3DMadness
07-09-2002, 05:09 PM
Hi Folks!
I have to do some simple animationa and I think Characte Studio will make it fast, although I don't like the way it walks with footsteps ;) . Anyway, I don't have time to do freeforma animation, so let's me explain: my character have to walk, stop, open a door, walk, stop, grab a box, walk then leave the box in another room. Basically this is what I have to do but in several different situations, that's why I'm using CS with Footsteps.
For me, the best way is to first animate all his trajectories of walk and still, adjust the keys in the track view to make him stop and start walking again after a while, but to avoid strange behaviors I have to select all the footsteps and deactivate all and activate back again. This destroy any freeform animation but make him behave the right way. That's why I'm animating all his walking and still with the footsteps firts and then I'll do the freeform animation to grab the box, open the door and things like this.
This is my first real job with CS and Footsteps besides studying and freeform animation and I would like to know if this is the fastest way to do what I want. Any other tips from someone else would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers!
Flávio
I have to do some simple animationa and I think Characte Studio will make it fast, although I don't like the way it walks with footsteps ;) . Anyway, I don't have time to do freeforma animation, so let's me explain: my character have to walk, stop, open a door, walk, stop, grab a box, walk then leave the box in another room. Basically this is what I have to do but in several different situations, that's why I'm using CS with Footsteps.
For me, the best way is to first animate all his trajectories of walk and still, adjust the keys in the track view to make him stop and start walking again after a while, but to avoid strange behaviors I have to select all the footsteps and deactivate all and activate back again. This destroy any freeform animation but make him behave the right way. That's why I'm animating all his walking and still with the footsteps firts and then I'll do the freeform animation to grab the box, open the door and things like this.
This is my first real job with CS and Footsteps besides studying and freeform animation and I would like to know if this is the fastest way to do what I want. Any other tips from someone else would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers!
Flávio