Thank you, I've not been able to check this out yet but it sounds interesting! When the same problem comes up again, I'll try it.

Is there a way to attach a bone to a path or does that only work with layers? Because it would be handy in a case like this. While the bird circulates in the air I was having his flight become smaller and smaller simply by reducing the size of the oval path over time. Now that I've solved the string...

Try binding the points of the end of the rope in the bird's beak to the bird and just leave the other end of the rope bound to nothing. You would have to use a control bone to move the bird around instead of moving the bird's layer. Ok, that was very good advice! :) I had gotten as far figuring out...

Hi, how would I accomplish the following task: imagine I have a bird flying in a circle and holding a piece of string in its beak. I want one end of the string to rotate with the bird, of course. But I want the other end to stay fixed, as if it were nailed to the ground. The string is a simple strok...

[quote="synthsin75"]Changing the layer's origin will change any animated keys if layer scale or rotation have been changed. /quote] Hi, thank you. Yes, I understand that changing the Origin will change keys. But here I'm not touching the origin. What baffles me is that the Layer moves when...

On the side, one strange thing I notice in using paths is that attaching a layer to a path will work only a couple of times. Meaning that undoing will not let you redo forever. Say, you attach to the path and you don't like the way it worked. So you do Undo and try again. Still not right, so you Und...

I tried what you suggested, thank you. It unfortunately didn't work, but I'll iron it out: I put the origin of the bird on its feet (which is the point of contact I want with the oval path) on frame 0. This of course changed the rest of the animation's positions, so I selected all Keyframes and turn...

I am trying to attach a bird to a circular path so I can make it fly round an round. This bird has some animation prior to this part (he flies in, rests on a tree branch an then I want him to fly again to begin a circular loop). I created a vector layer beneath the bird layer (which is a bone layer)...

I'm using ASPro 11.2. You're right, I just tried smooth interpolation and that seems to do exactly what I needed! Now if I drag the character the path will develop into a curve (which then I can fine-tune in the Motion Graph).
Thank you!

Thanks, I'll give it another go!

Hi, I learned how to make a layer follow a pre-created path?(like a path with the add-point tool). But is it possible to curve an existing motion path without editing the Bezière curves in the Motion Graph? Lets' say the layer (a bird flying) is moving from A to B. If I drag it into another position...

I actually had Blend Morphs in mind. I am not quite sure what a Regular action is, sorry. So far I've learned to do Blend Moprhs and Bone Dials there's a lot of stuff I still don't know. I did although try what you suggested, I put three test layers (head, mouth eyes) in a group (folder) and created...

Hi, is it possible to use one action to morph across different layers? Say I want to make the character to bloat like a balloon. I can create a 'bloat' action to morph his body into a round shape, but as far as I can see it will only work on the body layer. If I want to also morph arms legs and head...

OK sorry, EDIT, I just worked it out! The 3D shadow is placed where the Origin is set. So that's all it was!
I'm leaving this post in case someone else finds this useful.
cheers

I used the layer 3D shadow feature (the one that allows you to simulate realistic shadows on the floor) once on my first ASP11 experiment and it worked fine. From then on, for some reason, it seems to have gone off. Literally gone off, meaning the 3D shadow is in the wrong position. It floats mid-sc...