Morphing Tool Properties

As you create and adjust your morphing sequences, you will often use the Tool Properties view. Using this view allows you to do things such as toggle between your key drawings, adjust the easing or select a hint type.

NOTE To use the Morphing tool, see About Morphing Animation.

Tool Properties view

Icon Tool Name Description
Hint Type

The Hint Type drop-down menu allows you to select the correct hint to remedy any problem areas in your drawing—see About Hint Types and About Morphing Hints.

Hint Type drop-down menu

You can have more than one hint type in your drawings. You can mix all of the hint types in your morphing sequence.

Do not Pick Transparency

The Hide Hints button temporarily Temporarily hides the hint points from the key drawings. Use this option when you have a series of hint points hiding some lines you would like to see.

Show Morphing in Place

The Show Morphing In Place option is used with morphing layers. Enabling this option prevents the currently selected morphing layer from being shown on top of the others and maintains the correct layer ordering—see About Morphing Layers.

Suggest Hints

The Suggest Hints option is used to automatically set Automatically sets hint points on key drawings as a help tool. If you're not sure where to set hints, you can use this option. It will set the main hints which you can then fine tune.

Switch Between Drawings

The Switch Between Drawings button is used to toggle Toggles between the two key drawings in your morphing sequence. This option is useful while setting hints. You can use the default keyboard shortcut F4 to toggle between your drawings.

Flatten

The Flatten option is used when you have to morph a sequence with a semi-transparent or transparent colour in it—see About Transparency Morphs.

  Quality

The Quality setting is used to make the lines of the morphed drawings smoother. Adjust this parameter when you are doing an extreme close up of your animation—see About Morphing Quality.

  Morphing Layers

The Morphing Layers option is used when working with morphing layers. You can add, remove and manage your different morphing layers in this space—see Creating Morphing with Morphing Layers.

To create new drawings, double-click on the blank area under the From section to create the source drawing and the To section for the destination drawing and type a different value than the ones used for the main layer.

Add Layer Adds a new Morphing layer.
Delete Layer Deletes the selected Morphing layer.
Move Up Moves the new layer up in the stack.
Move Down Moves the new lower up in the stack.
  Start

Indicates the start frame of the selected Morphing layer.

Changing the layer's duration

  Stop Indicates the end frame of the selected Morphing layer.
  Ease in and Ease out

The Easing option is used to adjust the starting and ending velocity of your morphing sequence so that the motion is smooth and not mechanical.

You can adjust the Ease In and Ease Out value by dragging your cursor up and down or typing a new value. The values go from -1.0 to 1.0—see About Morphing Velocity and Timing.

Convert Hints

The Convert Hints option is used to switch the type of the selected hint points. This option is useful when you position hints and then realize they are not the right type. You can select them and convert them to the correct type instead of deleting them and setting new ones.

Use the Morphing tool to select the hints and then convert them by going to the Tool Properties view and selecting the new hint type from the Convert Hints drop-down menu.

  Time

The Time field is used to set the timing on Appearing Point and Vanishing Point hints. These hints are used to set the trajectory of appearing and vanishing objects, With the Time field, select your Appearing Point or Vanishing Point hint and type the frame number on which the object will start its appearing or vanishing animation.