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Date: Sun, 8 Jan 1995 11:37:49 -0700 (MST)
From: Eric Case <eric@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu>
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Subject: Re: Two problems.
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On Sun, 8 Jan 1995, Rowan Crawford wrote:
> 1. It states in the manual that pressing "r" when using bones in
> layout makes the bones currect size, direction and position become
> it's "rest" position, but it doesn't appear to fully work. It works
> for position and rotation, but not for size. I could not find any
> mention of it changing either.
>
> I can see another button there which should do it, but I'm just
> wondering why "r" doesn't work. Would make things easier anyway.
"r" works fine for me, you problem may be trying to use size to change
the rest length. When editing bones you will fine a button for
"Rest Length." If this is what you are using, I don't know what to tell you.
>
> 2. I have set up a 30 frame animation of something swinging back and
> forth. When I creat a wireframe preview, the point where it goes
> from frame 30 back to 1 is very rigid - I want it to be smooth.
>
> I tried adding continuity etc to both end points, clicking
> buttons, praying etc, but i cannot get the animation to have a
> smooth transition at that jump. How do I do that?
Are you start and end key frames in the same space (like fig 2)?
fig 1 Frame 0 Frame 30
/ \
/ \
/ \
* *
fig 2 Frame 0 and 30 Frame 15
/ \
/ \
/ \
* *
>
> Thanks,
> Row.
>
> PS. is there a way to save the wireframe previews? (v3.5 SA)
No. :( It needs some code from the Toaster lib I think, I was told it
will be fixed in 4.0. :) Hope all this helps.
-Eric
>
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Eric Case INTERNET: eric@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu