Can 2 arms have different dragger behaviours?

The idea of two draggers is the same issue. It does allow exactly what you describe - see the old recording and make a new recording. A problem with putting on the hand is if you have the hand selected by the dragger is half way across the screen, it will still pick that hand. So you have to arm/disarm more carefully, hence Dan was wondering if there should be a range limit on dragger handles To help. The other approach is to put multiple draggers on the root of the puppet and reserve them for different purposes. That way they see all handles so the targetting picks the right one. I do this sometimes - I name the draggers to help me to remember which one to use when (e.g. I use an extra one for elbows).

The other issues of twisted hands and return to rest is a different issue. I think they improved a few cases in v2, but feel free to post a screen shot showing the problem - there may be something else to fix still. The return to rest has come up as a known issue - so they may know that one already.

I'm extremely new to Character Animator but...

I think my situation might be similar. After recording one arms movement, I cannot see that arm moving while recording the second arm. It's pure guesswork trying to get the motions to match.

I got around this by attaching a dragger behavior directly to each arm group instead of the top level puppet group.

I then activate and record one arms movements, deactivate that arms behavior, the activate the second arms behavior.

When recording the second arm, the first arms motion plays, allowing me to see where and when I should move the second arm.

The issue with this is that the arms don't snap back to the default pose when done, instead, they drift slowly back to default, even with "hold pose" active. I also get unwanted rotations on the hands just before the take ends (unrelated perhaps).

I could swear I saw a video that briefly touched on how to attach a second dragger to the top level and use it to animate the second arm. But it was brief and I cannot find it again.

If there were a more intuitive method of attaching and removing "target handles" to behaviors it might be nice. Like creating a blank dragger and then dragging the desired "tag?" or group into it. Not sure that makes sense. Treat it like the process of creating triggers and adding items to them. As well as deleting them by clicking the X. Then if you have on trigger controlling too many items when active, delete unwanted draggers.

Maybe I'm too newb to understand a better workflow. I'm still trying to break my habit or thinking in flash keyframe animation.

Otherwise arm and disarm the draggers before starting to drag... which sounds like a drag to do!

Could you show the rigging hierarchy of the puppet via a screenshot? Also how many dragger behaviors do you have? I recall one person adding a dragger per drag handle they added, then had them all recording at the same time. That causes the symptons you are describing. You only need a single dragger behavior on the whole puppet. With multiple draggers, and if they are all active, they will all think the mouse movements are for them (as each dragger behavior will pick the closest dragger handle it has, which will be the only handle it sees). By having a single dragger at the root of the puppet, it will pick a handle based on the closest one to where you clicked the mouse, which is what you Normally want.