Problem cutting parts for rigging
Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2019 5:27 pm
Hello!
I come from another animation software, and I'm used to cut some parts of a vector drawing for a variety or reasons.
Example: I draw an arm (one shape in one layer), and then I decide to split it in two (below/above elbow) to have each part in a different layer. With my old software I just used a cutter tool that cutted the fill and the lines and then I could copy and paste the parts where I needed them to be. I don't see the way to do that (to cut) in Moho Pro 12.
I don't find a good cutter. The eraser can do something similar but when you use it the shape gets deformed.
The other option I see is to copy and paste the points of one part of the arm, but I had many issues with that:
1) You can't cut exaclty where you want, because you are copying points so the cut has to be on a place with a point. This is not hard to solve, I just added a point there.
2) When you do this, you don't cut the fill, and it is just eliminated. Again, this is not ideal but you can fill it again.
3) To fill that shape again you have to close the shape with the "add points" tool, but when I do that the shape gets deformed and this is where I have a problem. While the other things may not have a solution right now, I think there should be a way to do this last thing. To explain this better I will simplify the situation: You draw a "U" adding points, and then you want to add a straight line closing the two ends of the "U". Can I do this without changing absolutely anything about the first "U" shape? When I do this the ends of the U change a little bit but I need them to stay exactly the same. I tried changing the curvature and I can get a very similar shape but that's a pain and it can be slightly different. I want to know if there is a tool to cut that I am missing, a script that can do the trick or if there is a way to do this with this tools.
Thank you for reading all that and sorry for my english. If I didn't explain myself properly, please ask me and I will try my best.
I come from another animation software, and I'm used to cut some parts of a vector drawing for a variety or reasons.
Example: I draw an arm (one shape in one layer), and then I decide to split it in two (below/above elbow) to have each part in a different layer. With my old software I just used a cutter tool that cutted the fill and the lines and then I could copy and paste the parts where I needed them to be. I don't see the way to do that (to cut) in Moho Pro 12.
I don't find a good cutter. The eraser can do something similar but when you use it the shape gets deformed.
The other option I see is to copy and paste the points of one part of the arm, but I had many issues with that:
1) You can't cut exaclty where you want, because you are copying points so the cut has to be on a place with a point. This is not hard to solve, I just added a point there.
2) When you do this, you don't cut the fill, and it is just eliminated. Again, this is not ideal but you can fill it again.
3) To fill that shape again you have to close the shape with the "add points" tool, but when I do that the shape gets deformed and this is where I have a problem. While the other things may not have a solution right now, I think there should be a way to do this last thing. To explain this better I will simplify the situation: You draw a "U" adding points, and then you want to add a straight line closing the two ends of the "U". Can I do this without changing absolutely anything about the first "U" shape? When I do this the ends of the U change a little bit but I need them to stay exactly the same. I tried changing the curvature and I can get a very similar shape but that's a pain and it can be slightly different. I want to know if there is a tool to cut that I am missing, a script that can do the trick or if there is a way to do this with this tools.
Thank you for reading all that and sorry for my english. If I didn't explain myself properly, please ask me and I will try my best.