How to distinguish between points in Mesh animation?

[NealF]

Yikes. I've been at this for 2 days.

I just started to find out how to use the Mesh option to animate a graphic. I've got a baby who's moving his backside to the music.
He's standing with his back to us.
So I get the left side to move left and right at the correct rhythm. Then I try to move the right side left and right to make it look like one backside is moving together left and right.

When I try to get the right side to move in the right rhythm, there's no way to see which points are left and right. So I can't get the correct motion to the right side.

Am I doing this the wrong way? Should I be not using mesh for this? I'm not sure how to make it work with bones, if that's what I should be doing.

Thanks.

[SimplSam]

One thing you could do is use Hide Points. Go back to Frame 0, select just the Right-side butt points, then Edit > Select Inverse, then Draw > Hide Selected Points. Then go back to Frame X to animate the Right-side points. Finally - Draw > Show All Points to return to normal.

[hayasidist]

or create a point group for each side?

(in the select points tool - select the (say) left Points, type the name "Left" in the box and press the Create button. Repeat for the right side. )

[NealF]

Ah! That sounds so much simpler.

I'll give it a try asap. Still love the idea about the mesh. Must be some good uses for it. Just gets a bit complex.

Thanks.

[NealF]

Just realized there are no points in an image file.

The only way to get points is to make a mesh.

[hayasidist]

you can name the warp mesh points in the same way!

[NealF]

Do you know of any tutorials that tell you all about Groups and Shapes?
I'm still trying to figure those out.