Keylight

[Jeremy Richard]

Hello everyone,

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I made a panel to do with marking, flipping and "onion skinning" 'keys' in the timeline. I called it Keylight.
There are five types of keys/marks to choose from: Keyframe, Breakdown, Extreme, Inbetween and Other. A colour can be chosen manually to represent each type of keys/marks.

Here is the panel:

Keylight-250608.tvpx

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*It has been tested with TVPaint 11.7.5 and seems to be working in TVPaint 12.0.4 Demo.

DESCRIPTION

Spoiler : Description :

Setup

• 1: Choose the colour for each type of keys/marks. The choice of colour is based on TVPaint's 'Color Group' values.

Marking

• 2: Choose whether to mark the head of an instance or the whole of an instance.
• 3: Mark a frame either as keyframe, breakdown, extreme, inbetween or other.
• 4: Remove a mark/colour.
• 5: Break the instance and remove the mark/colour.

Flipping

• 6: Choose which type of keys/marks to flip through: marked keyframe, breakdown, extreme, inbetween or other.
• 7: Choose whether to go back or not to the start of the timeline while flipping through the marked drawings.
• 8: Toggle whether to flip through or not the available type of keys/marks. Changes will reflect in the menu of 6.
• 9: Go backwards or forwards on the timeline while flipping through the marked drawings.

Light Table

• 10: Choose which mode to have in the light table between 'Mode Instance' or 'Mode Image mark'. with the ability to specifically choose one of the five type of marks when in 'Mode Image Mark'.

Other

• 11: Notes regarding shortcuts and thanks

THANKS

1. The flipping actions were made thanks to Kelan Hordos, whose Flip Keyboard Toggle panel (https://forum.tvpaint.com/viewtopic.php?t=16624) is the foundation of the Flipping section.
2. The action of marking frames was made thanks to Lukas' Sketch Panel: https://forum.tvpaint.com/viewtopic.php?t=15727

NOTE

Spoiler : Notes :

The colours chosen for each types of keys/marks are stored in the preferences, which are located here:

• Windows: C:\Documents and Settings\<user_name>\AppData\Roaming\TVPaint Animation 11 [pro]
• macOS: /Users/<username>/Library/tvp animation 11 [pro] (be careful, the user Library has been hidden starting with Mac OS X Lion).
• Linux: Home Directory/.tvp/ (be careful, .tvp is a hidden folder)

PLUGIN to the panel

Spoiler : Plugin :

Based on a script 'AutoColorMark210609' by schwarzgrau (https://forum.tvpaint.com/viewtopic.php ... 62#p125262) I'm 'also sharing a script for 'Automatic Mark'. It works in conjunction with the rest of the panel.

Mark_Automatic.grg

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As an example: when using the script on an instance located between two instances marked as keyframes, it will mark the middle instance as a breakdown, without us having to specify which type of key/colour we want.

It is very much experimental as I think it has to be adapted to specific projects and/or ways of working. My script only crudely compares between different situations.

Schwarzgrau's original script goes beyond with a notion of hierarchy between the keyframes.

KNOWN ISSUE

Spoiler : Issue :

When choosing to mark the whole instance, as opposed to just the head of an instance (see 2 in the description of the panel) we basically mark each frame/exposure of this instance individually, and will be treated as such by the light table; the light table doesn't have a 'Mode Marked Instance'.
So when wanting to display the previous 2 images using the 'Mode Image Mark' of the light table, it will display 2 exposures with the same drawing because the exposures are part of the same instance (the marked frames of this instance are not considered as a group) making the light table not necessarily as useful as it could be in that case.

[D.T. Nethery]

Looks very useful. Will give it a try. Thank you for sharing this.