[Niels]

Hi Mike!

Well, it will take a while. Hard to say exactly. We are working on much of the coloring functionality and there’s quite a bit of complicated work in it. So all coloring features will be spread over alpha 4 and 5 if not more. We’ll release alpha 4 as soon as it makes sense.

Cheers,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi CS, that does indeed sound odd. Thanks for letting me know.

Could I get you to do a screenshot and either post it here or email it to me? I’m hoping I will be able to spot something out of the ordinary.

My email address is the one you got your activation key from.

Cheers,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi JulesQA!

Thanks for getting in contact about this.

I’m guessing this could be caused by a too high resolution-percent-setting in your Windows preferences. Try setting it lower or to 100%. I think this would make Animation Paper start up with a smaller size window (including smaller buttons/icons/interface) – making it better fit your screen.

Let me know how it goes!

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

Haha, yeah, that’s probably a good idea anyway 🙂

Thanks for this Mario. Like you indicate, this problem seems to only happen on a few specific older graphics cards. Great if you can get to borrow your wives computer – and upgrading your own is of course nice. But we want to fix this problem if at all possible, so it works on the most systems as possible of course.

Cheers,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi Russ,

First of all, sorry for my slow responce!

Wow, that is quality bug reporting! Thank you! I was able to recreate it here – I had to go from 1280×720 to 2K for it to happen here, but it did. That makes it very easy for us to fix it. Thank you again Russ!

[Niels]

Alright! Thanks Mike!

Right now we have begun work on all the coloring features. This will take a while. So coloring will probably be spread over both alpha 4 and 5. After that we just need to finish up the last few things, and keyboard- and Speed Dial customisation is surely part of that. So you probably need to look out for Alpha 6! 😉

Cheers,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi Anika!

This behaviour is on purpose. The layer that is generated when you import drawings, or any kind of images, is called a “reference layer”. It is not for drawing directly upon. To draw on top, you just add a new layer (press N) and then you can draw all you want.

Technically the reference- and drawing layers are very different. That is why they must be kept apart.

Cheers,
Niels

[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!