Beware with onionskins

Genete · Post by **Genete** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:40 pm

I've lost about one hour of work due to turned on onionskins for a frame and pressed play. If your proyect have a lot of layers / points/ lines and all the layers are turned on, the program gets in a non stops playing cycle if you have onionskins on a frame. I'm sure that it is due to my poor computer but it seems that keyboard strokes or mouse clicks were not sent to the program.

So beware with onionskins plus the play button.

Rasheed · Post by **Rasheed** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:47 pm

That must be a bug in the Linux version, because I can't reproduce it in Mac OS X.

Genete · Post by **Genete** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 9:08 pm

It's my contest anme file. You can test it once I send it to bupaje.
Anyway could be a linux bug but it does not happen with a simple project. Must be a huge amount of points/layers... and I forgot it! particles!!!

Take account that EVERY time I make click into the timeline to put the red frame bar in a new frame it tooks a lot of time.
For example from frame 0 to frame 1000 it takes 15 seconds after I click in the timeline.

Also save the project with the red line of the timeline at frame zero is inmediate and save the project with the red line of the timeline at frame 1000 takes 15 secons more or less. So It is a problem with particles, sure.

Touched · Post by **Touched** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 7:32 am

I do wish there were a way to disable the onion skinning. I haven't yet had a need for it (I prefer to scrub), and it's too easy to accidentally click in the area that turns them on.

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 1:16 pm

Touched wrote:I do wish there were a way to disable the onion skinning. I haven't yet had a need for it (I prefer to scrub), and it's too easy to accidentally click in the area that turns them on.

i totally agree!

HassleHead · Post by **HassleHead** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 1:27 pm

I agree. I'm always hitting the onion skin. I'm sure it's very useful if you're doing point animation. But then, if you could turn it on, it would still be useful.

-HassleHead

Rasheed · Post by **Rasheed** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 2:20 pm

I think a good pointing device prevents a lot of accidental clicking in the onion skinning bar, while you meant to click in the frame number bar. You can, of course, enter the frame number as a value in the Frame text field, and if you have a scroll wheel, hovering over the frame number bar and using the scroll wheel will also prevent "onion skinning mishaps".

Many tablets seems to have a built-in scroll function you can use in the same manner (hover over the frame number bar, and then scroll, using the scroll area of your tablet).