Onion Skin Ideas

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Just wanted to re-iterate a few ideas on the onion skin functions, now I've had plenty of chance to try out the new design.


  • I really think a dedicated onion skin on/off toggle button on the main canvas would be worth the screen space. I know there's a handy keyboard shortcut, but it's not always convenient to be using a bluetooth keyboard, and this is one function that is turned on and off almost constantly when animating.
  • If there were a button next to the visibility button on each layer, where you could enable/disable the onion skin for that layer, that would be excellent. Generally, you only want the onion skin showing on the layer that you are working on.
  • The Skip Frames sliders  are excellent. I use them all the time. Unfortunately, they're currently three clicks away, buried at the bottom of the onion skin options. I think they should be on the main onion skin dialogue pop up, alongdide the Frames before/ Frames after sliders.
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Layer-specific onion skin settings

You should be able to change onion skin settings for each layer, or at least have the option to turn it off for certain layers. I always sketch on one layer and clean it up on another, but the onion skins for sketch layers at very light opacities look the same as those for my full-opacity lineart layer, making the feature very hard to use. Other animation programs like flash and krita have this option, and it'd be awesome if FlipaClip could have it too! 

Colored onion skin ( personalized )

When im animating with shadows and a specific color, id like it if we had the option to see our previous layer but with lower opacity. Not the monochrome one. 

Thanks!

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Igor Mitrovic
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Konrad

Yep,  onion skin needs to be more accessible for those not using a keyboard. 

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IanJTurner

I agree, I posted the same idea here:

https://support.flipaclip.us/communities/1/topics/1995-onion-skin-ideas


The onion skin needs either to be toggle-able on a per layer basis or to reflect the opacity setting of the layer so that layers that are being used for tracing do not fill the canvas with unwanted onion skin content.



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