Anonymous
asked:
will there be an animation assistant 3?
meaconscientia
answered:

Probably.

Unless I decide to take it into Java or something it’ll probably be 2’s interface with more shit.  All I really need for the program to fulfill its purpose to me is the resizable canvas space and the stepping, but more shit is more fun.

Originally I had planned to have 2 read .sai files, but reverse engineering filetypes in the dark is code hell.  I decided it would be better to wait for the new Sai and then put the time into playing with the new file format rather than blowing a gorilian hours on the current version only to redo it in the end.

Reading Photoshop files is also on the table depending on what layer information I can snag without a huge hassle.  Since documentation for that shit already exists, I might add it in an update once I receive more bug feedback.

The other thing on my to-add backburner is gif compression, which isn’t really a huge deal.  When you play back a gif, you’re not switching between frames, what you’re really seeing is new frames being piled onto old ones.  Gif compression is simply checking to see if n pixel from the previous frame is the same as n pixel from the current frame and if it is, you don’t write the new pixel.  It’s like AVI compression for image files.

I’ll probably look into the JASC program that Mode suggested at some point to see if there’s anything else fancy that I could try to design.

Give me suggestions if you got em.

lexyeevee

At this point, I’d like to take a moment to speak to you about the Adobe PSD format.