Switching Scenes - Revision history

D.j.a.y: update cat : data link ----> import art

2016-03-31T11:57:54Z

update cat : data link ----> import art

D.j.a.y: image

2016-03-31T11:55:38Z

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D.j.a.y: review / intralinks / syntax and formating

2016-03-31T11:05:39Z

review / intralinks / syntax and formating

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Spuggiehawk: Removed statement that this applied Synfig version 1.1.7

2016-03-30T08:48:01Z

Removed statement that this applied Synfig version 1.1.7

Spuggiehawk: Rewrite to describe the 1.1.7 implementation of this feature. Most significantly, "canvases" aren't used for this now.

2016-03-17T12:53:53Z

Rewrite to describe the 1.1.7 implementation of this feature. Most significantly, "canvases" aren't used for this now.

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D.j.a.y: Add data linking category

2015-01-27T08:32:20Z

Add data linking category

Genete: Updated Terminology

2013-02-18T16:45:42Z

Updated Terminology

Zelgadis: Text replace - '{{l|Category:' to '{{Category|'

2010-01-13T16:12:03Z

Text replace - '{{l|Category:' to '{{Category|'

Genete at 18:27, 16 October 2009

2009-10-16T18:27:23Z

Genete: standard header

2009-10-16T17:21:58Z

standard header

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 =Introduction=
-Suppose you've made a few different scenes in separate .sif files and want to edit them together.
+{{l|File:SwitchingScenes.gif|left}}Suppose you've made a few different scenes in separate .sif files and want to edit them together.
 =Take the scenes you need=
 In this example I'm going to take 3 sifz files made by {{l|User:Zelig|Zelig}} and mix them together:

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 Suppose you've made a few different scenes in separate .sif files and want to edit them together.

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 Using Caret>File>Import, import each of the three scenes one at a time.
-Select each of the three scenes in turn in the layer dialog, and export its canvas in the params dialog by right-clicking the {{l|Canvas}} Parameter and selecting {{l|Export}} from the context menu.  Call the exported canvases "scene1", "scene2", and "scene3".  Now we can delete the three encapsulated layers from our document.  We don't need them yet. ''Note: The Export context menu is not available for imported files in recent versions due to a previous bug already fixed. The external files can be referenced using the {{l|Paste Canvas Layer#Canvas Parameter|canvas parameter}} nomenclature so it doens't need to be exported at all.''
+Select each of the three scenes in turn in the layer dialog, and export its canvas in the parameters dialog by right-clicking the {{l|Canvas}} Parameter and selecting {{l|Export}} from the context menu.  Call the exported canvases "scene1", "scene2", and "scene3".  Now we can delete the three group layers from our document.  We don't need them yet. ''Note: The Export context menu is not available for imported files in recent versions due to a previous bug already fixed. The external files can be referenced using the {{l|Group Layer#Canvas Parameter|canvas parameter}} nomenclature so it doesn't need to be exported at all.''
 We don't have any opening or closing titles, so we're going to have to make those ourselves.  Make a new text layer:  Caret > Layer > New Layer > Text and edit the Text Parameter to say something appropriate for the opening titles.
-Encapsulate the Text layer, and export the encapsulated layer's canvas parameter.  Call it 'titles'.
+Group the Text layer, and export the group layer's canvas parameter.  Call it 'titles'.
 Turn on {{l|Animate Editing Mode}}, and make a keyframe at frame 0, and set the default interpolation type to "Constant".  This can be found in the main 'toolbox' window, right at the bottom.  It defaults to TCB, but we want our edits to happen exactly when we specify them rather than taking the risk that TCB waypoints will somehow try to 'smooth' them.
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 I ended up with this file:  {{l|Media:Sy-n-fig-mixed.sifz}}
-Note that using the 'Canvas' parameter to switch scenes will always cause an instant switch.  If you want to fade from scene to scene, you can use 2 different layers, fading one out while the other fades in.  Animate the Paste Canvas's "Amount" parameter from 1 down to 0 to fade the scene out.
+Note that using the 'Canvas' parameter to switch scenes will always cause an instant switch.  If you want to fade from scene to scene, you can use 2 different layers, fading one out while the other fades in.  Animate the Group Layer's "Amount" parameter from 1 down to 0 to fade the scene out.
-Note also that we end up with a single huge file which includes copies of the three imported canvases.  If we wanted to end up with a small file which referenced the imported files rather than copying them, then we could encapsulate the imported layers and export the new encapsulated layers.  I think that would leave the imported layers as file references.  Please try it and update this tutorial with your findings...  Also, if we went that route, we could give each scene its own Time Offset value, and not have to keep messing with the Time Offset in the master canvas.
+Note also that we end up with a single huge file which includes copies of the three imported canvases.  If we wanted to end up with a small file which referenced the imported files rather than copying them, then we could group the imported layers and export the canvases from the new group layers.  I think that would leave the imported layers as file references.  Please try it and update this tutorial with your findings...  Also, if we went that route, we could give each scene its own Time Offset value, and not have to keep messing with the Time Offset in the master canvas.

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