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JayDrawsThings
JayDrawsThings
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January 17, 2025
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Character Animator - Eye Behavior for Cat Puppet not working correctly

  • January 17, 2025
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Hi everyone, 

 

I'm new to Character Animator. I made a simple rig of my cat Sagan and everything works fine but the left eye. The big problem is at certain (and random head positions) the left eye folds in on itself. The pupils are not tracking either, which is a lessor concern at this moment as I could just use the mouse to move them later. But I feel like I've tried everything and can't get that left eye to work correctly. He blinks just fine. They are attached to the torso, set to weld, tagged correctly, the "Show Rigging Issues" function just says no behaviors are attached to the eyes, but when I tried adding Eye Gaze, it made it worse. BOTH eyes started folding in on each other.  See screen grabs below. Any suggestions would be amazing. 

 

Thnx

 

Jay

 

 

2 replies

TheOriginalGC
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TheOriginalGCCommunity Expert
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January 21, 2025

I see in your rigging that the pupil for the puppet's eyes is not set to independent. That is probably causing the "folding" issue that you are seeing. To make the layer independent, just click on the crown column to the left of the layer name to toggle it. 

    JayDrawsThings
    JayDrawsThingsAuthor
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    January 21, 2025

    Hi there!

     

    Thanks so much for responding. I didn't think i'd hear from anyone. I actually tried that later that night, after I posted the screen shots. The eye didn't fold when tracking my head/eyes moving but as soon as I wanted to trigger an ear or a tail the moment I clicked (this instance the tail) it would immediately fold. Just the left eye, still. When I clicked away (Like when trying to do a screen shot), it would bounce back to normal looking eye. The 2nd screen shot below, you can see that I moved the tail a little bit. The moment I clicked on the tail, the left eye folds. When I let go, the tail stays in the position I moved it to, but the eye pops back to normal again. So slightly different behavior than before when I had the gold crown on the left eye, but ultimately, still the same issue. 

     

    Again, thanks for your time here. I really appreciate it. 

     

    Jay

      

     

     

     

    TheOriginalGC
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    TheOriginalGCCommunity Expert
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    January 21, 2025

    I can't see if anything in the ear layers would be creating problems. Are you using a swap set for the ears? There are two body layers, which might be causing confusion with the program. You might want to re-name it as something like "torso." 

      kglad
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      kgladCommunity Expert
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      January 17, 2025

      in the future, to find the best place to post your message, use the list here, https://community.adobe.com/

      p.s. i don't think the adobe website, and forums in particular, are easy to navigate, so don't spend a lot of time searching that forum list. do your best and we'll move the post (like this one has already been moved) if it helps you get responses.



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      JayDrawsThings
      JayDrawsThingsAuthor
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      January 17, 2025

      Oh geez, okay, I didn't know that. Thanks for moving it for me. I really appreciate  it. 

       

      Jay

      kglad
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      kgladCommunity Expert
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      January 17, 2025

      you're welcome.

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