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I have just started learning Anime Studio with the goal of converting our character packs (http://cartoonsolutions.com/store/home.php?cat=279) into Anime Studio format. I am extremely impressed with this program. The bones set up and the gravity effect to create the follow through animation is incredible!

Anyway, like I mentioned, I am converting these characters so they are set up and ready to go for Anime Studio users. A few questions I have are:
*Can all three poses of the character (front, side and back) be contained in one .anme file or will customers need to download three individual files?
*Is there a way to reuse the hand switch layer created in the front view to also be used in the side view (so that it doesn't need to be recreated since it is the same art)?
*Will Moho users who have not upgraded to Anime Studio be able to open .anme character pack files using Moho?

Those are my questions for now!

bluehickey wrote:Can all three poses of the character (front, side and back) be contained in one .anme file or will customers need to download three individual files?

Yes, trough switch layers.

bluehickey wrote:Is there a way to reuse the hand switch layer created in the front view to also be used in the side view (so that it doesn't need to be recreated since it is the same art)?

Not as far as I know. You need a copy of the hand switch layer for each view.

bluehickey wrote:*Will Moho users who have not upgraded to Anime Studio be able to open .anme character pack files using Moho?

In my experience, yes. Internally Anime Studio 5.5 is called Moho 5.5, but my copy of Moho 5.3 reads all .anme files I have opened so far just fine.

Rasheed wrote:

bluehickey wrote:Is there a way to reuse the hand switch layer created in the front view to also be used in the side view (so that it doesn't need to be recreated since it is the same art)?

Not as far as I know. You need a copy of the hand switch layer for each view.

You can of course instantly duplicate existing layers (and sub-layers) with the Duplicate Layer button on the layers panel, so you don't have to re-draw the existing layer, just duplicate the existing hand layer and drag it into the other view's hand switch layer. However, as Rasheed said, you can't re-use the same individual layer.

Note also that you could change between character views (in the same .anme file) using layer visibility, but Rasheed's answer of switch layers is a better solution for animating (and yes, you can have multi-level layer nesting).

Regards, Myles.

Great, thanks for the replies guys, I really appreciate it!

Hi BlueHickey,

im intrigued to know what you meant by 'gravity Effect', do you just mean the bone dynamics or is there something else that im missing?

cheers loads,

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Hey!
I know you! You're on the AWN forums right?
James

bluehickey,
please count me in for the AnimeStudio pro version of your redi-mades. That is when they are translated to native file formats.

donnie wrote:Hi BlueHickey,

im intrigued to know what you meant by 'gravity Effect', do you just mean the bone dynamics or is there something else that im missing?

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Yeah, I meant "bone dynamics". Sorry, still new to the program and not up to speed on the jargon yet!

Hey Spooze, yes I do frequent the AWN boards as well.

ingie01, I should hopefully have the first two characters up in our store sometime this week!

Just finished the first character: Alison. Check it out:

http://cartoonsolutions.com/store/produ ... 290&page=1



I'll post this elsewhere in the forums as well to make sure everyone gets a chance to see it.

Again, thanks for your help guys!