Editing Sequence Animation Elements 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
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 then add, delete or edit layers (in this case, editing the contents in several layers).
   
6. 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.
7. Open the Timeline and the Motion track of the prop. As you can see there is a Sprite-switch animation clip.
   
   The sprite-switching animation then can be looped, accelerated and decelerated and any other clip-based modifications.
8. Playback to check out the sprite-switch clip result.