ASP9 manual talks about smart bones on pages 77 to 89

1: see ASP11.2 manual pages 105 to 117.
2: see viewtopic.php?f=13&t=28802

that should get you started. try a few things... then if/when you get stuck just ask!

IMO. the basic principle of any "turn" is to "unwrap" the shape on frame 0; then on frame 1 shove the parts you don't want behind other bits or drop their visual width to zero - and then, when you want the turn, shove the points around / use animated shape order as necessary to d...

still 2... and, as dkwroot said, those 2 smartbone actions are intended to be one each for positive (>0) angles of rotation and negative (<0) angles of rotation. Or you can have just one action for the whole range of rotations including >360 but within an action you can control many things - includi...

ponysmasher's tool is based on an old version of AS where the bone manipulation tools were all separate (the 3 names you've noted). Bones (and points) are now manipulated in their own "all-in-one" tool LM_transform_bone (and LM_transform_points). As you've discovered, the tool won't work o...

Thanks Stan. that's it!! === and ... since it may help us update ASLua.com -- > for the record: smartbone layers are returned in the child layers of a bone layer but with a zero duration (non-zero duration in the bone layer itself) along with any layer-specific actions. > and .. any idea what MohoDo...

what I want to do is, from a script, find out what items (points, bones ...) are being manipulated in an action. Put another way, if I look at, say, the position animation channels of all the points in a mesh, I can see which ones are being moved. (e.g. using if mesh:Point(j).fAnimPos:CountKeys() > ...

You're very welcome. I've also raised a formal request to make 'select all points in shape / all points on curve' an option. (IIRC it was an option back in AS7-ish times??) I've noticed a few downloads of the files, so if there's anyone else looking in who wants that option included in the base prod...

I don't generally make clothes to put on a body shape as such ... what I mean is that a clothed arm doesn't have a sleeve shape over an arm shape - it has a shapes for the (to be) visible elements. Something like a flowing gown or a skirt that lifts in the breeze does have shapes "under it"...

... a sudden glimpse of the blindingly obvious - some scripts other than just point transform will call the LM_select points. I've updated the download to include a version of select named LM_ ... that disables curve and shape selection. http://www.mediafire.com/download/577c1vhexr9g3xd/SelectPoints...

try this.. just a straightforward update of the standard (AS11) LM_ scripts to disable that behaviour. (transform calls select) https://www.mediafire.com/?577c1vhexr9g3xd 2 scripts, 2 icons and 4 cursors - copy into your custom tools folder. up to you whether you delete the standard tools or not (bu...

if you need to have other action interleaved I'd duplicate the AS file and keep the "standard" stuff but with the two separate action items in the two files. If not just keep the one set of animations and ... If you're planning on using a compositor - such as Premiere you either export onc...

Ah! I hadn't thought of that -- my mind was stuck firmly on screen coords! I'll give it a whirl... thanks!!

Yeah .. that's it .. sees to be pixel offset from top left as {0,0} .. so (e.g.) {20,20} is just off bottom right.

Thanks again.

the call to this is LM.GUI.Cursor(path, hotX, hotY) . "path" is self evident, and I can get this to work "as expected" by sticking zeros in the x,y .. but I can't figure out what those coords are there for?? can anyone enlighten me please?

animated reparenting.

somewhere in the timeline you've changed the bone parent.