Create walk animation with Poser

I have started to do with Poser. I want to do a walking animaton but I noticed that is not easy to do walk in Poser. I dont know that my avatar moves around. I can move the legs but he is all time on same place. How can I do that avatar moves. It means that he walk.

All walk animations really walk in place. The movement is not part of the animation. You have to put your walk into an animation overrider so the regular SL walk is replaced by your walk.

I have done a walk animation in Poser and transfer in SL where I use Animation overrider (A0). You can look this on web site: http://lebinca.com/hoja_zhao.wmv. My walk animation is not walk. It is sliding and moving the legs. Why? It is possibly to do a good walk animation in Poser. Must I use the walk path and Walk Designer. What is these two tools (walk path and walk designer) intention? Can I do walk animation with Casual Man P2? I will move his legs as walk in real life. My problem is that Casual Man P2 in Poser doesnt walk as in RL. How can I do walk animation by my wishes in Poser? Can I get instruction about animation of walk on internet?

Hallo Jano,

I have to admit that actually animating a walk for an SL AO is the most difficult thing I have done in Poser. I didn't find the walk path and walk designer any help at all. I don't think they were meant for making an AO type animation.

Your video looks like you are not using the knee and ankle joints or any body movement like arm swing and slight turn of the abdomen - so that makes it look more like sliding than walking.

It is best to download the SL avatars from the SL website and get them into Poser and use those, but you can use the Poser 2 figure.

One way you could try is to download the SL animations from the SL web site (download page). This gives you a whole lot of bvh files. Import the SL walk bvh into Poser and modify it - every single frame will probably have to be adjusted.

I am sure there are lots of other approaches to the job, but that is one way you could try.

Good luck

Deira, I struggle with a walk too. Did you ditch the Walk Designer altogether, and make one from scratch? One problem I have with the WD is that I seem to have trouble making a hitch-free loop. Another problem is that the legs and arm swing all seem too...barbaric?

I've not yet managed to get anything useful with Walk Designer - maybe I need a lot more practice. I have also found it much easier to make a "character" walk than a nice natural one. It seems much easier to make an exaggerated movement - my thought is that the walking motion has a lot of very subtle movements in shoulders and chest, hip and ankle etc., so it is a hard one to key frame.

IMO normal walking is an example of a good application for mocap.

I did just make a plausible walk from scratch by closely studying the movements in the Poser walk designer. The walk designer messes up the arms of the SL avatar, but from the hips down it was a useful guide. I copied down some parameter dial settings at various stages of the walk and tried to incorporate these into my own walk. The result is not bad -- a bit slow, with not enough bend at the unweighted knee, but a decent start.