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Mythical25549877rpfw
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August 7, 2022
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Having trouble using the oaint bucket tool on it's own layer.

  • August 7, 2022
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So Ive been trying to use a certain shade of blue to go over my characters body and to do that I've been trying to use a new layer specifically for the blue shading. For some reason whenever I try to use the bucket tool to cover all of the area. The bucket instead goes back to the first layers and adds the color there. Not only does it go on a different layer but it replaces one of the other colors completely which doesnt help since I want to blue sahding to have a 50% oppacity. So whenever I try to turn the oppacity down for that layer the whole drawing starts to fade when it should just be the blue shading. I can technically just use the brush on the new layer instead of the bucket, but if I do that I have to try and avoid going over the line art which is extrememly time consufing and stressful. Is there anyway to use the bucket tool on a seperate layer?

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    n. tilcheff
    n. tilcheff
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    August 7, 2022

    It will be best if you can do a screen capture video of what you are doing, showing your whole screen, layers in the timeline, etc., and explaining there what you are attempting to achieve.

    Then someone might be able to help you.

     

    Nick - Character Designer and Animator, Flash user since 1998 | Member of the Flanimate Power Tools team - extensions for character animation
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    Mythical25549877rpfwAuthor
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    August 7, 2022

    So if you see the first image. What you see now is the blue shading with 50% opacity. All of this was done manually and its a bit of a pain do without having to go over the black lines. All of the blue shading is on Layer 7.

    The second image is what happens if I try to use the paint bucket tool on Layer 7 but it always forces the paint bucket to go on Layer 1. The blue shading replaces the tan color so when I try to turn down the opacity. It doesn't look right.

    The third image is what happens when I turn Layer 1's opacity down to 50%. Everything except two other shadings are effected. The other shading parts don't change since they're on different layers, specfically 4 and 3. I hope this helps.

    n. tilcheff
    n. tilcheff
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    August 7, 2022

    Layer opacity the way you have set it to 50% is for preview purposes only. It will not affect the renders.

    Instead, change the alpha value of the fill color. This will make your color semi-transparent.

     

    The bucket tool needs a closed shape to work with. 

    To prevent the bucket from interacting with other layers lock them by clicking on the little padlock icons.

    It is still unclear to me whether you expect the bucket to work on a layer that has nothing on it or not.

     

    From your posts I get the impression that you lack fundamental understanding how tools, color and layers are used in Animate. It may be worth looking for some introductory tutorials. TiPTut on YT has many great videos.

     

    Hope this helps.

     

    Nick - Character Designer and Animator, Flash user since 1998 | Member of the Flanimate Power Tools team - extensions for character animation
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