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feet slide when I dont want them too

jamie Cheeky
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Join date: 19 Jun 2006
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04-23-2007 03:57
Hi I'm creating an animation where I want the body (hip) to move forward but not the feet, in poser all is fine and dandy and the feet stay in one spot however in sl the feet slide forward with the hip .....i created the move fwd with inverse kinetics ..is this my problem?? is there any easier way that to adjust the legs with every hip move without inverse kinetics? or do I just have to accept the feet will slide? hopefully that makes sense lol thanks in advance
Johan Durant
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Join date: 7 Aug 2006
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04-23-2007 08:00
To a certain extent you just have to accept that the feet will slide (ie. they will never be perfectly still,) although there are things you can do to minimize the problem. Somewhat paradoxically, one thing that may help is to actually move the legs more (or rather, move the hips more, since moving the hips with IK on automatically animates the feet to stay in place.)

The issue here is that when you upload animations, SL optimizes the data by removing really small movements, on the assumption that such finicky data is just waste. Thing is, keeping the feet in place involves a lot of small movements, so if the hips aren't moving much then the legs will have lots of really small movements that get optimized out, with the result that the feet aren't moving at all. I am referring here to moving in the forward kinematics sense of motion relative to the hips; the feet will be jumping around relative to the ground.
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