New frame is all black, onionskin is not visible

[piwakawaka]

I had a lot of trouble with this, unfortunately.

I’m using aseprite and for reasons I don’t understand, every sprite I downloaded from spriters-resource (apart from the Gameboy one in the video; I tried a bunch of Super Mario ones) would create a completely black “new empty frame”, rather than a transparent one. These black pixels were deletable but everything behind was black too. The onionskin did not show on this black background. My current background colour was set to a transparent “Mask” so I don’t know why the new frame was black.

Any hints?

[Deadhead]

Hey, I got the same issues as yourself. Did you ever find a solution?

[piwakawaka]

Hi @Deadhead, sorry it’s been a long time and I don’t recall if I did find a solution. I hope you’re able to find one. If you do, feel free to post it here in case others have the same issue.

[isangelous]

I know this is an old post, but I had the same problem and while searching for a solution this topic came up so I want to bump it in case anyone else needs this info in the future.

I’m having the same issue while trying to do the “replicate” challenge on the lesson. I’ve tried various sprite sheets and different settings. Finally I ended up with something;

In the onion skin options, there is a thing called “in front of sprite.” When this setting is selected, the frame before shows itself. I also raised the opacity to see better.

I hope this helps.