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Paint plugin idea

Animation made easier
Mikey Z
on July 10th 2013

Hey, does anyone here know how to make plugins for Paint? I thought of one that would be pretty cool-if I knew how to code.
The animation tool in Paint could use an onion-skin plugin. Onionskin is kind of a trick for animation where you draw a panel, and then put a transparent version over the next frame so you can see what how much change you're putting into the next frame. And if you're working on tweening (putting transition frames between two others, like drawing frame B after having done A and C), it can help there too because you can see exactly how much needs to be changed. This would be really helpful for drawing GIFs.

Vlasta
on July 11th 2013

I'll see what can be done. Check back in a couple of days.

Vlasta
on July 14th 2013

You can try to download and replace RWDocumentAnimation.dll. It is a test version that renders a semitransparent desaturated previous frame over the current one. To activate the mode, open an animation and in the toolbar select the "Emphasize current layer" button (there are 3 buttons next to where you can select zoom factor).

Mikey Z
on August 2nd 2013

It works pretty well! Thanks!

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