[Niels]

That’s very helpful Mike! Thank you!

Yes, of course, it aught to work with installing as admin and running as any user. That’s the point. We need to fix it so it works like that. But first I wanted to confirm that that was indeed what happened, – so we can make it right. 😉

Cheers,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi James,

Thank you very much for these points of yours!

First of all, you are not blind. 🙂 These things are not in the current alpha 3.

I do understand the need for all of them. They are already on either our todo- or our careful-consider-lists.

The slide up/down is a no-brainer, and that was actually planned for alpha3, but we unfortunately had to bump it to alpha4.

The rest is more a matter of exactly how it should work. I mean, there’s nothing technically difficult in making these features – only challenge is how to design it best, user-experience wise. I want to keep the ease and uncluttered simplicity of the software, while of course have the functionality you need as a pro animator. So it is “only” a matter of coming up with good ideas and good solutions.

I am happy to work this out for my self (it’s the most fun part of developing this software!), but I am listening if you have your own suggestions as to how it should work at the UX level. It will be super interesting to get your perspective on this.

You are very welcome to email me (my email is the one sending your activation key) or just reply here with a few thoughts. Anyway – thanks a lot James! It is really appreciated!

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

Hello again AP-User! Frederik, our lead programmer, is on the case and he has a working theory about what the problem is. 🙂 But he wants to find out something. Maybe you can answer this: Did you install, then run, Animation Paper as two different users?

Cheers,
Niels

[Niels]

No, being offline shouldn’t make a difference on the installation – everything needed is included in the initial download.

Thanks for mentioning it though!

[Niels]

Thanks Ann_Annie. Others seem to have the same problem. We are looking into it – and I hope we can release a new update within a few days.

[Niels]

Thanks for this. Others have the same problem.

The installer is supposed to automatically install these dll’s, but for some reason on some systems it apparently doesn’t
happen.

We’ll look into it. My guess is we can release a new installer in a few days.

Cheers,
Niels

[Niels]

Thanks Roger!

[Niels]

Hi Roger,

Yes, flipping one frame at a time using the arrow keys does not scrub the audio. This is on purpose. You drag the playhead back and forth to scrub.

Cheers,
Niels

[Niels]

Wow, that’s weird. Thanks for reporting this Roger! We’ll have a look at it…

[Niels]

Thanks a lot for these details Todd. Appreciated.

I have a report from another user saying the same – but the strange part is that it is only lagging in periods. Some of the time it worked perfectly well. So you are right – something weird is going on. We’ll find the problem and fix it.

Cheers,
Niels

[Niels]

OK, thanks, Fabian. We are looking into this.

[Niels]

Got the PNG now – thanks! 😉

[Niels]

Hi Hitesh,

My guess is you do not have any frames in your animation yet? If you just opened Animation Paper and imported the sound, your animation is only 1 frame long. Try dragging down on the one frame in the X-Sheet to make a larger number of clones – then you have something to play, including the audio. Also you should now be able to see your audio as a waveform.

Let me know if that helped you – or if your problem is something else?

Cheers,
Niels

[Niels]

Yes, do that. Sorry I can’t help you better right now. We’ll look into this. We might come back to you with questions or test versions for you to try.

Thanks again,
Niels

[Niels]

That’s great Todd! Thanks for letting me know!

We don’t know where we go from here on this – first we need to see if there is any unforeseen problems with this solution. 🙂