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Product:
Cartoon Animator 5
Version:
5.21
Status:
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Issue 10811
CTA 5.21 Pack Mode no Thumbnails and weird behave on subfolders
Hello there,

Thanks for the Update on CTA5, but i think changing the the pack view without thumbnails to the way it is now was a mistake.
It is extremely confusing to navigate without thumbnails. (see image a1) The whole new pack view is very confusing too.
Not shure if this a bug or intended. You only get abunch of the same icons and if a lot is installed you must read the description one by one until you
find the pack you want to open, definately a downgrade. Additionally On a 4K monitor this is a problem because of small fonts.

Image 3a , 3a1 and 3b, 3c show a weird and hard to understand navigation (buggy?). (I was not able to understand the logic behind it, and i am a progammer ;-) )
I navigated to the all-actor-spine folder. There appears another "actor" folder which somehow doesnt make sense. (3a1). When clicking on it i end up in exactly the same spine folder (3a) but now showing the spine items. Something must be wrong here. Also when from this folder clicking on "actor", i and up in all-actor-human but with missing navigation icons (see top navigation icona on 3b). Against that 3c shows the same folder all-actor-human but with all top icons when navigation back with the top left arrow to all, then actor- human.

I my eyes the content mamanger of 5.12 was good enough. 5.2 shouldnt have such a difficult to impossible to understand navigation. I guess you are not using thumbnails anymore because because of the weird subfolder structure. Thumbnails are a must ! This way its a downgrade on usablility in my eyes.
OS: Windows 7
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BugSuggestionContent Manager
Submitted byK_Digital
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COMMENTS (4)
K_Digital 
I hope i am not overdoing it, just providing as many details as possible ;-)

Now that i got the thumbnails temporarily visible, the two images below demonstrate a bit better what i meant in the beginning of this ticket.
Any folder below -actor- seems to refer to the same content.
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K_Digital 
For a test i created a folder named :   Reallusion%5CCartoon Animator 5  in C: \ProgramData\Reallusion\ContentManager\Metacache and copied all the content from C:\ProgramData\Reallusion\ContentManager\MetaCache\Reallusion\Cartoon Animator 5 into that new folder. This makes the missing thumnails visible. So i guess this proofs CTA is calling a wrong path (as described in my zip from this morning). Tested only on WIN7 (may be another WIN7 specific bug)
 
For users: The above is a temporarily fix only because once you install new content you must copy the whole folder again.
If you dont mind not seeing thumbnails in Pack view, dont bother.
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K_Digital 
Att. Devs , please pay attention to the the zip below. The missing thumbnails may be abug because of CTA calling wrong paths.
K_Digital 
Today i noticed that on this RL Video (5.2?) the thumbnails seem to exist.
https://courses.reallusion.com/home/cartoon-animator/object-animations?v=getting-started-with-motion-pilot-|-cartoon-animator-5-tutorial

image 4  -> my PC , image 4a -> RL Video
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