Besides walking and running and the such, is there an easy way to do animations besides frame by frame? If so, how? Greeg72

Well, not a whole lot easier, but you don't have to do every frame, just do every 3rd or 4th (delete the animation for the part inbetween if you have too). Poser will then fill in the other frames. I spen most of an afternoon doing a 30 frame walk cycle for Supermodel Vickie in her (soon to be on sale) new gown. Aside from the gown being so tight she had to make smaller steps, the walk designer has problems with Vickie in general - as the parts are arranged differently and there are more of them. So I did a lot of adjustments, using the key fram techneque..

If she has to take small steps that's a testament to the model. BTW, have you done or seen anything with Joint Controlled Morphs recently?

Thanks, but I'm doing more than just walking animations, but full body motions. Such as throwing a punch, pulling out a weapon, you know real movement type stuff. Maybe I'll put the poser figures into lightwave and add the bones to them, I think animating them that way would be easier than in poser. Greeg72

Never mind, I didn't notice the graph editor thing, that should be all I need... Greeg72

Greeg72 wrote: "Thanks, but I'm doing more than just walking animations, but full body motions. Such as throwing a punch, pulling out a weapon, you know real movement type stuff. Maybe I'll put the poser figures into lightwave and add the bones to them, I think animating them that way would be easier than in poser. Greeg72 Think again !! I have spent the last week experimenting with a victoria mesh exported into Lightwave 6 it is an arduous task adding bone and setting weight maps but one i get her fully rigged the work will be worth it how long have you used LW??

There is a tutorial somewhere that explain a fast way to do animation in Poser. Basically, you put the figure in one position (does not matter) and you use a pose that you will put let say at frame 200 and Poser will do the animation to go from pose 1 at frame 1 to pose 2 at frame 200. If it looks not natural, then you raise or reduce the number of frame to go from pose 1 to pose 2. Hope it will help. Claude

I've been using Lightwave for a while now, and know how to add bones and all that stuff. I got poser because making characters in lightwave was very hard for me. Thanks for that bit of info Nitreug (or Claude is it?), that should help a lot, but if using lightwave 6 gets better results I might use that instead. Or might just use both for different parts on what I'm working on. Depends on the detail I wont to go in. Thanks all for the help and useful tips. Greeg72

Imaken- I did my first joint control morphs for the long gown I'll have on sale next week. I gather I did them slighly differently than Nerd, what I did was have the mesh end at the hips, the thighs are in the CR2 but work the normal way (because they can effect the next item up the chain, the hip). The shins are also in the CR2, but they just run the morphs that bend the lower part of the hip. Making the morphs was a pain (I never could have made them with magnets), but the jcm part wasn't very hard at all, using Nerd's excellent tutorial. I like the jcm so much that I added a set for the mini-dress that will be part of the set too, now I can get it REALLY tight! I gather from what Nerd has on sale here that he is doing it differently, using JCM for the thigh part too, I'm not up to that point yet, as I'm not sure it would be an advantage. Nerd's latest dress can be sat in, while mine can't be (but it gets pretty close.)

Thanks, It's all beyond my abilities; but I respect great software hacking. I'm hoping the next release of Poser uses JCM extensively. So the morphs are the hard part. It seems there wouldn't be a lot of overhead in terms of file size.