new skins automatic position

Sary

Hey everyone!

At my new project we want to use skins. We want to create one character for all our animations (same skeleton, same proportion).
I started watching the youtubevideos about skins. And in each video it says that one has to place the new attachments by hand.
Isn't it possible that it places the attachments to the disired postion? I use one Illutrator file, where all the new skins are exactly at the same position. Like when you imprort a json file and everything is at the right position?

Is there a way to import new attachments for skins with set position / right postion, or do I have to drag every single attachment by hand? We are trying to find a way to change characters the fastest way possible and dragging by hand (position) might use too much time, because we want to use a looooot of different skins.

Is there an alternative to skins? ( maybe checking the visible attachments in slots?)

Hope someone knows the answer 🙂

Greetings
Sary

Sary

Søren

If you send your file to Photoshop and export from there you can export from Photoshop using groups as skins. Each group can then have multiple skins.

To place an image at the same spot as an existing image, first place the image on the slot where you want it. Then drag the image on top of an image in the same slot. With a skin created you can select multiple images and then click New in the bottom of the tree to create a Skin placeholder for them.

A workflow that I personally use is. Put all skin types in a separate folder. For example let's say we have two Skins, "Blue" and "Red". Images for Blue are placed in /images/blue/. Images for red are placed in /images/red/

First create Blue skin.
Duplicate Blue skin.
Rename the new Blue skin (called "Blue2") to "Red".
With "Red" Skin visible and NOTHING selected in the tree, click Find and Replace.
Set Scope to "Tree selection". With nothing selected, using "Tree selection" and not "Entire Project" means it won't look in Skins that aren't visible.
In "Find" type in "blue"
in "Replace" type in "red".
Click Replace

Your "Red" Skin should now have the correct images at the correct locations.

I hope this helps.

Sary

Thanks for explaining! It worked perfectly. Jippey!