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04b Drawing controls

 

Save - Saves current drawing to selected clip. The drawing will be loaded again when the clip is selected.

Not visible when no clip is selected.
Undo - Removes the last tool placed.
Edit - If current drawing exists inside a clip edit button can be accessed and existing drawings can be edited.

Clear - Clears all the existing drawings.

To open the Administration menu:

  • Click the button by Right mouse button
  • Or hold your finger down on the button for few seconds

Drawing controls - Tools Administration Dialog

Open the Administration menu on the Clear button and select the “Tools Administration” item, or press the Tools Admin icon .

The dialog can be closed by pressing the Clear button. The Tool Administration dialog has two tabs:

  • Default tab contains all predefined tools coming with the Paint.
  • Custom tab contains customized tools. Drag and drop tools here to save them.

Add tool into the Toolbar

Open the Tool administration dialog. Drag a tool from one of the tabs and drop it into the toolbar.

Remove tool from the Toolbar

Open the Tool administration dialog. Drag a tool the opposite direction back and drop it into the default tab of the administration dialog.

Groups

It is possible to group tools, which will be represented by one tool, but you can quickly change to another tool from the group.

Create group

Open the Tool Administration dialog. Drag a tool from the Tool Administration dialog or Toolbar and drop it on an existing tool (drop location is middle part of the Tool button.). A group is created and expanded. image61.png

Expand group

There's a user gesture to expand the group. The gesture depends on tool layout:

Tools placement

Default Expand group gesture

Bottom

Drag up

Left

Drag right

Right

Drag left

Top

Drag down

Group buttons are marked with a small group symbol in the corner of the button. Tools in each group are numbered for better orientation.

Remove tool from group

Open the Tool administration dialog. Expand the group. Now drag the tool and drop it into the:

  • Default tab of the administration dialog to remove the tool
  • Custom tab of the administration dialog to save the tool for later use
  • Toolbar to make it permanently visible in the Toolbar

Add tool to existing group

Open the Tool administration dialog. Drag a tool form the Tool administration dialog or Toolbar and:

  • Drop the tool in the middle part of a group button (as described in the Create Group paragraph). The tool is appended to the group.
  • During drag, park the cursor in the middle part of the group button for a while (~2 seconds), it makes the group expand. Then you place the tool at the desired position.
  • Expand the destination group. Drag the cursor and place it at the desired position.

Changing the active tool in a group

Open the group. Select another tool. The group is automatically closed and the tool is ready to use.

Custom tools

Tools can be customized and saved for later use. All customized tools are available in the Custom tab of the Tool administration dialog. Tools in the Custom tab and in the Toolbar are independent of one another. Changing properties of a tool in the Toolbar doesn't affect tools in the Custom tab and vice versa.

Create custom tool

Drag a tool from either the default tab of administration dialog or from the Toolbar and drop it in the custom tab. The new tool can be renamed by pressing Rename in popup menu of tool or by pressing F2.

Clone custom tool

Drag the tool from custom tab of administration dialog and drop it back to the same tab while holding the Ctrl key.

Remove custom tool

Drag a tool from the custom tab and drop it to the default tab.

Tool Customization

The tools come ready to use. Most properties of the tool can be customized in run-time if needed. Only the edited tool is changed. When the tool is removed, all changes are lost.

Open the popup menu for the tool (right click or touch and hold for about 2 seconds) and select one of the following.

1) Tool tracking

Paint 10 tools can use two tracking types:

No tracking

 Graphics drawn keep their position on the screen

Motion tracking

 Graphics move together with the background video, as though it is part of the scene.

Different tools support different sets of tracking modes. If more than a single tracking type is supported, it is possible to choose actual tracking type using tool popup menu (click RMB on the tool button or long touch).

2) Tool keying

Paint 10 tools can be keyed. Keying can changed during run of the application. The menu is available when given tool supports both keying modes.

When using keyed tools, make sure the chroma key is properly set.

On

 Tool is keyed against the background (Field)

Off

 Tool is not keyed against the background and appears on top of player
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3) Tool Properties

Here you can find the rest of the editable properties of the tool. All items have tooltips with a short description. Properties for each tool are described in the Tool Reference chapter.

All properties are initialized with their default values. The bold name of the property indicates that the value of the property differs from the default value (has been changed).

Bold property category (tab) indicates it contains properties with non-default value.

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Shadows

Paint 10 tools are capable of casting shadows (with some exceptions like Offside, Pause etc.). Shadows are rendered when both global and per-tool switch is enabled. Shadows are enabled on most tools and disabled by global switch by default.

You can enable/disable shadows on the tools in the Tool Properties dialog by switching the value of ShadowEnabled property.

Global shadow properties

The dialog with shadows can be opened from the Administration menu by the Settings menu item .

The settings are global and applied on all drawings. The settings are stored within current profile (see "Tool Profiles").

High values of Blur radius might cause performance drop and are not recommended.

Global shadow properties

Enabled

Enables/disables shadow rendering. The shadow is rendered when both this and ShadowEnabled on Tool is ON.

UseLightDirection

If checked, light direction will be used to calculate shadow position. See Lighting description. Applies to 3D tools only.

Blur radius

Controls level of blurring. Lower values cause the shadow to look sharper.

Intensity

Intensity of the shadow. Lower values cause the shadow to be less visible.

Angle

Angle in degrees of the cast shadow. With 0 the shadow is cast in the 12 o'clock direction, 180 causes the shadow to be cast in the 6 o'clock direction.

Distance

Distance of the shadow from the drawing.

Some tools use a discolor effect for the background (Zoom tool, CutOut tool, PitchFocus Tool...). You can change the parameters of the discolor filter in the Discolor tab of the Settings dialog. Open the Administration menu menu on the Clear button and pick the 'Render effects' menu item.

Contrast

Contrast of the background.

Brightness

Brightness of the background.

BWFactor

Black/White factor. 1 means fully B&W, 0 means that no B&W effect is applied.

Blur

Amount of blur applied to the background. 0 means none, 10 means total blur.

Color

Allows you to set the colour applied to the background.

Lighting

Defines one global source of light, which allows 3D tools to be correctly shaded, cast shadow and reflect light.

Angle

Angle in degrees of the light. With 0 the shadow is cast in the 12 o'clock direction, 180 causes the shadow to be cast in the 6 o'clock direction.

Altitude

Altitude of the light in degrees. 0 means 'on the surface', 90 means infinitely high.

Env. Texture

You might define an environmental texture, to use for faking reflections and more realistic results. Lightning without any environmental texture causes poor visual results.

Slow-mo and pause default duration

Each time you press a button to create a pause or slo-mo

Tool Profiles

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Profile are sets of tools displayed in the toolbar. You can have several predefined profiles and change the actual profile in one step.

Administration menu contains the following actions:

  • Open Profile – Menu with existing profiles shows up.
  • New profile – New empty profile with a user-specified name is created.
  • Save profile as – Current profile is saved under user-specified name.

All changes you make to the current profile (add/remove tools) are automatically saved.

Toolbar capacity might be lower than the number of tools defined in the profile. In this instance a warning dialog is open with the following choices:

  • Ignore – Tools that don't fit the toolbar are removed. This change is not saved into the profile until the toolbar is altered manually.
  • Create copy – Creates and automatically selects a copy of current profile, tools that don't fit into the toolbar are removed.

Default Tool

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Default tool is automatically selected when the application is started and each time the Clear button is pressed.

This tool might have different button icon to easily identify which tool is actually default (depends on current skin).

Set a tool to be Default by checking the Default tool item in the popup menu for a tool.

Unset a tool to be Default by unchecking the Default tool item in the popup menu for actually default tool.

In/Out Effects

Special effects can be added when graphics starts or finishes its production length.

Managing effects

Effects are managed in the Effects dialog that can be opened from the administration dialog (right mouse button on the Clear button) and selecting In/Out Effects.

The list on the left side contains all the effects. It has these columns:

  • Name – name of the effect
  • Style – animation style of the effect
  • Clip – whether the effect it has an associated clip
  • Used – whether this effect is used by a tool in the current profile

The dialog allows you to create a new effect, clone existing, remove existing. The rename function is opened by double clicking on the effect or by pressing F2.

Parameters of the selected effect can be set in the panel on the right side. Default effects can not be changed. “Default Effect” is set to a tool that is added to the toolbar.

Using effects

Open a tool property editor, switch to the ”In/Out effects” tab and select an effect from the combo boxes.

Value “-none-” means that no effect will be applied. An exclamation mark next to the combo box indicates that the effect animation style is not supported by the current tool. It means that the effect animation will not be performed. If a clip is set, is always played.

The cog button on the right side opens a popup menu with additional commands. The effects dialog will be shown after choosing any of the options.

Parameters off effects

Animation

Style
  • NONE – no animation is used
  • FADE – opacity animation.
  • DRAW – stretching or shortening. The final result depends on a tool. The tools define the look of the effect. For example freehand and arrow tools can have an effect where the stroke grows or shrinks.
  • SCALE - size animation.

Duration

Duration of animation in frames.

Delay

Delay of the animation related to begin/end. It allows you to play clip before running the animation.

Sequential

A part of a graphic is animated right after the animation of the previous part is finished. Is used only when the placed graphic is made from parts.

Reverse

Flips direction of the Draw animation. Only visible when Style is set to Draw.

Pivot

Pivot of Scale animation defined in bounding box of graphic. [0,0] = bottom left corner, [1,1] = top left corner. Only visible when Style is set to Scale.

Clip

File

Path to gtc clip file.

Position
  • CENTER – clip is placed in center of bounding box computed from graphic.
  • START – clip is placed at the first point of a stroke. Used only when graphic contains a stroke.
  • END – a clip is placed at last point of a stroke. Used only when a graphic contains a stroke.

Mode
  • FOREGROUND – chroma key off.
  • BACKGROUND – chroma key on.

Blend mode
  • MULT – Multiplicative blending mode.
  • ADD – Additive blending mode.

Opacity

Opacity of a clip.

Size

Scale of a clip.

Example of how the effect is executed when an animation, clip and delay are set:

  • Clip 20 frames
  • Delay 20 frames
  • Animation 60 frames
  • Clip 20 frames
  • Delay 10
  • Animation 60 frames
  • Start
  • End
  • In effect
  • Out effect

Using effects with text

When using any tools with a text input and .gtc background (e. g. Tag tool), the text animates in with the first frame of the background, and animates out with the final frame of the background.

It is often required to control fade in/out of the text since the .gtc might already contain a specially rendered in/out effects.

You can set the offsets in the Tool Property editor, Text tab altering values of these properties:

TextFadeInDelay

Defines the delay between production start of the background and fade-in of the text (e.g. setting a value of 10 means that the text starts fade-in with 10th frame of the .gtc background).

TextFadeOutPreroll

Defines a pre roll of the production end of the text (e. g. having .gtc clip 100 frames long and setting value of 10 means that the text starts to fade-out with 90th frame of the clip).