[Niels]

To be perfectly honest, it is not a big deal to implement a simple algorithm that would smooth your mouse made lines. It will, however,  not be a satisfactory result no matter what we do. Drawing with a mouse is just not a good idea, unless you are just testing stuff or doing an extremely rough stick figure type animation. Our aim is to enable people to create high quality animation – so for serious use you just have to have proper drawing hardware. I highly recommend it.

We have plenty of important things still to do with Animation Paper, like the whole area of coloring, so I am afraid we will not be prioritising mouse smoothing. I hope you understand.

To maybe solve your problem, you should check out external smoothing softwares, that works as an extension of many drawing programs, including Animation Paper. Maybe others can suggest a good one?

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

Yes, Wacoms are high quality, but, I agree, expensive. I have used Wacoms since forever 😉 The Huions seem to be a good, less expensive, alternative though. Haven’t used one my self, but I know quite a few that has and they seem happy. 🙂

As long as it has pressure sensitivity you should be fine with what ever you choose for the budget you have.

[Niels]

Sounds awesome J. Thanks again.

Actually we do already have “tool tips” when you hold your cursor on top of buttons and stuff.

Also we already have a quite clever and subtle stabiliser on the line when drawing. But if you only use your mouse it will not help as much as you might like, because it is tuned to a stylus/pen. It does work even on a mouse though. 🙂

Anyway… 🙂

[Niels]

OK, I am confused. Sorry 🙂

I will investigate and get back to you…

[Niels]

Hi J, please see my answer in your latest post thread.

[Niels]

Hi J, please see my answer in your latest post thread.

[Niels]

Oh, I see! 🙂 Thanks for explaining.

I would certainly recommend using the new version (Animation Paper) – even though it is still in development – because it is already SO MUCH better than the old PAP.

Making an alternative download package as a zip file is no problem at all. We might do that. Thanks for your suggestion!

And just for you, get it here from my Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fz60h02c0kab1s7/AnimationPaper_x64.exe.zip?dl=0

 

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[Niels]

That makes sense. Thanks a lot. And I see your focus is on the lightable – mine was on flipping between the keys/breakdowns. But both ways would benefit. So that is all noted. Thanks!

[Niels]

Hi JZS, thanks a lot for this list of yours. Appreciated. Editing a post several times should certainly be possible. It actually looks like you even did it yourself? Anyway, to your points… 🙂

Most of what you are saying I am already fully aware of. Much is on our todolist already.

As you probably know Animation Paper is in alpha, which means it is under development and is not a finished product. As you mention, stuff like all the paint features are not done yet and the menu items are therefore disabled (we decided to have them present, but greyed out, so people could see what is coming).

The tutorial videos are made for the alpha versions specifically. Only a few videos, meant as a brief overview. We will do completely new ones (more in-depth) before we are ready to release the final version.

In general we will rely on our audience having at least a basic knowledge about animation already (like common technical terms etc). You see, it is a balance. We don’t want to bore people who are actual animators. Animation Paper is a pro tool, that we hope is so natural and easy to use that even beginners can use it. But I do get what you are saying, and of course having videos that will help everyone would be great – so the solution, I think, will be that we generally require a certain basic knowledge – but then do some special tutorials for complete beginners, and maybe some for people coming from other software, like Photoshop or TVPaint or something – and then again, we could do special tutorials for advanced professionals wanting to quickly get to some specific detail on how to utilise a certain advanced feature. I think that would make sense.

About the Speed Dial. If you try to invoke it from the menu, it doesn’t make sense I agree. It is made to be activated using the shortcut key (holding S). Then it works – then it is a super fast and efficient way of activating your tools.

Your points are noted. Thanks a lot for taking time doing this. Let me know if you have further comments or questions! Thanks again.

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi Matilda,

Thanks a lot for your suggestion! I do like that idea. Could you tell me a bit more about how you see it working? I mean, do you hold down another key to flip between both keys and breakdowns? So you could mark both key and breakdowns and choose to flip either between keys only – or between both types. I guess it makes no sense to be able to flip only between breakdowns and not keys, right?

Looking froward to your answer,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi Animation King! What do you mean by “portable”? It is already for Windows, so do you mean port it to Mac?

That is in a way what we are already doing. Although we are making it much better and up to modern standards and conventions.

Can I ask, what is the reason you want the old PAP and not the new Animation Paper?

[Niels]

Oh, that sounds like a known issue that seems to happen with certain older graphics cards. We are not sure how we can fix it – but hope to find a way. What graphics card are you using?

[Niels]

Hi Christopher.

Sure! Did you install Animation Paper? You must have since you managed to register and received your activation key. (Unless you “cheated” and used the link above in this thread?) 😉

So, just run Animation Paper again and copy/paste your key into the box in the small window that comes up. You can’t miss it.

Let me know if this makes sense and works for you?

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

Sorry, Itohan, we had a problem with our license server. It was fixed 2 hours ago, so it should be working now.

Please try it again. Sorry for the trouble.

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

I agree Hans. And what ever we decide to include in Animation Paper, it will not be in this first final release (what will be Animation Paper version 5.0). We need to finish 5.0 which means, finishing what we are already working on, like all the coloring parts of the software and a list of minor things.

But I’m building a list of good ideas for 6.0 and 7.0, and ideas, pros and cons, are good to discuss.

Anyway, thanks a lot!
Niels