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DAZ Help/Question - Copying keyframes?

Moonshy Littlething
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Join date: 28 Apr 2008
Posts: 72
04-26-2009 06:47
After learning the basics in Quavimator, I recently "graduated" to DAZ for the next step in my learning, and it's going pretty well so far, but I have run across one question I can't quite seem to figure out for myself...

How do you copy keyframes (or poses within the animation itself) to another part of the sequence?

I created a nice animation that I am digging so far, but I wanted to copy the first part of the pose to the end to give me a clean loop, and for the life of me, I can't figure out how! lol

Any help is appreciated...

Thank you!

~Moonshy Littlething
Galena Qi
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Join date: 9 Sep 2006
Posts: 249
04-26-2009 07:12
DAZ doesn't make it easy, do they? The program documentation leaves a lot to be desired. Guess that's why it's free...

Here's the procedure:

1. In the frame you want to copy, right click on your figure and pick "Select All" to select all nodes.

2. Open the Parameters window. At the far right side of that window at the top is a black triangle. Click on that to open a pulldown menu. Select "Memorize Figure Pose".

3. Go to the frame where you want to copy and select "Restore Figure Pose".

That's it. I should say, though, that I've had problems with keyframe copying in DAZ. It seems there's always some slight difference between the original and copied frame, like a small hand motion, which I have to correct using the Parameters settings. If anyone can tell me why this is, I'd be grateful.
Moonshy Littlething
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Join date: 28 Apr 2008
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04-26-2009 08:51
Doh - thank you so much - perfect. And it even looped nicely... woohoo! :)

Thanks a million!

~Moon
Spicey Honi
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Join date: 23 Jun 2008
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05-05-2009 22:00
Maybe I am making this too simple and I am no expert, but I use puppeteer to do this. While in edit, place your avie in the position you want, place a dot in puppeteer then move to the key frame you want, select that dot you made in puppeteer, and once there set the key. I am sure I am not using the correct terminology but it works for my amateur animations, *S*
Galena Qi
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Join date: 9 Sep 2006
Posts: 249
05-12-2009 09:57
Your method sounds a lot easier than mine, but I can't figure out how to do it. Could you describe the exact sequence? I haven't used Puppeteer for a long time and am not sure how which radio buttons to select to set keyframes.