3D Onion Skinning Interactive Documentation

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Main Operational Functionalities Section

This area is where we start adding sources to become the generators of onion skinning feedback and how it will behave and look.

Sources Listing and Settings

For every source added, it will be listed in this sub-panel. User can define couple specific parameters per source and see at a glance non supported sources.

3D Onion Skinning

Header with a toggle to enable/disable the Add-on.

Add Selected

Add selected objects to Onion Skinning Objects list

Generate

Bake onion skinning to disk

Generate on Frame Change

Automatically generate when frame changes

Generate on Tweak

Automatically generate when animation data is tweaked (e.g. keyframes)

Clear Cache

Clear onion skinning cache

Frames Before

Number of frames to bake before current frame

Before Color

Color for ghosts before the generated frame

Frames After

Number of frames to bake after current frame

After Color

Color for ghosts after the generated frame

Source Settings

Sub-panel to list all the sources used for generating the onion skinning and their settings.

Backface Culling

Use back face culling to hide the back side of faces.

Toggle Generator In Front

Toggle 'In Front' display for Generator object

Vertex Group

Generate from the Vertex Group assigned on the list below

Bypass Object

Skip object from Onion Skin generation

Select Object

Select the respective object. Holding Shift or Ctrl will add to the selection.

Discard Onion Skin Source

Discard source from Onion Skinning generation

Type and Source Name

The icon shows the type of source followed by its name. When in red means that it is not supported type of source for onion skin generation.

Toggle In Front

Toggle 'In Front' display for Onion Skin object

Invert Vertex Group

Invert the influence of the selected vertex group.

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Individual buttons and controls