synthsin75 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 5:09 am This will work with a smart bone, but not when moving it through a target bone. You have to rotate the the smart bone yourself for it to translate to the dynamics.

That's the one thing I didn't check, thanks! You're right, it works when I'm not using a target.

Hey everyone! After a few months of not being able to sit and play around, I'm finally working on a new character rig. The character has three long hairs sticking out of his chin that I'd love to have wiggle around as he talks: https://i.ibb.co/WyMyv7D/Capture.png My idea was to have the mouth drive...

That makes a lot of sense -- I generally hide changes like that in exactly the same way (you can see a few with head turns in my reel). Syncing it all up with smart bones is a brilliant idea, too. Thanks Greenlaw, that actually helps with a few things I was trying to wrap my head around -- I was ove...

Just started using it -- this makes liquid shapes make so much more sense, and is also great in general for dealing with a layer that has a bunch of shapes on it even without using the liquid shapes options. Thanks so much for this!

Depending on how you approached the walk cycle, there's a way I use to brute force it. If you set the position of the layer to step, when you flip the layer and the character goes off screen, you can just move the layer to match up with where he should be. If you're moving the layer to make the walk...

You're welcome! If you are going to dive into liquid shapes, I totally recomend you to use the Shapes window script, by Rai López: https://www.lostmarble.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36508. It makes so much easier to understand and use liquid shapes. I was having a hard time understanding them without...

Thanks! I've begun looking into liquid shapes, I hadn't heard of them before. I also have been looking into masks, and am realizing there are a few things I misunderstood about how they work.

I appreciate your help!

My setup is one layer more complicated -- I'm doing a switch set for the mouths (so I can interpolate the sub layers), and each of the sub layers is a group (probably doesn't have to be -- I'm coming from After Effects so there's some logic to the program that I keep getting tripped up on) so the se...

Ah crud, thanks! Fixed the original post!

I'm having a display issue in the new version of Moho: when making complex masking nests (masked group that is, itself, being masked), the canvas view doesn't correctly mask the group, but the render looks fine: Canvas view: https://i.imgur.com/HWSW2MC.png Render: https://i.imgur.com/JOwiqmW.png I w...

This looks great! Love the style, and the movement has a lot of personality. Look forward to seeing more!

Thanks everyone! And no, this isn't my first animation, Karl Toon -- I've been working in Flash/Animate, After Effects, and various 3D animation software for about 20 years (oh no, I'm old!) Thanks for the tip on the link, Greenlaw! I'm hoping to make a whole series of animations in this style, but ...

Hey all! I wanted to share the first finished animation I created in Moho. I learned a lot on this one, and can see just how much I have to learn moving forward! (I'm not sure how to link to a YouTube short on here, the youtube code doesn't seem to work for those) https://youtube.com/shorts/w6S1qoqp...

Didn't know that about bind layer, great to know!

(which are flexi-binded with the layer) Just had this same problem when playing with Vitruvian bones for the first time -- this is the most important step with Vitruvian bones. If the layer isn't flexi-binded, it doesn't disappear. Likewise, if the bone isn't part of a parent chain (target bones fo...