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Swap sets open up a whole new world of puppet

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poses and emotions by allowing you to replace layers.

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All right, so we have two

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triggers here that are essentially overlays.

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That is, if I hit the S key, it overlays

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those hearts, and if I hit the D key here,

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get the sort of overlay popup exclamation point.

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But what if I could swap out things like

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his eyes or his wings here to give him

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a little bit more personality and convey different emotions?

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Well, you can, and that's a swap set.

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So let's do it.

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In the project panel, I'm going to go to

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magnus and I'm going to click edit original.

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And here we have magnus.

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So I want to replace this fin.

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I keep calling it a fin, it's a wing.

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Sorry, magnus, but what we're going

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to do is duplicate this, okay?

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We need another version of this

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that has a different shape.

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So to do that, I'm going to hit Command C.

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Command F.

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Now, again, you could be rocking a PC,

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and that's going to be Control C.

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Control F.

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Okay, now that I've got a copy, I want to actually turn

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the visibility off of the one that I'm not going to be

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changing so that I can kind of see what I'm doing.

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And maybe I'll rename it.

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Now I'm going to double click on it and we're going

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to say hip, or maybe a little more specific on hip.

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Okay, I could have called it a kimbo.

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That would have been fancy.

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Anyway, I'm going to go in here and I'm going to change

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the shape of the on hip wing to some other posture.

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So to do that, I might use a

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combination of the white and black arrows here.

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So I'm selecting with the white arrow.

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Then I could actually switch to the

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black arrow and we could rotate it.

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Maybe it's going to come up here a little bit.

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Maybe it's going to go up just a little teeny bit.

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I'm going to go to the white arrow and

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maybe I'm going to have a little bend here.

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So I'm going to take this anchor point, I'm

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going to slide it over labette, and then I'm

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going to break the handles here with the wide

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arrow by holding down the option key. Okay?

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And then I could maybe move this point like so,

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and we can muck about with this a little bit.

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Maybe it's going to go up a little bit like

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so, and I'll break this handle by holding down option.

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I'm going to play with it just a little bit more.

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Maybe I'll use the convert anchor point tool and just give it

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a little bit more of a sort of flip out there. Okay?

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And we can always go back and change this up.

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So now what I need to do is go to your right

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arm, turn it back on, and go ahead and hit file and

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save back at character animator, it's going to look weird.

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I've got both of them at the same time and what I

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want to do is go up to rig and I need to

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create a new kind of trigger rather than a regular trigger.

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I'm going to create a swap set, okay?

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And all I need to do is drag in

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the stuff that I want to sort of swap.

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In this case it's going to be the on hip, which I

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can drag right on top of that swap set name and I'm

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going to say it's going to be replacing the right arm.

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Now it is going to ask me, well,

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what do you want as a default?

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To be there sort of at

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the beginning or without any triggers.

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So I would click right arm here and

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have it as the default notice that it

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highlights to let me know that's what's happening.

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Then I just need to set up the key

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that's going to make him change that posture for

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that particular wing and that's going to be F.

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Okay?

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And that's it.

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When I go back to record, you can see that

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everything still is the same, but if I hit F,

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I get that nice little change in his arm pose. Sorry.

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magnus Wing Pose.

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All right, so swap sets powerful stuff and can give

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you a whole new range of character, postures and emotions.