Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Poser 9 Animation - Need Serious Help Please

Allen34 opened this issue on Apr 23, 2012 ยท 23 posts


Allen34 posted Mon, 23 April 2012 at 8:22 AM

Please will somebody unlock the closely gaurded secrets of performing certain animation tasks in Poser, 9 or Pro 2012?

I'm trying to make my aniimations look more realistic and I simply do not understand the correct way to use IK or character parenting without strange things happening when the anaimation plays.

With character parenting for example, when a dancer lifts his partner overhead and I want them to stay connected so I parent the hand of one to the hip of the other and the action looks natural and accurate, but then I discover that this presents a major problem because when I later un-parent the connection so that I can manipulate the figures into new positions from different frames, the previous lifting sequence has gone crazy and the lifted figure starts flying all over the place. I don't don't know how to achieve this effect and I can't find any decent tutorials that go into this and explain how to use parenting with animation. In fact I am not even sure if you should do it this way?

The same thing goes for using IK. When I start creating an animation and I have IK turned on for the legs for example. I adjust the hip movements etc. so that the character wiill move naturally but remain in the same spot, but then a few frames later I want to move the figure to a new position but I find that it becomes very difficult to move or reposition the joints accurately without truning IK off and then the same problem starts happening as when I tried doing parenting, the figure starts flying all over the place - I am lost at how to achieve this.

Should I use IK at all with animation and if so does it have to stay turned on all the time or what?

Also with Walk Designer, I can't find any decent tutorials that explain how you would INSERT into an animation that you are making a walk for a character to move towards another but only to move a couple or so steps.

Would appreciate the help please!!!