[Niels]

Yeah, I heard this before. 😉 We do actually have a very clever and subtle stabiliser built into AP already. It is working all the time and have no options.

But a more conventional smoothing stabiliser with a dial (slider) to turn it higher or lower is what you are looking for. It’s on our list.

Thanks for your suggestions Absurd E!

[Niels]

Sure! We actually have it on our todolist. We plan to do it like Photoshop and other drawing apps, where you hold down shift.

[Niels]

That’s awesome. Thank you!

[Niels]

OK, great 🙂

So just to make sure. Does that mean your need for copy/paste resulting in an original has disappeared? Or would you still miss it? I am interested, of course, because I want to make AP the best it can be for as many people as possible.

I am always pushing back a little, though, on adding special features, because it adds to the overall clutter and I want to keep complexity to a minimum. Without losing important functionality of course. If it’s needed it’s needed. 😉

Thanks,
Niels

[Niels]

OK, thanks for explaining. But I am still a bit confused. Normally you would just add a blank drawing (frame) – and then draw on that.

Also if something is to be held, you just drag down (from the original) to produce a number of clones. Also you can have one part holding on one layer and another part moving frame by frame on a second layer – like if you had a still standing body (on layer 1) and a head (on layer 2) looking around and moving.

I am not sure why you would keep copying the previous drawing?

[Niels]

Once you made it an original, you can not change it back (Undo works though, but that’s not what you are looking for I know).

I am interested in your workflow – and why you would want that? Could you explain a little more please?

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

With the current version (Alpha 4.2) – you have to download updates yourself. Later we will add an easy semi-automatic update possibility.

You can always check which one is the latest release and download it if you want here: https://animationpaper.com/download-pre-release/

And I will also send out an email to all who opted to get a notice when there’s a new version to download.

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

Oh, wow – that’s almost exactly the same computer as mine 🙂 I hope to be able to reproduce the problem here somehow. Thanks again!

[Niels]

By the way! What OS and graphics hardware are you using?

[Niels]

Wow, that’s very helpful, Russ! I haven’t seen this before. Thank you very much for recording this!

Bug alert! 🙂 We’ll get it fixed!

Thanks,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi again Geovitki. We have a theory 🙂 Could I ask you to draw a few “lines” in AP – I know they will not appear, but still just do it. Then save it as an .ap file and email it to me? Then we can check the file and hopefully get some answers.

My email is the one you got your activation key from.

Thanks a lot!
Niels

[Niels]

Thanks very much. That is very helpful. I’ll investigate!

[Niels]

Thanks for all the information. Can you tell me a little more? I mean, the drawing tool doesn’t work (neither mouse nor tablet). But in what way? Do you not get a line at all, when you try to draw? Does the buttons/GUI work? I am guessing other drawing software is working fine, please confirm this too.

Sorry for all the questions, but it all helps us finding the problem and a solution. 🙂

Cheers,
Niels

[Niels]

OK, thanks for reporting this Shunhua!

I might get back to you if we have any questions or if we have a new version we want you to test.

Thanks,
Niels

[Niels]

I don’t set a date, because it is only finished when we are fully happy with it. 😉 But realistically it will be about a year.