Eye movement with switch layers

Sheik Yabouti · Post by **Sheik Yabouti** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 9:10 pm

Hi guys

I've mastered lip synching with papagayo and switch layers, just the the tutorials told me, and I'm really happy with the results but I need to know how to move eyes.

I've created a switch layer for eyes (just like the mouth one) with lots of different expressions but I can't work out how to manually create an action line for the eyes switch layer. whatever I do just cancels itself

Can anyone talk me through this?

Thanks in advance

Sheik Yabouti

Genete · Post by **Genete** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 10:17 pm

Do this:

1) Place the time cursor where you want to make the switch.
2) Right Click over the switch layer and select one of the options on the context menu.
3) Repeat 1 and 2 properly in other frames.

Alternatively you can press the

button that supplies a popup menu in the tool options area that lists all the sub-layers of a switch group.

Sheik Yabouti · Post by **Sheik Yabouti** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 10:20 pm

GOD that must be the only thinhg I didn't think of trying!!
must come from being a mac user :p

Thanks a lot

Rasheed · Post by **Rasheed** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 10:32 pm

Yes, the user interface is a bit quaint. Must be the BeOS roots.

slowtiger · Post by **slowtiger** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:22 am

Yes, the right-click-thing got me several times - I'm working on Mac. Then I spent a bit of money for a Logitec mouse, and now I don't want to work without it. Programs like AS or Mirage need it all the time.

Apple's recent mouse has a right click, but I don't like it, it's too much design and too little functionality.

Rasheed · Post by **Rasheed** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:26 pm

I believe Steve Jobs hates buttons. The original mouse at Xerox Parc had 3 buttons, but Steve decided he wanted 1.

The idea, expressed by Alan Kay, was to keep your fingers on the same device (the mouse) as long as possible. I believe they even experimented with 7 keys.

The fact is that a one-button mouse has a shallow learning curve, but little productivity gain. A multi-button mouse has a somewhat steeper learning curve (15 minutes, instead of 5 minutes), but a much larger productivity gain. The 10 minutes you loose, you gain manyfold if you use the multi-button mouse.

Many people think that Apple did a poor job with both the hockey puck mouse (the worst design ever for a mouse) and perhaps just as bad a job with the Mighty Mouse, which, unlike his name, isn't all that great.

If you're on a Mac and you're still using the standard mouse Apple gave you, go buy a Logitech or a Microsoft Intellipoint mouse. You'll thank me for it.