Change your layout & organise your rooms in OpenToonz

[Music] hello friends and today i want to quickly show you how you can change your layout here in open tunes and this follows on from last week's walkthrough video of open tunes 1.5 showing how you can animate using this free animation program and you can see a link to that in the card above and in the description below and if you'd like to be notified of future tutorials about open tunes then subscribe and hit that bell to be notified when i release them but today i want to focus on changing the layout and that's to make the interface easier to navigate and the program easier to use and the first things to discuss are the rooms and the rooms are the basic way that you organize what you see on screen when you first download and run open tunes you have rooms already set up we've got the drawing room that you see here and for most new users this is going to be the room that you'll use most often there's also the clean up room the palette room ink and paint animation room the schematic room the egg sheet room asks room and the browser now won't discuss what each of these rooms are for right now we'll stick initially to using just the drawing room and each room is made up of a number of windows so in this room we've got the viewer window in the very center where you do your drawing the timeline at the bottom the palette window towards the right hand side a window for adjusting your colours the level strip for showing the drawings in the current drawing level then the toolbar to the very left and when you select a tool you'll get the tool options bar across the top and if you don't like any of these windows you can simply click the bar at the top of the window and then drag it away and that's called undocking you can leave this window floating to work with or you can press the x at the top right hand corner of the window to close it and that's giving you a lot more space for adjusting the other windows and for drawing in but if you change your mind and want to bring it back or want to bring something else into this room you can find all of the windows listed in the windows menu but just open that up and then find the window you want to show if we bring back the level strip i just click it off the windows menu it'll appear and i can then re-dock it by dragging the header of that window and then placing it where i'd like to dock it and you see this red bar showing you the height of the window when you release the mouse you can resize by simply moving your cursor to the side and then clicking and dragging to get the best size so you can go ahead and close some of the windows in the current room or add new windows from the windows menu but sometimes when you try to resize one of the windows you may accidentally click and drag on the header and undock one of the panels which you might find is a little tricky to re-dock so to avoid that you can lock the room so you can't undock the windows and in last week's video i recommended that you keep your rooms locked so you can't accidentally undock any windows when you don't want to and you do that from the windows menu again down to workspace and tick the box lock room panes and now i can't accidentally click and drag that window away from the docked area but i can still resize it and resize the windows around it and if you decide that you've made a mess of your layout and want to revert back to the original layout you can simply go back to the windows menu workspace and choose reset to default rooms and then when you restart open tunes the window layouts will be as they were when you first installed so you can't really go wrong you can always revert back to the original layout and one last thing you can create and delete rooms yourself so let's do that quickly before we finish so to create a new room you just right click on any of the room tabs and choose new room and that creates a new room button as you can see here you can then double click it and give it a sensible name and i'd recommend naming it after the purpose of the room so this room's purpose is having a large drawing area so i'll call it large drawing so again to add windows to this room simply go to the windows menu and choose the window to add first we'll add the viewer control and to be able to dock the viewer control we need to untick the locker room panes option and now when we click and drag the first item you see a red square around the outside and when you release that'll dock the viewer to the whole window so next i want to add the toolbar so again from the windows menu i'll click the toolbar now i want to dock that to the very left you'll notice that when you first go to the very left you can't dock the toolbar to the left hand side of the screen and this is a small bug with open tunes but when the main program is fully maximized you can't always dock to the left or right hand sides of the screen to be able to do that you just take the main screen out of maximize mode by clicking this middle button and now if i click and drag the toolbar i can dock it to the very left i'll also want to have the tool options bar so open that and dock that to the very top i can change the size of the brush or eraser or choose all of the other options that you've got for each tool the final thing i want to include is the palette window i'll dock that to the right hand side and then maximize the main screen and i can change the size of each panel to suit and now if i right click on the viewer i can choose fit to window and i've got a much larger drawing area than i had in the main drawing room and again when you're finished simply go to the windows menu workspace fly out and lock your room panes so you can't accidentally undock any windows that you've already docked but then if you change your mind about this room and want to remove it you just have to change to another room then you can right click on the room you don't want and choose delete room confirm you want to delete it and that'll be gone so there we go it's really quick and easy to adjust your rooms and panels in the rooms to make the layout that will help you most while you animate so go ahead and change your rooms it'll make open zooms easier to work with and that's a guarantee have you always wanted to animate but didn't know how to start and software seemed expensive and difficult to use well with open tombs it's free powerful and once you know how it's easy to use and it's my mission to get you animating with it today hi my name's darren and i've been teaching open tunes for the past three years showing thousands of students just like you how easy it is to animate with and cutting through the jargon to show that anyone can animate with it and by the end of the course you'll be able to animate traditionally using open tools and the course is designed for students brand new to open tunes as well as those new to animation so take a look at the free lessons i've offered below and then why not sign up and join me 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Channel: Darren T

Views: 6,492

Keywords: animation, opentoonz

Id: blzhX5Itkms

Length: 8min 25sec (505 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 11 2021