Frame

Context menu of Frame

Double-tap on the frame header cell, to open the frame menu.

Frame menu

Actions in frame menu:

• New Frame: Duplicate the context frame as new frame on right side
• New Empty: Create new empty frame on right side of the context frame
• Delete Frame: Delete the context frame, but can not delete the last one
• New Glip: Set the context frame as head of an animation clip(clip head)
• Clip Peoperty: Edit animation clip's name and mode
• Delete clip: Delete the animation clip binding to the context frame
• Tag: Set a tag colour to this frame

Move frame among frames

Long press on frame header, hold and drag left or right to the target position.

About animation clip

Animation clips

• A sprite can contains multiple animation clips
• One clip start from the binding frame(clip head) to the next clip's binding frame or end frame of the sprite
• You can set clip name and playback mode in 'Clip properties' of frame menu
• You can focus on one animation clip by select it from the up-left drop-down selection. (This is useful when you have hundreds of frames)

Animation playback mode

Set it in clip head's clip properties dialog.

Animation clip properties

• Forward: the normal way
• Backward: from the last frame to first
• Ping-pong: from the first to last, and last to first, looping

Frame duration

You can set the playback time of a frame to be a multiple of the normal FPS time.

Frame property

It will also be reflected in the exported Gif and spritesheet.