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Postby RV Arts FX » August 20th, 2007, 6:32 pm

My art program don't support the animation set feature. I was told that i could create one without it. I know how to make my animation frames, but how do i start out with the keywords? And please do 'not tell me to get PS7. I do not have $689.00 to buy one if i can do it another way with my program.
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Postby SLoB » August 20th, 2007, 9:04 pm

is their not a plugin available to give you sets?
well you can do animations with a single layer to simulate frames for VU with

lvumeterlr Left VU Meter slider, Left to Right 1.0.82
lvumeterrl Left VU Meter slider, Right to Left 1.0.82
lvumetertb Left VU Meter slider, Top to Bottom 1.0.82
lvumeterbt Left VU Meter slider, Bottom to Top 1.0.82
rvumeterlr Right VU Meter slider, Left to Right 1.0.82
rvumeterrl Right VU Meter slider, Right to Left 1.0.82
rvumetertb Right VU Meter slider, Top to Bottom 1.0.82
rvumeterbt Right VU Meter slider, Bottom to Top 1.0.82
vumeterbasslr Bass VU Meter slider, Left to Right 1.0.84
vumeterbassrl Bass VU Meter slider, Right to Left 1.0.84
vumeterbasstb Bass VU Meter slider, Top to Bottom 1.0.84
vumeterbassbt Bass VU Meter slider, Bottom to Top 1.0.84
vumetermidlr Mid VU Meter slider, Left to Right 1.0.84
vumetermidrl Mid VU Meter slider, Right to Left 1.0.84
vumetermidtb Mid VU Meter slider, Top to Bottom 1.0.84
vumetermidbt Mid VU Meter slider, Bottom to Top 1.0.84
vumetertreblelr Treble VU Meter slider, Left to Right 1.0.84
vumetertreblerl Treble VU Meter slider, Right to Left 1.0.84
vumetertrebletb Treble VU Meter slider, Top to Bottom 1.0.84
vumetertreblebt Treble VU Meter slider, Bottom to Top 1.0.84


you won't have full animation layer set control tho, understandably as your program does not support that, however, for a nominal fee ;) (would be free i suppose lol ;)) someone could add them for you if you got your psd for both the animation and the skin sorted so that was the final addition sort of thing and if you really wanted to have framed animations

you should be able to accomplish a lot with the above keywords tho, esp if wanting to do the skin for the next release as there is a lot more available!

for non volume/vu animations you could also try going round in loops by grouping some layers together to form an animation (prob best to colour the number of layers(so it looks like theyr grouped cos the have the same colour(just for easy reference in the psd really))), then on the 1st layer, get it to call the 2nd layer, then this layer calls the 3rd layer and so on, the last goes back to the 1st, this would then form a loop, you could also put in the delay/fadein/out/between etc...
thats the only other way you could add adhoc animations, use aclahide/show

for the VU tho your better off sticking with single layers
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