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Hello
I'm trying to make animated backgrounds.
I'll be retiring this summer , I'll have many time after, so I would make a short movie with synfig.
Here is my test of wind on grass.
I started with version 0.62, and finished with 0.63

Sorry, but the .avi can't be uploaded, i don't know why.... a link here : http://skias.free.fr/images/herbe-vent.avi

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Very nice!

Chris

Beautiful! It looks like a impressionism picture!
-G

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Hello,
Thank you very much for comments

I have a little problem with version 0.63.
When I open a file, "low res" is always unchecked, even if it was checked when saving.
This makes very slow the opening of complex files.
Is there a way to have the "low res" checked by default?

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Hi mad0, I am always impressed by your artworks. awesome job.

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time flies...

this setting is introduced in 0.63.00 as a new feature.

It seems that sif/sifz files can not store the settings of synfig studio, some of other programs can save the programs' status information in a file, blender for example.

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time flies...

Don't confuse your self. Opening a file is not the same than render it. When you see the message "One Moment Please" it is reading the file from file (and creting and storing the layers and value nodes into memory) once read they start the render process to the canvas window. In that moment you have control of the program and it should respond to check back to low resolution again.

But yes, each file could save the view options to the file itself. Not a simple thing because the way the file is shown (quality, resolution, depends on the canvas window it is being seeing and not the file that you're seeing (i.e. you can load two files in the same compostion, each file with its own visibility options. Maybe it is better to have the visibility options like a gloabl preferences for the application and save then in the settings file (like default name, frames per second, resolution, etc.)
-G

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Thank you very much genete

Maybe it's windows? I don't have control : http://skias.free.fr/images/exemple_ouverture.jpg

But it does not matter, it's an error on my part : I wanted to start clouds in a file already too heavy !
I deleted the other canvas and I kept only the clouds, and I saved under another name.
I'll render clouds separately, and I'll put the sequence in background of the grass

And I would rather use Ubuntu

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Please share the file that is hanging the application during rendering. I'm curious to test it.
-G

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genete, if you see this file, you'll think I'm stupid to amass so many layers!

After trying to add the clouds, I realized very quickly that it was too much for my computer, and I have deleted the canvas of the clouds and continued with only the grass ...
I wanted to reopen this old file to retrieve the beginning of the clouds, erasing the rest.

I dont want to put the file on the forum, there's a link for you : erased.

And after you 'll downloaded, i'll erase the file

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Hey mad! It is always have such type of files to be conscience of the limits of Synfig or to push it to compromised situations to discover bugs when you really need to control file under that exigences.
I'm downloading the file now and you can edit the link and hide it to the world!!! I will test it tomorrow on the windows computer.
Thanks!
-G

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Thank you genete for your help !
Sorry to ask again, but I still have a problem with synfig 0.63
I would use the new bline, but I can't find the shortcut menu : http://skias.free.fr/images/newbline.jpg

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I haven't have time to write a wiki page for the advanced outline. Here comes some concepts:
Advanced outline has a BLine (BLinePoint list) and a WPLine (Width Point list) The Bline hasn't been modified, and you get the associated actions by right clicking on it. The WPLine actions are obtained (in this version and could change later) by right click on the Width Point position duck. To see the width points position ducks and the width ducks please press the toggle button for width ducks. They will appear both. Then right click on the duck that lies always on the bline (it is tied to the bline position) and see the actions available.

-G

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Thank you very much genete !
it works very well !
It is to make the outline of a cloud : http://skias.free.fr/images/nuage.0000.png

Congratulations to all for your work on synfig!

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I love that cloud! Maybe you would like to share it as sample file for the source code?
-G

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