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Animation Buddy

Flip through a video frame-by-frame, and practice your animation skills through observation · By Ashroo

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A topic by Ashroo created Jan 31, 2023 Views: 230 Replies: 4
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Developer

Any questions or issues with the software? Ask here, and I'll do my best to help :)

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Hey I bought Animation Buddy for an artist friend as a gift after seeing you post it on Draw a Box discord. My friend really likes it! They do have one thing though, that it starts/stops when they press spacebar even if it isn't in focus. Not sure if this is intended.

Developer (1 edit)

That is intended; here's a useful option to pair with that:


Inside of the "Set App to Capture Hotkeys," one could select their animation software, and that way it only listens for the global spacebar hotkey when their animation software is selected; or one could select the animation buddy app to disable the unfocused hotkeys entirely. (The reason that this exists and hotkeys happen when the window is unfocused is so Animation Buddy has the capability to synchronize with hotkeys of animation programs).

If it's still annoying after trying this option, let me know and I could update the app and add a specific option to make the spacebar hotkey specific to the window.

Also, great to hear they like it :)

Developer (1 edit)

Spacebar is no longer the default hotkey for playing/pausing video as per the latest update (it is now the pause button on a keyboard, but you can rebind it if you don't have that key or would prefer a different one).

"Set app to capture hotkeys" has been removed because it was not useful enough to stay.

All hotkeys work when the window is unfocused, so I recommend picking hotkeys that don't conflict with your animation program :) This makes it fast to control Animation Buddy.

Developer

In the latest update, keys may now be configured to require window focus. I find this to work nicely. The default is now space-bar and requires window focus.