I did restart it but no difference...restarted flash a few times...no change

I continue to get an instance name but no pivot points

mmmm....ive turned the laptop off and on and still no pivot points..ive even tested it out on a few simple shapes in a new project window....it always names the body part but never produces any pivots...any more idea ibis?

Sorry for the delay. Was out fishing and my phone died. My phone was all i had to work with at the time hahaha

This has happened a couple times. It seems that its due heavy load occurring on the PC at the time Puppet Producer is trying to draw the pivot points for the first time. The software then thinks it already drew them so when it tries to pull them from the library, it doesn't find anything.

If estarting didnt work then, the basic fix is to draw or add the pivot points yourself. Just manually draw two circles with an x in the middle to represent the pivots. Convert one into a movie clip symbol named "pivot" and the second one called "nud".

In the library panel create a folder named "pivots" and place the two symbols in there. You shouldn't have that issue again.



enclosed is a FLA (made with flash CC so not sure if it will work on your version) but you can open it and just drag and drop the pivots into your owns project library if you don't wanna draw them yourself.


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ok...sorry to be a pain ibis.....I did what you said....I now have to pull every pivot and nud by hand from the library...they still don't magically appear ever...even when I turn flash on and off...and I still get.......

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really sorry to keep bothering you.

I imagine I can just keep pulling the pivots and nuds from my library for everything...just worried about that....

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the arms and legs etc continue to be named when I look in the properties panel

IM NOW GETTING EXTRA PIVOTS AND NUDS APPEARING and no idea why....also the pivot now wont import properly...

got it back to the right amount of pivots and nuds by deleating them in my library and reimporting them ...lol....determined this wont beat me.

still concerned with the

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thing that constantly comes up. and does this mean I will always have to drag the nubs and pivots friom the library as I have to constantly resize them which can be a pain

just rewatched your tutorial and see that the pivots should have names when I click on them ....as I am creating them myself they don't have any names...do I create names for all the pivots manually too?