Onion Skinning Crash and LW question

#1

Messiah is crashing everytime I try and use the onion skinning feature.

It gives me the standard windows “… has encountered a problem and
needs to close…” error window.

anyone got any ideas? I really need this function.

My second query concerns integration with Lightwave.

I have a rig in lightwave that I really like and can work with easily,
is there anyway to use it in messiah? I don’t know much about rigging
in messiah and I don’t know if I have time to learn it.

Am I able to block out poses using a rigged character in Lightwave
then complete the animation in messiah?

Cheers

#2

This drove me bonkers for a few days too. For me it was because I’d set the Post Frames option in the Onion Skin block to 0.

#3

You either rig and animate in Lightwave or you rig and animate in messiah

If the rig was a straight forward fk heirarchy of objects you “may” be able to block out poses and take them across, but I haven’t tried it and it’s a pretty simplistic case.

If you know how to rig in Lightwave, messiah is easy to learn and way more capable, but I reckon you’d need to allow a month to get up to speed for anything complex.

#4

I can’t even get into the onion skin options. It crashes as soon as I select onion skinning from the customize menu.

Any ideas?

#5

hmm. After you’ve loaded your scene, try right-clicking the Customize tab and make sure Onionskin->Activate is not checked. That should let you open the Onion Skin block without it crashing.

Failing that, I’d close messiah, delete C:\Documents and Settings[…your usernme…]\Local Settings\Temp\messiah\messiah4.cfg and see if that fixes it.

And if THAT doesn’t work… reinstall?

#6

Thank you so much. I had the pre/post frames at ahigh level, must’ve been the problem.

Huge help,

Cheers

#7

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