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DarrenFMc17167703
DarrenFMc17167703
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July 23, 2020
Question

Ability to move a puppets arms to the front behind the body when required

  • July 23, 2020
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Hi, I would like to see the ability to be able to switch the puppets arms to move in front of the body and behind when needed. For example I ahve a puppet where the arms are constructed of the upper and lower arms seperately. I would liek to be able to keep the lower arm attached to th upper arm but move in front or behind the puppets body as required. At the moment you have to make the decision in advance as to whether the puppets arms will move in fromt or behind based on the layer hierachy.

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CoSA_DaveS
Adobe Employee
CoSA_DaveS
Adobe Employee
July 28, 2020

It takes a bit of pre-work, but you can make it look like you are moving the arms in front/behind the body:in PS/Ai duplicate the arm layers that are in front of the body, place the duplicated layers behind. Then in Ch use a trigger swap set with two triggers in it (e.g. "front-arms" and "back-arms", with one of them as a default) to choose between the layers in front vs. back. The swap set ensures that only one or the other will be visible at any one time.

 

It’s a bit tricky because you probably want to drag the arms around. You'll need Draggable handles on both the front & back arms, and an extra Dragger behavior applied to just the back (or just the front) — and both Draggers will need to be armed for recording together. You'll be dragging both at the same time, but only see one or the other based on which you've triggered.

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