question 1: whenever i press the play button, it will only play up to frame 100. it's\ like everything past there doesn't exist help?

question 2: is there any single-step way to turn my animations into either gifs or mp4?

1) Note the animation docker that has two number number fields, one has 0 by default, one 100? Labeled Start and End? Change those to determine the playback range.
2) File, Render Animation

See also the manual: https://docs.krita.org/Animation

boudewijn wrote:1) Note the animation docker that has two number number fields, one has 0 by default, one 100? Labeled Start and End? Change those to determine the playback range.
2) File, Render Animation

See also the manual: https://docs.krita.org/Animation

1)ty
2) that requires ffmpeg and there's just a bunch of difficulties with that

Yes, that requires ffmpeg. I don't know what the difficulties would be, it's available on all platforms, but in any case, without ffmpeg you can only render frames to individual images.

boudewijn wrote:Yes, that requires ffmpeg. I don't know what the difficulties would be, it's available on all platforms, but in any case, without ffmpeg you can only render frames to individual images.

are there any guides to running/using it. usually if i try to render with krita (with ffmpeg installed) it says that the location of ffmpeg is unkown, and whenever i start up ffmpeg it just opens krita and i still can't render

You have to pick the location of ffmpeg first so krita can find it. when you open "render animation", next to the empty ffmpeg field in the "render" section, there should be a file icon. click it and then select your ffmpeg files on your computer. Then it should work!