Hello people. My name is da_infamous, youngest Pivot Lord member alive at the moment. I am here you give you n00bs and everybody else a tutorial that will help you out a little with both v2.2.5 and v3.0 Beta. Lets start!

-Pivot v2.2.5
I've been using Pivot since I was 7, and the program has had me hooked for three years. My first was with this program.

--Buttons

---File
New-Start a new animation.

Open Animation-Open up one of your previous animations.

Save Animation-Save your animation as a piv., gif., or bmp. frames.

Load Background-Load up a background for your animation. (In this version, the background you load is the background you will use for the whole animation.)

Clear Background-Erases the background you loaded up.

Load Figure Type-Load up a stk file.

Create Figure Type-Create your own stk file.

Exit-Exit the Pivot program.

---Options
Width-Shows how wide your animation is in pixels.

Height-Shows how tall your animation is in pixels.

Ok-Confirms the settings and dimensions for your animation.

Cancel-Exit the options and nothing is changed.

---Help
View Readme File-Shows Readme file of Pivot.exe.

About-Shows the date Pivot was released and the name of the developer, along with a logo.

---Animation Buttons
Play-Plays your animation.

Stop-Stops the animation so you can get back to work.

Frame Rate Toolbar-Changes the speed of your animation.

Repeat-If checked, it will keep looping until you uncheck it or stop it.

Stk Scrollbar-Shows you the list of stks you have in your animation.

Add Figure-Add a selected stk to your animation.

Next Frame-Adds a frame to the animation.

---Current Figure Buttons
Delete-Erases the selected stk.

Edit-Takes you to the Stick Figure Creator so you can edit thte selected stk.

Center-Puts the selected stk back in the middle of the animation.

Flip-Turns the selected stk to the opposite side.

Colour/Color-Takes you to the color select screen where you can change the color of the selected stk.

Scale Scrollbar-Measures the size of the selected stk.

Front-Puts the selected stk in front of all the other stks.

Back-Puts the selected stk behind all the other stks.

---Stk creator Buttons
Line-Enables you to add a line to one of the red nodes or the orange node.

Circle-Enables you to add a circle to one of the red nodes or the orange node.

Toggle Segment Kind-Allows you to change the selected segement to a circle or line.

Thickness-Changes the thickness of the selected segment.

Duplicate-Makes a copy of the selected segment that you put on one of the nodes.

Static/Dynamic-If it's static, then that selected segment will not be able move in the animation. Dynamic is the opposite of static.

Delete-Delete the selected segment. (only deletes the segments on the end.)


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More to come!
Can I get some reps now? (Lgolos now has some competition....)

i going to rep you it will help a lot of noobs

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Can I get some reps now? (Lgolos now has some competition....)

No I don't, I have 300 rep. My only competition is hunterkiller. I'll get someone to rep you though.

i dont think that you are only 10 years old

Quote from Lgolos

I'll get someone to rep you though.

lol...

well as what's his name said it will help alot of the... inexperienced animators

does any one know how to make the lines not look all ridged and sketchy? :confused:

im 11, i use pivot

same here...i suck thouh

thax im newbie and yeh it shelped me understand a few things

are actually 10?

Wasn't bad it will help

Dude, anybody could figure that out on there own. I joined like three days ago, and the didn't help me what so ever.

no im 11 how old r u

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Dude, anybody could figure that out on there own. I joined like three days ago, and the didn't help me what so ever.

holy shit! i joined on sunday!

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Dude, anybody could figure that out on there own. I joined like three days ago, and the didn't help me what so ever.

yeah. he's right. good effort, but you might've as well as copied the readme.