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Dear Anime Studio/Moho Community,

Recently I started a project with Photoshop layers within Anime Studio Pro. I'm working with Image layers with the "warp with bones" tag checked. Each layer is a cut out portion of the character I'm building. I've assigned bone layers (flexible binding) to each image to control bending and movement. However, I'm confused on how to parent each respective bone layer together to make everything move together as a whole. For example, I would like the hand bone layer to follow the arm bone layer. Can you effectively nest bone layers within other bone layers to produce and IK chain?
Any workflow advice is appreciated.
Cheers,
Curt

Firs select the layer that you want to bind. In the example it could be the hand bone layer. Then go to the tool pallete and click at "Bind Layer" tool. Its symbol is a bone with a layer behind. Once you have selected that tool all the bones from the inmediate parent layer (suppoused to be the arm layer) are available to click on. Then select the desired bone to bind to and do a click on it. It will become red.
Next time you select the hand layer and click into the Bone layer tool the previously selected bone of the parent layer will be marked as red (telling you that tis layer is binded to that parent bone.

Perhaps in the built in manual (press F1) in some of the tutorials is the same answer but better explained.

Regards
Genete

EDITED
look below and read the words of this site Administrator and Moho (previous name of Anime Studio) creator.
http://www.lostmarble.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=96

Much obliged...your technique was the answer to my problem. Thanks for your time and thoughful consideration.
Cheers,
Curt

Thank you I was looking for this too.

-HassleHead