[Niels]

Thank you once more Sam! Much appreciated.

I know it is not the same, but in a way, your first point is somewhat doable already. I mean, you can draw outside the frame – or stamp down floating selections outside too. Then pick it all up and scale it down or move it gradually into frame again if needed.

Layer groups has been mentioned by others too. It makes a lot of sense – and it is on our todolist for future releases.

Cheers,
Niels

[Niels]

OK, thank you

[Niels]

You are most welcome! (Your “complaints” are valuable information and ideas, I need to always listen to and take very seriously. Thank you!)

[Niels]

Yeah, that would be a possibility. I’ll think about it.

In the meantime you could use H instead (hand tool), it seems it would work much better for you?

[Niels]

Hi Sam, thanks for this!

It is not possible with the current version. It is on our todo-list though.

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

I care about making the way it works the right way – I mean, what tends to be the right way for almost everyone. You’d be surprised how much we all think alike – how much we prefer our UX the same way, when you get into the fine detail of things.

That’s also why I keep going on, to make sure we are on the same page. If I can avoid it, I will not just do an option or preference setting, because more often than not, it turns out there is one way that people actually agree is the best way. Which is often the most efficient and intuitive way.

[Niels]

Thanks for explain once more.

I do understand what you are saying. I am however reluctant of adding certain features, or just functionality in general, because, as you probably have noticed, an important value in the vision of Animation Paper is to keep everything very straight forward, simple and easy. I will go a long way to keep it uncluttered.

Behaviour and functionality in Animation Paper is designed to give very optimised workflows, ie enable the user to work very efficiently. Therefore, with your case, you can actually press Space and start dragging immediately – even before the interface is visible. So if you have a tendency to move your cursor while you are waiting for the interface to appear, just know, that you don’t need to wait – simply press Space and press down with your pen immediately so you can do your panning. This way we also keep it in line with other software.

[Niels]

It is hard to tell from what you write if it is Animation Paper it self that is not loading (aka starting up) or it is your animation that is not loading into Animation Paper.

If it is the latter, please send me your animation file (.ap file), so I can investigate and check if it loads into Animation Paper here at my end. Please send it to my email, which is the one you got your activation key from. Use wetransfer.com or some other method if your file is large.

Thanks,
Niels

[Niels]

I mean, regardless of where the cursor is, the pan area pops up right at that spot. So you don’t need to move it to the large outer area. Maybe the problem is that for some reason it doesn’t work like that at your end? I am suspecting the interface might just pop up in the middle of the screen or something?

[Niels]

OK I see. But still, wouldn’t you want your most used tool to sit right where you have your cursor – so you don’t have to move it first?

[Niels]

Hi again Sam,

In addition to what Mike said:

I am a bit confused because it IS panning (hand tool) that is in the center area when you hold Space. Zoom is the outside area. So if you want to pan/move you hold space and click and drag exactly where your cursor is already. Am I misunderstanding you?

Thanks,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi Sam, thanks for your comments! Having control over amount of texture and especially letting opacity go to 100% would not be that difficult to do.

But could you explain, or maybe show with examples, what exactly you mean by “paper feel”, “character” and “traditional look”? Maybe you mean make it a more realistic real pencil – which is hard to do before we get to it (get to the actual brush system).

Mike, thanks for your participation and support of the whole project. Much appreciated!

[Niels]

We have planned to have a preferences window, but we might end up not needing it. We’ll see.

We do have options for various things of course, but so far they fit very well in the menues.

One of the first menu items in the X-Sheet menu is for swapping sides, so the x-sheet goes to the opposite side (and the tool bar swaps side as well always being opposite of the x-sheet).

We might make them independent of each other in one of the next alpha releases.

[Niels]

Good to know Bob! Thanks. Noted.

[Niels]

Hi Pharan, thanks for this!

You can use cut/paste: Click the C thumbnail. Ctrl X. Click the B thumbnail. Ctrl V.

We are considering doing an extra mode, so drawing order is easily changeable by just dragging. Right now, there’s Add Clones mode and Slide mode. “Swap mode” is on our consider list.

Best,
Niels