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Strip ID: 1265 Created: 2022-10-24 06:38:45 Last reply: 2022-10-25 12:05:04 Comments: 4
Request: Inserting Panels for Animation
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`Peyo` This one would be truly helpful and a boost for any animators! If it was possible to actually insert blank frames into the "frame stack" during a project. I could see how it would be difficult to do in real time, but would it be possible to add the feature even if it involved a page reload? The animation tools right now are great and I did a fun animation of a plane to test them out, but the wish for the ability to insert frames loomed large! Other things such as being able to re-order frames would be great, too. Essentially anything that allows the re-organizing of frames.
yes this is also a planned feature
right now my problem with it is that it should only be available when there are no new panels made or no new panels are edited to not potentially break anything
and right now there is no telling if a frame is edited
the main problem is I didn't plan ahead and reordering means changing the filenames too
another way I could do this to give every panel a frame index to reorder them .. but that also involves rewriting everything related to panel order..
so in theory this would be something simple to do .. if i planned ahead for it .. but unfortunately I coded myself into the corner and need to sort this mess out first
`Peyo` Utterly relatable and I am glad it is on your radar as a feature! I have no idea if this info would be helpful at all but when handling animation stacks, I would always number in increments of five (for example, frame one would be frame 0005, frame two would be frame 0010, frame three would be frame 0015 and so on) so that there would be room between them for the insertion of other frames or in-betweens. Using a method such as that might be helpful, but it might be more practical and easy to keep track of merely making every frame a multiple of 10, so for example frame 0010, frame 0020, frame 0030 and so on.
Great work on everything and thank you for the great site!
in theory it's very easy to do because all the site needs to do is rename image files and change a few entries in the database to swap two frames
the problem I got is that if you edit one of the panels there is no way to tell if it's still being edited (e.g. you might cancel the edit by closing the browser and there is no reliable way to know in this case that it was cancelled)
(so far the only way I see to get around this is to periodically send a message to the site if a frame is still being edited etc.)
I guess i'm probably overthinking it a bit and it will be just another gordian knot problem like the timed game was
