I’m a first-time user trying to make a fairly simple looping GIF. I’m finding that when I render my animation to a GIF, the output doesn’t match what’s in Synfig; there is an extra, static copy of one of my animated layers placed behind everything else. I have no idea why it’s there or where it’s co…

Related to [image] Noob rendering - original bitmap image remains behind animation(Solved) Animation related help I’m a raw noob to Synfig, so please forgive me if I’m missing something obvious. I’m making an animation from pngs with skeleton deformation. When I render th…

Sorry for the delay–I see that I have the same issue with versions 1.2.2, 1.3.10, and 1.4.0. My problem does look pretty much the same as the linked one. It looks buggy when I view it with my OS’s built-in image viewer or Pix, normal here and if I just view it with Firefox, and even more messed up …

Hi, @DarthMarth ! Where I can download pix? Which OS you are using? Does the problem looks like this? [Screenshot_113]

I am using Linux Mint, which has Pix as a built-in tool. Its code is here: GitHub - linuxmint/pix: Image management application Yes, that is exactly what it looks like for me.

@DarthMarth ok, I found the problem. Fix will be available in version 1.4.2 Also I can test your file if you can share it. [Core] Fixed incorrect background restoration on animated GIFs with transparent background synfig:master ← ice0:fix-gif-tar…

SophiaSleep.sifz (58.9 KB) Great! Here is the file.

Thank you! Here is the result rendered on the new version of Synfig. You can save it and check using Pix. [SophiaSleep]

I have been working around it by exporting a PNG sequence and rendering the GIF with GIMP, but thanks–this will save me some trouble!

The fix is shipped in Synfig Studio version 1.4.2 - Synfig Studio 1.4.2 released – Synfig

Unwanted layer duplicate appearing in rendered GIF

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Is it doing it with another version of Synfig?