oh beautiful, thank you.

Hi, I'm relatively new to AS 5, and am wondering where the command or feature is to place one object beneath an other within the same layer. AS seems to pick which one gets to be on top, but surely there is a way to change this?

if i put bone dynamics on both bones of one arm of 3.3, i can still manipulate the lower of that arm's two bones. its only parent is the spine bone. but if put bone dynamics on the 6 bones of the other arms, then i can no longer manipulate the original arm. this seems strange; why is this?

now i'm playing around with tutorial file 3.3 and see that sometimes a bone dynamic will make it unmanipulatable but othertimes no, but i don't understand why. the tips of this creature in 3.3 will not allow for manual manipulation, even though their arms will, if dynamics are turned on. anyone can ...

Please check the Bone Constraints if any Bone Dynamics are applied. If so, I presume only the first bone in this chain can be manipulated. Cheers Nolan The only thing set are bone dynamics, but not locking or control bones or angle constraints. Yet, most of the bones aren't moving. Bone dynamics al...

here is the file if anyone can help me understand this basic functionality:

http://fizzynizzy.com/singinggirl.anme

I am playing with this week's free download from Content Paradise, the singing girl. I dont' understand why most of the bones in the character are not manipulatable. None of them are locked, and I don't see control bones noted for them either. What would cause a bone not react to the manipulate bone...

thanks for the help Genete. I will need to study your reply more carefully to understand it, which i shall definitely do.

I have seen a variety of tutorials on walk cycle poses and keyframes, but once the walk cycle is created, the character needs to move across the screen. This is where tutorials vary and I'm wondering how most people do it. One suggested to translate the layer while the cycle repeats. Certainly easy ...

Hiddicop's description of the demo was accurate for the previous version of the demo, when it was still Moho. The current demo is greatly stripped down. They should update the Help file to indicate the new restrictions. Otherwise people will download and read and assume it should be working when it...

your video resolution is almost double that of standard DV, used for non-HD stuff. your HD-like resolution may not be capable of good handling in a cheap video program. what software are you using for video editing? anything choppy could be due to this or as was mentioned the video codec. cheap prog...

hey never mind.. i just saw the transparency slider next to the fill color palette. some things, like gravity, are so obvious it takes a genius physicist to define it only after tens of thousands of years have passed in the life of the species.

If you want to see the semitransparent blob you have to set to Preview in the Display Quality button in the main window. Or simply select the blob shape with the select shape tool and have a look to its filling color. The layer is not affected in this example. Thank you; I see the semi-transparency...

the tutorial also refers to blur settings for these particle layers, but i cannot find any blur setting turned on. any pointers appreciated while i learn this program.

-andrew

This tutorial file clearly has 4 semi-transparent blobs, but I cannot see how they were created semi-transparent since the opacity is 100% for all layers. Is there another setting for this?

Andrew