Scene Overlay Image

[manongjohn]

This was a request to be able to apply an image on top of every rendered frame automatically. Use cases includes applying/using an animation cell template used by studios or applying a watermark to the animation.

I've added this feature so animators can easily specify a scene overlay image (and opacity) which will automatically follow camera movements and be rendered on top of every frame.

The setting can be found in Scene Settings:

To easily update the camera size to match the overlay dimension (i.e. for animation cell templates), I've added the Use Scene Overlay Settings buttton to camera settings:

To show the overlay in the viewer, toggle on the Grid and Overlays button on the viewer and make sure Scene Overlay is toggled on:

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Notes about Scene Overlays:

• Supported image types: PLI/SVG (vector), TLV (smart raster) and image files that load as a regular raster level (PNG, TIF/TIFF, GIF, etc...)
• If a level file with multiple frames is selected, only the 1st frame in the sequence is used.
• The overlay does not show in Level Edit mode
• WARNING! Scenes saved with an overlay cannot be opened in prior versions of T2D.
  • To reopen in older versions, save without the overlay or edit the .TNZ file and remove section <overlayFile> .... </overlayFile>

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Demo:

sceneoverlay.mp4