Would it be very helpful to directly move the puppet from the preview scene without having to do the old way of adjusting position, rotation, and scale from the transform control? Just like in After Effects, a mini version of Photoshop transform mode.

And moreover, I think it's better to have "Space" button work as navigator in Record mode just like in Rig mode, instead of as play button. Maybe "Shift + Space" can be used as the alternative of play button in Record mode.

And lastly, is it just me, or the navigation hand (space button held) sometimes not working? It still a selection tool (V button). I need to click on the puppet box first in order to have it function as navigation hand. I hope we can change that, meaning no need to touch the box of the puppet first. It caused me to move body parts accidentally while holding space, thinking it is navigating (Space button), but still in move (V button) mode.

We imported a 3840x2160 AI file to use as a background in Ch. We had it scaled to 50% to fill the 1920x1080 video we wanted to create. The preview in Ch worked great, but when the Ch was pulled into AE it took forever to preview. It was just a 1 minute video, but when attempting to use Media Encoder to produce a video, it was going to take close to 4 whether coming from AE or directly from Ch. We knew that was too long, so we investigated. We removed the AI background from Ch and imported the same AI background directly into AE. This time. When the background was not coming from Ch (only characters this time), the encoding took under 6 minutes, which is what we expected. There seems to be some issue with the encoding from Ch or large background AI files. AE handles them fine. I hope this explained it well enough.

Why not do a "Fluid " behavior for Character animator?

You already have the "particle" behavior, and all you got to do is make it fluid.

Think about:

Pouring a cup of water.

Water running through a path.

Or.. Water being pumped up and down pipes and through valves to push actuators such as hydraulic cylinders and motors... That is the stuff that I am working right now with Character animator.

Maybe industrial hydraulic circuits may sound too intimidating for some, but just the animation of fluid running through pipes may not be too hard to do... you could even get fancier by changing viscosity..

Further more.... after you are done with your fluid animation you'll get the next request to simulate compressed air traveling through pipes to animate the very same principles of hydraulics...

Besides my own needs animating water surely could be useful for many people... So please VOTE ON THIS REQUEST PLEASE!!

Please enable a feature on layer picker or swap sets where it works just like a swap set, but it also plays the layers between each trigger to arrive at the new held frame.

So if I had a group with 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 in it, If I pressed 5, it would play 1,2,3,4,5 and hold on 5 (if latched for example) then if I hit 7, it would play 6,7 and hold on 7. Then if I hit 2, it would play 6,5,4,3,2 and hold on 2 etc.

If there was a default layer, then if a trigger wasn’t latched it would “flow” to that default layer.

Thanks!

This would be nice for screening your character in a show on a projector or a tv that you have hooked up the program to. Where you don't see the record buttons. For preforming live without streaming. It could be used then easy for live shows on school without having to get it up in another program. I did my exam in this way, having my computer atached to a tv screen with HDMI from computer, then midi controlling everything from one drum mashin and to other midi devices. But it was sad that i couldent get the full screen, had to scale the window. Dident look pro :(