I did this a couple of years ago, so forgive me if I don't remember 100%. I remember having trouble with transparencies and how it rendered in Ch, so my character only seems transparent but is really opaque - the program has gone through quite a few changes since then, so you might have an easier time with the transparencies. I drew the shape of the bottle in illustrator and then drew the liquid shape above it, faking a top surface with a couple of gradients. I made sure that the liquid shape was wider than the bottle. In Ch I added the dangle handles in the parts that went out of the shape, as well as one in the middle, and fixed the bottom (I added another shape that continued the liquid but doesn't move.) I then clipped the liquid movement shape to the bottle shape and added it's own physics behavior, playing around with the squashiness, stiffness, etc., until I got a movement I was happy with. It's triggered by face movement, like hair dangles.   ... View more

Did you make sure all the viseme layers are named and tagged correctly? And that the lip sync behavior is armed for recording? Also, I see you've written "will sync with my facial movements" - lip sync in Ch works with audio, not visual. Try talking into your webcam or using an audio file and see if it works then. ... View more

In case anyone's interested, I think there was a glitch in one Ch file (that I had saved on dropbox instead of locally as I usually do) and it was causing all of Character Animator to have a tantrum even if I was trying to open a different file. I deleted the folder of that project and now it seems to be working, thank G-d. ... View more

I uninstalled and reinstalled Ch and now it won't read my project at all. I tried creating a new one and importing the same Ps files to work with but I keep getting this    ... View more

I ran into the same issue recently and what I found is that the parallax behavior can only be applied to one mouth set. So if you have a happy set and a sad set, one of them will always stay put while the parallax will only affect the one that's uppermost in your swap set. It is annoying, I agree. I hope it's something that can be fixed sometime in the future. ... View more

Thanks so much @ElectroPuppet ! I should have tried this earlier. I created a swap set for my eyegaze using the dragger hack, and then since no icon showed up in the control panel (because it's triggering a dragger movement I guess), I went ahead and made custom icons and added them to the controls panel. I'm hoping to reuse the icons for all my puppets so it doesn't take me too much time to start using this system. I still need to tweak it in the timeline since the transitions between swaps aren't as seamless as when I use the trigger keys, but since I get way more triggers out of this, I can't complain. It's not perfect, but so far, so good. ... View more

Thanks! You've been very helpful. Yes, I have my Ch screen totally rearranged - especially to take better advantage of my two-screen setup at work. I'll see where the controls window works best for me and move it. ... View more

I want to redo a set of puppets' eye gazes using this hack from okay samurai so I think the control panel just might do the trick. Thanks! ... View more

It's not a silly question. I was under the impression that the controls panel was just a different interface for the triggers - that you still had to have a trigger key attached. I thought it was meant to make live stream easier and since I never do live streams and I'm pretty much always working in a time crunch, I haven't really looked into it. I guess I'm very wrong and I should check that out. Thanks for the suggestion! ... View more

Just an update here, as I'm rerigging the puppets to not contain shareables, the puppet files are actually slimming down to less than half of what they were with shareables - and I had only set them up that way in an effort to keep the file sizes down in the first place! Weird, but I'm not upset that at least that's happening. ... View more

Hi Eric,  I remember that you had asked how I was working with shareables for the head profiles of my puppets. I was pretty enthusiastic about the system I'd worked out, but I've recently run into som issues. I now have each profile of my puppets set up as a separate puppet linked to it's own psd each using only one instance of each head which is also in the puppet - meaning no more shareables. I'm still using them for props and the like and then only complete puppets; I learned the hard way that if you share only one part of a puppet as a shareable it's very difficult nearing on impossible to edit it in the future. ... View more

Thanks for looking into it! I guess I'll get started on re-rigging then. ... View more

Or at the very least, now we can all know the disadvantages to linking to a separate file for shareables even though it might slim down the puppet. ... View more

Thanks so much! If all else fails, I'll rerig it. But even so, I feel like it's a bug that could/should be worked out. ... View more

The layer isn't showing up at all - I created a new layer that wasn't there before and since it was the whole head that was shared, I don't have a group to reset. Resetting the face background layer did nothing. I'm saving the exported heads and the corresponding Photoshope files here. I have two almost identical characters and made the change in just one - they had the same issue - so if you look at the Bina heads you can see that the eyebrow is in the PSD, but not the puppet and if you look at the Rina ones, you can see how they were originally set up. I have another version of the Rina one that I had had to make a different head set for and made much later, so I had shared the heads from within the single psd file (meaning, the puppet is linked to a single file and I just used certain groups multiple times as opposed to here where I have one puppet linked to two separate files) and there, the changes I made in the PSD were reflected in the Ch file, so that seems to be something contributing to the issue. ... View more

Sorry for pulling you out of retirement 🙂you were a great help to me when I was just starting with Ch over a year ago. I haven't really played around with the follow feature because it means that I'd have to make more artwork and have heavier files and I'm lazy 😆that's why I just move the arms on top of the head whenever I can get away with it. Thanks for clarifying, though! ... View more

Hey, I know this is an old thread, but @alank99101739 I'm curious as to why you put the arms inside of a non-independent layer "ThingsInFrontOfFace." Did you run into issues just having the arms on their own separate independent layers above the head? I've been doing this on lots of puppets, but if there's a better way to do it, I'd love to learn! ... View more

Thanks for looking into it! ... View more

I isolated it further to a specific 1.5 seconds that was happening mid pan-out. I was able to export a scene cut to that point and another scene cut from that point, but not that actual 1.5 seconds.  I finally copied the scene, changed the pan to a jump cut and after two days of trying, it exported, thank G-d! If anyone knows why in the world this happened, I'd love to hear it. ... View more

I've isolated the issue to this specific scene because I was able to make changes to the others and export. I recreated this scene but the issue remains. There are no new puppets in this scene versus others, so I'm lost. ... View more

I also tried, as a last ditch attempt, that surprise, surprise, didn't work and caused the same bug, to import the scene as a dynamic link to Premiere and export it from there. ... View more

@TheOriginalGC I just tried and I got the same error.  On the bright side, the error is happening immediately now, so I have less false hope... ... View more

No, let me try that now. ... View more

But this latest fiasco did produce a different error report - meaning it actually failed, instead of just hanging on the same second for hours:   - Source File: C:\Users\Toveedo\Desktop\raizel-s\shepsalach\shepselach_s1e1_dress-up-contest\shepselach_s1e1_dress-up-contest\shepselach_s1e1_dress-up-contest.chproj - Output File: E:\Toveedo Dropbox\Dropbox\The Shepsalach\Season 1\01 Dress Up Contest\Video\DRAFTS\Scene 01 Draft 02.mp4 - Preset Used: Match Source - Adaptive Low Bitrate - Video: 3840x2160 (1.0), 12 fps, Progressive, 100 (63% HLG, 51% PQ), Hardware Encoding, Nvidia Codec, 00:00:37:00 - Audio: AAC, 128 kbps, 44 kHz, Stereo - Bitrate: VBR, 1 pass, Target 9.20 Mbps - Encoding Time: 00:05:31 11/03/2022 04:53:56 PM : Encoding Failed ------------------------------------- The Operation was interrupted by user ------------------------------------- - Encoding Time: 00:08:55 03/01/2023 03:46:24 PM : Encoding Failed ------------------------------------------------------------ Export Error Error compiling movie. Accelerated Renderer Error Unable to produce frame. Writing with exporter: H.264 Writing to file: E:\Toveedo Dropbox\Dropbox\The Shepsalach\Season 1\01 Dress Up Contest\Video\DRAFTS\Scene 06 Draft 03.mp4 Writing file type: H264 Around timecode: 00:00:02:03 - 00:00:02:05 Rendering at offset: 1.625 seconds Component: H.264 of type Exporter Selector: 9 Error code: -1609629695 ------------------------------------------------------------ ... View more

I thought that the issue might have been caused because I originally started this project way back in June in Beta, so I tried opening it now in Beta and exporting via Media Encoder Beta and I'm encountering the same exact series of events. ... View more

I tried resaving the project with a new name and now I get the error message as soon as I try to open the project file. ... View more