[Niels]

Great! Thanks for letting me know.

[Niels]

Hi Morfy Morfy,

Thank you very much for these clear and very good suggestions. I totally agree with you. We already identified 1 and 2 our selves, so they are already on our todo list. Your 3rd suggestion I haven’t experienced my self, but it probably comes down to small variances and sizes of your tablet/pen/screen/etc. And it is probably not much change that is needed, so we’ll test it and do something about that too.

Thank you!!

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

It sounds like you could have accidentally hit T. This is for Toggling between Add Clones mode and Slide Mode. Default is Add Clones mode, were you are able to drag to add or remove clones. Slide mode is for sliding the original drawings up/down through the “sea of clones” – adjusting timing of your key frames.

I hope this helps.

Cheers,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi Julien! Thanks for checking in with me 😉 I did have a very nice vacation! Thanks.

Because of the summer vacation period, development went to a complete halt. But since today we are now back and fully working! So we’ll wrap up the audio stuff and most important fixes and get it out very soon. (Vague as usual ;))

To check what version the latest release is, you can always go to the download page where it says when it was built: https://animationpaper.com/download-pre-release/

Uh! It says April?! We need to get Alpha 3 finished!! 😉

[Niels]

Thanks for letting us know Cathe! We’ll investigate.

[Niels]

Thank you very much Dympopov!

[Niels]

Hi Dympopov,

Thanks for your comments! As you probably are aware, Animation Paper is in alpha. This means it is not finished and features are still to come as we continuously release new free updates.

Both of your points are something we are going to do. Coloring is first and will come very soon.

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

😀 Haha thanks 🙂

[Niels]

Hi Vazii. You need to set the percentage-resolution in your Windows settings. Animation Paper thinks it is on a very high resolution screen and therefore shows its GUI too large. At the same time the window is at its minimum size, which makes it have the bottom of the window hidden below the bottom screen border.

So adjust your percentage down. Maybe it is at 150% or 200%, try setting it to 100% or something. 🙂

[Niels]

Thanks for your patience Todd! It’s important for me to get it right. If you experience problems, more people probably will too. So, we’ll have to get it fixed – and thanks to you we can get our attempts checked. I am very grateful for your help.

[Niels]

Audio is coming in the next alpha update very soon!

You see, Animation Paper is in “alpha” – which means it is still being worked on. Some features are still to come. Such as coloring/paint, preferences, more import/export formats, etc. And audio! 🙂

Thanks,
Niels

[Niels]

Thanks a lot Lisette!

We will make most functions available as icons (including Undo/Redo), so you can customise your interface by placing your favourite icons in the Tool Bar or in the Speed Dial. Right now the Tool Bar and Speed Dials are populated by me as a “default”, but what is available for quick clicking or flicking without the use of the keyboard, will be up to you as a user in one of the next alpha releases. 🙂

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

Yes, you will be able to set your line color exactly as you want. Also all the coloring will come as mentioned above. Straight lines and circles are “controversial” because I want to keep everything straight forward and as “analogue”/nonetechnical in feel. Of course it can be highly technical and complicated under the hood. But we are contemplating doing lines and circles in an easy and user-friendly way. We’ll see how it goes. 🙂

By the way, you can actually change your white transparent background to black (or gray) in the current alpha. Try to see if that works for you and let me know: Paint -> Transparency Shown As -> Black.

Thanks!

[Niels]

I guess, with your method, you should keep all your marked keys in the same layer, to be able to jump between them all. If your layers are linked anyway, it will not make a difference – only enable you to skip along all of your keys/extremes.

Sorry if I am missing your point.

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi Michael,

I am not sure if you are already aware of this, but maybe linking the three layers together will do exactly what you are after? When you change anything timingwise in one of the linked layers, like adding a drawing, the same will happen in the other linked layers. Just hit the link icon at the top of the layer column for each layer you want to have linked.

When you specifically add a blank, then AP will add a clone in each of the linked layers. Is that the behaviour you where looking for or did you need it to add blanks and not clones?

About your second point: Did you know about the “key” function? You kan mark any drawing as “key” just by hitting K. You can use that for a few different things, like only flipping between key frames, or only backlighting keys. Or where you thinking of something else/more?

Best,
Niels