Image Marks Enhancement Suggestion

[Mads Juul]

+1. why not make the highlighted area cover the actual layer , and not only below the layer. Something like this

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[Mads Juul]

If a Image Mark would cover all instances and not just the head image, how am I to make correct sync marks? A sync mark is one tic -- you are giving me lines. How is that a sync point? It's a sync area at the best.

maybe something like this

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[Paul Fierlinger]

Now this to me looks like a good solution for everyone, am I right --err, does Mads have it right?

[Sewie]

Mads first suggestion doesn't solve the problem that the marks are hardly visible when zoomed out.
The second one I find very confusing.

Perhaps an option to choose between highlighting a frame or a drawing/instance could be a solution?

[Paul Fierlinger]

Well, the second one has the mark delineating a single frame within the layer itself while delineating that frame's instances in the area below the layer. I suppose another variant would be to reverse that; have the instance colored on the layer itself and have just the frame showing its color below. Either way would solve the purpose for both sides of the issue.

[Mads Juul]

Mads first suggestion doesn't solve the problem that the marks are hardly visible when zoomed out.

Maybe not.
But I find the image marks easier to spot with this

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Than this(as it is now)

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And why not put the image maek on all of the layer and beneath?
I guess it is hard to program, else I guess the TVpaint developers would have done it all ready.
Is it possible to highlight image mark this way?

The second one I find very confusing.

You are probably right

Perhaps an option to choose between highlighting a frame or a drawing/instance could be a solution?

Maybe this would be the best solution.
But I think the way I made it in the first attached image would be better than it is now when highlighting single frame.
-Mads

[Sewie]

But I think the way I made it in the first attached image would be better than it is now when highlighting single frame.

Yes, perhaps you're right... I'd have to see it and work with it to know if it's a practical solution, though.
It's kind of hard to judge from the mock-ups.