I feel like I am going mad and would really appreciate some help please.
Before, when I was setting a shape to only be visible from frame 50 to frame 100 for example, the shape contour lines would go away in the viewer in any frame before frame 50 or in any frame after frame 100 but it is not doing it anymore.
The V key toggles the Shape > Fade Outline with Opacity preference that draws unselected/inactive shape outlines using the opacity value. When enabled, you wonât see shapes that are at 0% opacity unless the shape is selected.
I would love a way to bring up the Shapes Prefs easily like how itâs possible with the Paint and Tracker Prefs (a button inside the panels themselves). Just not sure where a button would go for Roto. I like the Fade Outline Pref, but I lose track of what it is set at if I mistakenly press âvâ. I remapped âvâ for something else and no longer have that issue. I leave it checked in the Prefs and pressing âvâ does not toggle it disabled. I am also from the camp of where I drag my shapes off screen when I donât use them anymore - but that is an extra step for sure, after I set an extra keyframe without opacity, to preserve motion blur.
I personally think preference options should not be assigned to a hotkey by default unless the user specifies it. Otherwise you tend to get accidental changes. The Fade Outline Pref is a common one. To change a preference setting (which tend to remain constant) the user should have to open the preferences, in my mind anyway. Might be some exceptions though⌠A shortcut to open the roto preferences though Iâm down for!
Youâre not wrong! That preference goes back to a time where the scripting system didnât have a method of talking directly to tools. That has since been improved a lot, so we can decouple the preference from the keybind behavior now.