Technique in new Alias promo

[ambient-whisper]

couldnt this be done using trax?
you could try to take an animation curve. duplicate it. add some noise to one, and weigh it against the other? dunno.

im not really thinking in maya terms here. but you should check out if you can do it with trax.

[misterdi]

As ambient-whisper wrote, you can use trax to do this, each trax layer can be edited indepently.

But there also another way to do this in hypergraph, you could use an addDoubleLinear to combine two curves and feed the result to transform node.

Or even fancier you can use plusMinusAverage node and multiplyDivide node (from rendering node) to do all math operation, add, substract, average, multiply, divide and power for several animation curves.

I haven't seen the video, but I assume Jason use createNode animTU to create another animation curve, and hookup an addDoubleLinear for it.

[Darkman]

Thanks for the Help guys,
Much appreciated!

:wavey:

[dwalden74]

Another way to do this, probably the most direct way, is with a blendWeighed node. This does exactly what you mean here: it takes multiple inputs and outputs a weighted value of these inputs.

-d

[macaroniKazoo]

why don't you just add a null object parent to the node you're animating? that'll enable you to "layer" your animation on top of whatever you've already got there. simple

[dwalden74]

It would probably depend on your rig and pipeline. It might not always be that easy. By adding just a math node you ensure that you´re not altering the character hierarchy. But whatever... if it works, use it. :)

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