Moho Animation Forum

Víctor Paredes wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2020 7:32 am Hi. You need to add the links again, because they are cut in your post.

Víctor Paredes wrote: ↑Tue Apr 07, 2020 1:47 am Moho normally doesn't show complex masking properly in the workspace. The real result will be always the one you see when you render a preview.
It's hard to know what is happening exactly with this file without checking the layers. Is there any chance you could share the Moho file to take a look?

Víctor Paredes wrote: ↑Tue Apr 07, 2020 4:50 am Ok. I checked the file. I'm not sure if the issues I'm seeing are the same you are pointing (but if not, please post screenshot showing exactly what you are talking about and I can continue exploring).
I can see the arms have a white halo. To solve that, go to the arm mask vector layer ('l-mask', for instance) and set the mask to '+ add to mask, but keep it invisible'.
Please tell me if that helps

Víctor Paredes wrote: ↑Tue Apr 07, 2020 7:10 am Uhm, that could be a software issue. Can you try exporting with 'Enable multi-threading rendering' unchecked?
Is it happening only in frame 1? if so, maybe you can export from frame 2 instead (it's not a fancy solution, but could work, at least).

It also could be a conflict with the smart bones.
I'm checking the 'r-arm-2' action and I see you have a single smart bone that goes

- at frame 1, 72 degrees
- at frame 50, 2 degrees
- at frame 100, -84 degrees

Since the neutral angle of the bone at frame zero is 2 degrees, that means the software has two sources of information for that single angle. It has the info from frame zero and the info from frame 50. Than can be causing issues when the bone passes that angle during the animation.

A solution for future rigs is to create two actions instead of one. One action goes from neutral angle to clockwise. The second one goes from neutral to counterclockwise.
Having two actions, then the neutral angle will always carry the same information, so there will be no conflict during the animation.

For fixing this rig (if the issue is actually the one I'm describing), you could:
- Remove the keyframe at frame 50 inside of the smart action (that way the action won't contain that very specific neutral angle inside of the action)
- Or remake the actions, making two for each bone (even when this one is safer, I would recommend you to try the first option instead. This one will imply a lot of work and I'm not sure if it's worth it).

Víctor Paredes wrote: ↑Wed Apr 08, 2020 3:07 am Hi, I'm happy that helped a bit.
I will take another look after lunch

Víctor Paredes wrote: ↑Wed Apr 08, 2020 9:32 am Ok, I found it!
Uf. It was hard, but it's a very easy to fix issue. If a mesh layer is not visible, some vectors following that mesh can behave in a weird way. This is specially common in complex rigs like this one.
The solution then is to have all the mesh layers visible in the layers window.
To hide them, instead of clicking over the eyes icon, open the mesh vector layer properties and check 'Hide in editing view' and 'Don't render this layer'.

You can use the name filter and write 'mesh' in order to easily open the propierties of several layers at the same time.