STORM3 opened this issue on Sep 02, 2000 ยท 9 posts
shadownet posted Sat, 02 September 2000 at 8:46 AM
Hey Storm. Sounds like another great idea! When I first got into Poser I played around a lot with the animation features and know that some of the stuff you and Maclean are coming up with is definitely finding new and interesting and even unique ways of using the animation capabilities of Poser. I went back to the manual and refreshed my memory a bit on doing animations in Poser, and thought I'd remind you guys of a few things. By default the animation frame rate is 30 frames at 30fps. You can go into the animation setup window and change this. So instead of an loading a pose at say frame 1 and 30 (Home and End) you can add or delete frames and make the end frame 10 or 100. I would think that this would effect the increment changes in the pose, making them more abrupt or gradual depending of the number of frames you have to work with. Also, another trick that I use and posted in a thread here a good while back was to use the different frames as seperate stills for posing and rendering. By that I mean I would get the pic the way I like it, but then decide I want to try something else. So, say I am in frame 1, I would advance to frame 2 and try the changes. If I didn't like it I could go back to frame 1 or I could go to the next frame (3) and try something else. Keeping each kind of as a backup along the way. The only you have to remember is to turn IK off and/or make every frame a key frame - otherwise Ik will kick in and start doing strange things to your increment poses. Now the other thing I use to do, and still do, using this method is copy and paste or memories and restore (depending on which works best) between the frames. For example: I like the left arm position in frame 4 but like the overall pose in frame 2. No problem I memories the figure in frame 4 and then restore just the element portions of the arm to get the pose I want in frame 2. Hope this contributes something helpful to this ongoing venture. Rob