When can we expect these features, if at all?

[mxdirector]

1) Onion skinning.
2) orthographic viewports.
3) pose tools for rigs, and the abilty to create attributes such as a foot roll, and automated hand poses.


These features have been missing since release, and the work arounds for these features make the process of animating in sfm rather tedious.

[Sync]

Feature #3 already exists.

[mxdirector]

@Sync please elaborate.

[Zappy]

What is "onion skinning"? Also, #2 already exists to an extent.

[ConfederateJoe]

Vintage lähetti viestin:

What is "onion skinning"? Also, #2 already exists to an extent.

It's a common term in traditional 2D animation where you can see a few frames ahead and behind. These onion skins will typically be somewhat transparent and grey-scaled so they're not distracting.

If you do a Google search on it for 2D and 3D you'll find out exactly what I mean.

I'd love to have onion skins! it would save me much time from playback!
Also 2 and 3 on that list are kinda already features.

[raptornx01]

if by onion skinning you mean a model skin in multiple layers, you can kind of do that already as well.

[raptornx01]

ConfederateJoe lähetti viestin:

Vintage lähetti viestin:

What is "onion skinning"? Also, #2 already exists to an extent.

It's a common term in traditional 2D animation where you can see a few frames ahead and behind. These onion skins will typically be somewhat transparent and grey-scaled so they're not distracting.

If you do a Google search on it for 2D and 3D you'll find out exactly what I mean.

I'd love to have onion skins! it would save me much time from playback!
Also 2 and 3 on that list are kinda already features.

oh, that. like the old cel animation technique of animating on a lighted desk and drawing on tracing paper to see a level or two below.

seems like it would be really distracting, not to mention resource intensive.

[[Ηc] Blackburn]

Dude yuo dont need onoin you see tracer green llines of where it was and where it is now.

[Zappy]

So by onion skinning you mean motion blur...?

[_sfm]

@Vintage,
It's not specifically like this (or it might be, it's been a while since I've used anything that had onion skinning), but here's an example.
You may have to skip ahead a bit.

[Zappy]

...That will have to be manually animated.

[_sfm]

You see how in the video you're able to see what your character will do before it happens? That's onion skinning. I also briefly had some stop motion software that showed you the previous pose, a ghost, if you will of where my character was in the previous shot. That's onion skinning.

[Zappy]

And that will have to be manually animated.

[ConfederateJoe]

Vintage lähetti viestin:

And that will have to be manually animated.

Onionskins are progressively generated by the computer like normal motion.

[raptornx01]

but it still seems to be based on pre-determinded animations and possibly physics. which makes it a very limited tool.

[ConfederateJoe]

you've had to have use them before to realize how useful they really are.