I am working on an action that has two actions combined.

I want my character to walk along a path, blend into the next action but stopped on the path, complete the action and then walk on the path again. I can get the transition between the first and second actions but the character moves on the path continuously. What am I doing wrong?

Steve




Ok I found it it was the enforcement of the path. But the transistion from the first to the second is not working. I want it to blend inot the next action and I have it set but it is not blending it is replacing. Any thoughts

Steve

I am able to move now from one action to the next but the blending is way off. If I add a third chor action the second one stops working.

Here is what I am doing:

Character constrain to path
added a walk cycle
stop character in the model of the walk
add second chor action
start walking again
added third chor action

The first two were working but the blending was incorrect. During the second action it was like the first was hold last frame. But the second action worked. At the end of the second action the the character began to walk again.

I added a third action and the walking and the third action are working at the same time and this correct. But when I scrub back through the time line the second action is not working and I can not edit or move any bones during the time of that action

Any thoughts? I have looked at the tutorial and printed copies but I can not get it going

Steve

Steve,
Have you seen the Walk and Wave demonstration?
As it would be rather hard to print I imagine you are refering to a different tutorial.
Not sure what tutorial you are referring to.

http://www.hash.com/vm/ (Look all the way at the bottom)

or directly: http://www.s1.hashmirror.com/ftp/VM/pathease/index.html

Hi Rodney

Thanks for reminding about this one. I found one on the forum from 2004 that blended three actions together. Needless to say I can not get it to work. I got this one to work but the transition between the actions is way beyond believable.

Steve

Steve,
You might experiment with the gap between actions... overlap a little... overlap a lot... leave a small space between them... leave a large space between them.

The effect you are after will dictate what you'll want to do.
Sometimes the computer can interpret what you want and sometimes it can't.
I'll recommend a larger gap to start with.

Moving along the path would most likely be solved via that path action's ease but I think you've worked with that. It's been too long since I did action blending myself. I'm so rusty.

Rodney

Hi Rodney

I simple could not figure it out and animate in chor instead of actions. I will keep working on this and hopefully the lite will go on

Steve