duplicating Keyframed charcters in maya?

[peanut]

>> for spanish readers ... <<

why not use the right forum for this question ... the Maya forum and not the general discussion board

[Tommi]

Never mind, you are new and something like that happens quite often. Anyways, your thread will be moved to the Maya forum as soon as a moderator sees it, so don't get confused.

Welcome to the community! :beer:

[miabe]

try to export the character and import it a couple of times in a new scene
cu :) mia

[lowkey]

hmm, never tried this myself, but doesn't this problem occur from identical transformation coordinates? i guess, one's got to set an offset to the original curves to achieve separate movement!

maybe i'm wrong. :wip:

[Goob]

lowkey,

why not move a parent node of the skeletons root instead of editing the animation curves?

goob.

[olivier georges]

hi,
if your setup is well done, you have to have a global control object used to positionne your character in your scene, and used too to scale your character, so you can then copy keys from limb to limb, but with the possibility to move your character everywhere in your scene.

i hope i replied well to your question, and excuse me for my poor english :)


Olivier.

[lowkey]

why not move a parent node of the skeletons root[...]?

well, i simply got no experience with character animation yet! therefore, i don't know anything about it.
just a general thought:

wouldn't the parent force it's children to follow? i thought speedy_fx wanted to copy his character and make the replica move in individual patterns!

:shrug:

[The Time Serpent]

there is a script for that on highend3d.com

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