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  • Can anyone explain the tick boxes?

    Posted by Josh Evans on April 30, 2009 at 1:00 am

    I am having trouble understanding how the tick boxes work in the time-line or browser next to objects in my project.

    Sometimes I can untick them, other times not, other times alot of stuff in my timeline is darkened and I dont know why.

    Option-clicking will work with tick boxes sometimes, but I still dont understand it all, it seems kind of complicated?

    Stephen Smith replied 17 years ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
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  • Stephen Smith

    April 30, 2009 at 2:22 pm

    What is a tick box? I did a search in the manual and that phrase doesn’t show up. Can you take a still grab and post it please?

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  • Jason Diebler

    April 30, 2009 at 3:43 pm

    I’m thinking maybe Josh means the “visibility” check boxes?? Not sure the technical term…

    You can only check them off/on if the group/layer is unlocked — much like Photoshop. If you can’t uncheck them, see if your lock is on.

    If you’re not playing through the timeline, unchecking a behavior, for instance, will not appear to have an effect – although it probably does. You have to scrub through to see…

    I uncheck filters and some behaviors when the project gets large with many layers, and check them back before exporting or ram-previewing a final product.

    Is that what you meant Josh?

  • Josh Evans

    May 1, 2009 at 5:12 am

    Hi yes, thanks very much that is what i meant. Yeah, technical terms are not exactly my strong point when using this graphikey-animation-type thingamajig program.

  • Stephen Smith

    May 1, 2009 at 2:19 pm

    Jason, that makes you the man! Good work.

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  • Jason Diebler

    May 1, 2009 at 4:12 pm

    Thanks Stephen, but you are still “THE” man!

  • Stephen Smith

    May 1, 2009 at 4:36 pm

    Oh stop, I’m blushing. :- ) I think this showcases how powerful the COW is. More minds are better then one, that is for sure.

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