Secondary action with bone dynamics

[Rasheed]

I'm sure most of you experienced Anime Studio users already know how to perform secondary action. If you don't know what secondary action is, go Google it.

Here is how I did it.

I created a character, put it in a bone layer, and rigged it as follows, a root bone for the main body and four children for the tentacles.



Here's the bone strengths (root bone gets zero bone strength).



I bound the points of the main body to the root bone.



I put bone dynamics on the child bones.

After resetting all bones, I only have to move the root bone, and the tentacles lag behind. When the main body stops moving, I remove the bone dynamics from the child bones, so they return to the default position.



Here is the resulting animation:



And here is the ASP 5.6 file:

• secondary.zip

I hope this will help you understand how to set up secondary actions with bone dynamics.

[Rasheed]

Here is something similar with a rough walk animation. The hair has bone dynamics.