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JBSDesigns

01-28-2008, 01:35 AM

So I'm doing a walkcycle with a character that is going to have syflex cloth on her. The walkcycle is a traditional 25 frame cycle that loops over and over. I set the graph editor to pre and post infinity so it keeps looping however long the timeline is. Okay now heres my question/problem. Since I'm using syflex cloth the cloth needs to be able to settle on the character before the animation starts into its routine. I've already animated the cycle and I tried doing a bind pose at frame 1 and let it slowly get to the start of the cycle animation starting at frame 20. Okay well since its set to looping my animation, it now loops the frames where the character moves slow to the first pose. I wan't to be able to have the 1-20 bind to first pose frames and then go into my loop walkcycle and just keep looping the cycle. How should I go about doing this. Anyone have any ideas to solve this?

Abhimation

01-29-2008, 03:02 PM

Well, i guess ill have to try doing that, but you can try BAKING the animation of the loop. Now when you have the cycle converted to Key Frames, you can give some hold in the start for the cloth to setle down on the character.

Lemme know if that was an help and worked for you.

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