Mouths(switch)wont move w/skeleton? SHORT DEADLINE PLS HLP

[mak]

Hi there...


I have an extremely short deadline to meet and things arent going as planned!! please help

I have a character with arms face legs etc all different layers.. also mouths in a switch folder for lypsyncing set up too... when i make a skeleton, everything works and is binded together as a working skeleton except for the mouths, they dont react!..

I tried putting them into a folder called head...along with other head elements so the folder would control all that is in it but it doesnt work, just becomes a stranger to the whole skeleton system and doesnt react...

is there a certain way to make a character, add mouths switch layer for lypsyc and work as a skeleton... a certain order to create each step..??

please help

thanks

lee

[DK]

Have you tried parenting the layer to a bone?

D.K

[Genete]

1.- Switch layers can have bones (they are specialized bones layers in fact)
2.- Any layer that is inside a bone layer and is not a vector layer (switch layer, other bone layer, a group layer, etc.) only can be attached to a single bone of the parent skeleton, using the Bind Layer tool as DK suggested.
-G

[slowtiger]

It's not enough to put something into a folder since the program still doesn't know to which bone you want the folder's content be bound.

[mak]

thanks for your responses guys, appreciated!

I was just looking at all the menus options etc and whilst I had the mouth sitch layer selected inside the skeleton, I went to Bone>Flexi-bind Layer and hey presto...it worked.

So now if i want to put the mouths inside a 'group' (folder) I would have to use the bind tool to bind it to the head bone? Ill give it a go anyways (bind layer, not bind points I guess)

I have never used the bind tool, theres so little instruction available on anime studio, I find myself keep refering to the help/instruction files.. so far so good tho

thanks again for the replies!