Shape Difference, Union, Intersection

Saola Animate Feature Requests
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Please consider more shape editing functions.
such as Difference, Union, Intersection as the help link below:

I think about this since I want to create
a circle’s animation opening video inside Soala,
but Saola can not draw a circle as below:
image
as I know, the figure above
need a difference on both a circle and a rotated rectangle,
or some great person to tell me how to create it on Soala.

Regards,
Afei

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Hi Afei,

Please find my answers below:

  1. To keep the aspect ratio of a shape, you can come to its Properties pane > Position & Size tab > click the Link width to height checkbox (the chain icon).
    image

  2. To create the circle animation above, you can try following these steps:

  • Insert an oval shape
  • In its Properties pane > Styles tab > set No Fill and Solid line style
  • In the Draw Mode drop-down list > select Partly > type any value in the Line Length box.
    For example:
    image

Regards,
Tuyen

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One bug found here: The Link of Width and Height cannot be exactly.
Firstly show my preset 50x50 of an oval shape.
image
then link the width and height, after some (3 or 5 times) resizing, something happened.
image
as you can see the figure above,
it will be “likely” the same ratio on both width and height, not “exactly”.

Best Regard,
Afei

4

Hi,

Thanks for reporting the problem.
The cause may be a conflict with canvas snapping when you resize.
You can temporarily fix it by accessing the View menu > click Canvas Snapping to turn it off.

Regards,
Tuyen

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