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Make Character Animator available for linux
Make Character Animator available for linux
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Add Volume level adjustment for imported audio clips
There does not seem to be a way to adjust audio levels from imported clips such as sound effects and background music. I can do this in an external app but its cumbersome and hit and miss. So having a simple audio level lever would be awesome and save a lot of time.
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Puppet App Player
I sell a lot of puppets, but I, and many other designers, could sell ALOT more if the customer didnt have to sign up for CH to operate the puppet. Bare with me, I have a solution. Its not only the cost, but some people find using the software difficult if they are not use to PC.MAC based programs, many today are use to using simple to load and play apps. What I propose is you build an app player that could operate .puppet files. I am not saying do it for free. Sell it for $50, I can get…
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Bug Report
This is a bug report. I'm working in Character Animator but cannot get my puppet into Photoshop to Edit even though I have the program open. I've followed instructions to use either control E or Edit Original in the Edit icon but nothing happening. Could you advise any further action.
Many thanks,
Victoria1 voteHi Victoria,
Can you export your puppet and send it to me?
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Help with Adobe Character Animation
Hi,
I'm working in Character Animation and I cannot get into Photoshop with my puppet even though I have the program open,
Can you help?
Many thanks,
Victoria
1 voteIf you have photoshop and Character Animator installed on your computer, selecting your puppet in the Project panel or even in your timeline and pressing Command E (Mac) or Control E (PC) on your keyboard, will open the puppet in Photoshop or Illustrator, depending on which program it was created in. Does that solve your issue?
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I am getting an error when I import the free puppet Tull.
I am getting an error when I import the free puppet Tull. I have the latest version of Character animator but I am getting an error code.
1 voteDoes this issue occur if you import the Tull.puppet file into a new project, or just an existing project?
Does the puppet show up in the Project panel after dismissing the error message?
Another thing to try:
1. Quit Character Animator, then wait ~10 seconds.
2. Relaunch Character Animator and immediately hold down the Shift key while it’s launching. This prevents any scenes/puppets from opening in their respective panels.
3. Try importing Tull.puppet again.Please let us know if that workaround works for you. Thanks.
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A true skeletal system
I'd like to see a true bone system implemented instead of trying to derive a structure from points that can be scattered in different parts of the puppet. Consolidating all the hinge points to a single layer will make editing and debugging a puppet much easier and straightforward.
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Sub Perks for CH Extension
Subscriber benefits for the extension. Basically Subs either have access to certain triggers exclusively and they can have different prices. (such as it costs bits for regular people to trigger but for subs it's free)
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Fix freeze on Mac os Mojave
There is an issue with the latest version of character freezing when it shows the record section. I have the previous version installed now and it doesn't suffer with the fault.
1 voteWhat version of Mojave are you on? There were some issues with the very first release that were resolved by users updating to 10.14.1 or higher. Let us know if you continue to have issues.
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clipping masks from illustrator files
Does Ch support clipping masks that have already been created inside of Adobe Illustrator or do you have to recreate them inside Ch?
2 votesClipping groups in Illustrator artwork can’t be converted to clipping masks right now, so they’ll need to be set up in the Puppet panel.
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Allow Replays to be Unaffected by Independence Changes
While adjusting settings in my newest puppet I discovered that replays are affected by the dependence/independence settings of the puppet.
For example, the replays of my puppet were recorded while the torso was set as independent. Once I changed the torso to dependent, the replays became erratic and the arm positions were completely messed up. Almost all of the replays need to re-recorded. Adjusting other settings like the attach style and dependence/independence of other groups did not resolve the issue.
Please:
1. Include this in the documentation and info about Character Animator. The current details imply that replays are "set…2 votes -
OpenGL invalid operationa
after you open the project, " OpenGL invalid operation. "I get the error.
1 voteWhat is the software that’s rendering the information in the upper-left corner of the Scene panel? Is this from the GeForce Experience software’s overlay functionality?
Can you try disabling that software that’s showing frame rate and other info in OpenGL views to see if that helps? Character Animator uses OpenGL to render content in the Scene and Puppet panels.
Thanks.
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Character Animator live streaming mojave issues
After upgrading to Mojave MacOS, we are having significant performance issues with our existing CA live-streaming setups. Our setup is this:
CA 2018 or 2019 (720 project, 20fps) -> Wirecast or OBS (via NDI or Syphon, tried both) -> RTMP (1.5mbps 30fps 540p) to our servers
When running some of our triggered animations of our puppets, the FPS out of CA drops to single digits, and seems to combat Wirecast or OBS, which in turn drops dozens/hundreds frames on Wirecast or OBS. This did not happen in previous versions of MacOS, and we have taken the same project files/config and…
2 votesHas this been resolved?
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Character Animator Crashes When "RIG" Window is Selected
It would be great if this issue can be resolved soon, I can prep and record just fine, but when i try to re-rig the bones, it crashed before the skeleton loads up
2 votesAre you on macOS or Windows? And what version of the OS are you on?
If you’re on macOS, does the Adobe Crash Reporter window appear after the app crashes? If so, please provide some details in the report, such as the URL for this bug report, so that we can correlate it with this report.
If you’re on Windows, do you have an NVIDIA GeForce GPU? If so, and you recently updated the graphics/display driver to a newer version, please try an older version as we have heard of reports that newer GeForce drivers might be causing an issue.
Also, is your artwork Photoshop or Illustrator?
Thanks.
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Multiple characters in a scene
It would be awesome if adobe adds a feature to support multiple character animation and rig in one scene
2 votesYou can add multiple puppets (from the Project panel) into a scene (Scene or Timeline panel) to animate separately.
Can you clarify your scenario?
Thanks.
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Bug report, I cannot pin my characters to the ground.
Bug report. My characters will not pin to the ground and I cannot find a solution, I've been stuck for days.
1 voteDo you have Fixed-tagged handles (e.g., created with the Pin tool) on the mesh that the legs/feet are on? Would you be able to share a screenshot of the puppet’s structure (layers list with the group that contains the Fixed handles selected) in the Puppet panel?
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Adjust the playback speed of Replays
Say you record a replay of a puppet dancing, but you want to use it in a song that has a different tempo. Wouldn't that be possible if you added a speed adjustment option, like in Walk Cycle?
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Ability to save out a vector animation json / third party support like Bodymovin in AE
Ability to save out a vector animation json / third party support like the Bodymovin plugin offers in After Effects for use with Lottie
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import video to scene as background
as that user can perform to match the timing of the background video
24 votesWhile the heading of this post is “import video as scene background”, and you can’t just grab any video file to do so, you can accomplish the requests of both comments in Character Animator now. By importing a PNG sequence. Once you’ve turned the video background you want into a PNG sequence, using an encoder/transcoder like Adobe Media Encoder, then, in Character Animator, go to:
File→Import Cycle→
(browse to PNG folder and click on first image of your PNG sequence)
→ImportYou will create a puppet in your Project panel with the name of the sequence folder. Open this puppet in the Puppet panel (Rig workspace) and apply the Cycle Layers behavior to the root puppet layer. In the Properties panel, under ‘Behaviors’, you’ll see your Cycle Layers behavior and an item that says “Start” with a corresponding drop down menu that defaults to “Immediately”. Click on the drop down…
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Use recorded video files as animation source
I want to use talent in a studio to record voices and basic character movements for our workflow. We already have proper sound isolation for this, but not in front of computers. Therefore, it would be great to be able to use proper green-screened, high-fidelity audio recordings, as an input into Character Animator. Webcam input only cripples quality.
11 votesAs a workaround for importing video to animate against, you can import a PNG or JPG sequence (File → Import Cycle…) and use the Cycle Layers option for Start = Synced to timeline. This is new in version 2.1 released in April 2019.
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