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Baking Character Animation

Ummm, the question's pretty much wrapped up in the subject. How do I go about baking a character animation? A bit more complexity. I'm trying to...

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by mtmckinley

07-02-2004|03:15 AM

Replies: 3

Starting animation

I'm looking to start doing some animations and have a few questions that I hope someone can answer. These are questions I haven't been able to answer...

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by Alan

05-02-2004|07:27 PM

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Mirroring Lattice Deformer

I just created a lattice around a very specific set of CVs on the left hand of a character, and now I'd like to create a lattice for the exact same...

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by Gun-Kata

02-02-2004|11:42 PM

Replies: 12

exporting/importing weight maps

hello again. I have a new problem in that i want to change the position of my bones since skinning and a little weighting. I have followed...

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by matmonkfish

28-01-2004|06:41 PM

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Cant move my tracks around??

Hi all, Here are my Tank tracks animated but I cant seem to move them around without it all blowing apart. why? cheers all here is the file...

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by Alan

27-01-2004|05:32 PM

Replies: 3

wrap deformers?

Hi, I just finished building a model and made a skeleton. I have been told that i need to make a wrap deformer of the model and than add the...

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by Kurt

26-01-2004|08:58 PM

Replies: 3

Noob .avi file size reduce... | Page: 1 2

Hi, I have just created the "Rocket" project from a book tutorial... Maybe some of u know which one...Savvy..? Anyway, I noticed that...

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by Pony

24-01-2004|02:43 AM

Replies: 15

nunchucks

I want to animate a character using nunchucks... how would I set up the nunchucks? is there a dynamics set I need to use so that the nunchucks swing...

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by doodle

22-01-2004|12:30 AM

Replies: 3

Question: Keyframing Question Inside

Hey Guys and Gals, Is there an easier way of moving keyframes around on the animation bar? I mean I try to click and drag but nothing..I did...

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by Kurt

21-01-2004|10:29 PM

Replies: 3

Maya blend shapes using poser!

I have an idea which would be great if it could work but I need someone with some knowhow to tell me it's possible or not. Im using some Poser...

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by stephen.h1

19-01-2004|11:40 PM

Replies: 4

re-rigging question

hi, I've setup my character with just a basic skeleton, but now, after the fact, I've decided to go back and create a real skeleton and muscles and...

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by dannyngan

16-01-2004|02:18 AM

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root rotation axes ???

yoho i got some probs with rotation direction of my jointchains. i want all the joints 2 "look" in the some rotation direction but even i creat a...

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by revenant

12-01-2004|09:01 AM

Replies: 3

mirroring blend shape

Hello, I'm trying to create the blend shapes for my character.. I've tried to do one eye then duplicate that face with a x scale value of -1 do...

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by mtmckinley

11-01-2004|07:35 PM

Replies: 1

ik spline dependent on joint limitation?

hoyo i just started 2 work on a joint skelleton n if done limitations for the joints similar to human movement limitations, but if i create a...

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by revenant

10-01-2004|10:57 AM

Replies: 3

Attaching an object

Hey guys...gotta question...i would like to animate a lo poly game character and the character will be wielding a pole...i want the character to run...

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by Chipper

08-01-2004|02:24 PM

Replies: 2

Muscle contractoin with S.D.K's and blends

hey, mike was goin to do this in his next character rigging tut. but never got round to it. -- basically what i want to do is when the elbow moves...

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by mumbojumbo_13

08-01-2004|11:37 AM

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Newbie: Need "grow" a rigged tentacle?

I am trying to create an effect in which, over a number of frames, a tentacle grows from a character which is then used as an extra arm (kinda...

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by rich

08-01-2004|09:19 AM

Replies: 5

channel box attribute colours?

Hi Ive just recently upgraded to using maya 5 from 4 and have noticed that the colours of the attribute change when setting keys, when animating. I...

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by rich

06-01-2004|09:00 AM

Replies: 1

Boxing render from a few months back

A HOO finaly figured out how to compress my animations down small enough to put up renders... I was able to get all them nice and small the baseball...

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by Kurt

02-01-2004|01:01 AM

Replies: 0

Flowing Sleeves

Hi, Anyone got a way of rigging a human character with flowing sleeves - like batwing sleeves, only they're wide at the wrist as well. I'm...

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by JulianBT

31-12-2003|07:47 PM

Replies: 2

Set Driven Key: problem with two attributes driving a single object

:banghead: Here's one that I can't find in the docs (so far...). I have a joint which rotates in X and Z (not in Y). I have an object whose...

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by JulianBT

31-12-2003|02:12 PM

Replies: 4

bake keyframes?

Hi all, Anybody know if it's possible to bake out the animation that the graph editor creates when you use ' cycle with offset ' so say i've got a...

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by ade90054

29-12-2003|12:20 PM

Replies: 2

pick something up?

okay. I have a character that who's body is modelled in a single mesh, and I want him to pick up a ball and then throw it. Pretty straight forward,...

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by skyzeyez

29-12-2003|12:43 AM

Replies: 3

Animation Controls

Hi all, hope everyone had a good christmas :) Just a quick question, does anybody know how I can add my character animation controls to a layer...

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by ade90054

28-12-2003|11:11 PM