[Niels]

No problem at all, Matilda!

You just download Animation Paper again, install and register again. You will get a new activation key to use instead. That’s perfectly fine.

Let me know if you have further questions!

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

Cool! 🙂

[Niels]

Alright! Thank you! 🙂

[Niels]

Came to think of this feature – if that is what you meant: If you want to onionskin frames further away from your current frame, you can use the “Only Backlight Key Frames” option. Mark the frames you want to show in your onionskin as Key (by hitting K on each of them). Then you only see the Key frames even though they can be far apart.

Cheers,
Niels

[Niels]

Oh! OK 🙂

You can have up to 4 frames before and 4 frames after. See the columns in the screenshot above. You can drag those black parts up or down to increase or decrease the visibility of each of the backlit frames. If a column is all the way to the bottom, like +4/-4 in the above example, it will be turned off.

Does that answer your question?

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi Andy! 😉

Each layer is color-coded, so it is easy to separate them from each other visually. So when you draw on a certain layer the line will automatically be in that color.

You change the layer-color at the little “gizmo” at the top of the layer-column in the X-Sheet. You can choose between black, blue, green and red. Soon we will enable the little color-wheel too, so you can have custom colors.

I hope this makes sense to you!

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi Alain,

The default setting is this (see image). It shows 3 frames before and 3 after. Shift Space toggles the backlight (onionskin) on/off.

The functionality is very straight forward – so I’m thinking there’s something else going on. Are you trying to onionskin imported frames? They are reference frames and will not show up on the backlight. Once you draw something within AP, everything should work as expected.

Please let me know if that’s indeed what is happening (or not).

Thanks,
Niels

[Niels]

Haha – that is fantastic! Thank you very much for your nice words and for sharing this.

Thanks,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi again, would you mind emailing me your .ap file? Or send it with WeTransfer.com or something if it is large. We hope we could get lucky and maybe find a hint in your file to what might cause the problem when exporting.

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

Thanks a lot!
Niels

[Niels]

OK, thanks for the info. I’ll ask my more technically litterate colleague about this and get back to you! 🙂

[Niels]

OK.

Do you see the file in the place you exported to? Maybe just even a 0 byte size file?

If you have told me this info before please forgive me – but can I have info on what Windows version you are using and what hardware please?

Thanks,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi George,

I am not familiar with Amazon Fire. I undertand it is some sort of tablet. But does it run Android?

Right now, we are focusing on making Animation Paper for the desktop computers (Windows, Mac and Linux) – after that we plan to do tablet versions (iPad and Android).

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

You are most welcome!

[Niels]

Exactly. That’s my thought at least.

[Niels]

Hmm… not sure about that idea, Absurd E. 🙂