Priority and anim upload issues HELP PLEASE?

Okay, two things. Does anyone have a listing of what the priorities do and how the walking, standing, sitting, etc. option means? I've uploaded several hundred L$ of worthless anims because I don't know what the hell I'm doing, nor can I find help anywhere or from anyone with this. Also, my preview doesn't seem to work right. When I load the anim into the preview screen, it scrunches the model up into a ball and I can't see what it's doing. THough when I play them after uploading they play fine. Can someone PLEASE HELP ME?

There is a bug on the animation preview, if you are around lag or a good number of people, the preview doesn't work properly... so you will have to go somewhere low traffic...

Priorities, I don't the exact terms of these but...

Priprity 1-2 will allow most other default animations to still work while using this
3-4 will allow little to no default animations to work while using this

I haven't noticed a difference in 1 & 2 or in 3 & 4 ... although I am sure there is... I only use either 2 or 4 depending what my animation is for.

Well..... I don't think I can touch you on the animations....

but I set most of my animations to priority three, in the hopes that the head and arms that are not part of the animation do whatever they are supposed to do, while the parts of the body that are included still do what THEY are supposed to do. It seems to work for the sorts of things that I do.

But it's all touch and go for me. I usually upload an animation half a dozen times to make adjustments and then say "screw it, close enough". Those new avatars for poser are a great help though.

Generally, I set all of my poses/animations to priority 3, except for any poses that need to override the sit pose, which is priority 4. I don't use priority 1/2 because I find the animation stopping when you laugh to do a completely different animation to be rather jarring. If you want the head or other body part to remain free, there are other techniques that you use (removing the keyframes from the head, for example) - stick to priority 3 for most of your animations and you will be fine.

the walking, sitting, standing options are there so you can see how the animation will look if an av is walking, sitting, standing or flying. These are how you know what priority you want your animation to be. They do not actually affect the uploaded animation.

For instance if you want an animation that only spins your head around, without interfering with walking, flying, etc, you can upload the animation and put the preview into walking, standing, flying, etc and play the animation at different priorities to see which works best.

Basicly to learn the priorities just takes experimentation and experience.

As far as the preview window being buggy, i usually go up to about 200m to work on animations.