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What i expected: i create a layer for my line & shapes
i create a layer to fill the line & shapes
i select the fill layer, take the paint bucket and fill in the stroke
BOOM EVERYTHING WORK IVE GOT MY FILL ON A LAYER.. AND THE STROKE ON ANOTHER!
What i got: i create a layer for my line & shapes
i create a layer to fill the line & shapes
i select the fill layer, take the paint bucket and fill in the stroke
BUT FOR SOME REASON, THE COLOURS I FILLED GOT INTO MY LINE LAYER AND NOT THE FILL LAYER(even though i selected the fill layer i created)
I dont know what is happening. im actually on the 7 days free trial version of the software... and everything was looking/feeling fine, until i hit that problem of paint bucket not filling on the layer i want it to and instead shift ans fill on another layer. AND ITS ANNOYING. i was hoping to learn the software and buy it as im an animator and really want to use Adobe Animate. As i said, im new here, maybe im doing something wrong, maybe theres a tweak somewhere to fix that problem... i even tried locking the other layers just to fill the layer i want... but then it doesnt.
pls if anybody got an explanation and help me.. i would appreciate it very much.
i have 6 days left of free trial.. and im stuck on the most important stuff.. THE LAYERS
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Hi mate,
Sorry to disappoint you, but you are trying to achieve something that is simply not possible in Animate.
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hhmm not possible.. then how am i going to layer my stuff 😞
thx for the reply tho...
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A filled shape and its outline move and animate as a single entity. Having them rendered apart from each other would be... weird.
That being said, if you're dead set on doing things weirdly, you can always manually cut and paste the fill to a different layer after creating it.
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As said in the previous comments, it's not possible to fill in a shape on another layer however you coulddraw the outline, fill it and then select just the fill and copy and paste it to a different layer. It would make animating the two twice as much effort though. Is there a reason you want them on different layers?
If you search for "Jazza" on Youtube, he has an "Ultimate guide to Adobe Animate" which has excellent explanations of how each of the drawing and colourign elements work. It was a great help for me when I first started using Animate. Good luck!