Things that should be improved on

Hello I have been a long time user of Adobe Animate. However as you can obviously tell Adobe Animate has been found dead at 30. I think that Wick Editor is very promising however I think there are serious problems that need to be addressed before Wick editor can truly replace Adobe Animate.

  1. When I create a clip. Which I assume is this programs version of creating a symbol. When I make a drawing save it turn it into a clip. It doesn’t automatically get saved into the Assets Library. And instead I think that in order to get a clip sent to the asset library you have to use one of the built in clips and then you can change it to whatever you like.

2.You can’t have more than 1 Wick file open at the same time. I like how you can save Wick files on your Computer that is a great feature but being able to open more than 1 Wick file is important because lets say you are making a animated show and you have assets that are re-used every episode you would have to make those assets as separate images stored on your computer instead of being able to copy and paste multiple assets from one Wicks file to the next.

That is at the top of my head. I think you guys should basic copy all the features from former Adobe Animate. Then that would make Wick editor a lot more powerful while also making it as easy as it is to use now.

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Welcome to the Wick forums!

We’re currently working on a fork called Candlestickers, eventually (hopefully) the coders will be able to have a system where you can update a clip in one instance and it copies over to every instance. As for the “more than one file open” thing the closest you can get is multiple new tabs at the moment. It’s not like this is limited to the browser, either. It’s possible.

Clips have this limitation of being just containers instead of symbols. The funny thing is that the render Wick uses (paper.js) has Symbols implemented.