Until I know for sure, I found a workaround that works okay. I duplicate the base shape of the hand shape that has the small blend value. I paste that and add it to the larger BODY ARM liquid group higher blend value. It almost creates a smooth blending shape but keeps the fingers from blending too ...

I am guessing it's not possible. I tried and tried with no success, but I may have gotten the order of shapes or grouping of shapes wrong. Here is an example of what I am trying to do; a body shape with legs and arms, and a relatively high blend value with liquid shapes. Then, I want to add to this ...

Here's the final effect I needed this for. It's that thin puffy smoke coming out. The other smoke is particles.
And yes, uh... er... it... uh... well... it represents some illicit use of controlled substances being blown out of a door.

I got it to work, starting from scratch with a new file. However, the original file that was not working was still broken even with jitter angle above 0 (it always was above 0, I never changed the defaults). It still generated brushes from one end of two points only. So three points, they pop in fro...

i spent about an hour fiddling trying to find a workaround using only two points. sadly no luck. i ended up using smoke images and particles which worked even better

There is a cool video about a year old that shows of the new "color offset" stroke shape feature. As a side note towards the end he shows off a wicked cool trick using a stroke with a brush to create a very simple but convincing smoke effect. Part of the process is how pulling on the end o...

Well, whatever the answer is, none of those solutions (I tried everything, even random starts and stops cycles keys interpolation etc) nothing worked correctly with my very simple file until I simply set my step keys to intervals of 1. There was a mix of step and linear interpolations BOTH WITH CYCL...

Oh my GOD! So I fixed it. Forget my last diatribe . Here's what I did. The solution was totally counter intuitive. I don't know if this IS a bug or not. All I know is it made no sense but it worked. In my animation I have a guy thinking he's looking up with his hand on his chin. His arm moves with S...

Thanks for the help, I tried all of the suggestions but they didn't work. I fiddled and fiddled with start and end of cycles changing where the keys landed. I am pretty sure it is the dagnab switch layer cycle causing the problem. The bone keys cycle fine but the dang switch layer is off by one fram...

Tried and tried and can't quite figure it out. There's some sort of weirdness going on. very simple cycle animation. I have all the STEP KEYS on the same frames, and they cycle back to frame 2. All the keys cycle the same. Some are bone keys, some are layer translation/rotation keys. I am animating ...

OOPS! User error.
Apparently I had the project settings timeline length set to the 1866 which is NOT EVEN CLOSE to the end. It should have been 2700 as the ending. Seems to be working now.

I keep setting my timeline to the end of the audio track imported, it's not long only 1700 frames... is that too much? it stays for a while than reverts to shorter length. It keeps resetting the end point to like 1560. Ive checked project settings and reset and saved over and over. It works for a wh...

yes almost certain it’s the two action conflict. some of the points moved in one action are moved in another action. i basically have redone this with simpler rigging. i’ve had this happen before but it’s rare and but couldn’t remember how i fixed in the past.

Going a bit insane. working on huge short deadline project. Ran into annoying issue with smart bones. I create a leg/knee smartbone for the calf of a leg. It looks fine in the action, but when I rotate the bone in the timeline the points moved in the action "vibrate" and "wiggle"...

So here's the scoop, set noisy outlines on a vector layer that has peaked points. At the peak, it creates weird single circles like spots, but only where the point is. To workaround this I am having to not use peaked points and set the curve to 0.01. It's almost practically peaked, however its a rea...