Operation Manual

Creating Animations 245
To set a marker:
1. Click a marker icon after a chosen keyframe.
2. From the dialog, enter an easily identifiable Marker Name.
3. (Optional) Check Stops playhead to prevent your animation from
continuing.
4. Click OK.
5. The marker's appearance will change accordingly, i.e.
Marker not set
Marker set
(shown with blue line)
Marker set (with
Stops playhead
set; shown with red line)
When used in conjunction with the Timeline Actions "Goto marker X" or "Goto
marker X and stop" the exported animation can jump to different section
according to a chosen object's event or the display of a keyframe.
Affecting change over time (keyframe animation)
DrawPlus uses the term envelopes to describe editable motion paths (or profiles)
intended to define the rate of change (acceleration/deceleration) to an object's
transformation or physical attributes (colour or transparency) in your animation
run.
Envelopes are applied, created, modified and saved in the Easing tab. A series of
envelope types can be applied between key objects in your animation or
throughout the entire animation run. Typically, a non-linear Position envelope
would alter how an object speeds up or slows down over the animation run.
Other envelope types can alter the rate of transformation such as Rotate, Morph,
Scale, and Skew.
You can manually edit any profile independently of each other such that you
may have a mix of edited profiles and default linear ones. The Easing tab's