Walking : Legs walk, body does not move with legs!! ahhhhhh!!!!

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Hello CC World,
Have you had this happen before?
I am working on getting this lad walking for a few hours. when he does walk, his legs go walking and his body does not move!!

legs have behaviors walking, as i could not get him walking on 'behaviors on the main puppet'

Many Thanks for your info

JW

Walking behaviors on legs

I had to add sticks here, as when i remove them, his legs get very warrped

Legs setup

alank99101739 · Accepted Answer

Err, not sure what Kaufman is, but it is probably because you have the walk behavior on Legs whis is independent. Maybe try removing that crown from the Legs layer?

I am more used to seeing the walk behavior at the top of the puppet hierarchy, not nested. This is because there are walk profiles (Left Profile/ Frontal/ etc) which work best with the walk behavior at the top of the puppet.

Looking back at your previous post, I notice that you have a Head profile. That might have confused it. The walk behavior may have latched onto that instead.

It may require reigging everything (sticks etc), so probably try on a copy, but I would suggest introducing up high Left Profile/Right Profile/Frontal (even if you only use one for now). Then you put the Head Turner behavior on the Head layer so it controls the Left Profile/Right Profile etc of the head. Unfortunately they used the same tags for both, which gets them fighting over the tags at times.

There is also a “Views” and “handles” areas on many behaviors you can expand to see what the behavior has bound to. That is useful for debugging. When you put walk behavior on the root of the puppet, I bet it bound to “Head/Left Profile” (which is not what you want). Hence I think you will need a Left Profile up higher for walk to latch on to.

That is my guess.

alank99101739 · Answer

Also beware of handles being off the artwork - I think it can cause crashes at times. E.g. the toes etc were not on the actual artwork shown. And the “Knee” handles don’t have to be exactly over the physical knees - I generally put them in line with the sticks to avoid ugly stretching. They are basically handles that the software drags for you. So I usually put more towards the center of the leg, in line with the sticks down the thighs and shins.

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