CGTalk - Animation cycles?!

Shaykai

11-10-2002, 08:49 PM

Hello, i am about to do an animation for my upcoming website, and in it there is going to be a lot of running. There must be a way to make him run and keep running instead of keyframing each individual joint again and again. I tried looking in the animation forum and i heard a lot about animation cycles but no tutorials. Any help would be wonderful.

artifish

11-10-2002, 09:02 PM

take a look at the maya docs > animation > non linear animation > trax

artifish

11-10-2002, 10:28 PM

uhh, and don't forget to check out the docs on the graph editor!

noisewar

11-11-2002, 01:35 AM

Yeah, i agree, clips are great for repeating and / or blending animation. you can even key on top of them, stack them, export them, or modify them later. The only downside I've found is that you have to make character sets to make a clip, and I don't like character sets much.

Wigaru Wiyamoto

11-11-2002, 01:43 AM

What?! Character sets make pose-to-pose animation a dream! Oh well, to each his own.

noisewar

11-11-2002, 01:50 AM

ok maybe it's just me then, since I'm still learning, but character sets work great pose-to-pose but they also get messy quick. pose-to-pose can be done with clips in trax editor as well.

Wigaru Wiyamoto

11-11-2002, 04:45 AM

Hehe, the whole point of character sets is to keep things organized and easily accessable. Using Trax for pose-to-pose when you're not doing any NLA animation just overcomplicates it.

noisewar

11-11-2002, 06:43 AM

know any good tutes on handling character sets? specifically sub-character sets, or adding animatable attributes and things like that?

btw, badass name+avatar =)

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