some easy (code) work to do?

[berteh]

@Genete

Please propose here other alternatives and I’ll guide you about the difficulty if needed.

thanks for the proposal. A quick scan resulted in me spotting the following.
You got any priority/preference?
and then hint/instruction/pointer?

thanks.
B.

easy
Fix typos
Suggestion: rename “Center” parameter of Zoom Layer to the “Origin”. Will improve the workflow. --Zelgadis - wiki.synfig.org/wiki/Dev:Wish_li … ste_Canvas

• rename “Zoom” layer to “Scale” sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=de … tid=757416
  other misleading labelings Misleading labels

Triangle sliders to be always visible - triangle sliders from Colors Dialog and Gradient Dialog were visible whatever color or channel you’re editing. Some times when the color or channel is to bright or light the slider is difficult to distinguish. --Genete
wiki.synfig.org/wiki/Dev:Wish_li … ys_visible

Font selection dialog

some easy (code) work to do?

Personally, I think adding a font selection dialog (I believe there is a standard GTK one) would be a huge help. At present you have to type in font names by hand which is inconveinient and error-prone.

medium difficulty
Duck for Amount value in Zoom layer - (2) It would be nice if Amount value in Zoom layer was controlled by additional duck. --Zelgadis
The Amount parameter works exponentially; each time you add 1 to the Amount, the image is zoomed by a further factor of e (= 2.71828 or so)
wiki.synfig.org/wiki/Dev:Wish_li … Zoom_layer

Align objects at a common border (as in Inkscape)
wiki.synfig.org/wiki/Dev:Wish_li … n_function & forum

D3. Short cut keys should appear in pop-ups and menus

my list of niggling feature requests

As a new user to synfig I am very impressed how quickly I can get into making animations with synfig. Thanks! However, I have some niggles – I’m sure these aren’t new, or too surprising. I come from using gimp, inkscape, Blender etc. and it’s possible I’ve just missed how to do these things… Anyway, I’m putting this list here to record my present feelings in the hope that it’s useful for the developers. Comments, discussion and pointing out just how wrong I am are all welcome! Drawing D1.…

export an animation to a spritesheet

Export to sprite sheet

Hi guys. Any idea if it is possible to export an animation to a spritesheet? I have 10 keys and would like to know if it is possible to export it directly to an PNG sprite sheet. This might let Synfig to foot into the games industry slightly. Would have been nice to understand the content of the SIF file so hopefully someone can create an XNA library to load the SIF animation instead of sprites. Cheers

tough but seemingly very useful
Sound Layer
very good improvement if the sound system were implemented into synfig. --Genete
wiki.synfig.org/wiki/Dev:Sound_Layer

shortcut redesign
Shortcuts thread (full redesing)
Shortcuts + Improved Sketch + Forums maintainence (additional shortcuts needed for blines)
Zoom in/out shortcuts (zoom < > & mouse)

smart rendering
(only frames with diff from last rendering + timestamp on ?visual? modifications)
More specifically, only render frames that need to be changed since the last rendering as defined by something like a last edit (or write to filesystem) timestamp and a dependency tree. …In the short-term, a tool like gmake might be useful for implementing this accross sessions if we add “last changed” timestamps to one or more sections of sifz files
[2] It would be nice to have option for smart rendering for PNG sequences. The idea is: Synfig dumps XML code of the frame and generates a checksum of XML code. Then it writes the checksum as metadata to png frame when rendered. If the the rendering done second time (on top of existing image sequence), then synfig first compares the generated checksum and checksum in existing file and does rendering of that frame only if checksums mismatch. --Zelgadis
wiki.synfig.org/wiki/Dev:Wish_li … trendering
wiki.synfig.org/wiki/Dev:Wish_li … _rendering

P2P render farm & networkability
wiki.synfig.org/wiki/Dev:Wish_li … orkability

Synfig rendering farm: under 15 seconds for all of us

Hello, While reading the new Synfig demo reel post, I thought about setting up a rendering farm for Synfig users. Here are some figments of my imagination, as to how Synfig could be synonym to “under 15 seconds rendering” for all its users in 2015 (or even 2012 . Shortly put: a rendering farm harnesses a few (up to hundreds of) computers to jointly render the same project (read: “synfig animation”), providing the result far quicker. My story would be: Some more details: Synf…

• related: Collect for Publication: (3/4) - (zotz) Menu item, functionality that would collect all files referenced in a sif and place them all in a tgz for sending elsewhere or publishing animations in source form.
  wiki.synfig.org/wiki/Dev:Wish_li … ublication

vector export (libming? svg? flash? sml? eps? HTML5)
[3] Synfig could export to svg animations with SVG+SMIL, which would make possible to view an animation directly in the browser without any previous rendering.
→ swf / fla: suggested Python’s SwfTools, but isn’t this “only” encapsulating raster?
wiki.synfig.org/wiki/Dev:Wish_list#Flash_export
wiki.synfig.org/wiki/Dev:Wish_li … animations
animated svg or swf output support (mostly flash and svg)