Thanks synthsin75. That makes sense. Glad to know it was designed that way and it's not just me losing my marbles.

Definitely the manipulate bones tool:

http://tinypic.com/r/2yulisz/8

http://tinypic.com/r/voooj6/8

(Not sure if the above images are going to display correctly).

Thanks for the help. No I haven't set any constraints or enabled physics. In fact I started a test project from scratch just to test out what was happening. I don't think it can be a constraint problem because the root bone will rotate, but you either need to press Alt when rotating it, or move a ch...

Oops. Look like I posted twice by mistake. I clicked "submit" and nothing happened, so I did it again. Anyway, I just realised that I can rotate the "root" bone at some non-zero frame by holding down Alt whilst I manipulate the bone. Still don't know why this is different from fr...

I have a problem with the manipulate bones tool. I construct a very simple animation consisting of two image layers within a bone layer. Then I add two bones, making the first bone the parent of the second, and bind each bone to a different layer. Then I reduce the bone influence to zero on both bon...

For anybody who is interested: You can only change the shading colour when you select hatched shading. No idea why. The manual doesn't give any clues. Shame, because it would be a useful option.

Could you let us know what it is? I would like to know.

I'm using Anime Studio Pro 9 on a PC running Windows 7 64-bit. I thought I had this working, but no. If I do this: 1. Start a new animation. 2. Add a new image layer and load a PNG file into it. 3. Change the length of the animation to 100 frames. 4. Double click on the image layer and turn on allow...