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ravlutz
ravlutz
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March 29, 2018
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Character Animator Puppet Walk Behavior Not Working Correctly

  • March 29, 2018
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Hi CA Think Tank!

I am having an issue getting this puppet to walk correctly. She is rigged exactly like another character I have, who walks perfectly. However, she only wants to walk in one direction. She has 3 profiles, normal, right, and left. Any help would be amazing! Here are the links to the puppet and .ai file. Thanks for any help in advance!!!

Dropbox - Woman_Puppet.ai

Dropbox - Woman_Puppet.puppet

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Correct answer KJerryK

Sorry about that.

Try this link B_Woman_Puppet.puppet - Google Drive

In this one I re-tagged the legs on the right profile. It seems to work, but I don't know why. I just tried different things until I got to this one. It took a while.

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ravlutz
ravlutzAuthor
New Participant
March 30, 2018

It works! By re-tagging you mean the sticks and anchor points? So weird that it wasn't working. Any ideas why it wasn't?

KJerryK
KJerryK
Brainiac
March 30, 2018

By re-tagging I mean that on the right leg I changed the knee, ankle, heel and toe tags from "right" to "left." See the screen cap. The sticks are not tagged. Then I did the opposite on the left leg. This was only on the right profile legs.

I do not know why the initial tagging didn't work, or why this did; that needs someone who knows more about the underlying coding than I do.

    ravlutz
    ravlutzAuthor
    New Participant
    March 29, 2018

    I can't open, says a need Version 1.5? I have version 1.1.1, but it doesn't seem as if there are any updates?

    KJerryK
    KJerryKCorrect answer
    Brainiac
    March 30, 2018

    Sorry about that.

    Try this link B_Woman_Puppet.puppet - Google Drive

    In this one I re-tagged the legs on the right profile. It seems to work, but I don't know why. I just tried different things until I got to this one. It took a while.

    ravlutz
    ravlutzAuthor
    New Participant
    March 29, 2018

    She only walks to the left, when I click the left arrow. However, when I click the right arrow, nothing happens....

    KJerryK
    KJerryK
    Brainiac
    March 29, 2018

    That's strange. I downloaded your *.puppet, brought it into Character Animator, and put it in a new scene. Left and right arrows each work fine. I can make a screen cap if you want to see it.

    Can't think of anything else to do. Here is a link to the *.puppet I made from yours. Besides moving the left arm, I deleted two items from the trigger panel that seemed not to be working. I don't think these changes have anything to do with the walking

    Edit: see link below

    KJerryK
    KJerryK
    Brainiac
    March 29, 2018

    I tried your puppet and it seems to be walking okay each way. I did move the left arm to behind the body when walking to the right, but that had no effect on the walk behavior. Can you provide more info on what you are seeing that doesn't look good?

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