Best way to do this...

[Pesto]

I have been designing my character and before I start rigging him I have a few questions about best practices. I am designing (and rigging) the character with each leg and foot pointing in opposite directions.

1. I want to have my character walk on the screen from left to right. Both legs and feet will be pointing the same way (to the right). When he stops I want his right leg and foot to point the other direction (so each foot and leg and pointed in opposite directions). What is the best way to accomplish this?

2. I've checked but I couldn't find a tutorial on this. I have seen head turn stuff but not for legs. I'm also assuming that most directional changes of the character requires manually moving points in an action vs just flipping that body part? If you can just flip a leg (and foot) in an action, will the bones also be flipped?

Thanks and any other advice would be greatly welcome and appreciated

BTW, using ASPro 10

https://youtu.be/FwocBDoDpa0

Sorry I created a video of the still image. I just couldn't figure out how to attach an image file

[funksmaname]

Nice looking character

You might want to check out this thread from Victor:
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=22970

Particularly the zombie rig (but watch them all!) - you can set up the foot bone to rotate with a smart action so they can point any way you like.
Hope this steers you in the right direction.

[Pesto]

Thanks for the link funksmaname !!

[funksmaname]

By the way, directly below the reply text box when you're typing a post on the forum you see the 'options' tick boxes... there's a tab there called 'Upload to TinyPic' which if you click through to you can upload an image and drop it into your post! You must have jumped through some hoops to upload that still youtube

[strider2000]

The Scarlett Riggs character, included with Anime Studio 10 and later has foot turns. You should check that out.

Also, I did one that was a little complex, due to overlapping lines, for a Whinnie the Pooh I made. You can see my discussion on the feet here


Hope that's helpful.

[Pesto]

Thanks funksmaname - I just saw that on the bottom. Yay, no more youtube! LOL

Strider2000 - thanks for the video - it helps a lot!