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In reply to: Installation problems
Dear Windows 7 computer,
You are not old, just experienced! 😉 You have a wise mind peeping out behind your probably not so high res view screen. 🙂
I do believe you should be able to run our software, but I need you to tell me a little more about your self! 😉
Are you are 64 bit or 32 bit system? If you are 32, did you try the 32 bit version af Animation Paper?
Also we have a portable (zip) version, maybe you will appreciate that one better?
Even though you are not the youngest sprinter type in town, please take a little nice and easy stroll to this place (you have been there before): https://animationpaper.com/download-pre-release/ – then download what you like best!
… Thanks for your very funny message George – I hope the above helps. Maybe you already did try this? Please let me know and we’ll get to the bottom of this. Thanks for being so interested in AP!
Best,
NielsIn reply to: Ruler tool?
In reply to: Line stabiliser
In reply to: First impressions and wishlist
We might be able to do a vector exporter at some point (it’s on our list). But for now, your option is to export as a sequence of png files or a mov prores file with alpha. If you need it at a high resolution, you can go to File -> Scene Settings, to change to a higher resolution as a final step before you do the export. While scaling up, AP will re-render everything, so all lines and drawings will be at full res and super crisp.
In reply to: First impressions and wishlist
Thanks a lot Sythgara! Your expression animation looks great! Thanks for sharing it. I will retweet it. But first I’ll better answer your questions/comments…
Yeah, the pen options are very basic on purpose. We haven’t done a real brush system, because we have focused on nice but simple lines and the line engine under the hood. That enables you to do a lot of really cool stuff in later releases. But check out scaling up your lines/drawings – it’s like magic right? 😉 Anyway, we plan on evolving the pen options more in the next major release.
Lasso selection copying itself to other layers: I am not sure what that is about either 😉 I don’t understand what you are describing? What do you mean by “jaw”? Could you have changed to another layer while having your floating selection up? This way you can easily paste drawings on other frames or other layers. But it shouldn’t just happen of course. If this is a bug – are you able to replicate this?
More tools in Tool Bar: Your Speed Dials and Tool Bar will be configurable, so you can choose which and how many tools will populate them. If all goes well, this will be part of the next alpha release already (Alpha 5).
Resize entire animation: To have your entire animation in another format (resolution/aspect ratio) you just go to File -> Scene Settings – where you can go up or down in resolution and/or change to a more or less wide format, etc. You can have it stretch your drawings, keep aspect or crop/center.
Zoom with mouse wheel: On our list – Coming up soon.
Scroll bars: Do you mean in the main drawing area view? Aren’t those just annoying? Hold H (or Space) for the hand tool. Let me know, why you think scroll bars are important.
Audio: You will hear the audio while you “scrub” your frames (dragging the playhead back and forth), so you can get exact sync. We didn’t put audio on flipping with the cursor keys (or Q/W) on purpose.
Color Wheel: Coming soon – and very easily accessible. 😉
Soft brush: Sure – when we do our line engine upgrade.
Group Shots: Yeah, my thought has always been to animate shot for shot and then edit them together in any editing software later on. I believe that would work best – but let me know if you believe otherwise?
Anyway, thanks a lot for your thoughts! Let me know if you stumble across more!
Best,
NielsIn reply to: Line stabiliser
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!
In reply to: Ruler tool?
In reply to: Pressing o to make an image an original.
In reply to: Pressing o to make an image an original.
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,
NielsIn reply to: Pressing o to make an image an original.
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?
In reply to: Pressing o to make an image an original.
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
