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July 19, 2019
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Onion Skin affecting brush opacity on current frame

  • July 19, 2019
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For some reason when i enable onion skin in the timeline and try to draw on the new frame it also lowers the opacity of the brush i'm using while I'm drawing, then when i lift my pen it goes full opacity?

Any advice/help would be appreciated! Sorry if this isn't clear, I can elaborate more on it if needed.

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Mejor respuesta de davescm

Ohh i understand, okay. So how would i fix this? what settings do i need to change?


Hi

There is nothing to fix. Onion skin is working correctly by showing you what is on the previous frames.

What is unusual is that your animation drawing layers are each several frames long hence the same stroke is shown sveral times by onion skin. That in turn builds up to make a light stroke look like a heavy stroke. . If the drawing layers were the more usual one frame long then the previous frame would be taken from a different layer and would look normal.

Dave

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davescm
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July 19, 2019

I don't see that here.

Can you show screenshots of your timeline, layers panel and onion skin settings

Dave

Participant
July 19, 2019

Sure thing,

Here are all my settings/set up

This is before i draw a frame, everything works normally.

This happens while i'm drawing (The thicker and lighter line is the one i was drawing with

And this is it after I take my pen off the screen.

davescm
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 19, 2019

OK I can see what is happening now

Your layers are set to last for more than one video frame which is unusual for use in animation.  With onion skin on and "frames before" and "frames after" set to 2, the image is showing you 5 video frames. While  you are drawing the brushstroke only the brushed layer  frame being drawn is updated - but as soon as you lift the pen then the before and after frames (which in your case are on the same layer)  are updated. This means that any areas of lowered opacity (including soft brush edges) are multiplied  and you see an immediate raising of the opacity.

When rendered the actual video will render as it is with onion skin off.

Dave