Re: [Synfig-devl] Opacity vs Amount (of layer)

[Konstantin D. <kse...@gm...>]

2014-02-21 0:44 GMT+07:00 Timothée Giet <an...@gm...>:
> Hi Konstantin,
>
> thanks for the suggestion, but the problem is in this case while drawing
> the outline and shape are created at the same time, and they should have
> different opacity and/or blend modes, but I cannot create each in a
> separate group directly..

Wait, Timothee... In current implementation, when you set default
opacity, then it influences both outline and region, at the same time.
There is no way to have shape and outline created with different
opacity values. My guess is that you creating several outline/region
pairs, each pair with different settings, and then you reorder the
layers, am I right? In this case I have to agree - the grouping won't
work here.
Also, when I remember our shadow vectorization workflow (during
production of Morevna Project), I have to admit that removing
BlenMethod/Opacity widgets wasn't good idea.

On the other hand, there are lot of accidents happening for newbie
users, when they have problems with those widgets.
Then, my proposal is: disable saving/restoring of Default
BlendMethod/Opacity in the SynfigStudio's settings file. In this case
at the start of Synfig the Opacity will be always = "1.0" and Blend
Method will be always = "By layer Default". So, even if the user
screwed something during the work, then he can restart SYnfig and work
normally.


> I may not have this problem if it was easily possible to auto-create
> shape layers corresponding to selected outline layers, afaik if the
> shape is not created when drawing outline it's not straight forward to
> create a new correspong fill shape.
>
> Or is there a new magic feature I'm missing?
We have "Create Region" command for Outline layer, but it works for
one layer only. I believe that would be easy to make it work for
several layers at once.


Yu, my apologies for digressing the topic. I just couldn't resist to
put my concerns about removing Blend Method/Opacity.
For me it's fine to replace "Amount" to "Opacity" as layer parameter name.
For me it's also ok to leave things as they are ("Opacity" as name for
default opacity widget and "Amount" in the layer parameters)
I don't feel comfortable with changing "Default Opacity" to "Default
Amount" (on the toolbox), because that will be a bad impact for
intuitivity.

Regards,
K.

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