I cant get my brushes to work or even appear in style editor.

[lotusdragonjbh]

I am looking for an open source animating program and am currently trying out opentoonz.I am used to krita's animating software but I am trying to make something kinda big and krita keeps crashing with anything 400 frames or higher. I had hoped it was like a basic drawing program and wan't heavily vector based  but sadly it is. 

I can't find an opacity and I am a little lost here. I downloaded this brush pack, 'My digital ink pack' I believe,  for toonz and placed it in a library like the video said but it won't appear in my program nor do i know how to get it to show. I am still new to this program but It is a little frustrating especially since.  It is really confusing and it took me months to figure out krita.

So any advice anyone can give me would be very appreciated. Basically.

1. How can I turn off this stablizer that keeps smothing my lines, I want to sketch my frames first?
2. How can I get my new brushes to work? (I already took them out of projects and did the appropriate actions.)
3. Is their an opacity? And how can I paint this normally?

Again , i would deeply appreciate what information anyone has to offer. I would like to animate as soon as possible.

[John Dancel]

When you enter an empty level and just start drawing, the default Level Type is Toonz Vector.  You can change the default to Toonz Raster or Raster type if you want in preferences.  You can also right-click on an empty level and select New Level (or just hit control-n) and then select the type of Level (Toonz Vector, Toonz Raster or, Raster) in the dialog box before drawing.

There is a difference between Toonz Raster and regular Raster levels. One big thing I've noticed is with colors (called Styles) you draw with.  In Toonz Raster, if you draw with 1 style, you can tweek that color dynamically by modifying it in the Style Editor.  In regular Raster levels, whatever color you put down, is it.  You can't adjust it.  You'd need to erase it and start over.

The smoothing of lines is a brush setting...in Toonz Vector/Toonz Raster levels it's called "Smooth".   In Toonz Vector, might want to play with Accuracy as well.



Opacity of a color is controlled in the Style Editor when you've selected the color in your Level Palette.  May also want to play around with Hardness brush setting in Toonz Raster/Raster levels.



I can't help you much with the new brushes as I've never loaded external brushes yet.

Hope this helps.