Scale Multiple Layers / Hotkey for "Next Keyframe"

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Fonce Falooda
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Scale Multiple Layers / Hotkey for "Next Keyframe"

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Hey! Trying to do something now, and I'd love to be able to scale more than one layer at a time, but I don't think I can. I can open that panel and adjust the opacity and all the "layer" settings of multiple layers, but I can't just make them all the same amount of "bigger". ;) Am I right in thinking that that can't be done right now?

Also, I would love a hotkey for "Next Keyframe". I'm trying to rough storyboard/pose something out with the new Frame by frame function, but I have to hit that tiny little button to get to the next drawing every time. I looked in the editable keyboard shortcuts, but it's not there. Is there any way to do that?

Thanks!
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next / previous *selected* keyframe: shift } / shift { (ASP11.2 manual page 490)
next / previous key: alt right-arrow / alt left-arrow (ASP11.2 manual page 492)
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Re: Scale Multiple Layers / Hotkey for "Next Keyframe"

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Fonce Falooda wrote:Hey! Trying to do something now, and I'd love to be able to scale more than one layer at a time, but I don't think I can. I can open that panel and adjust the opacity and all the "layer" settings of multiple layers, but I can't just make them all the same amount of "bigger". ;) Am I right in thinking that that can't be done right now?
Thanks!
Sure you can. Put all the layers in a group layer, and scale that.
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Uhm, you can select several layers at once and use the manipulation tool (M) to scale them all at once.
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What jahnocli said. Grouping multiple layers is more or less the equivalent of parenting a bunch of objects to a null or locater in a 3D program and transforming everything from a single point. Just remember to position the Group's origin to where you want to scale or perform other transforms from.
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Thanks for weighing in on this, guys! Turns out I was doing it wrong. :\

I was selecting a handful of Layers and then trying to scale them up with the Transform Points tool, and not the Transform Layer tool. The latter works MUCH better, and I don't have to put them in a group (which, by the way, doesn't work for Frame by Frame stuff, because once you take them back out of the group -to make them work as an FbF switch layer again- the resizing goes away, because it was done to the "group" layer and not the individual layers. Let that make up for my previous incompetence.)

And yeah! "Alt + the arrows" is what exactly I was looking for! Now what is this "manual" you speak of? ;)

Seriously, thanks again. I'll get this bird off the ground yet! :D
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