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Jesse22648277f4qx
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April 26, 2022
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Illustration layout

  • April 26, 2022
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I have many puppets and illustrations in my scene I'm making. Its pretty much all one illustrator file. Is it better to rearrange my scene in the illustrator file, the character animator rig window or just use transform behaviors on everything in record space? Right now everything is just centered on top of eachother in my illustrator file and I move it later in character animator.

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oksamurai
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oksamuraiCommunity Manager
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April 26, 2022

Typically I like making everything separate. Each character as their own AI file, and each background as well. While doing everything in one file is technically possible, it leads to a lot of confusion when you're dealing with multiple behaviors on the right and a messier timeline below.

 

One outlier would be examples like the Puppet Maker puppets, who also have their backgrounds included in their file to make things easier for the end user. But having rigged some of those puppets, even that can lead to confusion - so my advice is to separate when possible.

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Jesse22648277f4qxAuthor
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April 26, 2022

Hey, thanks for your time Dave. I understand what you're saying. I'm still a bit confused though. If I bring each illustration in by themselves, each becomes a puppet by themselves technically. I can drag them all in the timeline to bring them into the scene. I need to be able to use triggers on all my characters and props while I'm streaming and gaming. I thought I can only activate one puppet at a time so I just made one big puppet. Hope I'm making sense.

oksamurai
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oksamuraiCommunity Manager
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April 26, 2022

Gotcha. So for that specific use case, you could still make them all separate, and then just select them all in the timeline. So if I import three puppets and a background into the timeline and select them all, then if they all had a trigger when I pressed B, all of their triggers would work simultaneously. But if you're using the more visual controls panel instead, then yeah, maybe combining everything makes more sense. Basically both methods could work, it's just what feels like it works best for you!

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