How do I un-animate a layer's colour?

takumi · Post by **takumi** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 8:46 pm

I noticed that one of my characters was a little too grey, so I set the style darker on frame zero. However, it wasn't until much later (I had already saved) that I realized that I had changed the style to a lighter colour on a frame other than zero earlier - when I played back my animation so far, it changed colour.

How do I fix it so my character is the darker colour the whole time? When I went to the frame where the colour change was complete and set the style to the same colour code as it was on frame zero, my character turned grey as before, but for a shorter time, then reverted to black by that frame. I didn't save that.The timeline does not show colour changes, even with all the options enabled.

If it helps, here is my animation so far... http://www.mtaonline.net/~dburton/Intro_scene2.anme
The style I'm having problems with is "Unchugami", and the corresponding layer is within "View 1".

slowtiger · Post by **slowtiger** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 9:05 pm

Select the vector layer you want to fix. Look at the top in your timeline window, select "Settings". Now you can make the timeline for fill settings visible. In that timeline, erase the keys.

DarthFurby · Post by **DarthFurby** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 11:57 pm

I learned something new after studying your file: Styles have their own timeline.

Any animation that you create within a style timeline will appear on all shapes with the applied style, but the keyframes will not appear on the mainline.

You can only see the keyframes when the STYLE timeline is active.

Click on any vector layer, then select the "Unchugami" style from the dropdown menu to see that style's timeline. On frame 9 it shows that you created a fill color for dark grey. Delete the keyframe for the Selected Fill Color channel and that should fix your problem.

Genete · Post by **Genete** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 9:22 am

Good tip Darth!
I didn't know it!

-G

takumi · Post by **takumi** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 9:33 am

Well, I didn't notice the keyframe for the lighter colour on the Selected Fill Colour timeline before because I had no idea that each style had its own timeline, but it did fix my problem to delete that frame. Hmm... some interesting effects could be achieved by animating the styles.