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'Green guy' ( ) - Static Parameters - is a guard that says 'You shall not pass!' to the animation. Pay attention, that loop will always break at the very first frame of you animation, so you need to break it in the right place. And one after current, this one have to be removed (right-click on it -> Remove). One is current, we convert it to the 'constant' (right-click on it -> Both -> Constant). One before the current, we left it as it is. In the time loop parameters, set 'Duration' to 'EOT' (End-of-Time).On the timeline navigate to a place where you want to break the animation.See Static Parameters for more informations. Just right-click on him and set 'Allow animation'. In the layer's parameters of the time loop, you need to remove the 'green guy' ( ), indicating that the parameter is 'Static', from Duration Parameter.When the Time Loop layer is asked to set its time to 'Local Time', it sets the time in its child layers to be 'Link Time', ie.

'Local Time' is used to line up the offset of the time looping. The 'Time Loop layer' repeatedly loops through the 'Duration' seconds of its child layers, from 'Link Time' to 'Link Time' + 'Duration'. This is to provide compatibility with version 0.1 of the time loop layer.

If not checked, and the current time is less than 'Local Time', then 'Duration' is taken off the resulting time.

If not checked and the Duration is zero, the Time Loop layer freezes the animation of the children layers at the value of 'Link Time'.

If checked and 'Duration' is zero or negative, then the time loop layer is effectively disabled, and acts as if it wasn't there.

Number of seconds or frames that are looped in the child layer. Start time of cycled material/child layers. The parameters of the time loop layers are: These parameters, to prevent undesired modification, by default are statics. See also the Time Loop ValueNode conversion, which can be used to loop the value of a single parameter, rather than an entire layer or group of layers. It loops a section of the layers below and within the same canvas over and over. I guess that could be seen as an example that Synfig can’t handle fast timeline drags.The 'Time Loop layer' is used to repeat an animation over and over. If you restart the program it asks you if you want to load that backed-up data (though I guess you’ve noticed ).įor me Synfig crashed only once during a timeline drag and that was when I wanted to go from one of the last frames to the very first one in one drag. The program makes back-ups which you could send. Maybe dragging slower would help? I haven’t been doing it “as fast as I can”, but you never know. But then it will always crash after 5-10 minutes, and it always happens on a timeline drag. After I do set the affinity, it will last longer.

When I do not set CPU affinity, Synfig will crash right away when I do a timeline drag. I think I have to be a member to attach anything. The files I’ve been working on are very simple… just one text layer and one image layer.

#SYNFIG STUDIO XLOW FREEZES WINDOWS#

When this issue happens, all Synfig windows close without warning and I’m back to the desktop. I’m not sure if it’s possible to provide a backtrace.

#SYNFIG STUDIO XLOW FREEZES FREE#

Sorry, I just noticed there’s a support forum! Feel free to move this there if you want.

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