Search using “DynaPIP”. It’s the one titled “Dynamic Parenting In Place”.
Trust me when I say that there is NOT an expression that does it. I don’t want to go over this all over again (I’ve banged on about this one too many times, as have others) - Do the search, read the post and you’ll get the whole idea and why all the work arounds and other seemingly useful plugins and expressions don’t work. Not grumpy, just too tired to go over it all again.
I have been in favor of videos over documentation simply coz IMO they are not only easier/faster to make but also you could get along with something simpler, not like docs that usually need to be worked a lot lot more.
Other plz Taron if in your view the zomby keys is “controversial” issue, then make a video showing why are they so good and how to avoid the problems they create.
One more this is not joke make a paypal donate link there is nothing wrong with it and maybe if you want we could accumulate donations to xchange them for a pro upgrade.
Make one online course Messiah-Rendering And SFX-101 charge for it at least 390 and offer a messiah workstation bundle for 150 more.
key shortcut - complete options
customizable interface
“traditional” selection / de-selection
and NO more noise on “dense” mesh…(at least for quad only meshs…)!
ok that clears out the matter for me. Maybe i would have voted for this one too, but again this is a missing function, i am more on usability
I thought I’s take this opportunity to link more directly the fantastic bugTracker, that Stooch set up and manages. If you encounter a bug or an issue, you can report it there and telll others about it to get more feedback. Hopefully this will aid the pmG team
One thing I’ve also got high on my list of wishes is consistent behavior of multi-selected objects.
edit:
after reading up on the dynaPIP, it seems that might be too involved for the quick fix we’re discussing. Well, let’s see what the team has to say.
Zombie keys I assume are those inactive keyframes that decide to become active when you use the dopemaster? I don’t see how that could possibly ever be good for anything. It’s the number one bug that drives me up the wall when using messiah.
Yes, the inactive keys. There’s nothing controversial about them, I’ve yet to hear someome say the like them, let alone love them. On the other hand, everyone who has spoken of them dislikes them and I have heard a LOT of people say they hate them…me being one of those.
They are like a little gremlin in the computer that keeps screwing with you whilst you try to work.
I don’t have a problem with inactive keys themselves as long as they don’t magically become active when I start dragging keys in the dopesheet/dopemaster. You can already hide them, that’s good enough for me as long as that damn dope bug gets squashed.
Great that you love them Fred but it would be nice if those of us that did not, had the option to not have them activate when we don’t want them to. I tend to work now in ways in which I don’t run up against them much but when I do I curse pmG for there existence. The expletives do fly.
And I want more lil tutorial videos from you Fred. Every one you have done have been both super informative and crazy funny… a double threat! :buttrock:
Fred, do you never run into the bug with inactive keys magically becoming active and ruining your animation? I never had a problem with the concept of inactive keys until that bug popped up. I don’t care if inactive keys remain in the program and I have found them useful from time to time, but I’d rather lose them altogether than continue with that awful bug.
There’s also the issue of them re-activating when you click on an armature at a time that contains an inactive key. Your armature that you’re planning on moving five pixels to the right to get a better arc suddenly goes flying off into the middle of nowhere (where the inactive keyframe is actually). Drives me bananas!
Said one of the people responsible for their implementation!?!?! That’s assumed given that you or one of your team coded them BUT every experience I have of discussing them on this forum suggests that everyone (and that’s a bold but true experience) wants them to be either removed completely or have an option to de-activate them permenantly. It is VERY rare to get a completely one sided debate on such an issue. Normally at best you’d get 75% saying they hate them and 25% saying they love them but that simply isn’t the case. It seems like an obvious way to please a lot of people.
I recognise it’s easy for me to sit here and ask for such features to be removed. I don’t have to do the work BUT are you really unconvinced that people are unanimously requesting the same thing?
I had nothing to do with creating them, and had never even even thought of the idea before. What I like about them is the ability to watch an animation play and turn keys on and off to see the difference (or do it while stopped on a frame). I also like that I can deactivate keys without losing them forever like with deleting them. But I’m all for modifications that would let them work better for people, like making them so they don’t turn on when they’re not supposed to, or even having the option of not using them.
By the way, don’t let the poll results fool you. Sure there are a lot of votes for getting rid of inactive keys, but there’s no option to say “keep them, I like them.” For all we know, there might be a lot of votes for “keep them” or “keep them but improve them.”
Fred
Hi Fred - cool that you show up here :buttrock:
all fine and dandy what you are saying - it is just the sad truth that they every single time we here don´t need them they appear to get in the way… :sad:
Its for sure an interesting concept - it just doesn´t really work for most people as it seems - I don´t mean the voters, more everyone I talk about the issue… Sorry, but the current implementation surely causes more trouble than its worth…
Hi Fred,
You are quite right, there wasn’t the “I like them” option - the reason is that the forum has debated them on a few occassions and the overwhelming feeling is that they are unwanted in their CURRENT form. I am confident that if they never became active without user consent(!) then people would live happily with them and see them as a feature to use every now and then…or even grow to like them! In their current form, with the re-activation bugs, they are very very frustrating.
I’m not one to beg but I BEG you, please either remove them, have them optionally disabled or fix the associated bugs (listed below)
I don’t know how long it would take to sort it? Can you tell me?
Edit: If you like, I can doa straight poll on inactive keys, I think you would be very surprised by the results! Fancy a go?
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