oktawu
02-16-2007, 04:18 PM
hy everyone...im having a bit of a hard time solving a problem.
what im doing, is trying to redirect a character's animation, by parenting the rig
to different nulls, and then rotating them at the time where the direction change needs
to take place. the technique works like charm under maya, but, replicating the same
idea under xsi gives me headaches.
problem is, if in xsi (as in maya for that matter), u parent an animated null under another null that has some translation on it...the moment u do that, the current child inherits the parents transforms and moves in space the same amount that the parent has moved (obviously). In maya, u just freeze the transforms for the parent null, and thats it, no more problems, but in xsi, no matter how many times i use the freeze transformation option, it just does not seem to solve the problem.
i know i must be doing something wrong, thats why id like to know what im doing wrong...
any ideas?
EDIT: i actually found out why this is happening, but its just getting weirder:
from the manual: "In softimage 3d, u can use Freeze Transformation command on nulls and other non-geometric objects. However in thesecases the transformations are actually reset instead of frozen. In xsi , use the reset command on the transform menu for the same behaviour".
ok, so i got it, but then why does xsi do the same thing on nulls if its described as a softimage 3d thing...and i havent setup any softimage 3d mode or anything.
Stranger thing is that the reset transform and the freeze transform command does exactly the same thing on nulls. why is this happening?
what im doing, is trying to redirect a character's animation, by parenting the rig
to different nulls, and then rotating them at the time where the direction change needs
to take place. the technique works like charm under maya, but, replicating the same
idea under xsi gives me headaches.
problem is, if in xsi (as in maya for that matter), u parent an animated null under another null that has some translation on it...the moment u do that, the current child inherits the parents transforms and moves in space the same amount that the parent has moved (obviously). In maya, u just freeze the transforms for the parent null, and thats it, no more problems, but in xsi, no matter how many times i use the freeze transformation option, it just does not seem to solve the problem.
i know i must be doing something wrong, thats why id like to know what im doing wrong...
any ideas?
EDIT: i actually found out why this is happening, but its just getting weirder:
from the manual: "In softimage 3d, u can use Freeze Transformation command on nulls and other non-geometric objects. However in thesecases the transformations are actually reset instead of frozen. In xsi , use the reset command on the transform menu for the same behaviour".
ok, so i got it, but then why does xsi do the same thing on nulls if its described as a softimage 3d thing...and i havent setup any softimage 3d mode or anything.
Stranger thing is that the reset transform and the freeze transform command does exactly the same thing on nulls. why is this happening?