Desk moving with Almasol like puppet

[shirleyl41183719]

Hey guys!

So I've created my own puppet based off of the Almasol Podcast puppet structure. I matched all of the layers in PSD in the correct hierarchy and the +'s all seem correct.

When I open in CA everything is working except for the desk, it's moving around with the camera input. I've added a fixed point and stick in the body layer of the rigging so I'm not sure what I'm missing. Attached I have some pictures so you may be able to catch whatever it is that I've overlooked.

Thanks in advance!

[alank99101739]

Try putting +Desk (make it independent).

At the moment, the Desk is a part of the same mesh as the Head and Body layers. The arms are independent meshes. So I would expect the desk to move with the head and body.

Do you want the desk to move or stay still? If stay still, it needs to be disconnected from the body. You might need to experiment with the “Attach To” settings as well - I think there is a “Free” setting (not near computer just now). That is, the arms you want to move with the body and so should be attached using Hinge or Weld. But I think Free means it won’t move.

Putting the desk in the middle of the puppet like that looks correct - the only way to get the arms in front of the desk and the body behind. I think its just the independence and attach type of the desk you need to fix so it does not move around.

[shirleyl41183719]

Thanks for your quick reply!

So I made the desk independent and used the "Hinge". It's working much better than before and isn't moving around as freely, however, it's scaling big and small now, almost like squishing itself if I move the head. I tried using a fixed point and stick on this layer but still have the issue.

[shirleyl41183719]

Here's what I mean, it's stretching and squashing and floating somewhat.

[alank99101739]

Independent will stop distortion with parent. Hinge will stop twisting, but it will still track parent origin. (E.g. you could move th origin of the desk down near feet and it would probably move less.)

But did you try AttachStyle of “Free” instead of “Hinge”?

But getting bigger and smaller is interesting. I am wondering if its being treated like “head” and you have Head Scale Strength set to some value, so the desk is scaling with the head. To experiment, set the Face behavior Scale Strength value to zero and see if the desk stops changing in size. (The Desk is under the mesh containing the Head layer. If Head was independent, I suspect this would not occur.). You could also try putting a Face behavior on the Desk layer and set all the properties to zero to try and stop the root Face behavior from affecting the desk.

[shirleyl41183719]

Alrighty, so I tried all of the above with the same results. The "Free" was actually making it worse and made it move as it had been at the beginning with the camera input.

But!! I played with the origin points and put them directly on top of the default point, if that's what you call it, attached I have a picture of what I mean. I had to change that on the Desk and Shirley layer. I also tweaked the face settings slightly and now it's not moving!!

Thanks for all of your help! Now I just need to figure out how to make her neck and not so much her body.