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September 1, 2021
Question

Rig going invisible when selecting either arm

  • September 1, 2021
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I am using Character Animator (and the Beta) for the first time, I have made the rig in illustrator, all the layers were working great, made triggers and swap sets. I needed to add different variations of the arms and hands, different positions, hand movements etc so I would be able to make the triggers and then record some scenes. I did everything the same way with the arms before in illustrator with the arms and hands, but when I pulled the rig up to start making the new sets with the different movementst/expressions I noticed anytime I clicked on the original arm my whole rig goes invisible and I cant have both original arms visible at the same time. I have tried moving layers around, adding the + to the other arms and made them their own layers, combining the layers, but I have not been able to figure what I am doing wrong or if its a combination of things. I have also noticed that some hands have a warped mesh on them with points for other hands. I don't know where I messed up or if its the ap glitching on me (which it has done) I have been working on this for hours. Also a note that all I have is a head for my character, and under the head I have mouth, arms, hands, eyes, and eyebrows. THANK YOU!!!

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Known Participant
September 1, 2021

I started to move the new layers i made one by one to a new page, the rig started to work fine again, but then on my third swap set it started to wig out on me again, and my arms are no longer connected together

Known Participant
September 1, 2021

Yet another update, I am at a loss, I have switched names, reset everything, Im to teh point where I am going to start from scratch because I cant figure out what happened or why. Here are some screen shots of what is happening in Ch and what jist of my layers in Ai

Known Participant
September 2, 2021

Character Animator is programmed to recognize "Eyeball" for the pupil range and anything can be named Eyeball, even the frame of glasses or an area colored to match the rest ot the face (in cases where only pupils can be seen, which I am fond of doing). There are advanced techniques where the eyeball and pupil are positioned behind a mask in the case of large pupils.


Ive seen that and was curious to try it with my cloud and have the lids I have actually function, but I was on a time restraint. Now that I have more time I wanna really make this thing come to life, I would love to be able to control it more without triggers, like finger movements and the such, I tried the Ch Beta but my mic arm kept getting in the way. Anywho, I thank you VERY much for your help. Hopefully I can open my original file again (I had to send it to a friend to delete the eyebrows from it becuase it kept crashing anytime I saved the file) <3!!