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‎Exporting the Canvas Parameter: Addition from Rafael

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 <!-- Page info -->
 {{Title|Reuse Animations}}
 {{Category|Manual}}
 {{Category|Tutorials}}

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 {{Category|Tutorials}}
 {{Category|Tutorials Advanced}}
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 == Introduction ==

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 # Once done then go to another frame with the {{l|Time Cursor|time cursor}}, select the keyframe you want to introduce and press the "Duplicate keyframe" button. You'll obtain a copy of the selected keyframe at the current {{l|Time Cursor|time cursor}} position.
-{{l|Image:Reuse_Animations_1.png}}
+[[File:Reuse Animations 1 0.63.06.png|frame|none]]
 There is a problem with this technique. You are making copies of the entire animation poses that you have stored in the first keyframes of the time (frames 2 and 4 of the sample) and therefore you have made copies of all the other objects existing in the scene (following the example, the eyeball).
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 One of the parameters of the Group Layer is the {{l|Canvas|Canvas}}. The canvas is like a workspace that represents all the grouped layers.
+[[File:Reuse Animations 2 0.63.06.png|frame|none]]
-{{l|Image:Reuse_Animations_2.png}}
 To avoid the problem described in the previous section (the keyframes affecting all the objects in the scene) you can do following:
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 #Right click the Canvas parameter, export it, and give it a name (in the sample this will be "eyelids").
-{{l|Image:Reuse_Animations_3.png}}
+[[File:Reuse Animations 3 0.63.06.png|frame|none]]
 Go to the {{l|Canvas Browser Panel}} and select the just exported canvas.
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 Double click it and a new workarea window will open with just the layers that were grouped at the step 1 - the "eyelids" canvas in the sample.
-{{l|Image:Reuse_Animations_4.png}}
+[[File:Reuse Animations 4 0.63.06.png|frame|none]]
 Create all the keyframes you need to store your "poses". Once done go to the proper frame and insert a copy of the pose keyframe. It will produce a keyframe in the "eyelids" canvas, but will not produce any keyframe on the other layers (for example the eyeball). This allows to independently animate of a portion of the model separated from the rest. Be sure that the exported canvas is as long as the animation.

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 {{Category|Tutorials}}
 {{Category|Tutorials Advanced}}
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 == Introduction ==
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 == Exporting the Canvas Parameter ==
-Every time you encapsulate a group of layers you obtain a {{l|Paste Canvas}} layer called "Inline Canvas" that prevents the composition of the contained layers over layers outside of it.
+Every time you group the layers, you obtain a {{l|Group Layer}} that prevents the composition of the contained layers over layers outside of it.
-One of the parameters of the encapsulation layer is the {{l|Canvas|Canvas}}. The canvas is like a workspace that represents all the encapsulated layers.
+One of the parameters of the Group Layer is the {{l|Canvas|Canvas}}. The canvas is like a workspace that represents all the grouped layers.
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 To avoid the problem described in the previous section (the keyframes affecting all the objects in the scene) you can do following:
-#Before creating the keyframe poses of the eyelids, encapsulate all the layers that form the eyelids.
+#Before creating the keyframe poses of the eyelids, group all the layers that form the eyelids.
-#Select the encapsulated layer and select the Canvas parameter in the Parameter Dialog.
+#Select the Group layer and select the Canvas parameter in the Parameter Dialog.
 #Right click the Canvas parameter, export it, and give it a name (in the sample this will be "eyelids").
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 Go to the {{l|Canvas Browser Panel}} and select the just exported canvas.
-Double click it and a new workarea window will open with just the layers that were encapsulated on the step 1 - the "eyelids" canvas in the sample.
+Double click it and a new workarea window will open with just the layers that were grouped at the step 1 - the "eyelids" canvas in the sample.
 {{l|Image:Reuse_Animations_4.png}}
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 Create all the keyframes you need to store your "poses". Once done go to the proper frame and insert a copy of the pose keyframe. It will produce a keyframe in the "eyelids" canvas, but will not produce any keyframe on the other layers (for example the eyeball). This allows to independently animate of a portion of the model separated from the rest. Be sure that the exported canvas is as long as the animation.
-Now once you have stored the eye blinks (open and closed) at the desired position you can go to the main window (just close the "eyelids" canvas work area). You'll see that all the  modifications have been transmitted to the main animation but they haven't created any keyframes in the main work area. Even the layers that are inside the "eyelids" encapsulated layer don't have any keyframes (you can see an indication that there are keyframes in the exported canvas - dashed vertical lines - but no keyframe is displayed in the keyframe dialog). Anyway, you can see the waypoints created by the keyframes and tweak them, but not the keyframes themselves. To modify the keyframes you should edit the exported canvas again in its own work area.  If you modify the encapsulated layers from the main work area, waypoints will be created according to the main work area keyframes, not the exported canvas work area, so you will get different effects depending upon which work area you use to modify the encapsulated layers.
+Now once you have stored the eye blinks (open and closed) at the desired position you can go to the main window (just close the "eyelids" canvas work area). You'll see that all the  modifications have been transmitted to the main animation but they haven't created any keyframes in the main work area. Even the layers that are inside the "eyelids" Group layer don't have any keyframes (you can see an indication that there are keyframes in the exported canvas - dashed vertical lines - but no keyframe is displayed in the keyframe dialog). Anyway, you can see the waypoints created by the keyframes and tweak them, but not the keyframes themselves. To modify the keyframes you should edit the exported canvas again in its own work area.  If you modify the grouped layers from the main work area, waypoints will be created according to the main work area keyframes, not the exported canvas work area, so you will get different effects depending upon which work area you use to modify the grouped layers.
 Now, once you have created your animation of the eyelids you can go to the eyeball and modify it to your taste, inserting keyframes or waypoints with no worries about interfering with the eyelid animation. Also you can animate the eyeball before and make the animation of the eyelids later. They won't interfere with each other.
-It would be a great improvement if you could connect the time cursors of the main work area and the exported paste canvas work area to show both windows at the same current time. This would give feedback on where to insert the 'pose' keyframes in your local animation.
+It would be a great improvement if you could connect the time cursors of the main work area and the exported canvas work area to show both windows at the same current time. This would give feedback on where to insert the 'pose' keyframes in your local animation.
 == A sample ==

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 == Exporting the Canvas Parameter ==
-Every time you encapsulate a group of layers you obtain a {{l|Paste Canvas}} layer called "Inline Canvas" that is a special layer that holds other layers inside and prevents the composition of the inner layers over the other layers outside of it, that are outside of its scope.
+Every time you encapsulate a group of layers you obtain a {{l|Paste Canvas}} layer called "Inline Canvas" that prevents the composition of the contained layers over layers outside of it.
-One of the parameters of the encapsulate layer is the {{l|Canvas|Canvas}}. The canvas is like a workspace that represents all the layers that are held by the encapsulation layer.
+One of the parameters of the encapsulation layer is the {{l|Canvas|Canvas}}. The canvas is like a workspace that represents all the encapsulated layers.
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 To avoid the problem described in the previous section (the keyframes affecting all the objects in the scene) you can do following:
-# Before creating the keyframe poses of the eyelids, encapsulate all the layers that form the eyelids inside a Paste Canvas layer.
+#Before creating the keyframe poses of the eyelids, encapsulate all the layers that form the eyelids.
-# Then select the encapsulated layer and select the Canvas parameter in the Parameter Dialog.
+#Select the encapsulated layer and select the Canvas parameter in the Parameter Dialog.
-# Right click the Canvas parameter, export it, and give it a name (in the sample this will be "eyelids").
+#Right click the Canvas parameter, export it, and give it a name (in the sample this will be "eyelids").
 {{l|Image:Reuse_Animations_3.png}}
-Once exported you can go to the {{l|Canvas Browser Panel}} and select the just exported canvas.
+Go to the {{l|Canvas Browser Panel}} and select the just exported canvas.
 Double click it and a new workarea window will open with just the layers that were encapsulated on the step 1 - the "eyelids" canvas in the sample.
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 {{l|Image:Reuse_Animations_4.png}}
-Now you can create all the keyframes you need to store your "poses". Once done you can go to the proper frame and insert a copy of the pose keyframe. It will produce a keyframe in the "eyelids" canvas, but will not produce any keyframe on the other layers (for example the eyeball). This allows you independently animate of a portion of your model, separate from the rest of it. Be sure that the exported canvas must be as longer as the animation.
+Create all the keyframes you need to store your "poses". Once done go to the proper frame and insert a copy of the pose keyframe. It will produce a keyframe in the "eyelids" canvas, but will not produce any keyframe on the other layers (for example the eyeball). This allows to independently animate of a portion of the model separated from the rest. Be sure that the exported canvas is as long as the animation.
-Now once you have stored the eye blinks (open and closed) at the desired position you can go to the main window (just close the "eyelids" canvas workarea). You'll see that all the  modifications have been transmitted to the main animation but they haven't created any keyframes in the main workarea. Even the layers that are inside the "eyelids" encapsulated layer don't have any keyframes (you can see an indication that there are keyframes in the exported canvas - dashed vertical lines - but no keyframe is displayed in the keyframe dialog). Anyway, you can see the waypoints created by the keyframes and tweak them, but not the keyframes themselves. To modify the keyframes you should edit the exported canvas again in its own workarea.  If you modify the encapsulated layers from the main workarea, waypoints will be created according to the main workarea's keyframes, not the exported canvas' workarea, so you will get different effects depending upon which workarea you use to modify the encapsulated layers.
+Now once you have stored the eye blinks (open and closed) at the desired position you can go to the main window (just close the "eyelids" canvas work area). You'll see that all the  modifications have been transmitted to the main animation but they haven't created any keyframes in the main work area. Even the layers that are inside the "eyelids" encapsulated layer don't have any keyframes (you can see an indication that there are keyframes in the exported canvas - dashed vertical lines - but no keyframe is displayed in the keyframe dialog). Anyway, you can see the waypoints created by the keyframes and tweak them, but not the keyframes themselves. To modify the keyframes you should edit the exported canvas again in its own work area.  If you modify the encapsulated layers from the main work area, waypoints will be created according to the main work area keyframes, not the exported canvas work area, so you will get different effects depending upon which work area you use to modify the encapsulated layers.
 Now, once you have created your animation of the eyelids you can go to the eyeball and modify it to your taste, inserting keyframes or waypoints with no worries about interfering with the eyelid animation. Also you can animate the eyeball before and make the animation of the eyelids later. They won't interfere with each other.
-It would be a great improvement if you could connect the time cursors of the main workarea and the exported paste canvas' workarea to show both windows at the same current time. This would give feedback on where to insert the 'pose' keyframes in your local animation.
+It would be a great improvement if you could connect the time cursors of the main work area and the exported paste canvas work area to show both windows at the same current time. This would give feedback on where to insert the 'pose' keyframes in your local animation.
 == A sample ==

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 I have stored the poses "Open" and "Closed" at frames 0 and 2. The animation is defined to start at frame 6.
-http://www.darthfurby.com/genete/synfig/eyeblink.gif
+[[File:Eyeblink.gif]]
-[http://www.darthfurby.com/genete/synfig/eyeblink.sifz file sample]
+[[Media:Eyeblink.sifz|Sample file]]
 All comments are welcome.