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Hi,

during the last days I had sometimes the situation to work on different frames at the same time. I made the timing before and added some exposures to the heads. When I am flipping between the frames and drawing on them I am hitting sometimes an exposure and the frame becomes a head. In PAP (Plastic Animation Paper) is a special modus that only allows to draw on the heads. When drawing on an exposure the drawing on the head is changing. I hope someone understands this - its a little bit hard to explain.

So, is there a possibility in TVPaint to disallow the changing from exposure to head when drawing on it? I dind't found anything like that yet.

Thanks from Animark

Go to Layer > Exposure > and unselect 'Auto Break instance'. It will now draw on heads only, even if you draw on an exposure.

or hit the "NO AutoBreak" button from the Instance panel .

but if you don't want to switch off AUTO BREAK.
you can assign two keys to flip only between heads,
that way you won't find yourself accidentally drawing on tails (and thus transforming them to heads)
on my laptop i use the "," and "." keys and assigned them "layer: Exposure previous loop" and "layer: Exposure next loop"
on my other machine i assigned the wacom buttons for this

the 'loop' part makes it flip in a loop (when at the end the cursor appears again at the begin)


i mention this alternative solution because sometimes Autobreak can be very handy.

Ah, OK - I didn't know that the function is called Auto Break. Now I've found it and it works fine. Thanks for that and for that fine instance panel.
Also thanks to Peter, till now I marked my frames with a flag and switched between them. In most of my situations it`s a better solution to flip between the heads, I will define a good shortcut for that function. In Adobe Flash the shortcuts to flip between the frames are also " , " and " . ".

Regards from Animark.