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In reply to: Alpha 3
In reply to: Scroll wheel zooming
In reply to: Alpha 3
In reply to: Add New Layer
Hi Kirt,
You are correct, layers always start at frame 1.
You need to have a layer with the first drawing blank and 39 clones after it. Then you can have your cycle from 40 to 55. Shift select your cycle (drawing 40-55) and copy/paste it below as many times as you need it. These copies are clones too, so cycling doesn’t take up memory and all drawings are properly linked.
I do appreciate that in your case you could have saved a step or two if this was done in another way. But I think designing the software how I did keeps the simplicity greater in general.
(I can’t run away from remembering your point though. 😉 Maybe I’ll do something about it at some point.)
In reply to: Where should I download the beta or alpha software?
In reply to: Where should I download the beta or alpha software?
In reply to: Key customization + some feedback
No problem at all Marcin! It is best if people could just launch it and start working without ever reading anything or watching any tutorials. That might not be totally realistic, but as a developer you can strive for it, right? So, good feedback from you definitely. Thanks a lot!
I know people are used to working with traditional bitmap software and therefore expect certain things. But I wanted to escape that and show things could work better. There’s a flipside though. I truly believe I’m on the right path, I just need to think even harder. 😉
Anyway, thanks again! 🙂
In reply to: Auto Saving / Import Audio format
In reply to: Key customization + some feedback
Smoothing is actually standard in Animation Paper too. 🙂 We have no settings for it – because it just works quite cleverly and subtly. You would definitely notice it if it wasn’t there. At some point we might present a couple of parameters for the user to be able to adjust it.
The issue with the lasso is that the data in one drawing will build up exponentially. So after 15 – 20 copies on top of it self, number of lines have doubled for every copy, and then memory and CPU usage explodes. We put in a warning with some recommendations. It pops up when picking up takes more than 2 seconds. Hopefully you got that too?
It’s a complex problem. Not just a matter of collapsing something. 🙂 Animation Paper wasn’t designed with extensive lassoing in mind. The positive sides of how this works are the ability to draw and lasso beyond the frame borders, unlimited resolution, so when scaling/rotating you get no degradation or blurring of your lines. Also coloring will take great advantage of this line engine of ours. As well as the ability to work in lower resolution for speed and exporting in higher resolution for quality.
In reply to: Paint options
Our plan was to release alpha 3 three weeks ago. But we have run into some issues that includes problems reading various audio formats, etc. So until these issues are overcome things are delayed a bit. Sorry. We just need to get it right. I’m guessing we should be ready with alpha 3 in a week or two.
In reply to: lag when undoing
In reply to: lag when undoing
That is not supposed to be the case. The time it takes to undo something is depending on what it is you are undoing. If it is something complex it naturally takes longer than some small thing. Either way, undoing should never take longer that a very short moment.
If you found it to be slower than say, a second, please let me know and please describe what specifically you are doing in Animation Paper, so we can reproduce the behaviour you are talking about.
Thanks a lot Caleb!
NielsIn reply to: Key customization + some feedback
Hi Marcin,
Thanks for your comments!
1) Actually you DO have flipping keys on the left of your keyboard: Q and W. Please check out the keyboard shortcuts here: https://animationpaper.com/animation-paper-keyboard-shortcuts-for-pc/
I am fully aware that many people want to do their own shortcut key bindings. That ability will come soon in one of the following alpha releases.
2) The blanks you are putting in between your drawings are considered originals too – meaning they are shown in the light table (only there’s no lines to show in your example). You would want to use “clone drawings” to have between your drawings instead. Much easier this way. You just drag down (or up again) on any original drawing to repeat it. That’s how you do timing in Animation Paper. Or you can use the Add Clone Drawing button instead of using the Add Blank Drawing button. When you do it like this – the lightable behaves just as you expected.
3) Yes, coloring features are still to come (soon in an alpha update).
4) If you draw, erase using erasers and draw again over and over and over – or if you use the lasso tool a lot, data builds up and things will ultimately get slow. The trick is to erase the whole paper using Clear Drawing instead. Draw roughly to get your animation right, then clean it up on a layer on top. You can repeat that many times if you want to do refining in several passes – no problem. But don’t be fudging your drawing too much. 🙂 (I’m not sure if that’s a term in actual english? I hope you get what I’m saying) 😉
Let me know if you have further comments!
Cheers,
NielsIn reply to: Paint options
Great – thanks Jerry!
It is in fact only an alpha version. Beta means finished, but could have bugs. Alpha is still missing features. And that is the case with the paint/coloring tools. They are still to come. You can see what’s planned in the menus, but as disabled (greyed out) functions.
We do want to make a brush system at some point. On the list for next major release.
Cheers,
NielsIn reply to: Copying a frame without the original updating
Hi Layanie,
When you copy a drawing (frame) and paste it to another place in the x-sheet, it is a clone – meaning the clone are are linked to the original. However, you can easily drop that link by making the clone a new original.
That’s my complicated way of saying: Just hit O (for Original) on the copied drawing. 😉
