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Adding a Transition to a Layer
n the previous lessons, Creating a Radial Transition and Using Layers, you learned how to create animation using transitions and how to work with layers. This lesson explains how to add a transition to one layer of animation, without affecting the other layers.

In this lesson you will learn:

    how to apply a wipe transition to only one layer of an animation
For this tutorial you’ll use the file TRANSITION.WPM in the folder Tutorials.
  1. Open the file TRANSITION.WPM. 
  2. On the Windows menu click Cel Layers to display the Cel Layers window.

  3. Note: If the Cel Layers window is already open, clicking Cel Layers on the Windows menu will close the window.

    This animation uses two layers. One for the text and one for the graphic of the checkmark. Notice that the text only appears in the fourth and fifth cels of the animation. After you transition the text you will make it appear in all cels.
  4. Click the second layer of the fifth cel to highlight it with a red and blue border. 
  5. On the Cels menu, click Add Transition Cels. 
  6. In the Cels to Create, type 3. 
  7. Make sure the Transition All Visible Layers checkbox is not checked. 
  8. On the Select Transition Effect pop up, click Wipe. 
  9. Drag the Percentage Sliders so that the first one is at 100 and the second is at 0.

  10. This makes the wipe start at nothing and the text will gradually appear.
  11. Click OK.

  12. The second layer is transitioned. Notice that you now have three more cels in your animation. The first layer of these cels is blank. We want the first and second layers to appear at the same time, so we’ll move the new cels.
  13. In the Cel Layers window, Shift-click to select the second layer of the three new cels (cels 6, 7, and 8). 
  14. Drag the cels to replace the second layer of the first three cels in the animation.

  15. The second layer of the first three cels is replaced by the second layer of cels 6, 7, and 8. All layers of cels 6, 7, and 8 are blank.
  16. In the Cel Layers window, Shift-click the cel numbers 6, 7, and 8 to select those cels and all their layers.

  17. Click the Delete Cels button.

  18. That’s it. Your animation has 5 cels and the second layer features a wipe transition.
  19. In the main window, click the Play button to view the finished animation. 


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