Hi all. I would like to have Your opinion about James, carryieng an object to Jessi. Ik parent two of the same objects to both persons. I make the object from Jessy invisible, that of James visible in the properties menu. Also I make it so when James closes in to Jessy, the two objects are arriving on the same place. When James is closing in to her, I change the visibility of the two objects. When I make the movie, the object on Jessy is visible (it must be invisible). More, James moves faster than his object. This gives a total stupid little movie.Is there a solution for both problems ? Thank You very much.

Hi elzbiecin,

You might try this ...

Parent "object#1" to James hand so the object will move with him.

Parent "object#2" to Jessie's hand.

DO NOT USE visible/invisible to modify the objects.

Try this instead:

Make the Scale of Jessie's object 0% until James passes the object to Jessie.

Then, (in a single frame) change James' object's Scale to 0% and Change Jessie's obect's Scale to 100%.

Make sure to use the "Break spline" function so that you don't get any undershoot or overshoot of the Scale parameter for either one of the objects.

cheers,
dr geep
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Changing the visibility on the properties menu won't help... it's not animatable. What you need to do is: a)create two animations, one with the james prop visible, the other from the moment he hands it to Jessi and hers becomes visible, then stitch the two back together in another program; b)use the transparency setting in the materials for the prop (this IS animatable). Make sure you click on the keyt near to the setting, then tweak them so that the appropriate one is visible at the right time... make sure you have the animaiton splines for the object set to the right type (not got Poser here, so can't remember the name, but it's the greyed out one), otherwise the transparency will fade across over the timeline. hope this helps. jonthecelt

I've used the first suggestion and it works fine. This is the easy way to have a character pick up or set down an object as well. Mike

Works fine ???

re: " ... character pick up ... "

... depends on how heavy the object is ....... don't it?

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Thanks very much all for the advice. I try the first suggestion. Chears.