I'm wondering if anybody here has a way to make two actors in CTA hug. (sorry, CTA Newb here).

Each character will have one arm in front of and one arm behind the other character. Is there an easy way to do that? Would I have to unlink the body parts and essentially have extra actors that would be ONLY an arm (with the main actors missing an arm)?

In Layers, I can see how to move parts of an actor ON that actor, and I can see the arrows at the bottom of the actors to move the actors forwards and backwards, but for a hug, there's going to be some overlap.

At the moment, this is only for a still image. Any ideas?

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"O wad some Power the gift tae gie us, to see oursels as ithers see us!"

Each actor is a single layer within a scene. Each body part is a sub-layer of that actor. So when you have two actors in a scene, one (with all its body parts) will always be in front of the other. The scene only sees the actor as one layer so you can not intermingle the parts of one actor with another as in a hug.

What you can do is create copies of the two actors and in the copy make all parts except the arm (used for hug) invisible (i.e. blank sprite) and in the original make only the arm invisible. This effectively gives you an actor with two layers in the scene. Then you can intermingle them as needed for the hug.

Jeff


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