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Bipdiddly
10-20-2010, 12:44 PM
Your help appreciated on a looping problem... Two characters in the scene. The female’s hands are following the male’s hips via Aux Effectors & Parent/Child constraints. The problem comes when I try to loop her animation seamlessly. I create a new pose from the first frame and paste it onto the last frame with the character selected. All looks good as the final frame is indeed replaced with a copy of the first frame. But then when I add a key frame, it loses the copy and the final frame returns to its original position. Any idea what I am doing that is probably really dumb?
chewbacca007
10-21-2010, 03:00 PM
Hi,

Are you pasting on a new layer? After pasting be sure and key it.

-=Chris
Bipdiddly
10-21-2010, 04:34 PM
I am creating a new layer in FCurves, deleting the old pose and pasting it while that new layer is selected (if that is what you mean). Of course, the character body is selected when I paste too. If it's relevent, the rest of the character seems to loop ok, it's just the arms that move as they have Aux Effectors attached and are parented to the other character.
bclark
10-21-2010, 08:46 PM
Make sure you only Paste with Match T on. Also I would just parent the AUX ctrls in and not use constraints.
Bipdiddly
10-27-2010, 06:52 PM
Ok, I tried it without constraints as you suggested and had Match T on (and R), but problem persisted. By 'parenting the AUX ctrls in and not using constraints', I assume you meant just creating an Aux Effector on the wrist, then dragging the effector to the other model's hips and 'parenting' directly from the drop down menu. If that's not what you meant, I would be grateful for directions.

Nevertheless, I found this workaround (though it seems weird)... I paste the new pose onto the last frame (with a zero frame a few frames before that), but then pasted the pose onto the first frame too (with another zero a few frames later). It works, but how so I have no idea - would be useful to figure out what actually the problem is.

Also, why is parenting without constraints better do you think?
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