okay, i’m pretty sure that’s about the 25th time opentoonz has crashed on me in the last hour, so i’m calling it a day, but i’ve discovered a few things.
if you’re having trouble getting toonz to register your brush strokes like i was having, you need to slowwwww dowwwwwn. let your cursor hang out for a moment where you’re gonna lay your stroke, and start off nice and easy. then toonz can keep up with you.
in the xsheet, when you have a frame selected, there’s a little grey tab underneath that frame. if you click on the tab and drag, you can stretch that drawing over several frames.
opentoonz isn’t very good at saving. if you save a project and then close the program (or have it crash on you) then the next time you open it up, the levels you were using will be lit up as if you’d been using them, but there will be nothing in the frames. if anyone can tell me if they’ve found out a way to get those frames back, i’d be pleased as punch to hear.
be very careful about rightclicking. if something goes the slightest bit wrong, toonz will throw a tantrum and throw up loads and loads of specks and lines in random levels and frames. safest way to get around this is ctrl+click for me, but it still messes up pretty often.
you can have your tools, tool settings, and play/pause/loop bars all tidily set up on your canvas by right clicking on the canvas and going down to the GUI options. however, whenever i have any of these enabled, toonz throws a tantrum and freezes my brush, so i’m getting by on just the keyboard shortcuts, which you can play with in File.
i have yet to get an animation to getting rendered, as the program always crashes, so i’m taking a break.
despite all this, i think i might still prefer opentoonz to toonboom. once i get it working without crashing constantly, it’s gonna be one god damn powerful program.
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