You know what would be cool? I'm using the body recorder for full body recordings, and it works pretty well. Well, aside from the glitches where the body decides to become a foot taller for a second or two or the head decides to stick to one spot while the rest of the body moves as expected. Well, it'd be cool to maybe have an option to smooth over parts of a body recording between a couple frames, or have it be like another recording where you could use the blend-in and blend-out sides. It would basically take the body data from the beginning of the range and the body data from the end and just blend those two, ignoring the spots in between. Then you could use it to patch the glitches to make the performance much smoother. I'm using draggable handles right now to fix a frame or two here and there, but it can only do so much. Without the ability to record a frame for one body pose or edit the body poses manually, this could be the next best thing.

I like using Dragger behaviors. Something intuitive about being able to move a limb exactly where I want it. Sure, I can get bad results if I overly rely on it, but it can help when layered atop other behaviors doing simple fixes.

But sometimes when I'm trying to pose the character just right, I get lost in where the dragger handles actually are and end up grabbing the wrong one. It's not like I can go back if I'm having to handle multiple handles at once, meaning I have to start all over.

It'd be nice if there was some option to be able to see where the dragger handles all are in Record mode. That way I know what specifically to grab to make a part move. Some keyboard shortcut I can hold down to show them temporarily, that will make them invisible when I let go, could be handy too.

The Body behavior is great, but I'd rather be able to use it for recording one frame takes like I'm used to. You could add that in, by allowing a 1-Take Frame recording to have a 5 second countdown (or have it linked to the Body Behavior countdown when that behavior is armed). That would allow for those of us who don't want to try and fix bad spots in a body recording by recording a specific pose real quick and allow us to stretch that pose to however long we need it for.

Also, being able to point the hands rotationally would be nice. How am I supposed to flip my hands around like a fish if they just rotate with the forearm?! Just a thought.

Hello. I am used to setting the CACHE location of PS, PrP and AE to a specific, fast external drive. I like having one place that I can empty if I need to, instead of hunting down multiple cache locations to trash whenever anything goes awry with dynamic link, etc. Is it possible to add a user-defined cache location for CH? I imagine trashing CH cache files will be a work-around when dynamically-linked CH files suddenly stop playing audio in AE with the error, "After Effects warning: audio conforming failed, check media cache preferences." I imagine this would also allow users to choose which drives bear the brunt of read-write wear and tear. (Especially important in the age of laptops with built in ssds / finite read-writes.)

Thanks!
Benjamin

MacBook Pro, M1 MAX, OS 12.0.1, 64 GB Ram
CH 22.0, AE 22.0.1

Currently, there aren't a ton of options in the puppet maker.

1) Uploading custom items currently isn't an easy task. How about a drop-down for each section where you have the option of adding an illustrator file to that area on the puppet. For instance lets say I'm looking at the chibi section and I don't see a Sikh turban, but I want to add a turban. So I go in and make one in illustrator. It could be added into the animation but if I want to have it as an always there option, having the ability to just add it into my own puppet for quick customization would be nice. And you could even include a blank for each of the templates to use to build more customization options.

2) How about having a special section where someone could upload a different item. Tag it for searching and people can find them and add them to their puppet maker section. Then someone who was more talented could set up things for more users.

Physics between two separate objects:

There needs to be a feature under Physics where separate objects can SPECIFICALLY attach/detach/push/pull features. Ex: this would be great for strings being pulled or trigger on/off to detach whenever and go back to dangling as an example. Connecting two objects by certain points as marked in the rig panel (attach point pins) , where stretching or pulling strings/objects can be done in connection to other objects, all in relation to the weight of the objects themselves etc.

PLUS this should be a feature applicable between characters and objects to their limbs/hands/etc. Hope y'all read this!