Let me preface this question first by saying I've already figured a work around for the lack of knowledge articulated below, but I would like to have done this in a manner that takes fuller advantage of this software's great features relating to re-usability.

Okay, here's the problem:

I have a character that I need to take quick, intermittent(sp) breaths over the course of an eight second choreography. I created a 10 frame breathing action. I want it to repeat, basically, every 30 frames, holding the last frame. Frames 1 and 10 are identical. For some reason (and I think it has something to do with the blend method) the subsequently placed breathing actions seem to mush the character's mouth together. I've tried a variety of blend methods and holding and not holding the last frame, etc, etc, same results.

I know this is simply my lack of understanding re-usability and overloading, and I would love to know what I'm doing wrong? I'm sure it's something simple.

It seems like, because frames 1 and 10 are identical and it's set to "hold last frame" and "replace", there shouldn't be any problems, but.... .

My much more unelagant solution has been to simply make one 8 second long breathing actions that places the breaths where I want them. This solution works perfectly fine for me, but now, as a matter of learning, I want to know how to do it with 10 frame, multiple instances of the same action.

Sterling

Care to post your project file?

Luckbat, thanks for the response.

I'd rather not post THE project file(call me anally paranoid, plus I think I'd be violating some contract agreement I made somewhere.), but I will post a similar example of what I'm talking about.

Edit: Attatched is a proj file illustrating my problem/lack of understanding.

I think I'm going to have to build a transition hold/action between the breathing actions. I would've thought setting each to hold last frame and replace would have done the trick, but I'm missing something about how those features work.

Sterling

Cool, I'll take a look at it in a little while.

By the way, you aren't just stacking eight individual actions in a row, are you? Because you can just use one and set its repeat value to "8."

P.S. Also, isn't calling someone "anally paranoid" like saying they're homophobic? Sorry, forget I brought it up.

Um, you might want to embed some of those actions and weapons in the project file. All that loads up is a model of "Her" and an empty choreography...

Srmjr (hmm... how does one pronounce that?)

What's the basis for this action? Is it muscle, or skeletal?

Frames 1 and 10 are identical; are they the same as the model's "rest" position? If so, you could get rid of "Show Last Frame" or change your blend method to "Blend" and animate the percentage to 0%.

I'll try to take a look once you've posted an updated project. No promises though, as I have some sort of cold thing and my head feels like a balloon.

"doh!!" Sorry about forgetting to embed! I'll fix that here in a minute.

Obviously my sense of time is greatly distorted, ie, "minute" being 36 hours or so. Sorry about that. I couldn't figure out the trouble I was having re-attaching the file. I thought it was a problem I was having with my wireless connection, until I realized it was the file size that was to big. "duh."

Oh well, hope this clarifies my issue.

Sterling