Well, at least I'm not losing my marbles. :) I'm kinda perplexed, though. It seems to me that these two types of referencing (import by reference vs. local reference layer) solve very different problems. One allows me to refresh an external file to bring in updates; the other allows me to synchroniz...

Learn anything? Totally understand that you're doing this as a volunteer, and I get it if you decided to, I dunno, have a life instead of answering my questions. (...and I just looked at the index and realized - whew, I've had a lot of 'em! Thanks again for all your help. You guys have been transfor...

Well, that's some insight that would have been awfully good to know a month ago!

Thanks.

"Alter a duplicate" is closer to what I'm asking. Consider the following folder structure: assets - casey - - casey.psd - isaac - - isaac.psd rigs - casey.moho So now I want to duplicate casey.moho, rename it "isaac.moho" -- and then shift it to use "isaac.psd" as its i...

I'm creating character rigs from assets created in photoshop. I have a fully rigged character, let's call him "Casey." I'm getting ready to rig another character, let's call him "Isaac." Casey and Isaac have similar enough builds that we can reuse basically the same assets, but h...

As always, Greenlaw, thanks for the careful and insightful commentary. The details about how "Import by reference" were definitely helpful - there's so much still to learn! If nothing else, you've confirmed that the basic approach of using "Import by Reference" is a common way to...

I'm either doing something fundamentally wrong, or I fundamentally misunderstand something important. Or, you know, both. I'm struggling to deal with the moment that a character needs to exist on both sides of a prop - say, hug a tree. I learned from another thread on this forum about the idea of cr...

Got it, makes sense. Huge thanks again for all your help!

Thanks. I hadn't thought of introducing a root just for the SBDs - I'll definitely start doing that. In the meantime, I had already fallen back to creating the dials manually, it's easy enough. Just to make sure I understand, though, when you say "if the ... parent bone is pointing right" ...

Ok, another related problem - this is more an annoyance, but there must be something I'm doing wrong, So here's the process I'm using for adding the smart bone dials: 1. Add the bone, name it, make sure it's parented to the root. 2. Select "smart bone dial" from the bone menu, fill it in (...

Fan-freakin'-tastic. Thank you, thank you.

Heh. The site obscures the button with all the solicitations, I overlooked it. Sorry about that. And... Thanks! This appears to be exactly what I wanted. However, I think I'm doing the installation wrong. I dropped it into the scripts/tool folder, and put the two .png assets into the scripts/Script ...

What? Even the gods themselves are fallible? I wonder, does the blind, slavering gratitude of the masses of your worshippers ever become dull? ...but, uh, I don't have a "filedropper" account. Any chance you can toss it someplace I don't have to create a new account (and give them money, a...

I typically move the controller bones with "Manipulate bones." When I parent the pupil-mover to the root bone, I can no longer "manipulate" it (well, I can - but I can only rotate it, I can't move it). I just accidentally noticed that if I use "transpose," it basically ...

I'm... uh, wow, I just realized I'm honestly nervous about you guys seeing my work! I feel a little like I'm a high-schooler going into a professional conference. :) The bone I'm specifically asking about is the "pupil-mover" (up by the head). But like I mentioned, I've only been at this (...