Im not too surprised. In fact, I think i saw some reference to this endeavor. may be in part why I thought flash and ASP were similar in basic design.
-edg

Under the hood, is Anime Studio just Flash with better controls and bells/whistles added?

or is it a completely different program from the ground up?

just curious, I know that you can export as flash but that may not mean anything.

-edg

ok things are starting to smooth out now. actually they are really taking off!!
I beleive this will be much easier the second time around!!!
thank you to every one that helped out!!
-edg

ok so i should avoid those "group folders" if Im to use bind points, thats good to know. Its one of the places ive been hitting a wall. here is the latest file. have done well up until his left shoulder and upper arm . i started his jacket layer with flexi-bind points and that worked well ...

Q #1 do connected bones (i.e. parent / child) need to be all in one layer or can they be separated (multiple bone layers) within the layer hierarchy? Q #2 can you link multiple layers to one bone? I think you must be able to but am unsure. Q #3 do bones affect the subsets of a GROUP FOLDER? or must ...

hey vern , I totally agree. well, at least in theory, since Ive yet to rig this guy properly. but it seems like the way to go if you want to really make something move and bend well and add some complexity to what youre doing. seems that ASP could be a very strong animation tool *with* it. but ive y...

hey chucky, that looks pretty good! looks as though bones are affecting multiple layers but certainly very specifically chosen ones, and not others. not sure what Ive been doing wrong. how about posting your version of "ahh my eyes" (mediafire.com?) so that i can check out the layer hierar...

oops, I apologize for wasting your time. its late and i forgot that i erased that layer in anticipation of redoing it (correctly) after looking at tutorials. tutorial led me to believe (mistakenly) that bind layers are not a good solution and thats when i started posting. will get some sleep and ret...

ok 1st file is ASP file, 2nd is just background image which is missing from asp file. trouble with bind points is that it seems not to work predictably. I did successfully put a "pelvis" or control bone in and that was fine. the main trouble came in when i started adding bones to the jacke...

thats very reassuring, thank you!
Ill try to post that way.
-edg

I just realized after trying to work out a glitch for several hrs that ASP tutorial reccomends AGAINST using bind points. what gives? Im shocked. Is there a better tutorial anywhere? how simple does the character have to actually be, in order to work? is this program really *just* for cut-out animat...

Whew!
thank you!!
-egendron

have been trying new stuff (vectors) in ASP ver. 5.5 learning a lot. but seem to have drawn myself into a corner. have made a character with many many vector layers, some switch layers as well as masking for shadows. (I like masking for shadows :-} ) well I was rotoscoping it so i didn't begin drawi...

thats damn clever. how did you use for fingers? wait, i think i can guess... for a 90 degree turn of the wrist perhaps?
-edg
ps im still kinda in the dark about genete's method though...

will do, thanks
-edg