Things I Wish I had Known about when I first started Wick Editor

#1

I’m sure there is probably already a thread talking about all of these things somewhere, I couldn’t find it though so now I’m just making my own.

  1. Unite: There is a unite thingy that unites things in the top right corner, and it is so useful when you want to make things a lower opacity but don’t like how the overlap is darker. Unite can kind of glitchy if you’re trying to unite things of different colors though, or if you are using the pencil tool.

  2. Brush modes: so what the different brush modes do is they limit you either to only drawing inside or outside lines you have already drawn, which is cool. (btw I still don’t know what enable pressure and brush modes directly next to them are about so if you know tell me)

  3. Gap fill mode: This might be the most helpful thing ever, to be honest. I move my frames around a lot with the intention of adding more frames in between, and since the default is extend, I would then have to mess with it for hot second before I had a black frame there. It seems small, but it saves me so much time in the long run I was almost mad when I found out about it because of how useful it was.

  4. Okay probably this last one is just supposed to be like intuitive and I’m the only person who didn’t figure it out immediately but: In order to select multiple frames, you can click and start dragging somewhere where a frame isn’t.

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(All the things I mentioned circled)

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#2

Real helpful, thanks you :D

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#3

Some things I wish I knew about Wick Editor when starting out:

  • that Wick Editor has a prefix for variables to be shared project-wide. This is called “project.”, and you can apply it like this: Say you have a variable, vibby. Without the “project.” prefix, it can only be applied for a specific script. If you do use it (“project.vibby” in this instance"), then there’s a high chance that other parts of your project can use it.
  • Wick Editor’s library system is not like Flash/Animate’s. If you try to update a symbol in one frame, it won’t sync up with the rest of them. This is something I don’t like about Wick Editor and I hope that the forks being developed right now can solve this issue.
  • the Wick forums can upload video files… if you link to them through a different website. For instance, I’d have to upload a video through Leopard Hosting and paste a link to that file in order for the player to show up.
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#4

One thing I hadn’t noticed is the frame size option, next to Gap Fill Mode.
I didn’t know that was option before I joined the forums.

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#5

wait huh?!? is this like where you select 1080p or somethign

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#6

It just shows the frames smaller or bigger.

#7

oh that thing :sweat_smile: i use that a lot actually

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