Help with smart bones and groups

[simondraws]

Hi everyone. Im new to the forum but ive heard that its the best place to be for AS help. im having a big issue that is hindering my animation in anime studio. Whenever i try to use smart bones and edit layers in a group with the smart bone action it blanks out the timeline and goes back to the mainline. I know this is wrong so i must be missing something. Please help!! Thank you in advance.

[synthsin75]

Sounds like you need to make sure your layers are inside the bone layer. Clicking the arrow on the bone layer with expand/collapse its sublayers and show if your layers are actually inside it, instead of just below it.

[simondraws]

Thank you for the reply. I do have all of my layers in the bone layer, my issue is when I do things like a head turn. When I have one bone controlling the pupils moving up down left right and another bone controlling the head turn along with the eyes, the pupil movement goes away when I animate the head turn. I hope I'm explaining this correctly.