[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.

[Niels]

Yes! That has been in our plans all the time. We would love to have an iPad version! So we are doing it first thing after we have released the final version for desktop. And it will be quick to do, because we have planned it all along. It will be fully compatible with the desktop versions and have shared code base. Only we need to redesign the interface so it is perfect for touch.

Cheers,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi Mark,

Yeah, we are experiencing problems with some server certificate that expired. That’s why you couldn’t register and get your activation key. I’m very sorry for the inconvenience. We are working on getting everything up to speed again as we speak.

If you email me your name and email we can register for you manually here. Then you will receive your activation key on your email, as if you did it yourself. My email is niels at animationpaper.com.

EDIT: Never mind! Since you registered to write on this forum, I could find you in our database. So I will be registering manually on your behalf so you can get your activation key in a few minutes. I hope you enjoy Animation Paper! Thanks!

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi Елена!

Your activation key contains the letter Й? That does not make sense to me – we don’t generate any keys using russian letters. Maybe I am misunderstanding what you are saying?

Why is it not possible for you to use the copy/paste method? What happens when you try?

I will do my best to help you. Please get back to me with answers to the above.

Thanks,
Niels

[Niels]

OK, thanks for letting me know. 🙂

[Niels]

Hi Randy, thanks a lot for this.

You kind of hit the nail on the head here. But the challenge is that we need the line history to be able to recreate (re-render) the complete drawing/frame when for example doing rescaling. I am painfully aware that having this “magical” scaling ability has exactly this drawback you describe. When I designed this, I imagined more rough drawing, maybe based on the light-table, and less copying using the lasso tool. 🙂 But I appreciate why you rely on your technique, which I want to support – as well as other ways.

The immediate super low-tech practical solution is to, as a user, redraw the drawing, which you under normal circumstances doing traditional style animation would do anyway. Once you have refined or “tied down” your drawing (or even just traced it), you can get rid of your old rough sketch with all the accumulated data, solving the problem.

Of course some kind of build in automatic solution would be preferable instead. I agree. But this is theoretically not easy. One pragmatic solution could be to just let the internal vector data go, since we do have the visual outcome – the bitmap data. And you, as the user, could work fine with it from there. As long as you don’t intend to utilise the original vector data, which gives you perfect scaling with no degradation (as mentioned), but also future functionality like nudging the lines and more. So in conclusion, we might decide to make this (relying on historical vector data) optional for the user by having some kind of setting to at least making it a conscious choice between basically two ways of working. Two ways, both with pros and cons.

If you have comments or anything to add, please let me hear your points. This is super important and something we need some kind of usable solution for. Much appreciated.

Thanks,
Niels

[Niels]

Sure. And I can imagine how irritating and distracting it must be. Would it be possible for you to record a small video of this effect? Or do a screenshot for me? Just so I have a clear understanding of how it looks if others get the same problem. If it is not too much trouble, please email it to me. My email is the one sending you your activation key.

Another thing: Are you by any chance on a touch screen laptop? I mean not using a Wacom Cintiq or similar external tablet?

[Niels]

Oh, sorry Corin! Haven’t experienced that or heard about that before.

It seems to be some system setting, not anything Animation Paper related. From the link you shared I find this:

“On Windows 10 this is very easy to do. Go to Settings > Devices > Pen and turn off Show Visual Effects”

Does that take care of the problem?

Cheers,
Niels

[Niels]

Yes, go to the menu Draw -> Toggle Cursor (Crosshair/Dot). Or use keyboard shortcut , (comma).

This changes the cursor from the default crosshair with circles that shows the size of your pen/brush to just a dot that doesn’t change and is much less distracting.

I hope that feels better 🙂

Cheers,
Niels