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Yes, this feature is not fully implemented. I wrote the functions to convert the Outline to Advanced Outline internally but didn't expose the interface to the user. I was trapped by the amount of new features/bugs I worked on Advanced Outlines from the two past releases. One fault from my side. I'll try to ship it for the next release (after 0.64.04).



If the animation is not already done, you can animate form 1 to 0 as well as from 0 to 1. If the animation is already done you can change the animation direction using export value nodes: export the amount1 that goes from 0 to 1 and the other amount that want to from 1 to 0 convert it to Subtract and make it be:
amount2 = 1.0-amount1

Anyway it could be cool to be able to reverse bline direction with one user action. It is not difficult to code.
-G

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Here's something that puzzled me for five minutes this morning until I worked out what was happening.

.sif files exported from Inkscape seem to have no Z-Depth column in the Layers panel. As soon as you add some duration to the animation in the Caret Edit->Properties dialog the Z-Depth column appears again.

I'm not sure why this is, but I was trying everything to get my Z-Depth column back for a while!

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I found SIF output extension great and very useful, for me it's often part of my workflow ... and it's THE link between two world : modeling 2D, animating 2D.

What do you think of a feature request to add an option to transform text object from inkscape to text layer in synfig (in place of tracing text path)

svg(:ya!

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In the process you'll loose many of the goodies of Inkscape for rendering texts that are baddies for Synfig for rendering text. Possibly you only could import the text, the color, the size and the position. Is it worth to use Inkscape for that?

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Yep not looseless, but, a text layer could great from my point of view.

Maybe this option (create synfig text layer from inkscape text object), could be implemented not has an option but has normal behavior when some text are present in inkscape composition : creating both path from text and an invisible(?) synfig text layer with only text position/color/size parameters ...

Another things about texte rendered by sif output extension, is that all paths composing one inkscape text object

see(:ya!

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