Editing Sequence Animation Commands with Editors

After creating a bitmap-based or svg-based prop with sequence animation, you can export them to the bitmap or svg editors for adding, deleting, or modifying the image layers and update the prop in Cartoon Animator.

1. Create a prop with sequence animation.
   
   
   • Bitmap-based Prop
   • SVG-based prop
   • Importing Gif or Apng with specific loop count (not forever)
2. Right click on the updated prop and execute the command in the Action Menu.
   
3. Playback to view the result.
   
4. Select the prop and export it to external editor.
   
   • SVG Launching Methods
   • PSD Launching Methods
5. You can rename the sub-folder (Walking_Left) under the Sequence_Sequence folder.
   
6. Create a new sub-folder and add layers into the sub-folder.
   
7. Save the document in the editor to transfer the modifications back to Cartoon Animator.
   Re-executing Action Menu Command or Not?

   • If you simply edit the contents without changing the number of the layers under the command folder, then the sprite switching clip will be updated automatically.
   • However, if the number of the layers are changed, then you need to delete the original clip and re-execute the action menu command to produce the correct sequence animation result.
8. Right-click on the prop and check out the Action Menu. As you can see the commands are updated.
   
9. You can execute the commands to create different Sprite-switch animation clips.
   
   The sprite-switching animation then can be looped, accelerated and decelerated and any other clip-based modifications.
10. Playback to check out the sprite-switch clip result.