Problem when making stilts

Hi all,

I wanna make a pair of stilts. I want them to be attachments. I have asked the questions about how to change the height of the avatar on the Scripting Tips forum. The answer I got was to use an animation or animations to change the avatar's height. I know I should change the offset of hip in animation softwares, but I don't really know exactly how to do it. So could anyone give me a tutorial on how to do that? (I have Poser 6 and Avimator.)

Thanks in advance!

Chicken

In avimator when you click on the avatar's hips you will see a second set of sliders to adjust the position. If you move the Y position slider you will move the entire avatar upwards or downwards.

I just tried it. If you load the default SL walk which is 14 frames and from the 2nd frame onward you select the hip and move the Y position upward. You'll end up with the sl walk that has been raised off the ground.

Yes, that seems like the best solution. For a simple fix, just create a two-frame pose in Qavimator, with the second frame having the hips however far in the air as is appropriate for your stilts (and no other changes). Upload this as a priority 4 animation, looping at 100%. Then put that animation in your stilts and have a script in them which, when attached, starts the animation.

Note that the wearer may look a bit odd occasionally. For a start, people on stilts don't walk like people on the ground, and since the av is always raised by X metres in the air, if they're lying down or sitting the position won't be right, they'll be hovering in the air. For more realisitc behaviour you will have to have a number of different custom animations that trigger in different situations, a sort of mini-AO (or you could have the animations in a _real_ AO).

Thank you so much, Ordinal and Bree. Your answers are great!! Thank you thank you...