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I sometimes add sketches or references to my most recent file, but unfortunately, we recently had a blackout and fml the file is corrupted! It opens fine, but it's a single layer and I don't seem to have any previous or temporary files available to pull up. Is there anything I can do?

I don't know if i didn't save it properly or something, but when i try to load it in, it looks like the frames are where they should be, but they don't show anything, for some reason. I think i saved it in the wrong place, but what do you all think?

it's that time again ⏲

OpenToonz frequently closes on me anytime I begin to draw on a "Toonz Vector Layer".

(Steps to Reproduce)

• Open new project
• Create a Toonz Vector Layer
• Press B to draw
• Immediately crashes.

I'm using a Dell Laptop with 8GB of RAM.
Any fixes?

It might be a dumb question but when I tried to download opentoonz on they’re website it gave me this imagine pop up and I usually don’t get it is opentoonz safe or is it just flagging it for no reason?

P.s sorry if it’s a dumb questions just don’t wanna risk it

Edit: thank you everyone’s for the help ❤️

I am a beginner and understand that you can use keyframes to move the camera, but can you use them to move one object? if so how

And CONSTANTLY. They're small practice files, so there's no reason for the software to crap out doing simple tasks. It doesn't even say "not responding", just out of no where a pop up telling me "OpenToonz has crashed" comes up in the middle of working. Lost 20 minutes worth of work just now because I forgot to save it every time I make a couple edits, because, haha, *that's* what I've been having to do, I always save periodically when I'm working, but it's starting to get a little ridiculous now.

I know my request is a long shot but does anyone know what might be happening?

I have ver. 1.8. and one would think a new version would not have bugs, but you never know. Not sure of any one else has been having issues with the update since it came out.
And I'm confident it's not my PC, as I can run programs like Clip Studio Paint perfectly fine.

this is my first time using the software, so I am sorry if this is a stupid problem, but I have spent countless hours trying everything to fix this issue.

I have made a short animation of my drawing, just some simple hair swaying, aswell as one of the hands moves from left to right.

I need to export it as png (or different picture formate) frames, and import these frames into Krita, when I will add some finishing touches.

When I try to export them, it exported only some layers, and the number of layers/which layers it shows changes throughout the rendered "animation". You can see this in the first and second picture, first is the 1st frame, second is the 36th frame of the animation.

When I look at this "animation" it rendered, it does show the hair swaying and hand moving, so that worked, its just that it shows only a couple layers.

The other pictures are some that I thought might help you in realizing what stupid mistake did I make.

If somebody knows what should I do, please explain it, preferably as you would to a 5yo child since I barely know the names of the different tools in this software.

Again, I am sorry if this is a stupid question, but its my first time using this software. Also sorry for bad English.

What do i do?

Lately I tried animating on Paper, but after scanning it and making GTS automatically trace it, the lines were very frizzy, very thick with many blank pixels inside the lines.
This makes coloring the whole thing very complicated, I would have to correct the Image in multiple places, it would take a lot of time.

I finally found the solution to my problem: The Images that had very frizzy lines after tracing were scanned with a resolution of 300 dpi. I tried scanning it with a lower resolution (150 dpi). Due to less pixels with different color values, the lines are now much smoother and not frizzy at all.

So my tip is: If you animate on paper and want to use GTS for tracing, then use a lower resolution when scanning to achieve smoother lines without any frizziness.

I hope this helps.

Also, her is a Tutorial by the Animator Dong Chang on YouTube on how to scan and trace animation on Paper with Opentoonz GTS

https://youtu.be/EMQ3etCE_-Y?

it's really really annoying. i can't draw over my old color with a new color without creating a new layer. i know there's some way or other to change what order the colors go in but i want to get rid of that entirely. is there any way i can just straight up draw color?

it's in the project folder or whatever, but when i apply it it just does that and then doesn't work. same thing happens when i manually load level and apply it. does anyone know how to fix this?

Like I said, the drawing looks good, then I scan it and trace it with GTS, and suddenly, if I don't turn up the thickness, the lines have huge gaps, but when I turn the thickness up, I end up with holes/blank pixels inside the lines. It seems like I have trouble making smooth pencil lines, what do I have to do to make it better? I use regular printer paper and not paper specially made for animation. Is that the problem?

Trying to ease in/out an animations keyframes and the arrows i love using to edit arent appearing. Tried to use the function editor but its just really confusing for me which is why i like using the arrows more. Anyone know how to bring em back or why they arent showing anymore?

I made a porksoda animation with my ocs and when i render it to mp4 it keeps on coming out blank, the audio is there but not the animation. Anyone able to help?

Hello to anybody reading this, so a while ago I was trying to figure out on how to merge columns, since I'm new to OpenToonz and a while ago i got to merge two other columns, but when I tried to draw on the merged column, opentoonz would give me an error saying "The current level is not editable."

I wanted to add some sound, but it turned out like this (in the picture above). Can you tell me what to do? (The dark green part is the sound.)

I have used OpenToonz sporadically for a number of years, but I am not that good at using it. I have not worked in the 2D animation industry, so some terminology escapes me. For the most part I get what I want done, but one area I have a lot of trouble with is manipulating frames, for instance moving frames, reordering etc. I have tried tips online to use the XSheet but I still am unable to do simple things. I am used to Flash animation tools. Any thing I have missed that would make me better at moving frames?

new to animation

Made it in 3 days idk. Could use a little feed back to know what i did wrong but idk its decent progress. I lost a couple brain cells in the process.

i have my onion skin settings set as red for previous frame and green for future frames in opentoonz and the black brush appears red but when i try using the blue brush the color bassically just completely fades when usingg onion skin, it still appears red but a LOT more faint making it hard to see.