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Exporting a Certain Part of an Animation & Curved Paths #32

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yekta opened this issue Jan 19, 2019 · 12 comments
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Exporting a Certain Part of an Animation & Curved Paths #32

yekta opened this issue Jan 19, 2019 · 12 comments

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@yekta
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yekta commented Jan 19, 2019

There should be an option to export a certain part of an animation, no matter where it starts or ends. Like exporting the part that starts from the 4th second to 6th second. This is needed because it allows making loop animation with complex curves to be much much easier, or rather possible. If you always start exporting from the 1st frame, making loops become much harder, sometimes even impossible if they have complex animation curves. Because you would need to repeat some layers certain seconds apart from each other.

Also, any given object should be able to animatable on a curved path, like in After Effects. Drawing the path that a layer would follow is much easier than calculating X and Y values for that to happen.

@yekta yekta changed the title Exporting a Certain Part of an Animation & Curve Paths Exporting a Certain Part of an Animation & Curved Paths Jan 19, 2019
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Hi @yekta,

If you set your work area, we'll only export that region. Is this what you are looking for?
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We've been talking internally about the path following feature. There are a few ways to do it. We like the After Effects model but we have some more ideas too. Please voice your opinion on our roadmap to let us understand which is important to you and why!

Thanks for using Flare.

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yekta commented Jan 19, 2019 via email

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yekta commented Jan 19, 2019 via email

@luigi-rosso
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It should just work on its own. Let me do some testing...I think it is something that we updated recently.

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I just tried it out and it seems to be working here. Make sure you have the work area toggled on. If you toggle it off, we'll export the whole animation. If you do have it on, send me a link to your Flare file and I can take a look at what's going on.

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yekta commented Jan 19, 2019 via email

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luigi-rosso commented Jan 19, 2019

We'll be adding presets with the ability to save your own soon, I think that'll help with having a custom set of interpolators. We have a lot do to still, but we move pretty quick :)

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You probably need to re-export your file if it was from a week ago! Good point on the interpolation stuff. We have a plan for it already, but as Luigi said, feel free to send us your specific ideas (if you have them) on the roadmap!

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yekta commented Jan 19, 2019

Checked, work area in fact worked this time, I should've controlled it one last time before opening the issue :) Thanks for helping.

@luigi-rosso
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Don't worry, it's good you did open this issue! Things move fast (it's one of the nice things about having our platform online). We encourage people to file issues as it helps us better understand what specific use cases need better documentation.

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yekta commented Feb 13, 2019 via email

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