It represents the scene’s elements in their simplest form.

The Timeline view allows you to read your timing from left to right. The Timeline view displays layers, effects, sounds, keyframe values, scene length, layer names, drawings, keyframes, timing, and frames. The Timeline view is the main view used when adjusting the timing of drawings, adding keyframes and ordering layers. It's extremely useful to become familiar with the Timeline view, how it works, and its interface. To set your animation timing, you will mostly work with the Timeline and Xsheet views. The Colour view is also necessary for drawing, painting and creating colour styling. The Colour view is where you create colours and palettes and import existing palettes into your project. When you select a tool from the Tools toolbar, the Tool Properties view updates.įor example, if you choose the Select tool, the Tool Properties view will display the options and operations related to it, such as Snap to Contour, Apply to All Drawings, Flip Horizontal, and Flatten. The Tool Properties view contains the most common options and operations related to the currently selected tool. You can use features, such as the light table to display the current drawing of all the enabled layers of your scene in washed-out colours, or the Onion Skin to display the previous and next drawings of the currently selected drawing layer. Only the selected drawing is displayed by default in the Drawing view. Although the two views are similar, there are some differences when it comes to drawing. In Harmony, you can draw in both the Drawing or Camera views. The Camera view also has a top and bottom toolbar that you can use to navigate in the view, change the display mode or go up your symbol hierarchy.

In this view, you can draw, paint, animate, set up your scene, manipulate objects, open symbols and preview your animation.

The Camera view is the centre of operations in Harmony. Here is a short introduction to each of the most commonly used views in Harmony. When you get close to the edge of a view, a cyan rectangle appears, indicating where the view will be docked.

Drop the window above, below or beside an existing view.

Drop the window over another tab to add it to that set of tabs.

Click and drag the floating view by its tab and do one of the following:.

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