[Niels]

Bummer 🙁 But thanks for trying.

[Niels]

Thanks for explaining.

It sounds like there is something happening when the main Animation Paper window is about to open. What are the specs of your computer?

Windows 8.1 you say. What about memory and graphics card?

[Niels]

Least painful? That’s pretty great! 😉

Sorry, for some reason I had to approve of your post before it went public. I only just did that now. Sorry for being slow. Also deleted the “clone” post (to stay in Animation Paper terminology! ;))

In the current Alpha 1 you can export png frame stacks – as you probably know. My plan is do movie files soon and hopefully support Quicktime ProRes with alpha as well as mp4. In my world that would be the two most useful formats. Would anybody agree?

[Niels]

I’m not saying it couldn’t be a bug, but it sure sounds like you do not have your pen working correctly. I mean, is pressure working? Often this is an indicator that your pen is only working with mouse coordinates. This means low resolution and therefore jaggies – especially visible when the line it thin.

Sorry if I am misunderstanding the situation?

[Niels]

What he ↑ said! 😉

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[Niels]

Thanks Ross. I should have gone back to this thread and said that 😉

[Niels]

Yeah, zoom in off pegs would be useful, I agree. Noted.

[Niels]

Thanks for this Jareth! Your animation looks great – even after your troubles! 😉

The layers are always in the order of the left most is on top, then down to the right most which is at the bottom. Only exception is the layer you are currently working on. This is what you noticed – it popped above every other layer as you clicked it, so you can always see the layer you are drawing on clearly.

To reorder layers, just drag the “thingies”, at the bottom of each column in the x-sheet, left or right.

In this version the Merge Layers functionality is off (you can find it greyed out in the menu) – we couldn’t finish it before the deadline of the pre-release. But it will come soon.

Moving a selection of many frames at the same time is also coming pretty soon.

Turning off layers that you don’t want to look at with onion skin is just a matter of turning them off (eye).

Also remember that the reason layers are easy to change to another color is exactly to keep layers visually apart. If you have two layers with the same color, they will blend together visually and this is confusing of course. So just keep them with different colors. At the end, when you want to export, you (for the most part) only export your cleaned up (inked) layers and then you most often set them all to black (setting everything to black can be done while exporting as well).

Maybe you where aware of all this already?

[Niels]

That sounds very weird. So it closes the small window where you paste the code?

[Niels]

That looks great Jerry! Thanks for showing it. 20 mins are impressive! Cool.

[Niels]

Very cool Diego, good to hear.

A bookmark is a good idea. We actually had that in the old PAP. 🙂

Are you aware of the “Range”? The Range can be set shorter, so you only work with a smaller range of your total frames. This is great when you are working on a longer scene (many frames).

[Niels]

Thanks Jalenr11, some people have had the same problem, but then when they tried again later it worked. Could you try again – no need to reinstall, just paste the code in again and see if it decides to work this time?

[Niels]

Actually, if you go to your folder where you installed Animation Paper (probably “c:/Program Files”) you can find a qt.conf file. If you rename that to something else (so you can rename it back if needed) – and run Animation Paper again, it should actually now use Windows Ink! Interesting to see if that works with pressure and all for you?

[Niels]

OK, happy you found your own solution. But not having pressure-sensitivity is not optimal. If it works for you now, good. But I will still see if we can find a good solution…

BTW we have tried supporting Windows Ink, but we let it go again, because it introduces all kinds of irritating behaviour with overlays and stuff that makes it frustrating to work with. In my opinion.

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[Niels]

Sorry I don’t see it. I’m reluctant to just write me email straight because of spam bots. But it is this: niels at animationpaper.com.