necroposting to leave a note here in case I forget this and need to go searching: Oh damn, making a smart bone dial that controls the opacity of layers is working really nicely. I have a 'near' and 'behind' copy of each limb's layer, and made a 6-frame smart bone that goes from 0-90º, with 0%/100% o...

I've been playing with this and it works a lot better for me than the "explode the entire character and use flexi-binding" workflow laid out in the tutorials. I've been having a little trouble with getting it to work on a character who has her hands set up as switch layers, though - if I t...

I'm coming from an Illustrator practice with a heavy reliance on complex Appearance stacks and trying to figure out how to do similar things. Making a Reference Layer and applying a different style to the shapes it clones from the original layer might be worth exploring, there's an example of this i...

Oh that's interesting Lukas, I will have to look at that when I get a chance to spend a few days with Moho again! Which has still not happened quite yet, that's my reward for finally getting my @#$% Mastodon instance updated and back online.

Ooh thank you, the separate transform/curvature tools have been driving me nuts.

I've built Moho puppets that literally have hundreds of layers and actions Yipes! I hope those were mostly built up over the course of a production, as tweaks made to fix something that looked weird in one shot, and additions made to support other shots, piled up. That list of approaches and tool c...

Thanks! "less likely to break or introduce conflicts during animation" is definitely a point in favor of reference layers. I do find myself wondering how you cope with all the extra clutter those reference layers create in the Layers window, I guess just throw them into a subfolder or two ...

I have been working on rigging some stuff and getting somewhere. I've made some Smart Bones that move different parts of the character in pseudo-3d, and move the layers around - left/right legs moving in front of/behind the body as the character's lower body turns, and the left/right arms doing the ...

Oh wow that's a weird little workaround, thank you! I wonder if "add a channel for style keyframes" is anywhere on Lost Marble's roadmap, fooling around trying to add some more color changes to see what happened resulted in auto-keyframes that didn't appear until I deleted the previously-e...

I have defined a bunch of named styles in frame 0 for a thing I am animating. Then I went to a later frame and changed them all. As expected, the colors all slowly changed over time. But I'm not seeing a channel in the timeline for this. If I go to window>timeline channels, there's nothing available...

Ah, thanks, I have not touched the Sequencer yet! Now I can play around without worrying about stuff like "oh god I turned on some bone physics and now Moho has to calculate 300 frames of their motion before it can skip the playhead to where I have said the actual animation starts". And ye...

I am trying to do a casual little exercise of "take some music, draw a character, make them bounce to it". I've got the appropriate music file in Moho along with a file where I plan to draw the character in question, but the beat doesn't really kick in until like frame 384. How can I make ...

Thanks, folks! Using the point selection tool instead of the shape selection tool worked, after consulting the manual told me how to select an entire shape by clicking in its fill with the Select Points tool. Someday I will understand the way Moho thinks about points and shapes; I've been spending m...

I am trying to draw a character, split it up into layers, and rig it. I would like to quickly draw a bunch of shapes on one layer, make some layers for body parts, select some of these shapes that make up an individual body part, and move them to a new layer. But when I click on the source layer, th...

also you have answered my vexing question of "why do the drawing tools keep vanishing", too, so double thanks