Copy / paste BONES!!

turner · Post by **turner** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 10:50 pm

I can't believe this isn't in the program....

Really, I NEED this feature NOW!

Literally, I looked for how to do this for about an HOUR and a HALF last night. It's beyond me that it's not there.

I want to be able to copy and paste bones in the same or different layers.

Andrew

Neoranma · Post by **Neoranma** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 6:18 pm

How about this.

1) did a save as to my project with vector layers and bone layer, I saved this as bone_only.moho or something

2) deleted everything but the bone layer.

3) save bone_only.moho

4) re-open my original file.

5) import moho object, bone_only.moho

keep repeating step 5.

myles · Post by **myles** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:51 pm

Roman Bogush posted his first draft of a script that can clone bones and children.

Thanks Roman! And thanks Lost Marble for scripting!

Regards, Myles.

turner · Post by **turner** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 2:14 pm

Thanks guys -

Neoranma - didn't work. And why can't I duplicate a layer with bones??

I'll check out that script..

Andrew

Neoranma · Post by **Neoranma** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 4:38 pm

hmm.. I wan't duplicating layers, just importing a layer multiple times.

turner · Post by **turner** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 4:39 pm

I tried both - neither worked.

Andrew

Rasheed · Post by **Rasheed** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 4:59 pm

Remember, a bone layer is just a group layer with special properties. And it are those special properties you want to copy, but Moho has no standard tools for.

If there is more than one bone in a bone layer, there is always a hierarchy between those bones (parent-child relationship). If you copy a bone, you should also determine where in the hierachy tree the new bone should be put.

So, copying bones isn't as straightforward as for instance copying shapes. A simple on-screen GUI will probably not do. A bone hierachy window would probably be more to the point. In such a window one could copy a bone (create a new bone, based on the selected bone) and move it inside a hierarchy tree. At the same time, one should have control over the position, angle and length of the bone (and bone strength would be a nice option as well) in the same bone hierarchy window. And of course, all other bone properties could probably best be included in this windows as well.

So a separate bone window would be a nice addition to Moho.

turner · Post by **turner** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:14 pm

I can create an elaborate bone structure in a 3d program, grab the whole thing, copy it, paste it. Then I have two.

It's that simple. Whatever inter-bone relationships exist in Moho shouldn't have any bearing on copy/paste.

It's one of the most necessary and standard functions of just about any program and should be available in Moho as well.

Andrew

myles · Post by **myles** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:33 pm

turner wrote:And why can't I duplicate a layer with bones??

I don't know - the rest of us can.

Select/highlight the bone layer in the Layers panel (you didn't have a sub-layer selected when you tried to duplicate? the bones would still have been visible/manipulatable), hit the layer duplication button

, rename the layer if desired. It's that simple.

It probably helps to make sure that you are in frame 0, but I don't think that is essential.

Regards, Myles.