Editing Cycling Animaiton

[dwalden74]

Hi-

Unfortunately there´s no direct way to bake out cycled animationin Maya (like Soft3D´s "Freeze Cycle" option)... Unless of course there´s a script on highend that does it (haven´t checked). However you can simply set your pre- and post- infinity settings to "constant", then copy all your keys, and paste them while specifying a value in the "Copies" parameter of the Paste Keys Options. This will paste mulitple copies of your keys, effectively "baking" your cycle... If AW is listening, a fast "Freeze Cycle" function in the Graph Editor menu would be indeed useful.

:beer:
David

[dmcgrath]

Maya has a special clip option that does all this for you. You can take your character's keyed attributes and make a clip out of them. Then you can tell the clip to cycle say five times. The clip will stop at the end of its cycles, then you make the other animation where you want it and can add the walk cycle clip back in at a later point.

[bentllama]

you don't need TRAX to do this...

1) select objects you want to cycle
2) set post infinity>cycle
3) set your timeline to play 5 cycles
4) bake objects to be cycled with SPARSE CURVE BAKE option on

[ajsfuxor]

Thanks for the help guys!

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