Multi-track animation

Suggestions, Wishes, Ideas
#1

Hi

I was wondering about multi-track animation: Asprite has it but I haven’t been able to find the option for this in Pro Motion.
Am I missing something? Is this feature maybe planned and if so, when?

#2

Hi @pixel-art-girl ,

can you tell me more about that feature? What does it do?

-Jan

#3

Hi

Multi track animation is where you have an animation on more than one track like this.

  • Suppose you want to make a person walk so you have your layers right: your head bobbing up and down your arms waving back and forth and your legs moving correctly.
  • Let’s say you want the arms to pull out a gun? Well you can’t do that because there is only one track of animation. In Pro Motion now you have to find where the arms move back and forth and erase them frame by frame or erase the layer altogether…
  • How much easier it would be if you didn’t have to do that! You simply go to the track where the arms move back and forth and erase the frames

It’s all here in this image

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Please include this feature. Please make it a priority. Asprite has it as I have said before and I would like to use it in Pro Motion. I am sure I am not alone. This is an awesome program with so many cool features. Thanks for all the work you’ve put into it!

#4

This has been suggested multiple times.
This post is the oldest post i know where it was discussed extensively. I think there were older posts asking/talking about the exact same thing but it didn’t have as much engagement from the community as this one.

Unfortunately, It seems to be a very heavy feature that needs a lot of prerequisite features to be implemented and Jans’ utmost focus. Jan says he’s gonna work on it and i believe it, 1000%! And i know it’s gonna have some edge against anything on the market again in some way, somehow, when it comes out. Like how most features in PMNG do.

If you’re curious how long it might take for a heavy feature like this to be implemented - if, say, hypothetically, Jan started working on it right now, as in - now? We’ll get it by the end of next year. Probably Dec., or by the first quarter of the year after that, even. This is solely conjectural purely based on my experience with past PMNG updates. Again, just hypothetical. So we’ll most probably get it much later than that.