If there are any bones in your Eye bone layer, these will keep the smart bone influence from reaching the Left and Right Eye layers. If you really need bone there, you'll need to relay the Head smart bones to control Eye smart bones, which control the visibility of the Eye layer's sublayers. ok, I ...

synthsin75 wrote:Is the invisible layer either a direct child of the bone layer or has no bone layers with bones inbetween it and the smart bone layer?

This how I made my layers:


I am hiding the left eye, right eye in the smartbone and it works there but not in the mainline

synthsin75 wrote:Do you have animated layer effects enabled in the layer settings?

I didn't but even after I did still invisible in the smartbone but in the mainline visible

is there is a way to create an invisible layer in smartbone?
because I tried using the compositng effect on the smart bone it seems to work but then I tried to manipulate the bone in the mainline it doesn't work!

synthsin75 wrote:Oh, I thought you were wanting to use switch animation.

The problem with the switch layer for me is that it doesn't interpolate correctly sometimes!

To have the tongue over the teeth, but within the mouth mask, just animate the layer order (enabled in the group's depth sort tab). You may need separate upper and lower teeth layers, if you want the tongue to be behind one and over the other. To have the tongue stick beyond the mouth, duplicate th...

synthsin75 wrote:Are you talking about making the tongue overlap the teeth, or sticking out beyond the mouth mask?

yes that's exactly what I want!

I have found this viewtopic.php?p=164763#p164763 which is a nice way to create the mouth shapes without having problems with the mask and interpolation. but I don't understand the trick to have a tongue sticking out and keep it inside the mouth. any help?

Víctor Paredes wrote:Complex masks aren't showed in the preview. To avoid that problem, I always use this technique:

Ok so it's pretty much creating a hole and put it above the area I want to mask! Thanks

I think I figured out the problem when I watched this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYEkHP74pJE it's a bug? were It shows the eyes but when you render it works ok!

how to mask eyelid inside the eye and the eye inside the face? any ideas!?

Check the Freehand tool Options: http://i67.tinypic.com/tzhwj.png There you can play with different options for the tool. Try unchecking Taper start and Taper end. ok!so to get the same width all I have to uncheck taper start and end! thanks alot now I can use my pen instead of shapes with the mous...

I wanted to use the freehand tool to draw something but the problem with it is that it starts to get thinner until it disappear ! is there is a way to make the outline width the same?

synthsin75 wrote:Angle constraints?

that helped a little.

dueyftw wrote:viewtopic.php?f=9&t=30259
Instead of using a bone, just pull the handles out and the bends will be smooth curve.
Dale

yeah t pull the handles out helped alot! thanks lot!

Víctor Paredes wrote:Smart bones, maybe?

I prefers to not use the Smart bone unless it is extremely needed! What I was looking for is a simple rig technique in which I should consider to achieve as smooth curve as possible without smart bone!