I cant really figure out the Animation Editor of MMF 2. It seems to be quite a terrible piece of shit compared to what we used to have as in even worse than I had expected but I just might be too retarded for it myself so I hope you can help me.
The Help Dickteam provides is rather useless as well.
1) I don't find any way to change the size of my canvas in that Animation Editor ???
I know I can go under properties of the active object and set a size there but here is my problem: SAY I want to draw something in the Active Editor and quite frankly I never really know how big my sprites are gonna be so I will just draw stuff and then I will be like OH SNAP I need 5 more pixels for the width- if i CHANGE THAT under properties it will stretch my image in the width which isnt what i want. I dont want it to get stretched- i just want more space to draw on.
This seems IMPOSSIBLE which is amazing to me. I cant be the first person who needs that.
How can I actually GET RID of that lovely green shape we get everytime we make a new active object. I think in old versions of MMF you could just double click the eraser tool and you got a blank canvas- NICE! do i really have to select it all now and delete it or am i missing some shortcut?
the resize button (bottom left tool i think). You'll probably have to uncheck "proportional" to change the canvas exactly the way you want it. To clear the canvas, just press the "new paper" button (top left i think)
If you want to change the size whilst keeping the image you have drawn the same uncheck stretch and resample! i keep ALL these options unchecked until i need it for what ever reason.
Do this in the animation editor and click the icon that looks like a diagonal arrow.
Its not really that much of a bind to delete the image to start with. you can click the New icon or press Ctrl & A and then press delete.
it is nevertheless about as advanced as early 90's animation software. But then we can't expect MMF to do everything for the price its at. You'd probably have to pay $100's for a decent animation software package.. oh wait no you don't there are free open source ones immensely more powerful!
looks quite good. Atm i'm trying to use a combination of the MMF editor, Corel Painter, GIMP and Synfig animation studios. Not the simplest of methods but its just about starting to work.
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