Your advice worked perfectly. Thanks.

Thanks! I will take that for a test drive.

I want to draw an elipse with no fill. I am trying to create a layer - with a black rectangle the size of the entire layer. Then draw a half-dozen smaller circles with no fill. Creating holes in the black layer to reveal the layer below.

On frame zero, vector layer, on styles drop down I selected <none>, message appears - defaults (for new shapes) , there is a red check next to "fill". I cannot uncheck it. Is there a reason that new shapes must be filled --- or can "fill" somehow be unchecked for "defaults (...

Thanks...

And the additional information really rounded out the posting.

It helped me and has enough advice that it should help others in the future.

(Although I hope this is a rare occurrence.... -- that is, corruped *.anme files)

Thanks - Jeff

Examining the code in TextEdit, I could see that the "last" layer in the file did not complete with the four lines that heyvern indicated needed to be there. I assumed it was the "squashed" layer and deleted it per the posting. The file now opens. If I run animation, the file clo...

Thanks for the pointer to the previous posting. I have examined the file in TextEdit and did some Find's on layers, just to see the code. How did heyvern know the corrupted layer was named "overkroppen"? Since I will lose the corrupt layer --- and every layer after that --- how do I identi...

AS crashed when I selected a video file when adding a new image layer. It was the third short video I was adding to this .anme file. The first two worked beautifully. When I try to open the anme file, I get a message Read error at line 2743 in code file volumes/develop/oban/trunk/anime studio/build/...

Thanks for taking the time to provide all the advice. One problem I don't have is the impact on the animation. So far, I just working on the character and haven't stated animating. Whatever changes I make will not harm any animation efforts - just drawing efforts. Background: I got into this pickle ...

Thanks for the suggestions. Good News: For a switch layer with several vector sub-layers, I went through a sequence of translate the layer to move the drawing and origin in the working area, then select points and translate points to move the points to a better relationship to the origin, and then d...

The origin (blue cross) is well outside the working area (blue box). Also, a bone layer with many sublayers is also well outside the working area. And, when I start a new switch layer, it is well outside the box. I must have gotten in this pickle by experimenting with camera pan and workspace pan an...

Vern - Thanks. I selected all the points of the shapes that I did not intend to move with the bone, released them, and now the bone is working as I hoped. Thanks.... When I said I "pulled apart" the character.... 1st I drew the character using a number of vector layers under a bone layer. ...

I am following a standard process - but keep getting stuck. I am wondering if anyone knows a common cause for a beginner to have these problems. I built a character and then pulled it apart to add bones. I set the Bone Layer to Region Binding. I added bones, reduced the strength, checked the parenti...

Sometimes lightning strikes and you find "exactly" the advice you need. I am a beginner and had a character with the "personality" and the "look" that I wanted, but I had a very crude implementation. Since I just blundered my way through creating him, he was hard to ani...

Thanks for your interest in helping me. After hours of experiments - I realized there was unintentional additional animation on each of the sub-layers. I had created an object - a cell phone - then duplicated the sublayer - then rotated the phone a bit - so I had three sub-layers - vertical, tilt ri...