Opentoonz Creating Numeric Frames On A Sub Xsheet

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[@DarrenTAnims]

Great video. Clearly explained and demonstrated. I must say, I'd not done what you showed at 10:35, where you can drag the cycle out. That's a really handy tip.

[@sasmithsamoa4774]

This one really help. Thanks

[@DarrenTAnims]

In reference to your comment on there being some differences between a sub-xsheet and a standard drawing level (at 11:30), when you dragged the level out and saw blank frames with red numbers. I wouldn't say there is. This is exactly the same behaviour. It's exposing frames that you've not yet drawn, so that if you draw on the next drawing on the level, it'll create a drawing 11, which is already exposed, so it'll show. In the same way as you exposed the sub-xsheet from 51 to 100 before you'd added those frames in the sub-xsheet. It's the behaviour I'd expect.

[@Orphanlast]

Darren T yeah, but how you go about bringing those non existing levels into existance on a normal column is different than a sub xsheet

[@DarrenTAnims]

Surely you've exposed them already (they're showing in red), so when you draw them, they're already in the column on the timeline.

[@Orphanlast]

Darren T ... I never expose none existant numeric frames on a normal column. There's no reason to. The only way to bring them into existance is to use the level strip.

[@DarrenTAnims]

At 11:30 you did, to show them in red. If you leave them exposed, then draw in the level strip, I believe they should then be showing correctly in the timeline.

[@TheGreatFilterPodcast]

Dude - THANK YOU! I've been wondering about much of this for the past few days. I just spent the last week reading the entirety of the OpenToonz documentation. I don't think I'd be alone in saying that OTZ's docs are among the absolute worst for just about any popular and regularly used software out there. I'm even considering rewriting their docs because damn ...

[@Orphanlast]

Yeah, I used to deliver the Opentoonz News. Somewhere in that series, I point out where, on github, the developers WANT their documentation. Though you'd have to ask them how that wiki documentation thing works. I never could figure it out.
Yeah, for sure, opentoonz has shit documentation.
I think you'd like DarrenT's videos. He has more Opentoonz videos than me, at this point. I'm sure.
And he's focused on the features. How to navigate the interface.
I tried to... get into the artwork of animation a bit... but... it doesn't translate well into a video.
Like, watching someone in-between is visual nonsense in a timelapsed video. It just looks like someone flipping through unfinished drawings until the video ends...
Cacani gets rid of inbetweening. It's a vector morphing program. It's really cool. Buggy but cool.
I hope Cacani features get introduced into Blender.

[@scoop6489]

How’d you get the vertical timeline?

[@Orphanlast]

To the upper left of the timeline, above the eyeball, there's a button that, when you hover your mouse over it, it reads "Toggle Xsheet/Timeline" you click on that to have an xsheet or timeline. They pretty much have the same functionality.

[@scoop6489]

Orphanlast Wait, I don’t see the button... Is it not on 1.1?

[@Orphanlast]

Kazutomato the horizontal timeline was a new addition a year ago. The vertical timeline (where the columns go up and down, as NOT seen in this video. I don't have a vertical timeline on the screen at all in this video).
... If you have an old version of opentoonz it'll be a button on the x-sheet that says "xsheet"

[@Orphanlast]

Kazutomato watch this th-cam.com/video/3HkapTV5IWU/w-d-xo.html