Ok, yesterday I got animate2 and was all excited. I spent a couple hours working with it correcting issues with genesis using Mli4 aniblocks. Ran it through a few times till I was happy with it; and you know how hard that is Baked to key frames and saved; ADHD means I usually have multiple projects going, so I didn't have time to run the optitex dynamic clothing sim that I had the aniamtion set up for.

This AM I loaded it, and played it before apply the clothes to genesis. No animation from the waist down Since I'd baked the aniblocks to keyframes I wasn't surprised not to see any in the time line. Not so sure now. 

So I loaded my first try of it that I had to scrap because a bad twist to one shoulder in one pose ruined it for me. It ran fine

I baked and saved both the same way so I am not at all sure why one is fine and the other has no animation below the hip. Any theories would be welcome because I would like to avoid this issue

Edit to add: Scrubbing through the time line frame by frame the shoulder doesn't do the wierd twist, still does in the full speed aniamtion, cureiouser and cureiouser.

Just to add further WTH to this, both animations play fine in carrara 8.5

The full animation plays in one, and there is no nasty shoulder twist in the other.

I just don't want to know.

Sorry mate, I had a quick look about. But can't really see any info on this particular issue. I dont use animate myself.

Let us know if you figure out whats causing the paraplegia in Daz Studio.

I'm thinking it's just a fluk, but the animation not working in Studio and working in carrara has me bumfuzeled.  I can only assume something didn't bake right, carrara can read the keyframes but studio can't.

The bad shoulder twist I see in the run through aniamtion may be something spacific to Studio's smoothing. As I said, I don't see it in studio going frame by frame and I don't see it in carrara.

Still, animate 2 looks like I can teach myself most of it, but I may need to read a tutorial here and there. I hate tutorials, usually have to go through them four or five times before I even start to get them. If it wasn't for 3Dage talking me through some of carrara's features I never would have learned to use them. {one of the few people online I am truly indeted to}.

My ultimate goal is to have a model walk down the runway in dynamic clothes{Studio} with flowing dynamic hair{carrara} and soft body jiggles{sparrowhawk's plugin for carrara}. But sparrowhawk's plugin is a bit complex for me. I've only gotten it to work well enough to aniamte{render} once. Then youtube banned the video. S3 doing a naked ballet looked too much like a little girl for someone; was banned from uploading for 90 days to.