I can click other shape layers just fine, but not this one. I'll be testing it all out over the next few days to try to find what works best for my project. Im trying to move a shape layer around but I just cant click it in the composition window.
Thanks so much for the insight and all of your ideas and wisdom - it was really helpful. Just mentioning it here in case somebody finds this idea useful. However, in practice, I've never actually needed to reveal an arm section gradually so I no longer bother with this setup. I use a Surface Book and it first started off where to drag layers or to use the Move Layer tool I only had to simply.drag it. This is a more complicated setup and I used to think it had the benefit of revealing sections of the arm gradually. I used to apply this trick in my early rigs, and in the Puss-In-Boots rig, I used Stroke Exposure as the mask. For example, this way, you can keep the shoulders behind the character and move the forearms back and forth, or move either shoulder forward and either forearm backwards.Īnother way to do this is to animate a mask that hides and reveals parts of the arm. Visually and in render, it looks as if you've moved the layer.Ī more advanced variation is to make groups for the upper and lower parts of the arm so you can switch visibility between the arm sections. Now, in your SBA for 'moving' the arm behind the torso, animate the visibility between the two arm groups. If you want to do this inside a Smart Bone Action, I find it's better not change the layer order but, instead, animate the visibility of duplicate layers.įor example, if you have an arm that rotates in front of the torso group, duplicate or create a reference for of the arm's group layer and move this copy behind the torso group. Please could you explain how do you deal with situations like this - do you set up a SBA for the turn including everything except the arm layer order, and 'manually' move the arm layers into the correct position my moving them around in the layers panel? I'm hoping there might be a more elegant, less fiddly, way to do it.Cheers
I made a body turn which moved the arm behind the body, but wanted the rear arm to move back in front of it in a 3/4 pose so that the arms could be crossed. It helped me! I just ran into the inability to over-ride SBA that you mentioned. Because of this, I generally avoid putting animated layer order inside an SBA unless I'm 100% certain the layer order won't need to be animated manually. It's a pretty cool feature and you may be tempted to use it a lot but be aware that the SBA will over-ride your ability to change the layer order manually. Denoiser can be auto enabled for each frame of animation and turntable rendering. By the way, it's possible to control the layer order in an Smart Bone Action.
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