Hello and welcome to Big G Video.
In this video I'm taking a first look at
Doodly version 2.8 which has just been released.
So with Doodly version 2.8, you need to go and download it.
It is not an automatic update to your
software and I'm going to talk about the few improvements we have in Doodly.
So one of my pet hates with Doodly has
been the inability to do auto aligning in all other software as you can do auto
aligning but you can't in Doodly, but you can.
Now. So to select everything before.
What I'd have to do in the old version of Doodly is click and hold down control.
And hold down control and that would select everything.
Now all I have to do to select everything
is right click on an object and click select all.
Now what we can do once we've selected all is we can go down to this new align menu
and if we click Align to Scene and we go again, we can distribute them
vertically and horizontally just like you can in things like PowerPoint.
And this is really useful because now if I
do that, it's going to evenly space them out or well has it, maybe
I'm going to select all and I'm going to first of all I'm going to align them so
that they're in the right orientation and I'm going to align them by the bottom and
then I'm going to go and I'm going to distribute horizontally and that hasn't
really done what I wanted it to do and I'm going to distribute them vertically.
That seems to have worked better than distributing horizontally.
It has distributed them in a vertical line
and now I'm just going to align them and I'm going to align them, I'm going to
centre align them and it puts them in the middle.
And if I wanted to, I could also align them on the left,
align them in the middle and let's just go and distribute horizontally.
So it's much quicker to get things quickly aligned.
And it used to drive me mad that in Doodly that you couldn't do that.
What I can do as well is if I right click, I can lock.
And quite often what I found very annoying in Doodly was if I overlaid things.
So if I put some text on top of something
whenever I move this text, I'd often end up moving the thing below it.
But now I can lock this in place.
It means I can't move accidentally to unlock it.
I can just right click and unlock or I can just click up there to unlock it.
And what I can also do is if I select All, I go to Settings.
If I want everything to be 3 seconds and I
want a delay of half a second, I can apply that to everything.
And you'll see over here, it's made that adjustment for everything.
So this is a huge time saver.
In Doodly another thing we have as well which I
don't use this is the exit animation the only exit animation getting Doodly is to
erase but we can now put in a delay as well so when we do exit animations we exit
people one at a time so all the assets get drawn in and then things get drawn out
so the assets were erased in the order
that they were drawn in with a delay between erasing.
So in Doodly version 2.8 there are some
features that are going to save you time but this is not a massive update.
Thank you goodbye.