Moho Animation Forum

Hello all

I know it was asked before, but I want to add my voice on this one.

Color swatches!!!

The actual color registering is a bit of a pain, creating styles is fine, but color swatches would make life tons easier.

You create a new swatch
You edit it, adding colors for fills, contours, add effects, maps etc.
When created, you get an icon you can drag on the part of your images
You modify the swatch, all the parts of your image changes as well, just like styles, but easier to track and handle, in my opinion.

Swatches collection, you put swatches into a collection, that you can the replicate and modify for say a night scene, you can then switch between collections then you instantlly go from day to night color set for a scene.

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How you can change the fills using swatches?

Imago wrote:How you can change the fills using swatches?

Same way you can with styles really, swatches are just icons containning styles, you just drag them onto the part you want colored.

Many ways to improve on the color tools in AS Pro, swatches are one of them!

One of the best animation software I ve seen, as far as drawing and coloring tools goes is ToonBoom Animate.

Now, AS Pro with some of those tools would be an incredible solution.

I am still struggling between the two!

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Maybe I'm too dumb to understand, but...
I tried... Nothing happens! When I click on the swatch, the fill color changes... I change swatch and nothing happens! I tried to drag... The color will change rapidly taking the color under the arrow...

How it works?

Meanwhile, you have this useful little software
viewtopic.php?p=63525

selgin wrote:Meanwhile, you have this useful little software

Heu, thanks for the link, but not what I meant at all!

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GCharb wrote:

selgin wrote:Meanwhile, you have this useful little software

Heu, thanks for the link, but not what I meant at all!

hehehe, it's very true. In my speed reading at work I just remembered that software and wanted to share the link (sorry for the off topic)

selgin wrote:hehehe, it's very true. In my speed reading at work I just remembered that software and wanted to share the link (sorry for the off topic)

No sweat, fun utility, only wish it would make a better job at spreading the colors, they endup all mixedup!

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I still don't understand how GCharb can change shape colors switching the swatches...

Imago wrote:I still don't understand how GCharb can change shape colors switching the swatches...

This is my fault really, I used the term swatches because this is the term used for color swatches, which maybe confusing.

Let's call those fill containers.

Those are, well, containers, pretty much like styles in AS but only appear as little colored squares, representing the content of the style.

So, say I chose a 3 px red contour line, with a fill of orange color and an effect for a container, I only need to select the container and drag it to the selected part of the drawing.

Containers could be put in list for each character/prop. A list could be replicated then modified for say, a night scene, without having to reapply them the the character/prop. etc.

Just a more convinient way to work with colors then styles.

Here is how it is done in another software, just to give a better idea of what I am talking about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AckV7EZQGQ8

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Argh! You scared me!
I was thinking it was some AS Pro feature!
I'm an humble Debut user, I tried Pro version for a while (Just the time to extract some tool and layer and transfer it on Debut! >.<) and many of its own function are very great.
I'm waiting for a good deal about ASP.

someone posted a link to a site with good prices on asp, dunno if those are student prices though and I cant find it anymore!

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