Exposure sheet
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 11:19 pm
Moho would really benefit from an exposure sheet plug-in, especially for traditional frame by frame tasks. Basically, an exposure sheet is a spreadsheet that lists what drawing is displayed in what layer on which frame. If you've seen/used something like ToonBoom you'll see what I mean.
My idea is that a spreadsheet could be used as a visual tool to control multiple switch layers in Moho (Colums being switch layers, rows being the frame and displayed layer). This would help with incorporating traditional and swap animation tasks dramatically.
Basically, I'm envisioning it working somewhat like this:
-create a switch layer and fill it with sub layers (hopefully be able to add more as you animate)
-Open the exposure sheet
-Right click or select from a menu the sub layer you want displayed
-Be able to drag/expand an "exposure" to cover the frame range you want it to be "exposed" for
-have all of the switch layers for a scene in one exposure sheet (or even better be able to load/unload combinations of switch layers)
-Possibly be able to load the wave form into one column? (far from necessary, but could be cool)
-Highlight current frame
Definitely not a necessity in light of working out the bugs in the V5 beta. More of a "when you've got the time" add on kind of thing.
Thanks,
Kurt
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Motorcycle tires
My idea is that a spreadsheet could be used as a visual tool to control multiple switch layers in Moho (Colums being switch layers, rows being the frame and displayed layer). This would help with incorporating traditional and swap animation tasks dramatically.
Basically, I'm envisioning it working somewhat like this:
-create a switch layer and fill it with sub layers (hopefully be able to add more as you animate)
-Open the exposure sheet
-Right click or select from a menu the sub layer you want displayed
-Be able to drag/expand an "exposure" to cover the frame range you want it to be "exposed" for
-have all of the switch layers for a scene in one exposure sheet (or even better be able to load/unload combinations of switch layers)
-Possibly be able to load the wave form into one column? (far from necessary, but could be cool)
-Highlight current frame
Definitely not a necessity in light of working out the bugs in the V5 beta. More of a "when you've got the time" add on kind of thing.
Thanks,
Kurt
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Motorcycle tires