Keyframes for Style Keys

[mdmodeler]

I really like the concept of creating styles that can be defined and then applied to characters. However, I ran into a problem with using them and keyframes. I didn't realize that the styles themselves are keyed if you change the Fill Color say at frame 100. So if you apply them to a character in frame 0 then run your animation, you will see a fill color tween on the character. BTW - I'm not sayng that I think this is a bad thing because I can see the advantage of tweening styles.

The problem was I couldn't find where in the Timeline window the key frames were for the style tween. Does anyone know how this can be found?

[Rai López]

...Yeah! Animatable features in an animation program always is like a GREAT thing ...Well, and remember that you must select your keyframed style in Styles Window --> Styles PopUp Menu to can see the keyframes of that specific style, BYE!

[mdmodeler]

Thanks Ramon. I don't know how I missed that I had to choose the particular style in the Style window to see the keyframe.
Actually, I have used other products where you couldn't tween style attributes within the same style but you could tween between 2 styles (apply one style say with a blue fill color called "sky blue" and then apply another style with a black fill color called "night sky" to an object).

[Rai López]

Yes, and that is specially useful to get complex shape effects and other mixing advantages, ahhh... styles are SO great!

[myles]

remember that you must select your keyframed style in Styles Window --> Styles PopUp Menu to can see the keyframes of that specific style

Great tip, Ramón! I didn't realise you could animate styles - perfect for e.g. changing the skin colour to red to indicate anger or heat.

Thanks!

Regards, Myles.