Idle Studio

Layers

how the list works

The list runs front to back, the way a layer palette does. Drag a row by its grip to change draw order.

The dot switches a layer off on the stage only — the contact sheet still shows what ships.

Pick a layer, then drag its dot on the stage to move the pivot. To move the picture itself, hold Alt and drag, or use the arrow keys — 1 px a step, Shift for 10. That writes offset and leaves the pivot where it is.

The wheel zooms towards the pointer. A second wheel or a tilt wheel slides sideways, and so does Shift with the main one. Dragging anywhere that is not a dot pushes the figure about, and so does the middle button. Fit, or a double-click, puts it back. None of that is saved — it is a magnifying glass, not a size.

Parts upload in name order, front first — name them 1-head, 2-arm. Uploading keeps a rig you have already corrected and only replaces the pixels.

0.00 s loop the window pivots layer edges 100 %

Layer

what these do

parent only offers layers that are not already below this one, so the chain cannot close into a loop.

The dot in the list is a stage switch and is not saved. opacity is a real field and is.

Motion

why once each

Each type once per layer. Two blinks read the same clock and fire as one; two drifts make the layer jump between rises.

Add part

Take a layer out of another figure and put it on this one. Any canvas size: it is scaled and baked into this figure's canvas, so what ships is an ordinary full-canvas layer and the player needs to know nothing about it.

…or an image file

why this exists

Cut one picture for the parts it does well, cut a second for the parts it does better, and put them on one figure. The two pictures do not have to be the same size.

The part arrives with a sway and no parent, because nothing about a picture says where it hangs. Set that in the Layer card — one dropdown.

Upload parts… at the top is the other way in, and the faster one when the images already fit: it takes several at once, but every one has to be the figure's exact canvas size. This card takes one image of any size and scales it.

Check

why two views

A single screenshot cannot prove movement. The contact sheet renders 24 frames of the 8 second window into one image.

A blink holds the eye closed for 86 ms and the sheet samples every 333 ms, so it catches about one in four — and on a figure whose blinks never land on that grid, none at all. Events scans 30 seconds at 60 frames and lists what actually fires.

Export

size

Master layers stay at full resolution. Pick the size the target wants and take a zip.

Every layer is cut to the part it paints, and figure.json gets a crop saying where that part sits. The rig does not change; the decoded memory drops by an order of magnitude. The figures in this folder stay uncut.

Cut test (IoU)

auto-match truth machine cut…

what the number means

IoU is the overlap of the two shapes: 1.00 is identical, below about 0.85 the part will not line up.

The layerize models name their own output, so a filename rarely matches. Auto-match compares each file against every truth layer, keeps the best, and flags a win that was too close to call.

JSON

The way out when a knob is missing. Apply reads the box back in: bad JSON, a parent that is not a layer, or a parent loop is refused and nothing changes. Not saved until you press Save.