unfortunately though they can't be controlled by smart bones (yet??) because it's considered 'global' (not part of a layer) - that 'day/night' colour change would be a perfect example of why we it would be great to have! (or even, walking through a tunnel or past windows, as this would require many ...

Nice
(but this should be in the 'other software' section?)

Amazing! Thanks so much for taking the time to come and share it...
Because they are all little bones, they can also be controlled with a smart bone - clever!

Very nice character

DKWROOT put out a tool set which included a rotate bone tool mod that lets you only work rotate a bone of certain colour (so if there are multiple coloured bones overlapping you don't have trouble moving the right one) http://www.lostmarble.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=28816 I wonder if that s...

You might also use point colour instead of gradients (on the face especially), for placement and animation possibilities.

ha! I hadn't even considered parenting the targets to the translation bone... good thinking.
This still means you will have to wrestle with potential floating though - I would re-do it personally.

yeah, just that translating that still means he has to re-do the walk... good practice though

using a parent bone for rig translation is the same as using the layer position (but has some benefits imo) - only difference in your particular case is that I assume you already created your walk (in place) and moved the body across to where it needs to go (with layer translation) so yes, you would...

If the vase is in its own layer, it won't move away with the body once unparented... You probably want to set up a 'main bone' for moving the rig around, rather than using layer translation anyway? I think swapping visibility is more complicated - location has to be matched, and editing later become...

Awesome work

Yeah, only downside is hard edges... but it can work in a pinch

Reindeer wrote:But if you say I can unparent, maybe I could give the vase a bone of its own, parent it and the unparent it. I'll try that.

Precisely

You can keyframe bone parenting (I think this was introduced in 10 or 11) - if you use the re-parent tool off frame 0 it will be keyframed.

But now you have the selection window you don't need to select between them using a bone at all, so in betweens will work as normal?