf” (probably here C:\Program Files\Animation Paper\qt.conf). Rename it to whatever – to save it, if you need to restore. Then launch Animation Paper again. That forces AP to use Ink.

Let me know if that helped with anything.

[Niels]

Thanks very much! Very helpful. We’ll see if we can do something to make it work on the ArtistPad afterall…

I’ll be in contact when we have something for you to test. It might be a while though, because we need to focus on our current feature implementation right now.

Thanks,
Niels

[Niels]

OK I see.

Yeah, that could be one solution.

You probably already tried this, but just to make sure: Did you try to just click one of the icons after you opened the SpeedDial with S?

 

[Niels]

By the way – you can get to the primary Speed Dial by using the right mouse button. Does your pen-setup have such an equivalent? It could be interesting to know if you can make the Speed Dial work with a “right click” instead of using the S key. It probably doesn’t make a difference, but if it did, we would have some valuable information on finding the problem.

Please let me know. Thanks!

[Niels]

Thank you very much for doing this video – very helpful! We’ll look into it.

Best,
Niels

 

[Niels]

I will be happy to do my best to help you. What is the problem? You said in the other forum-thread it freezes. I need more information and details to be able to understand what is happening so I can help.

Thanks,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi Nantevevit,

Can you explain to me what freezes? I need all the details on how to replicate this please.

Thanks,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi Sasha,

Thanks for your nice words 🙂 Yes, sure, we are of course going to implement the ability to edit the shortcuts. It’s on our todo-list. We do have some even higher prioritised issues to solve first though – but editing shortcuts is an important thing for so many, so no worries. 😉

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

Alright, Mohamed!

Please download this zip file: https://animationpaper.com/files/diagnose_ap_opengl_x86.zip

After download, unpack the zip file. Then, double-click the file “diagnose.cmd” to run it. This produces an “ap_diag.txt” file that you must email back to me. (My email is the one you got your activation key from).

We do this to get information on what exact graphics hardware you have. You see, AP is not working properly on your hardware – but we can force AP to use another method for rendering the lines. So after I receive your email with the ap_diag.txt file, I will email a file back to you that you must place in your Animation Paper folder – then it will make AP change method and hopefully it will then work perfectly on your computer.

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

Oh! I know what’s wrong then! I’ll get back to you with a solution…

[Niels]

Yes, all Wacoms are supported.

So did you reboot after installation? This is important. But you probably did.

What are the other specs of your setup? Computer, graphics card, OS and version?

[Niels]

Hi Mohamed!

This is of course not supposed to happen. Also you shouldn’t have to input your activation key other than the very first time.

Did you remember to reboot your computer after installation? Maybe that could be the problem. Please get back to me if you already did reboot.

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

I just checked and the pencil is limited to 15 px as you say, but the marker is 30 and the brush is 60. Still arbitrary I know 😀

[Niels]

Hi Lucassaturn!

Thanks a lot for responding to my YouTube comment and for your time! And thank you for your critique and very nice words too! Much appreciated – all of it.

Much of what you stumble across in your video is representing only one way of doing stuff. Like zooming as you mention with Cmd+/-, adding blank drawings by standing on the dotted rectangle, etc, etc. A lot of things can be done in multiple ways in Animation Paper, so every user can find his/her preferred way, or the most effective way in that particular situation. For instance, jumping to certain zoom levels is on Cmd 1 through 9 and Cmd 0 is Fit View and just hitting 0 is Reset View (to 100%). I mention these keys because I was reminded of them when you talked about the number keys in Toon Boom. I don’t know if it is exactly the same there, but at least it is standard like this in many other drawing software. To add a new blank drawing, there’s an icon in the Tool Bar or the 2nd Speed Dial (hold Shift S) – it’s called Add Blank Drawing (the icon with the + sign) and the shortcut is Cmd Arrow Down. Anyway, I recommend you check out all the drop down menus, which gives you a good overview of what is in AP. Also there’s a shortcut list linked to from the Help menu. And remember you can use both the left Cmd and the right Cmd in order to better reach keys (on PC it’s Ctrl left and right).

To adjust pen size and opacity try holding D for the drawing tool or E for the erasing tool. Your selectors and sliders pop up right at your cursor. Also you can use standard PS shortcuts for many things, like decrease/increase pen size using the square brackets [ and ].

Anyway, I do understand and appreciate what you say about muscle memory. I agree. As you discovered, we haven’t yet done user remapping of the shortcuts. This will come. But really, the shortcuts are quite well thought out if I may say so my self 😉 Hehe. And again, we have many alternative ways of doing all sorts of things.

I think it is interesting, from an UX/UI point of view, why you would want the link for the clone drawings much more obvious/visible. I mean, we had it like that in the beginning of development, but I decided to dial it down. We also considered some kind of lines or something, from one thumbnail to the other, to show the linkage. However, at least in my mind, it is not really that important information. But what IS important is to keep the interface clean and not lighting up like a Christmas tree everywhere. It has to be uncluttered and pleasant – although, of course, important stuff must be easy to spot. So I ask, why is it important to have it scream this drawing is a copy (“clone”) of this drawing? If you flip back and forth over it in AP, you can easily see the linked drawings highlighting/blinking elsewhere. But maybe it is just me. I am genuinely interested in why more contrast is important? (maybe I missed something)

Backlight window could be more compact I know. I chose to do it this way to make it easer to grasp. Also I did the A and B setting, exactly because then you wouldn’t even have to have it open all the time as you suggest. You can set both A and B as you like it and then only need toggle backlight on/off or toggle between A and B setting. And we don’t clutter things up with yet another window or pane. Again, that’s at least as I see it. Please correct me if I’m wrong!

Anyway, thank you again! I hope you will keep using AP for a little while to get more used to it. I hope you will enjoy it!

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

… and here’s the update getting rid of that bug: https://animationpaper.com/2022/05/03/quick-update-alpha-6-1/

Thank you very much for reporting it 7thartist!