I don't generally make clothes to put on a body shape as such ... what I mean is that a clothed arm doesn't have a sleeve shape over an arm shape - it has a shapes for the (to be) visible elements. Something like a flowing gown or a skirt that lifts in the breeze does have shapes "under it"...

... a sudden glimpse of the blindingly obvious - some scripts other than just point transform will call the LM_select points. I've updated the download to include a version of select named LM_ ... that disables curve and shape selection. http://www.mediafire.com/download/577c1vhexr9g3xd/SelectPoints...

try this.. just a straightforward update of the standard (AS11) LM_ scripts to disable that behaviour. (transform calls select) https://www.mediafire.com/?577c1vhexr9g3xd 2 scripts, 2 icons and 4 cursors - copy into your custom tools folder. up to you whether you delete the standard tools or not (bu...

if you need to have other action interleaved I'd duplicate the AS file and keep the "standard" stuff but with the two separate action items in the two files. If not just keep the one set of animations and ... If you're planning on using a compositor - such as Premiere you either export onc...

Ah! I hadn't thought of that -- my mind was stuck firmly on screen coords! I'll give it a whirl... thanks!!

Yeah .. that's it .. sees to be pixel offset from top left as {0,0} .. so (e.g.) {20,20} is just off bottom right.

Thanks again.

the call to this is LM.GUI.Cursor(path, hotX, hotY) . "path" is self evident, and I can get this to work "as expected" by sticking zeros in the x,y .. but I can't figure out what those coords are there for?? can anyone enlighten me please?

animated reparenting.

somewhere in the timeline you've changed the bone parent.

agreeing with SlowTiger ... my own approach is that I don't have a rig for a character (or prop) that will work in all situations - I reuse as much of the vector artwork as possible and then adapt if necessary and rig that for the shot. For example, if I want an extreme closeup of fingers tapping on...

Hi there from a few miles along the coast in Kent! assuming that, when you render, you're getting the effect you want then that's job done. ... even on AS Pro 11 the workspace doesn't show everything that a render does (including opacity - which is either "on" or "off" in the wor...

or ... Start with: Master Bone layer (new) > character rig > bike rig 1: in Master Bone define SB to control the interaction of character and bike -- for now forget the fact that there are elements of bike that actually belong in front of elements of character 2: animate! 3: make a copy by reference...

it's not "top secret" -- it's just a bit immature / too much at the theoretical stage ... for some temptations take a look at my "follow curve" script (***which is NOT yet UPDATED FOR AS11***) (http://www.lostmarble.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=25280&p=141023) and now im...

er .. did you mean you want the bike between character legs? -- you could drop the bike bone layer into the person group at the right point and then add a smartbone to the person group?

one way to do this (I'm sure there are others!)

put your rigged bike and person layers in a third "control" bone layer and in that control layer have a smart bone that moves both the foot bone and the pedal bone in sync.

yeah -- turn off GPU to lose the "blurry" look.

or use the built-in grid? View / Grid Settings ... then select "square" with a spacing to suit your needs?

host it! (in the user control panel - link to offsite). keep it at 80*80 px, but the size limit is not applied for offsite. I keep my avatar on photobucket, but any _image_ hosting site is good.