Follow up: No. This isn’t really helping. It seems to work with the .otf fonts, which I didn’t actually have any problems with. The issue is with the variable fonts. RobotoFlex was brought up recently as being one of the problem fonts.
Hadn’t heard for variable fonts before and just looked it up. Super cool!!! Made my evening @ytf.
For those who also haven’t never seen them, here’s a quick intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3IQSmKFokU Essentially a parametric font you can modify along 12 axis.
Who needs a text tool, when you’re font is the text tool???
Now, that probably leaves a ton of apps out in the cold that haven’t adapted to this new format. Though I assume that unless you’re animating these font axisis inside your batch, there’s a way of converting a specific parameter set into a traditional OTF file?
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[quote=“allklier, post:209, topic:5559, full:true”]Though I assume that unless you’re animating these font axisis inside your batch, there’s a way of converting a specific parameter set into a traditional OTF file?
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That’s the goal.
Haven’t tried this, but this thread has two reasonable leads. FontTool appears to have functions for this. May have to dig into Python tools.
WARNING!
If you share your projects with two or more machines working on the same project and in different workspaces, your input preferences are changed for the other system as well:
I tagged a sequence of images from a stop motion shoot as AdobeRGB on my Linux box, and my colleague’s import settings on the Mac were changed as well.
So beware of your import settings, especially if you’re sharing projects and mixing color spaces during import.
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This also applies to Cache-ing being selected or not, which is where I tend to get bitten.
Today I learned that pressing pg up or pg down while a timeline is playing, will either speed up or slowdown playback by 2x each time it’s pressed.
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That would be arrow up and arrow down with smoke keys. Also toggling between V and C (on smoke keys) plays forward and backwards, like scrubbing. On Flame keys it’s Enter and Shift Enter, which is ergonomically impossible to do with any sort of precision.
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In Flame Hotkeys you can use JKL. Press L to play, press again and it speeds playback up. K is stop, and J is Play backwards with multiple presses speeding it up. Very convenient cos it’s all bunched up, I spend a lot of time with my fingers hovering over those buttons.
QuickTime Player has the same functionality.
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I’m less embarassed but excited that after 20 years working on Flame Products I’ve found this “magic” button on Resize Node which crops out an area you want to work with and makes processing much much comfortable, but still having the exact dimensions of cropped area to re-comp precisely. Was this option available on older versions, I cant remember!
Careful: in some older versions this causes filtering of the image even if there is no reason to filter. Also, this is removed in 2024 and the resize node becomes resize/crop. The crop functions of the new node are far superior.
Actually it does, seamlessly but its there, I’m on Flame 2023.3. Is there a Matchbox instead?
Wait, I’ve found a way through. Seems ReComping produces the issue. Either using Comp node, or Action, Ive just tried Matchbox Comp 2d and it produces Zero difference! (Make sure that you enter Zero values on Front Tab in Comp 2d Node, because by default both axis are set on 0,5)
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I think it was fixed on 2022.
You can copy/paste or link the crop values to an axis node in action.
This will then match perfectly.
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MacOS specific.
Today I learned, that if you want to get to any files in /opt/Autodesk via the Finder (or any app with a file selector dialog, like a code IDE), you need to:
Open a terminal window, and then enter:
sudo chflags nohidden /opt
Now, if in Finder you go to ComputerName/MacintoshHD you will be able to see the opt folder and everything within it…
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You know it’s first thing Monday morning when you can’t figure out why this isn’t working until you realize that flame is not actually installed on the Mac . . . .
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I don’t use flame on macos since a few years, but I worked on smoke and flame on mac during many years, and as I know, opt folder has been always visible. Is it something new of last macos versions?
As a side note, with command + shit + . (period) from finder, you can set as visible all hidden items, although it affects all folders, can be usefull for a quick look.
Ah, I remembered there was a keyboard sequence, but couldn’t remember the details. That does work indeed. Though I go there frequently enough that unhiding it permanently is still a good thing.
You can also press Shift Command G, and type /opt/Autodesk into that field and it will take you there. It also retains that as the last place visited when you next use Go To Folder
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Yeah for me it’s pretty much permanently the default under Go To Folder so I don’t bother trying to unhide it.