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Total noob here...
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2019 10:29 am
by pnxAn
I want to create samurai animation...2 problems here:
1. when character A slashes catan character B loses head (how separate head)
2. ....then blood spalshes from neck.
Obviously sorry for my poor english
Re: Total noob her...
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2019 11:45 am
by DK
You should make two new copies of your character at this keyframe. (where the charatcer loses it's head). One copy with just a head and the other copy without the head. Now turn off visibility for the main character (with head). Animate/drag the head off the body and animate the headless version falling to the ground. (or whatever). Make a new layer and draw some blood splashes flying out of the headless version.
Cheers
D.K
Re: Total noob her...
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2019 12:31 pm
by pnxAn
ok first part is clear.... but when i draw blood at frame 0 i dont know how make it to appear at right moment and disapper one second later.
Re: Total noob her...
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2019 12:37 pm
by DK
Use layer opacity or layer visibility to show/hide it at the right moment/keyframe. Make sure you turn on "Allow Animated Layer Effects" when you double click on the layer for these things.
Cheers
D.K
Re: Total noob her...
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2019 12:42 pm
by pnxAn
Thanks man
now I understand some basics
cheers
Re: Total noob her...
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2019 4:34 pm
by Greenlaw
DK wrote:...Make sure you turn on "Allow Animated Layer Effects" when you double click on the layer for these things.
A couple of months ago, I learned from another user here that you don't need to enable 'Allow Animated Layer Effects' to keyframe Visibility. This is also true for Flip H and Flip V, but everything else in that section of the panel requires the option to be enabled for keyframing. A bit inconsistent, I know, and I turn the option on just to make sure
everything is keyframeable.
TBH, I'm not sure why we have this option at all...to me, it's just one more unnecessary click.
Re: Total noob her...
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2019 4:53 pm
by synthsin75
Greenlaw wrote:TBH, I'm not sure why we have this option at all...to me, it's just one more unnecessary click.
Basically the same reason we have Enable Drawing Tools Only On Frame Zero, which I never use (and I always use Allow Animated Layer Effects). People complained about getting keyframes where they didn't intend them to be, because they didn't realize they weren't on frame zero. So, a programming solution for a user error problem.
You could always write a script that would enable animated layer effects for the whole project at once, to save some clicking. Actually, we could probably use a project default script that has options for many things, like bone bind method, layer ordering, animated layer effects, etc..
Re: Total noob her...
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2019 5:14 pm
by Greenlaw
I can see that for drawing because you really can mess stuff up by unintentionally drawing on a later frame. I usually have this on until I actually need to draw on a later frame.
And I guess I can also see that for some of the other Layer properties where it's less obvious that your creating keyframes.
I agree this should be an optional project default so long as enabling the option isn't adding unnecessary channel data to the scene. (Sorry, I know we had this same discussion only a couple of months ago.)
Anyway, no biggie. Just wanted to point out that the option wasn't necessary in the above case.
Re: Total noob her...
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2019 11:47 pm
by DK
I did not know that Greenlaw thanks for the heads up. Probably not necessary but good practice for a new user. That script would be very handy Wes.
Cheers
D.K
Re: Total noob her...
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2019 1:32 am
by synthsin75
DK wrote:That script would be very handy Wes.
Here you go:
https://sites.google.com/site/synthsin/ ... ects=0&d=1
Just run this menu script to make every layer in the project Allow Animated Layer Effects.
Re: Total noob her...
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2019 2:16 am
by Greenlaw
synthsin75 wrote:
Here you go...Just run this menu script to make every layer in the project Allow Animated Layer Effects.
That's very cool, Wes! I'll give it a try this evening.
Thanks for making this.
Re: Total noob her...
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2019 5:02 am
by Gaucho
Your script works very well!
Thank you very much Synthsin75!!!