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Pru Costello
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Join date: 5 Jun 2005
Posts: 25
06-20-2005 08:26
I was wondering how you make animations, what program you use and how you upload them into the game, i want to start making some animations but i have no idea where to start.

if some1 could give a short but sweet tutorial on how to do it that would be very very helpful and this thread would be good to have as sticky for anyone else interested in starting to make animations for SL
Zapoteth Zaius
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Join date: 14 Feb 2004
Posts: 5,634
06-20-2005 08:36
Posers the program, .bvh is the format, http://www.ulrikasheim.org/animation/tutorial-basic.html is the tutorial.

Best of luck! :D

(I love these easy ones)
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Pietro Maracas
Registered User
Join date: 27 Sep 2004
Posts: 104
06-21-2005 06:42
Pru, you might want to check out the FAQs for New Animators:

/52/7b/47701/1.html

In addition to Ulrika's excellent tutorial, the FAQs point to answers for common problems you may have.

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Pru Costello
Not My President
Join date: 5 Jun 2005
Posts: 25
06-21-2005 23:58
I've made an animation but when i upload it it says:

Unable to read animation file.
*Can't get rotation values

what do i do? my animation was so cool :(
Seagel Neville
Far East User
Join date: 2 Jan 2005
Posts: 1,476
06-22-2005 00:04
This ?
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Pru Costello
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Join date: 5 Jun 2005
Posts: 25
06-22-2005 00:20
that's it! i think, i might have the T pose wrong, i'm using poser 2 models but i aint got time to try it now i'll post l8r if it works :) thanks again

it didn't work, i even tried downloading the Flap animation from the tutorial website and doing some minor changes and it did the same thing. :|
Seagel Neville
Far East User
Join date: 2 Jan 2005
Posts: 1,476
06-22-2005 22:11
hmm sorry for that.
BTW, which version of Poser are you using?
From: Cristiano Midnight
Finally, if you are using Poser 6, make sure you download the service release for it from the Poser web site. Without the service release, Poser 6 exports do not work with SL without extra work.
Oh, and addtionally, you can try to use Ben Linden's excellent works from here. You might figure out what's wrong with yours. Do your best. ;)
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Pru Costello
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Join date: 5 Jun 2005
Posts: 25
06-22-2005 23:08
i'm using 6! i'll try and find that thing on their website then.