hiii!!
So the air guitar overlays either completely in front or behind the person and it doesn’t look like he’s playing the guitar…
I’m using ‘play_airguitar_neutral’
And there aren’t any air guitars on episodes library so I’m having to use an overlay.
I’ve seen it work in other stories… please help!!
These are the overlays I’m using…
You’ll need to have the overlay in front of your character since there is no guitar prop (which is such a shame) and animate the guitar overlay to move in accordance with the animation you use whether it’s side-to-side or up-and-down and add a loop command to it, whether it’s infinite or numbered.
If the overlay needs to be rotated and/or mirrored to fit the animation, you will need to rotate it and/or adjust the scaling with a minus value OR you can edit it and rotate it/mirror it in an editing program before uploading it to the portal, that way you won’t need to rotate it/mirror it in the actual script.
I don’t know if you’re familiar with animating overlays at all or not, but let me know if you aren’t.
I’m not sure how to animate overlays…
Also wouldn’t the overlay still be over the characters hand or would i need to create an arm overlay?
Yes, it would. That’s is the only method I’ve seen used in stories for guitar playing with custom guitars/basses. You could create arm overlays and attempt to animate them but it’s a lot of work.
HOWEVER, even though there isn’t any actual prop we can add to characters or remove that are guitars/basses, there’s two that are automatically added to a character if you use any of the guitar/bass animations other than the air guitar animations. Air guitar animations are self-explanatory, basically just meant for pretending to play.
Animations with automatic props:
idle_guitar_neutral_loop
play_guitar_netrual_loop
play_guitar_energetic_loop
sing_guitar_sad_loop
sing_guitar_neutral_loop
talk_guitar_neutral_loop
idle_bass_neutral_loop
play_bass_neutral_loop
talk_bass_neutral_loop
If you don’t like either of those automatic props, then you will need to need use an overlay of your choice and manually animate it in front of your character. 
Thank you so much, I really appreciate your help!
I’m just going to use the animation with automatic guitars added. 
Thank you!
No problem! (:
Btw if you ever want to animate overlays in the near future I highly recommend this:
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