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Recording a position movement

  • November 5, 2018
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in adobe character how do i make have a puppet move from position y 1200 to position y -900 and stay at that final position? whenever i do this movement it either changes the original position of the puppet or it reverse back to the original position. Can you please post the link to the tutorial that explains this?

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    Correct answer alank99101739

    There should be no difference. I would suggest trying again just to be sure.

    There are little quirks like if you arm/disarm values it resets all the other values. So it might be if you armed Y, changed Y, armed X, changed X then it will have reset the Y value when you armed X and you did not notice - or something like that.  I do X and Y all the time - and wince when I realize I missed arming one value (so have to set it all up again).


    And reading back to your original question of hold to hold the final new Y value, in case not already obvious, you may need to drag the right edge of the take out past the end of the scene for the new Y value to stick until the end of the scene. As soon as the take ends, it will revert to the default position. So its very common to do a short recording and then extend it out.

    There are also keyboard short cuts to create a one frame and two frame recording without starting the “record” button, but I find to drag these out you have to zoom right in before you can grab the edge to drag it out - so I end up never using it - I just always hit CTRL-R and do a recording for a full second or so, then drag the take out longer to whatever length I need.

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    KJerryK
    Brainiac
    November 5, 2018

    Try setting the transform value (position y) before enabling that behavior to record.

    John T Smith
    Brainiac
    November 5, 2018

    Please post the name of the program you use so a Moderator may move this message to that forum

    -A program would be Photoshop or Dreamweaver or Muse or Premiere Pro or ???

    Known Participant
    November 5, 2018

    i couldn't manage to figure out how to post a question to the adobe character animator forum...

    alank99101739
    Brainiac
    November 5, 2018

    karenb27092164  wrote

    i couldn't manage to figure out how to post a question to the adobe character animator forum...

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    Hi, as Jerry said, you set the original position X/Y, then arm those settings and set the new coordinates and record the new positions as a take.  To slide from one position to the other, you can use a blend where you grab the little box in the top corner of the take and drag it over to the side. That will slide you from the default puppet position to the new location.

    If you want a sample video, have a look at Project Wookie - YouTube  episode 9 (and maybe 11 and 12).