[Niels]

OK, I get your point. And it’s an important one. Must be annoying if you are fast like you are.

The good thing about using Ctrl drag (Cmd on Mac) for quickly adjusting the pen size and opacity is that this is kind of standard in other software as well. We already use Shift drag for a quick way of scrubbing the playhead.

Again, your point is very valid. Maybe it would work if we changed it from Ctrl to Alt (Option on Mac). Can’t remember off the top of my head if this has other implications. Will look into it. Thanks!

Anyway, as you say, once you can do your own key bindings in AP, this would not be a problem. But again, the default keys have to be good of course.

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

No problem at all! I’m grateful you did the testing. I will think long and hard over this and see what solution we can come up with. Maybe it will be one of your suggestions. Anyway, thanks a lot!

[Niels]

I’m pretty sure we haven’t changed anything in this regard for a long time. But still it is interesting to see if you find any difference nevertheless. Please let me know!

I have uploaded Alpha 8 for you here: https://animationpaper.com/files/AnimationPaper_Alpha8.exe

This is the Windows 64bit version, let me know if you need Mac or Linux instead.

Thanks!

[Niels]

Thanks for mentioning it Momomo! More data for us. Appreciated.

[Niels]

Actually, I must be confused 🙂 Current frame is NOT always centered. That is how we HAD it at some point. 🙂 It doesn’t work like that anymore because we changed it due to similar problems to what you talk about. Anyway, I will give it a fresh look!

[Niels]

Thanks a lot for your very valid point. I think I understand your complain. If you have an original drawing centered in the X-Sheet and you drag it a few frames up or down you can lose track of where it is, because when you let go after the dragging – it will be re-centered (current frame is always centered) in the X-Sheet. Of course your new timing is intact, it’s just disorienting as you say.

I know about this problem – and we have actually tried to not center and tried other solutions as well, but they become problematic in other regards. So it is a difficult UX problem to tackle. We have it on our todo-list already – but I will give it another look asap now you bring it up. Thanks for that! 🙂

[Niels]

I’m glad I can help 🙂

[Niels]

No problem – look towards the bottom of each layer in the X-Sheet – that’s where you adjust opacity. I know, it could be more obvious. 😉

I have marked it in your picture here…

[Niels]

Hi Whipple, thanks for letting the forum know about this solution. Cool!

But am I understanding correctly – you don’t have pressure sensitivity now?

If that’s the case, that is not optimal to say the least. 🙂 I’m not sure this will help, but it’s worth a try: Locate the file “qt.conf” (probably here C:\Program Files\Animation Paper\qt.conf). Rename it (to save it in case you want to reverse this). Then launch Animation Paper again.

My hope is that this fixes the pressure problem in Animation Paper.

Please let me know.

Thanks,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi Whipple, thanks for the recording. It’s a bit difficult for me to be sure I get the problem exactly – but it seems to me that sometimes the cursor stays in a frozen position while you draw the line (the line updates fine while you draw it). Is that correct?

I haven’t seen this behavior before, so it’s a bit puzzling…

[Niels]

Got it! Thank you!

[Niels]

Thanks Katherine and Jalenr11 – we’ll keep investigating…

[Niels]

We haven’t been able to fully understand this or find anything yet. Interesting with the window quickly appearing at startup. Hmmm…

[Niels]

Hi again Katherine,

I just did a few quick Google searches. It seems this problem is not necessarily Animation Paper related. Can you try disabling Windows Ink? From what I can read, this should fix the problem for you. You disable it from your Windows system settings.

How many drawbacks – if any – this introduces, I don’t know. Maybe you can just try it and see how well it works for you? Please let me know.

Thanks,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi Katherine, thanks a lot for reporting this. I haven’t heard of this weird one before. But thank you very much for describing this in detail. I can imagine how irritating it must be. We’ll investigate!

To suggest something to you right now, you could learn the keyboard shortcuts of the most important menu items, so you at least don’t have to use the menu that often. Alternatively (or additionally) you can customise your Tool Bar or your two Speed Dials – to again have your most wanted (if not all) items easily reachable.

Anyway, thanks again for letting me know. I hope we will soon have a fix for this problem.

Best,
Niels