Blending Poses

I have seperate poses in my AO that blend from one to another smoothly. How do people make it blend like this in Poser? I have Poser 5. Thank you.

I am not quite sure what you mean by blend. I assume you either mean you can use 2 different poses and they will look like they combine or that one transitions into the next nicely.

The first (combined animations) is a result of 2 things.
a) You do not have to keyframe all links in the animations file. So for example if you make a walk animation and you only keyframe the waist and below then SL will let any other animation have free run of the waist up when they play. So you could.. walk with your walk (legs only) and do badger badger with the rest of the body. hah.

b) Higher priority animations hijack control of any keyframed links of animations lower than them. So for example if you make a level 3 or 4 animation where your head spins around like a freak of nature and only keyframe the head/neck then your avatar will go about normally dancing, jumping, flying, whatever while this animation plays.. except with uh.. a spinning head. (for this reason I hate when people upload level 4 animations for unimportant crap).

If you mean transitions instead of combinations of animations this is simply a factor of ease in and ease out setting when uploading. As a matter of fact if you do a looping 1 frame pose and then set a big ease in and easy out you can switch between still poses pretty convincingly. This is useful for making aim poses on guns and such things where you have no idea what the end user will be doing when the animation starts/stops and you want it to look smooth.

And a final note. To remove a keyframe from specific joints is pretty easy. It is done under the keyframe editor.

I was referring to the transition method. So for example, if there are two poses, I would want the two to tween or blend from one pose to another. I will experiment some more and try out the ease in/out that you mentioned and maybe even mess with priority some.

Thanks much Blain.