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Zaplok Riggles
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05-15-2008 14:08
Let's say I have an animation that during its playing moves someone a few meters to the right. When the animation ends, the person "bounces" back to where he was when the animation started. Is there any way to keep that from happening? I know he's going to go back into the standing around pose I just don't want him to physically move back a few meters to his starting point. How do people with linked dance animations in those dance balls keep the avatar from jerking back to his starting position?
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Ordinal Malaprop
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05-15-2008 15:03
The animation has to move the person back. Either one alters the animation to do that, or, if it is a looping one and can't be modified, time the point when you wish to have the person move back, make your own animation that has a reasonable "move backwards" appearance, then stop the first animation at the right time and start playing yours, then restart the original one when yours finishes.
Bit irritating really, I know.
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Brandi Lane
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05-15-2008 21:04
Another way to handle this, assuming you are the creator of the animation, is to create the animation all in place, then move the avatar through other means. For instance, if this animation plays through a poseball and the animation didn't move the avatar at all, you could move the poseball instead. Then when the animation was done, unseat the avatar and presto, he stays where you left him.
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Deira Llanfair
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05-16-2008 02:01
....and if you just want to stop at the end of the animation and not move until you stop the animation (or stand up from the pose ball) then loop it on the last frame when you upload. You do that by setting the percentages to something like 99.9% -100% - depends on the length of the animation and you may need to try different values out.
In regards to looped dance animations - you have to make the very last frame of the animation the same as the second frame, that is, finish it exactly as you started - but to be honest, you can usually see the slight jump even in the best made ones.
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