You do get a place to enter an HTML code though. But nope, you get RGBA sliders, no palette, no custom colors, no memory. You'd expect a nice color picker wheel, perhaps with some predefined starting points like any sane editor. Finally I right-clicked on the canvas, found a "Layer" menu, and inside that another flyout menu called "New Layer." Which contains things such as blurs, distortions, fractals, gradients, examples.things I would consider effects and not layers. Actually, except for that thing in the CMD window I don't see anything about layers. How do I create a new one? Well I see no "Layers" toolbox, no "Layers" menu, no "Layers" button. Okay, I'm a Paint.NET user so I assume I understand what layers are. The only feedback is in the CMD window (which I normally minimized because it's a stupid thing which shouldn't exist in a GUI application anyway), where I see "STATE FILL: Received layer clicked Event." What does that mean? WTF #13: Clicked the fill button and attempted to paint the canvas black (I'm working on a sci-fi space game). Except there appears to be no such thing as import. WTF #12: Back to the copy-paste issue: I figured it could be resolved by importing some of my existing raster sprites. WTF #11: The preview mode seems to cause crashes a lot.
Bear in mind my PC has an i5 2500K at 4.6 GHz and 16 GB of RAM.and it took dang near a minute to render 5 seconds of two random circles changing locations and size on the canvas. If you want to actually see the animation, you have to use a preview button which goes through a somewhat slow quick-render operation. WTF #10: "Play" button in the main window doesn't actually do anything. There is "Save All" there but I'm not sure what that means compared to a normal save. Naturally I looked for it in the main menu and failed.
Oh, and some of the buttons are not in the main menu. That's the one button with text instead of an icon. WTF #9: Icon buttons everywhere! Many of the main menu commands are duplicated by buttons sitting directly next to the main menu! Many of the icons use unintuitive graphics.except for the "Save All" button. Except the "Stop" button became disabled. What do these do? So I clicked them, and nothing apparently happened. WTF #8: "Refresh" and "Stop" buttons in the bottom-right corner of the main window. I closed the CMD window, and.application crash and exception window. So I started closing the toolboxes one at a time, until only CMD was left. It just closed the window, and left the other 4 up.
WTF #7: I clicked the red X button in the corner of the main window, expecting it to shut down the application. Perhaps I have to type relatively undocumented parameters into the CMD window? WTF #6: No copy-paste! I drew a shape, decided I wanted multiples, and well I can't.
WTF #5: The main menu is not on the largest window where you might expect it, it's on the smallest toolbox. Oh, I had to click a button with the tooltip "Animate Editing Mode" first. WTF #3: Okay, let me draw a couple things and add keyframes. WTF #2: Closing said Command Prompt window causes an unhandled exception which terminates the application. This is on a fresh install, and I'm getting errors that look like compiler errors. Stuff like "CRITICAL: Object class blah-blah doesn't implement method blah-blah". WTF #1: The app opens a Command Prompt window which displays a ton of errors on application startup. First off, I'm not really a designer, so some of the terminology and such is above my head, and I have no real expectations about what I should be able to do.
I recently found Synfig Studio while searching for software to handle 2D animation and artwork, basically I'm looking to create some concept videos for a video game idea.