[Niels]

Thanks 🙂 I just told my programmer: “Make it buttery!” – and he did! 😉 He’s a genius! And that’s almost how it went down. 😀

[Niels]

Thanks!

[Niels]

Thanks Waldo3D! Very helpful.

[Niels]

I see. As you know the old Plastic Animation Paper is from a time long before the Huion even existed. I am not sure how to advice you to be honest. I’m thinking it would require a lot of changes by us to PAP to make it work. We of course want to focus all our efforts on developing Animation Paper, so not much I can do to help here, sorry.

I would any day choose the new version over the old one anyway. But of course it is fine if your needs are different and you therefore have your own opinion about that. 😉 But just to make it clear, I do not think our alpha versions are more prone to bugs than the old version. Especially now that so many years have gone by, and modern computers and systems must feel so alien to my little old baby 😉 Hehe. I think it is amazing that it even runs today. After all it is 25 years old and last line of code was written 15 years ago.

Anyway, I hope you find a good solution what ever route you take. Thanks for your efforts! Good luck.

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

OK, noted. We can put an option for that in preferences, when we get to that at some point pretty soon. Thanks, Morfy.

[Niels]

Thanks Mike!

Even though changing one icon in the speed dial for us is super quick to do, I think other users could already have grown accustomed to how it is now, so I would rather wait for the general user customisation features to be implemented.

In the meantime, would it be an option for you to use the o shortcut on the keyboard?

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

OK, thanks.

So far I haven’t been able to get it to crash here. I am going crazy growing the amount of data and using memory, but so far no luck reproducing your result. 🙁 I will work on it again tomorrow.

[Niels]

Oh, OK. Thanks. Still, we don’t want it to crash at all. We’ll look into overuse of lassotool – and get it fixed!

[Niels]

Thanks a lot Suzie!

[Niels]

Thanks for the extra info Suzie. Very helpful.

To be clear: Did it crash the first time you tried to save after you imported audio? And did you manage to save your animation successfully before you added the audio?

Cheers,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi Suzie,

It is actually not a matter of your drawing being large. Animation Paper handles enlarging drawings very well, because the drawings will not degrade or blur in any way when scaled up. That’s one of the magic things about Animation Paper.

The problem is that copying using lasso will multiply the amount of data in a frame (drawing), so if you keep doing this over and over you risk having your data for a particular drawing increase exponentially. This is what the warning is about. Also the filesize of your scene can “suddenly” be very large because of this.

So, it is better practise to not use the lasso extensively. Try to just draw your frames from scratch using the lighttable for reference. Or copy drawings using copy/paste in the X-Sheet – meaning you copy whole drawings (frames).

I hope this makes sense. I know it seems like a weird problem. But it reflects how the Animation Paper drawing engine is built. There’s plenty of positive reasons why we did it this way, but the drawback is that you can not rely too much on the lasso and therefore multiplying data in a single drawing.

We are closely following how many people have these problems you are experiencing, so we might end up doing two modes or something, so it is up to the user to decide how things should work internally. The bottom line is we want to keep things simple and easy to use. So we’ll see.

So for now you can trace your problem-drawings to reset them to not fill up memory and require too much CPU-power. You asked about “tracing”? I just mean tracing, as in adding a new layer and drawing on top of the old layer. You are probably doing this anyway, when you do passes refining your drawings, cleaning them up or inking them. Once you have your new “clean” layer, you can get rid of the old one, and you will see a huge drop in memory usage and filesize (and performance when lassoing).

I hope this is helpful. Let me know if you need me to elaborate or if you have further questions.

Thanks a lot,
Niels

By the way: I know this is technical and annoying: But if you, instead of stamping and lassoing again, reuse the same lassoed drawing it will not get as bad. 😉 I mean, if you are simply “zooming” into something you are maybe using the same drawing anyway? You can get your latest floating selection back using Shift Esc on your keyboard. Or you can stamp, while holding Shift, to not loose (keep) your floating selection in the first place.

[Niels]

We are working on color right now. But it is a large area, so it will take a couple of alpha releases to be complete. But it is happening now and alpha 4 and alpha 5 will be the ones for all the coloring.

[Niels]

Sorry for my super slow answer this time! It works here. Could you try again please?

If it still doesn’t work, here’s the same link: https://animationpaper.com/register-pre-release/

Let me know how it goes?

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

Oh. This is not good (obviously). Thanks for reporting this too Suzie. We must find this bug asap.

[Niels]

Thanks a lot Morfy Morfy. I couldn’t agree more.

The sliding of the waveform up/down is on our immediate todo (was supposed to be part of alpha 3 but we had to leave it for the next release).

The rest of what you are saying is definitely something we would like to do for the future. It’s on our list too.

Best,
Niels