Realy easy to use (once you get the hang of it) . Great way of reusing animations and in my opinion a lot easier to use than timeline. Ju add a starting state, the end state and press play.
1- Add an animation
2- Add a layer
3- Go to captures tab and add controllers you want to animate
4- Go to state tab and add a state
5 (optional) - If you don't want to repeat steps 1,2,3,4 ever again, save the animation as it is right now, then just load it next time
6- Add another state
7- Change the position of the controller
8- Click "Capture State" in state tab
9- Go to transitions tab, add a transition between the states. Now click the "IN" box to make it two-directional
10- Go to the play tab and watch the controller go back and forth between the two states
Seems a lot just to see things happening? Don't worry, because with these 10 steps you already learned 90% of the plugin functionality, and the amount of extremely powerful stuff you can do with these simple building blocks is baffling.
Haven't played around a lot, but it works very nicely. I made similar randomized states using state machine from Logic Bricks, but this is much faster and easier. Great job.
a lot promising, I hope I can use at least some elementary functions considering even my chronic personal very (very) basic skill when loading our good acid-timeline plugin. Thanks for sharing it!
Man, just reading the concept ... I've had a similar idea bouncing in my head for over a year, but wasn't able to either comprehensively explain it to MacGruber, or code it myself.
And now you serve it up on a platter, you wonderful genius!
If you are TOO lost, check IdlePoser's manual.
Quick starter:
1- Add an animation
2- Add a layer
3- Go to captures tab and add controllers you want to animate
4- Go to state tab and add a state
5 (optional) - If you don't want to repeat steps 1,2,3,4 ever again, save the animation as it is right now, then just load it next time
6- Add another state
7- Change the position of the controller
8- Click "Capture State" in state tab
9- Go to transitions tab, add a transition between the states. Now click the "IN" box to make it two-directional
10- Go to the play tab and watch the controller go back and forth between the two states
Seems a lot just to see things happening? Don't worry, because with these 10 steps you already learned 90% of the plugin functionality, and the amount of extremely powerful stuff you can do with these simple building blocks is baffling.