Hi . . . . . . . I'm still having trouble animating a figure in my scene. I have a pre-designed scene (Lost In Graveyard)mthat I purchased on this Renderosity site. Now, as a seperate file, I have animated a figure. When starting, I open the Lost in Graveyard scene. I add a background picture to depict the sky. Then I go to import my figure. Once the figure is in place (and the animation control shows tht the figure has been animated) I start to run the animation. Well, the scene properties turn black (no light) and my figure doesn't move along the walk path; it doesn't move at all. H E L P Thanks weet335

Is it happening in Poser 7?

yes - Poser 7

Even with SR3 my Poser 7 does not work well. Sorry, but that thingy Poser 7 has been a trouble for me, maybe for others users... Threads right here in Renderosity show this....

My Poser 7, even after ALL service release is veeery buggy...

Don't tell anyone: I am still using Poser 6.

I hope someone could help you, ' cause Poser 7 and my PC do not love each other.

ISTR seeing this question before, last month. one other thing to try: use the graveyard scene as the background track in yer video editor, and the walk animation as the foreground track. in case somebody didn't already say this in the previous thread.

Quote - Hi . . . . . . . I'm still having trouble animating a figure in my scene. I have a pre-designed scene (Lost In Graveyard)mthat I purchased on this Renderosity site. Now, as a seperate file, I have animated a figure. When starting, I open the Lost in Graveyard scene. I add a background picture to depict the sky. Then I go to import my figure. Once the figure is in place (and the animation control shows tht the figure has been animated) I start to run the animation. Well, the scene properties turn black (no light) and my figure doesn't move along the walk path; it doesn't move at all. H E L P Thanks weet335

Hmmm.... 1) On your walking figure import, look in the dopesheet (otherwise known as the animation pallette). Are any of the camera's animated? When you import, the imported scene's camera and light settings can overwrite what is in the base scene. The camera can be relocated into an object, spun on an axis (both of which can result in black screens), or the lights in the base scene are changed, which will mess up a skydome big time. Make sure in the imported dopesheet that there are no keyframes for lights and cameras after the initial frame. 2) Is the base scene set for at least as many keyframes as the walking sequence? If you import, say, a 300 frame animation into a scene with only 30 frames, you can truncate the import and only actually have 30 frames of motion there....and if the walk starts on frame 31, then it doesn't look like anything is happening. When you import into a scene, make sure that base scene at -at least- as many frames to it as the imported motion has....and some extra never hurts. It gives you room to play and tweak, and you can delete the extra frames in postwork. 3) Make sure the cameras are not set to 'point at'; that will move their aim. 4) Are you importing this into the base layer, or did you create a layer to import the figure in on? If the latter, try just importing into the base layer. There are some gremlins in the layered animation system (and conversely, if you are dumping it all into the base, try creating a layer and importing to there...).

I sugest you try animating directly in the graveyard scene. Save an animated pose from the figure in your animated scene. Open the graveyard scene, don't import your figure, load it from the figures palett, then apply the animated pose. This removes one layer of complication from the process, and it may be enough to solve your problems.