SUMMARY This applies to all versions of krita. You can convert an animated paint layer to an animated transparency mask (right-click layer -> Convert -> to Transparency Mask) However, if you try to convert an animated transparency mask to a paint layer, you get a non-animated layer with just the currently selected frame as the image. It would be useful if you could convert an animated tranparency mask to an animated paint layer. (I'm manipulating animated transparency masks and it's a lot easier to do this if they're animated paint layers. I can effectively render out the animated transparency masks as an image sequence and then import them back in as an animated paint layer to work on them but this is extra work.)
Yes, that would be good :) WISHGROUP: Small Usability Fixes
I'd argue this is more of a bug than a wishlist item. We should be able to convert from x to y and back to x without any significant loss whenever possible. I'll add this to our todo list.
Git commit 4f8506a35ba2bda3072694da4492e92b9d307d6e by Emmet O'Neill. Committed on 30/07/2020 at 01:07. Pushed by emmetoneill into branch 'master'. Fixed animated transparency mask -> paint layer conversion. Before, converting an animated transparency mask to a paint layer would discard everything but the active frame. Now, each of the animation keyframes is converted correctly. M +11 -4 libs/ui/kis_layer_manager.cc https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/commit/4f8506a35ba2bda3072694da4492e92b9d307d6e
@Emmet, is it possible to merge this into the krita/4.3 branch?
Git commit 7709ae209fb138d23d5102ba137bdf9eed049e66 by Agata Cacko, on behalf of Emmet O'Neill. Committed on 26/11/2020 at 21:57. Pushed by tymond into branch 'krita/4.3'. Fixed animated transparency mask -> paint layer conversion. Before, converting an animated transparency mask to a paint layer would discard everything but the active frame. Now, each of the animation keyframes is converted correctly. M +11 -2 libs/ui/kis_layer_manager.cc https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/commit/7709ae209fb138d23d5102ba137bdf9eed049e66