A problem

System32 · Post by **System32** » Sat May 31, 2008 10:54 am

What do i have to do to get part "D" behind part "B"?

Genete · Post by **Genete** » Sat May 31, 2008 11:30 am

Put A,B,C and D in the same bone layer and sort them properly. You cannot mix z depths of layers in different Group (bone is a group layer too) layers.

jahnocli · Post by **jahnocli** » Sat May 31, 2008 1:06 pm

Pull Layer 3 down below Layer 2.

System32 · Post by **System32** » Sat May 31, 2008 2:37 pm

If i put them in the same bone layer, can i still animate them separately?
I want layer 2 and 3 to be different characters.

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Sat May 31, 2008 4:37 pm

You can put them all in one bone layer and then animate the layer order. Better than what you have but it means more bones to track in one layer... 4 bones... not too bad to keep track of.

-vern

synthsin75 · Post by **synthsin75** » Sat May 31, 2008 4:50 pm

I'm assuming you're looking to do something like a hug, where each character has parts behind and in front of the other. This is one of the harder tasks in AS.

I would set up my characters normally, in separate bone layers. Then I'd use the fa_meshinstance.lua layer script, and duplicate their vector layers into a single group layer. This way the duplicates follow the bone/point motion of the individual characters and you can freely layer sort them together.

Like I said, it's a fairly advanced problem. One of these days I plan to do some video tutorials of this kind of stuff.

P.s. I think embedded layer scripts are only available in AS Pro. Sorry if you only have Standard.

System32 · Post by **System32** » Sat May 31, 2008 5:03 pm

synthsin75 wrote:I'm assuming you're looking to do something like a hug, where each character has parts behind and in front of the other. This is one of the harder tasks in AS.

I would set up my characters normally, in separate bone layers. Then I'd use the fa_meshinstance.lua layer script, and duplicate their vector layers into a single group layer. This way the duplicates follow the bone/point motion of the individual characters and you can freely layer sort them together.

Like I said, it's a fairly advanced problem. One of these days I plan to do some video tutorials of this kind of stuff.

P.s. I think embedded layer scripts are only available in AS Pro. Sorry if you only have Standard.

I have AS pro, but i'm doing my second animation so i think scripting is too hard for me.

Anyway thx for your help. I tried to animate in one bone layer, and it was good enough for me.

I'm looking forward to your video tutorials