TVpaint 9.5/Dealing with LAYERS

[cherry.pie]

Hello there!

I've just started doing some animation with TVpaint (9.5).
So I couldn't figure out one thing and I would really appreciate if some helped me.

Say I have few layers, which is usual, and I want to make animation in one layer overlaying onto other animation from other layer. It's simple, but I do not know how to do it - how to set the priorities between layers.. if you know what i mean.

Here's little pic. Let's say the circle and square are two animated images in 2 different layers. What I get now is something like in picture no. 1. But I would like to know how to make it as in picture no. 2. DDD

I would really appreciate the help:3 Thank You!

[slowtiger]

You can grab any layer by its name and drag it to another location between other layers. Top in that list means artwork is in front of everything.

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[cherry.pie]

Here's the picture :

[ematecki]

You have to fill the inside of the circle with white.
A newly created layer is totally "empty", transparent.

[ZigOtto]

from 1 to 2 :
1) drag your "Circle" layer upon your "Square" one,
(select it by LMB-clic the thumbnail of the layer's head, + hold & drag
up to the square layer position in the layers stack.
2) if your black circle is empty, fill it (painting mode = "behind")
in white to make it opaque, so the square doesn't appear through it .

[cherry.pie]

That's seems so logical and simple. Thank You guys.