Adding other artwork to the reg drawing

Setting the regging up in Director

Adding other artwork to the reg drawing

The Register To node outputs the reg drawing, and the reg-to lines it uses. It does not output any reg-to drawings, overlays or backgrounds involved in the regging. You therefore have to add these to the scene yourself. This is also how you can interleave artwork you're not using in the regging with the other artwork you are using. For example below, the monkey is in front of the elephant, except its leg is hooked behind the elephant's trunk:

We need to reg the monkey to the elephant, so that we can copy lines from the elephant to close off regions of the monkey's leg.

The ringmaster doesn't need any regging, but it needs to be composited behind the monkey, and in front of the elephant.

We therefore connect the monkey to the left (reg drawing) input of a Register To node, and the elephant to its middle (reg-to drawing) input:

We then use the Order column to ensure the drawings are composited in the correct order; and we set the Elephant column to a hold, so its lines are copied into the monkey:

So far, this scene's only output is the monkey (the Register To node's reg drawing). To output the elephant and the ringmaster, we connect them to the Camera:

Setting the regging up in Director

Adding other artwork to the reg drawing