Holding an arm stationary?

Hello! I hope you can help - I've made a prim cloak that hangs across the left shoulder to cover the left arm... Obviously this causes a whole lot of clipping ^_~

I've been trying to work out a way to put in an animation overrider to hold the left arm stationary, but otherwise let things animate as normal, but I've not had much luck finding anything out about it... Part of that is that everyone just refers to Ulrika's tutorial, which is gone now.

Is it even possible to animate just one body part?

I'd really appreciate any help you can give me ^_^

I would suppose that you could. If I for some reason forget to move something, SL takes over so I would guess that it would work if that was the result that you wanted. I think I also remember Seagel talking about not animating the bottom 1/2.

But if you are doing just the arm, make sure to animate the collar, shoulder, forarm, and wrist. Move each of these at least a little bit (to make sure that you have indeed moved them and the animation will take over), then move them so it is posed the way that you need it.

Make it 2 frames, keep the 1st frame as the default, export to BVH and then upload into SL to see if it works. Don't forget to set to priority 3 or 4 and click the box that says loop.

well, u could use a posing stand, its widely available everywhere for free, u can try yandi's junkyard.

Thanks luth, I guess I'll keep trying to work out the animation basics ^_^

Gyro, unfortunately it's more of a problem for when moving or (Especially) typing... the cape hangs over the left shoulder and completely covers the left arm, so when that arm moves it clips out of the cape and looks silly ^_~