Thanks for the help you guys. I supplemented the animation layers with the moveable command and that works well. I also added in a white colored rectangle the size of psd canvas and named it snaprectangle, but, the darn skin still will not snap when the blades are spinning.
10 to 1, odds are I have overlooked something really simple.
OK looking at your file, I'm on a Mac right now so I can't test it, but why do you have more than 1 PSD in the zip? Also, pretty sure you can hide the snaprectangle layer. Also, you should probably crop you canvas tighter, dunno if it matters though.
Uh, I have two .psd files because that was what I thought was the way to work the animation on and off. I got that from looking at other skins. Am I doing it wrong, perhaps? Also, I trimmed the the canvas down fairly close this time, but I think I can cull it back about another 5 px or so on all sides.
Edit:/ Okay, I am now officially frustrated. I know I have a lot to learn about the process of skinning, but I cannot get the snap to work when the blades are rotating. Also, I attempted to put both the stationary and the rotating animations into the same .psd and cannot get it to work properly. I'm going to have to seriously regroup and start afresh or something, as I have a tendency to make things more difficult than they need to be.
Edit2:/I wanted this skin to be fairly simple and straightforward, but somehow I've mucked up that process. I have two .psd files in the zip, one has the stationary blades, the other has the rotating blades. I'm using a loadinterface command to switch between the two, which works fine except for the snaprectangle issue. I am finding that my stationary skin wants to "disregard" the snaprectangle and snap where it wants to. The rotating skin also disregards the snaprectangle and refuses to snap at all. That is what I will focus on for now. I know there has to be a way to correct this issue, but I'm at a loss at the moment.
Last edited by Crotale on June 11th, 2008, 3:22 am, edited 1 time in total.
at the top of the psd structure/tree look at your button which had load interface, its now a button to toggle the small 4 layer group which toggles your animation
its as simple as that
would suggest adding in a couple more rotation layers so its a bit smoother, xion pretty much uses zero cpu on animations now, this was using 0 on mine so i think you can afford to bosh in a few more layers to ease the transition from frame to frame