Hello
This may be a silly question but I have found that if I put each limb, the head, and the body of a character into separate bone layers I can animate them each separately and they don't pull or stick to each other so much. This isn't what the fellow on the tutorial says to do so I wonder what problems this will cause later or is it a good way to do things?
Thank you
newbie bone layer question
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Re: newbie bone layer question
Hello,
I don't think this is a silly question, because I have to think about it every time, I start a new setup for a character. Basically it depends on what you want to do and how you want to work. And normally you can't put everything for a character on one layer (for example: different head turns with exclusive rigging for the features of the views).
Putting everything base rig related (head, body, legs, arms) on one layer is really convenient, if you like to work as much as possible on one layer for animation. The downside is, the more bones you add to the layer, the more complicated it will get, to find specific key frames for specific bones, without always selecting them. But bone coloring could help. Also the setup could be a little bit more complicated, having everything together.
I know a lot of Anime Studio/Moho animators, that like to split the limbs on seperate bone layers. Every layer will only hold the key frames for the specific limb. The downside here is, that you always have to switch between layers while animating.
To have all the limbs seperate and still have them moving all together, you could have the body as parent bone layer and then you bind the limb layers to the appropriate body bones on the parent layer.
So just try it like this. It's not wrong or bad the one way or the other. The only thing that could happen is, that some setup ideas would not work the one or the other way. But this you will learn getting more experienced.
I don't think this is a silly question, because I have to think about it every time, I start a new setup for a character. Basically it depends on what you want to do and how you want to work. And normally you can't put everything for a character on one layer (for example: different head turns with exclusive rigging for the features of the views).
Putting everything base rig related (head, body, legs, arms) on one layer is really convenient, if you like to work as much as possible on one layer for animation. The downside is, the more bones you add to the layer, the more complicated it will get, to find specific key frames for specific bones, without always selecting them. But bone coloring could help. Also the setup could be a little bit more complicated, having everything together.
I know a lot of Anime Studio/Moho animators, that like to split the limbs on seperate bone layers. Every layer will only hold the key frames for the specific limb. The downside here is, that you always have to switch between layers while animating.
To have all the limbs seperate and still have them moving all together, you could have the body as parent bone layer and then you bind the limb layers to the appropriate body bones on the parent layer.
So just try it like this. It's not wrong or bad the one way or the other. The only thing that could happen is, that some setup ideas would not work the one or the other way. But this you will learn getting more experienced.