Operation Manual

Creating Animations 239
To change object placement:
1. Select the object whose positional information you want to apply
forward or backward.
2. From the object's toolbar, click either:
• Update placement backward to make a previous object's
position match the selected object's position.
- or -
• Update placement forward to do the same to later object
positions.
3. From the dialog, choose to Run Length either to the beginning/end of
the storyboard, or to a set number of keyframes before/after the
currently selected object (choose the Run length drop-down menu,
pick N Keyframes and enter a number of keyframes).
4. Click OK.
Like DrawPlus's Format Painter, you can also apply a specific object's attributes
(colour, transparency, filter effects, shadows, etc.) to previous or later objects.
To change object attributes
1. Select the object whose attributes you want to apply forward or
backward.
2. From the object's toolbar, click either:
• The Update attributes backward button to apply attributes to
previous objects.
- or -
• The Update attributes forward button to apply attributes to
later objects.
3. From the dialog, choose to Run Length either to the beginning/end of
the storyboard, or to objects a set number of keyframes before/after
the currently selected object (choose the Run length drop-down menu,
pick N Keyframes and enter a number of keyframes to copy to).
4. Click OK.