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christopherb24509435
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March 16, 2017
Question

Help needed with fashion changes, ref: Character Animator Live Episode 3

  • March 16, 2017
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Hi,

My puppet has a basic female body shape and then over that i would to be able to have different clothes, fashion changes.

I would like the clothes to morph along with the puppet as one would expect.

If Im correct, In this previous episode #3 (see time 22 min) this exact mock-up is displayed, there is rigging on a body group and within that is a dress group that contains the fashion changes.

The demo only slightly moves the puppets arms so it's hard to know if it actually worked.

I would like my puppets rigging to work as suggested in this video( see Time: 22 minutes)

Obviously it is possible to overlay different outfits and affect them with keystrokes without any dragging rigging involved.

I hope this demo (Ep.3 CH Live) just didn't  have time to show this small but impossibly important detail.

If it is possible that would be awesome!!!

I did rearrange groups in order to re-create the same structure as in Ep. 3 (see Time 22min)  but had no success.

My puppet is built in illustrator.

Thanks,

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oksamurai
oksamurai
Legend
March 16, 2017

Yep that's totally possible! I'm pretty sure that character is in one of our example packs (scroll halfway down this page) if you want to wake a closer look at how they did it: Character Animator Examples

I think she was made before we had stapling so if I remember correctly her arms aren't independent (like we currently suggest). However, you could still do it - in each arm group and the torso I'd just make a group of key-triggered switch "sleeve" and "outfit" layers with hide others in group checked.

More info on key triggers:

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christopherb24509435Author
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March 16, 2017

Here's the example I am referring CH Live Ep 3 at time 21min15 sec..:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc8kD1rn8ds

I looked at the link as suggested, downloaded, loaded into CH but was not

able to locate an example puppet with this structure.

Yes, making the arms independent is the culprit here, but don't her arms

need to be independent so so can dance ect,,,?

I am not sure that the puppet in the youtube video example had

independence but it looks as if it was rigged for movement.

Currently my puppet's body is separated for independence ( i.e.. L arm, L

leg) with a shirt layer separate (over the body layer).

I tried rigging the body as parent group as suggested in the clip but that

didn't work.

Only after trying several things and lots of different builds ...did I

finally reaching out for help regarding this hurdle...

Thanks as always for all your help

oksamurai
oksamurai
Legend
March 16, 2017

Ah right, that was a user example, not one of ours. I was thinking of the "Gina" puppet we have, who can change outfits.

Arms don't have to be independent - see the blue example guy Stannie from the Welcome panel - but making them independent means they won't pull on the body, which is usually what you want. So it's a stylistic decision.

Check out this quick example I made with Stannie and independent arms - press R and everything turns pinkish red:

https://adobe.ly/2n3qxQ4

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