Any suggestions on how to "onion skinning"?

[Ken Ray]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:19:27 +0000, Ian Wood wrote:

>>> I'm working on a program with my son that does simple card-based
>>> animation, but one of the things he asked how to do in Rev stumped me,
>>> and that is doing an "onion skin"
>> 
>> I would try overlaying a translucent screen capture of the prev or next
>> card.
> 
> Agreed. Or do it by taking a snapshot directly from the card - this 
> should work even if it's not the frontmost card.

The problem with those is that if the card has color in it, the 
translucency is also in color. I was hoping to keep it in 
grayscale/gray.

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/