If you have colors with more than one word (that is, spaces between them) the name is within Quotes. The next section is the Name of the color. The first word is what kind of color it is, as mine all say “Solid” (there’s no gradients or bitmap fills in this palette I made). The rest of the file is just like a tab-delimited list (Although there’s no tabs, just spaces between the items on each line). The first line announces that it’s a ToonBoomAnimationInc PaletteFile 2,
#Changing locations of file in bbedit project windows#
Edit, not Write, on Windows – you need a plain text editor, not one that’ll save in RTF or other formats). Open that file in your text editor ( I use BBedit on the Mac. In your Animate Project folder look for a folder named “palette-library” and inside that should be a file with the name of your palette with the “.plt” extension. Make sure that you work from a COPY of the Animate Project when ever you hand-edit a animate-created file! I just triple-clicked on the line for the color whose order I wanted to change and dragged and dropped the line just before the first letter of the line I wanted it to go and Bam – order changed. I recalled that I had a similar issue with another ANIMEation Studio type program and could open the color palette file with a text editor and change the order of the colors. That way I could have all the colors for the Pants in one area, the color for the Jacket of the character in another, and so on. It would be great if the List could be Alphabetical, or (better yet) customizable. I searched the User’s Guide and the Getting Started guide for Animate on Colour Palettes, but there’s nothing there about how one could go about organizing it. And the palette list is quite long and unorganized, as each color was created when I drew that part of the character.
So now I have many colors chosen/created for this palette.
One of the reasons why Animate is so important for me is the fact that I can create custom palettes and when I change a color in the palette, all the colorzones that use that color changes to the new color. I’m now at the point where I’m creating drawings in Animate.
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