Objects question

[SeismicGuy]

Sorry if this has been answered elsewhere but hopefully this isn't a dumb question (there are no dumb questions?).  In the Objects & Animation editor under the Properties tab the third entry is "Main object".  I never quite understood the need or significance of labeling one (or more?) of the objects as a Main object.  Could somebody illuminate this?

[SeismicGuy]

And another objects-related question.  When you have a bunch of objects in a slide doing various different things such as moving around, changing size, fading, etc.  is there some way of isolating just a single one of those objects to see it by itself while putting together the overall animation?  In other words temporarily have something like zero opacity for all of the other objects so that you can more easily concentrate on the one you might be working with?

[davegee]

1 hour ago, SeismicGuy said:

Sorry if this has been answered elsewhere but hopefully this isn't a dumb question (there are no dumb questions?).  In the Objects & Animation editor under the Properties tab the third entry is "Main object".  I never quite understood the need or significance of labeling one (or more?) of the objects as a Main object.  Could somebody illuminate this?

Main Images: https://docs.pteavstudio.com/en-us/11.0/slide-styles/main?s[]=main&s[]=object#main_images

DG

[davegee]

56 minutes ago, SeismicGuy said:

And another objects-related question.  When you have a bunch of objects in a slide doing various different things such as moving around, changing size, fading, etc.  is there some way of isolating just a single one of those objects to see it by itself while putting together the overall animation?  In other words temporarily have something like zero opacity for all of the other objects so that you can more easily concentrate on the one you might be working with?

You could click on (deselect) "Show Front Side" and/or "Show Back Side" for the Objects that you want to make transparent. There might be an easier way - someone might chip in.

DG

[SeismicGuy]

37 minutes ago, davegee said:

Main Images: https://docs.pteavstudio.com/en-us/11.0/slide-styles/main?s[]=main&s[]=object#main_images

DG

Reading through the linked explanation leads me to believe that there is no particular significance to applying the Main Object designation in terms of what it actually does.

[SeismicGuy]

30 minutes ago, davegee said:

You could click on (deselect) "Show Front Side" and/or "Show Back Side" for the Objects that you want to make transparent. There might be an easier way - someone might chip in.

DG

That is a possible solution that didn't occur to me.  What I believe might be better is to have some tick-box option to make ALL OTHER OBJECTS but the selected object opaque.  The reason I am suggesting is that I have tried looking at and learning from some other very complex styles created by others--the one that comes to mind was a stop-motion animation that took the original image and broke it into 30+ parts and moved them around to create the final image.  There was so much going in in the objects and animation list that it made me dizzy. 

[jkb]

I think Main Image is mainly used in Slide Styles - Which is something I never use.
For ordinary images I don't think it matters if something is marked as a Main Image or not.

 

If I only want to see the action of 1 Object then I either reduce the Opacity of the others or as Dave suggests turn off Show Front Side.

It would be really helpful if we could have a single button to click to turn On/Off Objects

Jill

[SeismicGuy]

Hi Jill--exactly what I am suggesting.  Seems like a feature that should have been there from the get go.  I will post in the Suggestions for next version.

[jkb]

1 minute ago, SeismicGuy said:

I will post in the Suggestions

It has been suggested several times in the past, but no harm in doing it again

Jill

[Aleina Show]

The "main image" option is important for creating styles. This way you show the program that this image should change when applying the style. The checkboxes are set mainly for photos, not for decoration. Sometimes it happens that several photos are duplicated in one style and here the serial number comes to the rescue. For example, all photos with index 1 in a slide will be the same.

If you check the "main image" checkbox for a video, then in the timeline working environment you will have the opportunity to separate the sound from this video and work with it separately.