Le 22/02/2014 05:33, Konstantin Dmitriev a écrit :
> 2014-02-21 0:44 GMT+07:00 Timothée Giet <anim...@gmail.com>:
>> Hi Konstantin,
>>
>> thanks for the suggestion, but the problem is in this case while drawing
>> the outline and shape are created at the same time, and they should have
>> different opacity and/or blend modes, but I cannot create each in a
>> separate group directly..
> Wait, Timothee... In current implementation, when you set default
> opacity, then it influences both outline and region, at the same time.
> There is no way to have shape and outline created with different
> opacity values. My guess is that you creating several outline/region
> pairs, each pair with different settings, and then you reorder the
> layers, am I right? In this case I have to agree - the grouping won't
> work here.
> Also, when I remember our shadow vectorization workflow (during
> production of Morevna Project), I have to admit that removing
> BlenMethod/Opacity widgets wasn't good idea.

Oooo indeed you're right, my memory was confused...
And your guess is right :)

> On the other hand, there are lot of accidents happening for newbie
> users, when they have problems with those widgets.
> Then, my proposal is: disable saving/restoring of Default
> BlendMethod/Opacity in the SynfigStudio's settings file. In this case
> at the start of Synfig the Opacity will be always = "1.0" and Blend
> Method will be always = "By layer Default". So, even if the user
> screwed something during the work, then he can restart SYnfig and work
> normally.
>

I agree to reset these values to default at start, good idea.
Also your proposal for a Simple/Advanced interface option is good idea too!


>> I may not have this problem if it was easily possible to auto-create
>> shape layers corresponding to selected outline layers, afaik if the
>> shape is not created when drawing outline it's not straight forward to
>> create a new correspong fill shape.
>>
>> Or is there a new magic feature I'm missing?
> We have "Create Region" command for Outline layer, but it works for
> one layer only. I believe that would be easy to make it work for
> several layers at once.

Yéé cool I didn't know this "create region" button yet, sure that would 
be useful to can use it for several layers at once.. Should I file a 
wish in the bugtracker?


>
> Yu, my apologies for digressing the topic. I just couldn't resist to
> put my concerns about removing Blend Method/Opacity.
> For me it's fine to replace "Amount" to "Opacity" as layer parameter name.
> For me it's also ok to leave things as they are ("Opacity" as name for
> default opacity widget and "Amount" in the layer parameters)
> I don't feel comfortable with changing "Default Opacity" to "Default
> Amount" (on the toolbox), because that will be a bad impact for
> intuitivity.
+1 ;)


> Regards,
> K.
>


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