Very nice example, Vern. That should help alot of people out with the masking concept.

I'm just trying to translate it in a more accessible way. Using black and white only confuses the issue for anyone who doen't understand the idea of alpha values. Although if you present it in terms of black and white being the 'lighting' of the layer, it could still come across as more intuitive. H...

After all, you "subtract" material in the eye holes of a Halloween mask so you can see through what you've subtracted. And if you add more material to a physical mask you HIDE more, not reveal more. Just my two cents...A mask isn't a 'mask'. But I think I can work within this metaphor. In...

What you should avoid is to make a simple click in the canvas.

Yeah, after having this trouble I quit doing that. It seems I found the limitation to the flood select.

BTW good drawings

Thanks.

http://www.mediafire.com/?9gi9jt1go1x
Here's the file. If you try to flood select the nose with Fazek's create shape tool, ASP hangs for quite awhile before it finally does the selection. It'll sometimes do this on the cheek as well. Do this enough, and it'll crash ASP.

Does anyone else have this problem? If I try to flood select an overlapping shape using Fazek's create shape tool ASP lags or crashes. I thought the flood select options were suppose to keep this from happenning.

Yeah, wasn't sure where to post it. Thanks Vern.

I reproduced the crash, but also found a way around it. I don't know why, but translating that small bone , on frame zero, allows it to be safely deleted. Also releasing points and layers allows them to be bound anew.

Is it outlining? Often I'll try to create a shape only to get an outline, no fill. The problem is always due to a vector being selected that has a line dividing the shape. Make sure you're selecting one continuous outline without any extraneous points. If I had to guess, I say you're probably select...

Hey thanks, Gary. That works. I'll keep an eye out for that in the future. Also, I had no idea about that view>source bit.

I'm using Fazek's tools, but I haven't yet added them to my tool list or reassigned hotkeys. They're still in the 'Other' group in my tool palette. The problem I'm having is that, even with the auto-weld box unchecked, it still auto-welds when I add points with Fazek's add point tool. It doesn't app...

I tried that, but the link points to an html document with the file text. I still have to convert it to a .moho file. I tried deleting the copyright symbol from the file, but it's still not working. Any other ideas? It seems I use to be able to do this. I wonder if it has anything to do with using F...

http://www.flashpulse.com/moho/mermaid17.moho I'm having trouble openning these. In the link I copy the text and paste it in my text editor (notepad). I save it as a .moho or .anme file (whichever it says it is), but when I open it, it crashes ASP. I could swear this has worked before. Please help,...

Anything that can be changed on frame 0 should be able to be keyed or animated anywhere in the time line.

Exactly.
Today I was thinking that I'd also like to be able to lock a bone to another bone instead of being stuck with locking it to its global position.

1) A translate bones tool that works the same as it does on frame zero on any other frame. I.e. grab the tip to scale/rotate & the pivot to translate. 2) Parenting that actually imparts a constraint input (global change). Or any degree of parenting and constraining actually interacting, other th...