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geoffreya28176583
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May 30, 2019
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Character Animator - how to stop shadow bouncing with character

  • May 30, 2019
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Hello

Can someone explain how to stop the shadow at the feet of the walking character (separate layer in Ai) bouncing up and down with the character's movements? I have tried putting numerous pintools in the shadow but it does not stop it going up and down.

Thanks

Geoff Axon

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    alank99101739
    alank99101739
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    May 30, 2019

    Interesting. You want it sort of moving with puppet, but not affected by walk adjustments.

    Suggestions to experiment With.

    - try putting the shadow up high in the puppet hierarchy so it is attached to a layer that is not affected by walk. Eg you might need to push the whole puppet down one level so you can have a root mesh with shadow, and under that separate mesh for rest of puppet. Adding the extra layer will lose all the rigging! So beware. But I think that is the cleanest solution.

    - Hack. Try adding a second walk behavior to the shadow layer and set all the strengths to zero. Hopefully that will lock down the shadow From moving because the nested walk overides the other walk... hopefully!

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