Frame operations
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An animation is a collection of static images being shown one by one rapidly to create the illusion of movement. Each of those static images is a frame.
There are 2 selection modes: individual and multi-selection.
The default mode is individual in which when we tap on a frame number, it will select only that frame.
Multi-selection mode, as the name suggests, will allow us to select multiple frames at once.
To enable multi-selection mode, tap on the "Select" button on the top row, this button is hidden if we have only 1 frame. In this mode, when we tap on a frame, it will toggle the selection status of only that frame, it won't un-select the other ones. There is also a check box on the left (2) to toggle all frames at once.
To exit multi-selection mode, tap the "Done" (1) button.
Go to the first frame
Go to the previous frame
Play animation loop
Drag this button to scrub through the frames
Go to the next frame
Go to the last frame
Remove selected frame(s)
Add a new empty frame after each selected frame
Duplicate the selected frame(s), the new frames will be added after each selected one
Onion skin is the option to show the previous and next frames on the canvas to allow us to use them as the reference to draw the current frame.
Tap the button to toggle onion skin on/off.
Tap on the selected frame number one more time
The contextual menu will auto-show if 2 or more frames are selected
We can also set the duration by setting the FPS as well, and Pixquare will calculate the duration to achieve that FPS.
Once a tag is created, the animation will only loop inside the selected tag when you hit play.
Tagging is very useful if we want to save multiple animation clips in a single file.
To tag a range of frames, select the start frame and the end frame (we can select any frame in between as well, but that won't matter). The Tag button will show up in the contextual menu. Tap it, give it a name, and select a color if needed.
We can copy/cut and paste one or more frames in Pixquare.
To copy/cut frames, long press and drag the frame number, 2 boxes will appear: one for copying and one for cutting.
Drop the dragged frames into the corresponding box to perform the operation.
Onion skin has a lot of that we can mess around in the settings.
To bring out the for frames, you can:
A frame will stay visible as long as its duration allows before switching to the next one. If we want a frame to show shorter or longer, we can edit its duration by and then selecting Duration. We can now adjust the duration of the selected frames.
A tag is a collection of consecutive frames. It's the same concept as , but only for frames.
