Fixing an Eixisting Animation?

I have a bunch of great animations that I interchange in my AO's.....one set of 'sits' in particular is driving me nuts. The poses themselves are great.....but they make the avitar hover above what ever I am sitting on, instead of actually connecting with the object.

I had asked the creator once if there was any way to solve this and they just simply said no, it's the pose.

Well....from all I'm reading about animations here...there should be a way to fix the alignment. It happens whether I use them in an AO...or independently.....the AV hovers. Is there a way to correct it? And, if so.....I'm guessing I probably have to be the original creator to actually edit it?

Sorry, no. There isn't any way to edit animations in SL, nor is there a way to download them and edit them with an external program once they have been uploaded to SL.

If an animation will be placed in a piece of furniture or a poseball you can change the "target" inside the script and thereby offset your final position in any direction, but AOs don't work that way so you're stuck with the default position and whatever position is "baked" into the animation itself.

The origional creator can fix it if they still have the animation file. Whether they will or not is up to them.

There really needs to be an easy way to make adjustments to the animation file because of this issue. The sits probably fit the animator but because of the extreme differences in leg lengths available of course it will not work with everyone. I hope the "expressive puppetering" that LL's been working on (if ever finished) will allow people to modify their purchased animation files.

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here's my advice ...

learn to make your own animations and poses ...
its not as hard as one might think ...
plus sitting poses dont take that much time or knowledge to make

you can either use Qavimator - qavimator.org
or try Daz - daz3d.com ...

they have free program downloads

also there is plenty of info and faq's here in forums
as to how they work

that way you can make your own stuff ...
and unlike the Big Boys, and with some practice,
yours wont hover and they will be aligned properly ...
and you can hook them up with ao's if you want to

there is absolutely noooo mystique to making sitting poses


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It depends on the rights on the object, most items like that are no-mod. but you can always switch up the animation with one you like, but re-name it the exact name. most of those devices use notecards that call up the anim based on it's name. but it may also get worse. it depends on the default rotation and position of the prim that houses the scripts. you could be totally upside down, or rotated to an odd angle. you could always just buy a new AO

Thanks guys.....you pretty much answered the way I suspected. But I don't know who's question Atom was answering..not mine LOL

Anyway..I may have a go at those free programs and see what I can come up with. It looks, from all I've read, like a tedius process....then again... I AM a nerd of sorts, or I wouldn't be here in the first place. LOL