Image Section
The interface will be a bit different in the Image Editor settings after you've installed the free Photopea plugin.
Before installing the Photopea plugin. |
After installing the Photopea plugin. |
You can select an external application or install the free Photopea plugin for use as an image editor with Cartoon Animator. Images edited using the "Launch" feature of the Cartoon Animator material editor will open with the image editor selected in this section.
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Click the Open File button and browse to the executable
file of a suitable image editor. (e.g. Adobe Photoshop)
Alternatively, you can also click the Launch PSD Editor button on the Add-on Tool Bar of the Main window. -
You can install the free Photopea plugin to work with Cartoon Animator
by clicking the Install Photopea button to download the plugin from Reallusion Hub.
Note:
For a Pipeline version user of Cartoon Animator, you can get an ad-free version of the Photopea plugin from the Reallusion Hub.
The additional Photopea option will show after you installed the Photopea plugin. Images edited using the "Launch" feature of the Cartoon Animator material editor will open with the image editor selected in this section.
- Photopea:
You can keep or select Photopea to be the default image editor when launching the Cartoon Animator material to an image editor.
The initial Launch PSD Editor button icon on the Add-on Tool Bar of Main window will become the Photopea one.
Because it is a browser-based image editor, please keep the internet connection during editing images with Cartoon Animator. - Selected Editor:
You can select an application for use as an image editor with Cartoon Animator.
Click the Open File button and browse to the executable
file of a suitable image editor. (e.g. Adobe Photoshop)
Alternatively, you can also click the Launch PSD Editor button on the Add-on Tool Bar of the Main window.
When you click the Launch to External Image Editor button in the Composer to edit the image-based elements in a sprite, you are allowed to decide the way the image is opened in the external editor.
- PNG and Separate Mask: Choose this radio button to open the image as two PNG files.
One is the original image and the other is a black-and-white PNG that depicts the opacity mask.
- Transparent PNG: Choose this radio button to open the image as
single PNG file with transparent background (alpha channel).