Okay so what's interesting there is I see .04 sec listed in that dialog. Can you please go to TImeline > Enable Work Area and make sure it's unchecked? ... View more

Sounds like you're running into issues with Walk. The Walk behavior is a simulation similar to Physics, so the effects aren't backed into your timeline, they're simulated when you scrub or playback. So your character might seem like they're jumping around. I would imagine if you removed Walk this won't be a problem anymore. Even so, Walk will not affect the X and Y Transform values, it's completely separate - so if I try the Eliza example from your other thread and do psotion based walking with her, my Transform X/Y positions are still always 0. My guess is there is a rogue keyframe or trigger or something somewhere causing issues. ... View more

How are you exporting? Through Adobe Media Encoder or just the share icon? It looks like CH is saying your scene is 30 seconds long, but my guess is the export is cutting it off for some reason. ... View more

Try going in the History panel and move back several steps and see if the message persists. Usually this comes up when there's some kind of illegal action, like some rigging setup that has two conflicing elements, and going back several steps should alleviate it. ... View more

Yeah, the origin (green circle thing called Right arm) is where your arm will rotate around. Changing that position should help determine how and where it rotates from. It also looks like your elbow tag is outside of your arm - I would move that to where the elbow actually is. And finally I would play with hinge vs. weld attach styles when you have your arm selected in the upper right corner - one might work better for your character than the other. Adding the shoulder tag as suggested should help with Limb IK calculations as well. ... View more

It may be difficult to follow, but walking between two locations is exactly what it's showing. The steps are: Click the stopwatch next to Walk > Position to create a keyframe. Drag the blue Position number so the character is on one side of the screen. Move the playhead to another time (in the video this is 5 seconds). Drag the blue Position number again so the character is on the other side of the screen. Play the sequence and, if rigged correctly, the character will walk from one position to the next. Adjust the keyframes to be closer or farther apart to adjust walk speed. ... View more

That's the issue - you need to use the psotion keyframe in the Walk behavior, not Transform. See how I do this in the video above. ... View more

In Rig mode you can drag whatever layer you want on the controls. A common practice is to make an invisible folder called "Icons" in the stomach of the character and put all your icon art in there. ... View more

Huh interesting, I'm not sure why the controls panel is doing one thing and the key is doing another - I don't think I've seen that before. My best guess is that something in the swap sets are competing with each other, particularly since you have the same keys in multiple swap sets and different default states in each as well. I'm not sure how much individual control you want, but you could try combining multiple layers into a single swap set instead of all the multiples. So if you drag an trigger over another one, it will combine the two. Then you could potentially make one giant "poses" swap set that includes all your different states so you can always ensure that you are only seeing one of those states at a time. This is how we set up the Animate from Audio puppets for Adobe Express - they are a big swap set that we swap between individual poses. Hope that helps! ... View more

Yes, unfortunately there is no way to do this - the "Chicken Blaster" example on the homescreen (last example puppet) is kind of the limits of particles in CH, where they can shoot and bump into other objects - but there is no triggering on impact or anything like that. ... View more

So this is a pretty complex setup with so many characters and background elements. And that walk thing I showed in the video was always a bit of a hack. Basically what is happening here is when you add additional tags to your background layer, it is thinking those are part of the leg, so it starts to move as if it was a leg - which is why you see the acceleration/deceleration happening, as if the leg was moving back and forth. You may be able to add additional walk behaviors to each background character group, which could help give them each their own walk to deal with. But these kind of nested puppets can run into their own issues, where you might not get all the behaviors and triggers you're expecting. Another way to potentially do it would be to make the animal puppets separately as their own isolated rigs, get them working how you want, and then bring them in separately, dragging them into your background rig. A final option would be to simplify the background characters into some kind of cycle layers sequence or replay where they don't rely as much on live behaviors. If this was for a recording, yes, this would be a lot easier compositing all this stuff in Premiere or After Effects, but the live aspect does make it more complex (I've never tried anything exactly like this). Hope these tips help! ... View more

Thanks for the bug - I noticed this recently too. We're looking into it. ... View more

You do have the option of selecting a replay, going to Edit > Copy, and then pasting it on the timeline. Personally this feels a little too messy to me as it adds a track for everything, whereas a trigger would only be one track.   Alternatively, triggers also don't need a key - one workaround would be to use the Controls panel instead (usually tabbed next to Triggers), where you can make as many trigger buttons as you want. ... View more

Here's what it looks like when I try it: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10Lx7DZQBbXSuKSePNCwoxmqltsJ2qA0I/view?usp=sharing ... View more

My guess is 6 simultaneous characters is causing performance issues. If you click the eyeballs in the timeline for all the dancers except one, does it run smoother? You may want to consider exporting out the characters individually as PNG sequences (File > Export > PNG sequence and Wav file) and then bring those into Premiere or After Effects — I think those should be able to run things smoother because they're dealing with flat footage, not realtime performance capture. ... View more

Thanks for the feedback! All great ideas. ... View more

Have you tried changing Limb IK pinning to the behavior instead of puppet? Not sure if it will help for your case but it's the first thing I could think of to keep a hand attached to something while moving a puppet around it. https://youtu.be/e85HGSAS80g?si=kYvK03XQwhJdazP3&t=1513 ... View more

This video might help: https://youtu.be/7pgm_u4VkQk?si=JCfFzyLFOzXDUY0O&t=180 ... View more

If Dragger has a red dot next to it in the right properties, it's ready to record. So if you drag the leg into a new position and do a 2 frame take, it should make a new Dragger take in your timeline. Is it doing that? ... View more

Could you please File > Export > Puppet, and upload/share your .puppet file (via Google Drive, Dropbox, Creative Cloud, etc.) here so we can take a closer look? ... View more

I use Fresco for most of my characters nowadays. It can be a little tedious dividing everything into layers, but in the end it feels like the most natural way to make a character to me. I would try it with a simple character to start and see how it goes! ... View more

A reinstall of the latest version should work - let us know if it doesn't. ... View more

Ah I see what you mean now. Let me ask the team if they have any additional insight. ... View more

I haven't used shareable puppets a lot so I'm not sure what the best method may be... If I take a sample puppet like Chad and make his eyeball shared, then open the eyeball in Rig mode, I do see the option to "Reset layer" if I right click on anything. Are you able to do this? I wonder if you take wherever the eyebrow should be in there or the corresponding group in the puppet and reset to see it? I would first save a File > Export > Puppet backup because resetting will remove rigging. Let us know if none of this works and we can try to take a closer look. ... View more

Yep! I did a tutorial about this a while back: https://youtu.be/ja7bVr4kHCU?t=1111   You can open any puppet file by opening up Character Animator and going to File > Import and opening the .puppet file. In Pro mode, you can click the PS icon in the project panel to open up the original PSD file. ... View more

Ah true, she has that back hair group that is counting on the head being dependent. Yes, in general, the way a recommended rig in CH works is the body moves with the head. Your best bet is to play with the Face strength settings under the behavior to get what you're looking for. Face > Position Strength is probably the most prominent case of head = body movement, dialing that down can help a lot. ... View more

If you make the Head group independent (crown icon) it will move without the body, but it will look pretty detached. I also removed the screenshots from before as requested. ... View more