Problem Solved : Autopaint won't apply ?
Posted: 15 Oct 2017, 19:36
Hi everyone !
It's been a loooong time I haven't posted anything in this forum.
Most of you probably don't even know who I am : I was a pretty active member in the french section since 2007, the good old days when I proudly purchased my first TVPaint back then when I was still a student in Belgium, and fast forward 10 years, I'm now in Taiwan, where I started this year teaching it to a good bunch of gleeful taiwanese animation students from several schools, in big parts thanks to Elodie's magical contacts.
I'm writing here not just to partake the nostalgia, but also to ask a technical question about the autopaint FX :
I was a huge fan of it when I bought the software, so much that my student film that year was basically centered on that effect, with which I experimented quite a lot in chinese painting style. (if you want to see what it looked like, feel free to watch my graduation movie The sword and the Paintbrush https://vimeo.com/15931081 ), so you might think that I know quite perfectly how to use it.
Recently, I tried to use it again, and to my surprise, it wouldn't render out the animation anymore !
Normally, when you select a lot of images on your layer to render out the FX, there's a long-ish render time with the loading bar filling up, but here it had time only to render one image, and cut short !
After checking the result, there was basically no effect rendered out.
After several retrials, I realized that basically, there were no keys created on the Autopaint FX panel (the keys on the timeline are there, but in the FX panels, the key icons are still grey instead of being white on each keys, when normally it should create a key -white icon- to every frame).
So what exactly happened here ? Did i accidentally screwed up a setting ? Even putting reset on the FX and retrying afterwards didn't lead to another result.
In 10 years of using TVPaint, it's the very first time i see that issue popping up. Is it an issue about current update ? I'm currently on the v11.03. I tried to update it, but the website told me there is a problem with my version. Is it because my USB dongle is 1st generation (the good old red one) ?
Thanks for bringing me an answer.
It's been a loooong time I haven't posted anything in this forum.
Most of you probably don't even know who I am : I was a pretty active member in the french section since 2007, the good old days when I proudly purchased my first TVPaint back then when I was still a student in Belgium, and fast forward 10 years, I'm now in Taiwan, where I started this year teaching it to a good bunch of gleeful taiwanese animation students from several schools, in big parts thanks to Elodie's magical contacts.
I'm writing here not just to partake the nostalgia, but also to ask a technical question about the autopaint FX :
I was a huge fan of it when I bought the software, so much that my student film that year was basically centered on that effect, with which I experimented quite a lot in chinese painting style. (if you want to see what it looked like, feel free to watch my graduation movie The sword and the Paintbrush https://vimeo.com/15931081 ), so you might think that I know quite perfectly how to use it.
Recently, I tried to use it again, and to my surprise, it wouldn't render out the animation anymore !
Normally, when you select a lot of images on your layer to render out the FX, there's a long-ish render time with the loading bar filling up, but here it had time only to render one image, and cut short !
After checking the result, there was basically no effect rendered out.
After several retrials, I realized that basically, there were no keys created on the Autopaint FX panel (the keys on the timeline are there, but in the FX panels, the key icons are still grey instead of being white on each keys, when normally it should create a key -white icon- to every frame).
So what exactly happened here ? Did i accidentally screwed up a setting ? Even putting reset on the FX and retrying afterwards didn't lead to another result.
In 10 years of using TVPaint, it's the very first time i see that issue popping up. Is it an issue about current update ? I'm currently on the v11.03. I tried to update it, but the website told me there is a problem with my version. Is it because my USB dongle is 1st generation (the good old red one) ?
Thanks for bringing me an answer.
