Onion Skin Ideas
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.
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!