I was working on an animation and as I made a new layer to sketch for the next frame as I was sketching I went back to the animation layer and ALL of my lines were gone. They were still on the timeline, if I hover over them I can still see the drawings.

The only thing on this forum that I found is basically the same problem is this post from 2015:
viewtopic.php?f=139&t=125387&p=331094&hilit=invisible#p331094

And there's no solution that I've found. I'd really like to continue this animation. I understand that on OSX Krita is unstable, from what I understand even 4 years later it still is if this is still happening.

Any help is good help, thank you!

* Try to enable or disable canvas acceleration.
* Make your file available so people can take a look.

boudewijn wrote:* Try to enable or disable canvas acceleration.
* Make your file available so people can take a look.

I tried to disable and re-enable canvas acceleration and nothing happened, also if I save the file as a .png .jpg or anything it just shows as blank, even exporting all the frames their all blank.

Also I'm sorry I don't know what you mean by "Make your file available so people can take a look." I'm really new to Krita, really sorry!

armoredy wrote:Also I'm sorry I don't know what you mean by "Make your file available so people can take a look." I'm really new to Krita, really sorry!

That has got nothing to do with whether you're new to Krita or not. Put the .kra file on dropbox, google driver, wetransfer or another file sharing place and share the link so we can download it.

boudewijn wrote:That has got nothing to do with whether you're new to Krita or not. Put the .kra file on dropbox, google driver, wetransfer or another file sharing place and share the link so we can download it.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10f1TSZ ... sp=sharing

Sorry, here's the link

You set the top layer, the only one visible that has art on it to the Hard Mix blending mode. Since there's nothing for it to mix with, you don't see anything. Set it back to Normal. See https://docs.krita.org/en/reference_man ... modes.html for an overview of Krita's blending modes.

Boud got here before me

Frames 25, 26, 27 have no content so you may have got confused about which frame/layer you're working in. This happens to me all the time.

What you might want to try is having an additional animated layer under your top animated layer and using that for sketch frames. At the top of the timeline, next to the audio icon, there's a small icon that will let you add other layers to the timeline docker. Be careful with the Remove Layer option because it actually deletes the layer. (This may be a bug.) There are many ways of doing this.

Also, you can work up a final frame content in a non-animated layer (useful for bringing externally sourced content in) then make it animated by selecting it so it appears in the Timeline then right-click -> Create Duplicate Frame on frame-0. This will bring your non-animated layer sketch into 'animation space' and let you use the animation right-click -> Copy To Clipboard and Paste to Clipboard facilities to copy/paste it to the desired frame of your animated layer. After that, you can remove it from 'animation space' by using Flatten Layer in the Layers docker.

I've made a bug report about the Timeline 'Remove Layer' option: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407416

boudewijn wrote:You set the top layer, the only one visible that has art on it to the Hard Mix blending mode. Since there's nothing for it to mix with, you don't see anything. Set it back to Normal. See https://docs.krita.org/en/reference_man ... modes.html for an overview of Krita's blending modes.

Thanks so much!! I have no idea how I did that ^~^' I gotta watch out next time!

ahabgreybeard wrote:Boud got here before me

Frames 25, 26, 27 have no content so you may have got confused about which frame/layer you're working in. This happens to me all the time.

What you might want to try is having an additional animated layer under your top animated layer and using that for sketch frames. At the top of the timeline, next to the audio icon, there's a small icon that will let you add other layers to the timeline docker. Be careful with the Remove Layer option because it actually deletes the layer. (This may be a bug.) There are many ways of doing this.

Also, you can work up a final frame content in a non-animated layer (useful for bringing externally sourced content in) then make it animated by selecting it so it appears in the Timeline then right-click -> Create Duplicate Frame on frame-0. This will bring your non-animated layer sketch into 'animation space' and let you use the animation right-click -> Copy To Clipboard and Paste to Clipboard facilities to copy/paste it to the desired frame of your animated layer. After that, you can remove it from 'animation space' by using Flatten Layer in the Layers docker.

Thank you!! ^~^