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wasbubs
12-01-2008, 07:48 PM
I've been trying this for a few minutes now. I created a character set of my character. I've never used them before so I thought I'd try it out. but I have a problem with copying and pasting frames. Doesn't work. Is it possible like keyframe animation without useing character sets I could just copy a frame and past it like normal. I want to copy my first frame and past it to the last so that the animation will loop better.

Also on a related note. when I was animating today I did notice the the autokey didn't work with the character in a character set. which is odd because it worked yesterday with another animation.

any Ideas would be helpful.
DruG
12-01-2008, 09:16 PM
When you want to copy a pose, you have to deselect everything and obviously have your Character Set selected.

When I copy/paste with anything selected I get weird transformations.


Autokey works only on objects that already have a key.
wasbubs
12-01-2008, 11:35 PM
that doesn't seem to work. I made sure my character set was selected. and I made sure nothing else was selected. I copied and pasted the frame but it still didn't work.

It did though put a red tick on the frame I was pasting to. but none of the animation from the frame I copied from copied over.
wasbubs
12-01-2008, 11:40 PM
Oh man... weird transformations is right... I was scrubbing through just the frames I wanted. 1-17 but when I went beyond that a leg just kicks the air randomly for like 100 frames...

WTF is up with that? Are character sets good to use? I thought them and trax were supposed to be a great new option for animation... So far they've slowed me down instead of sped me up...

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here.
DruG
12-02-2008, 07:03 AM
Me neither. It`s hard to guess.

I use it on daily basis and usually don`t have any problems. Usually ;)
wasbubs
12-02-2008, 07:10 AM
Cool. Thank for the help though.

I'll just keep using it and hopefully learn how to avoid the problems...
DruG
12-02-2008, 08:14 AM
Oh, btw, when you want to copy pose on only a part of your rig (ex. hands), then you have to turn off your Character Set.

If you won`t you`ll get those weird transformations.
wasbubs
12-02-2008, 10:42 PM
OH! Good news. that actually what I was trying to do. but, I'm away from maya right now, wont deselection the character set remove the keys from the timeline?
DruG
12-02-2008, 11:37 PM
It will, yeah. But you can turn it on again after you copy what you want to copy.

And don`t worry, your keys will be waiting for you there ;) :D
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