Question Building Animations From Poses in Timeline

[TripleR]

I've been working on a scene and I've already made several animations for that scene in Timeline. I wanted to create a new animation with the starting keyframes loaded from a static pose that I've downloaded. Is this possible?

Adding a new animation in Timeline always seems to grab it's starting keyframes from a past animation. I've loaded in poses and gone to the "Pose" tab in Timeline where I'm able to load it in but it doesn't seem to change the keyframes because once I start the animation, it always goes back to whatever was there before.

Thank you for any and all information that you can give!

 

[Acid Bubbles]

Hi there! I'll be guessing a little, but these things might help:

- In Timeline, only nodes you actually added as targets will be animated. So if your pose has different targets than the previous one, it will be overwritten.
- Poses will re-apply all nodes, so that's good, but it will also overwrite any on/off or physics settings you set, just make sure that's what you want.
- By default, animations are looped, meaning the last frame is going to be the same as the first frame. You can untick the Loop toggle in the Edit tab, and the last frame will become editable. You can also go to the last keyframe and select Del(ete) if it still loops after ticking it off.
- Loading a pose will not "set" the keyframe. You can set all keyframes at once in More, Advanced Keyframe Tools. So, load the pose, keyframe all, and now the keyframes should have the pose too!

Let me know if that helped

 

[TripleR]

Oh hey! Thank you so much for your reply, Acid Bubbles! I'm very new here but I already love the tools that you've brought to this community.

This worked! I was missing that step in the Advanced Keyframe options. That makes things so much easier! Thanks for pointing that out. This will save a lot of time on animating scenes if I can set some of them up with already existing poses. ?

 

[Jocks3D]

Thank you @Acid Bubbles and @TripleR for this information! I've been struggling with this exact same situation, creating poses to build a smooth animation in Timeline. Deleting the Loop and setting the keyframes was all that was needed. You guys kept me from giving up on this!

I have a few additional questions:

1. Is there any way to see which targets are being used when I create and save a pose? Currently I believe my poses are saving more targets than are actually needed. For example, when I import a pose into Timeline and set the keyframes the Eye Target shows up but I don't recall using that in my pose.
2. Is there a recommended smoothing setting for this technique? I suppose I could try each one but thought I'd ask because I assume others have already done the trial and error so why re-invent the wheel? LOL
3. What is the best method for saving and importing poses, with the Pose Presets or with the Control Physics 1 tab? I tried the Pose Presets but did not seem to get good results, probably because I didn't have the right status options checked.

 

[Acid Bubbles]

1. The Pose tab in Timeline will save everything; all node states, physics settings, etc. It's a safe way to get a clean starting point for your animation, and it's independent on what you actually animate.
2. Not really, you have SmoothMoves which really smoothes everything but also reduces hard movements, Reduce which keeps extremes but smoothes a little.
3. With Timeline I'd recommend using the Pose tab, you can load them however you see fit (e.g. the Pose presets) but to keep it in Timeline, go to the Pose tab.

 

[lc581811]

你好呀！我会猜测一些，但这些事情可能会有所帮助：

- 在时间轴中，只有您实际添加为目标的节点才会被动画化。因此，如果您的姿势具有与前一个姿势不同的目标，它将被覆盖。
- 姿势将重新应用所有节点，所以这很好，但它也会覆盖您设置的任何开/关或物理设置，只需确保这就是您想要的。
- 默认情况下，动画是循环的，这意味着最后一帧将与第一帧相同。您可以取消选中“编辑”选项卡中的“循环”开关，最后一帧将变为可编辑。如果勾选后仍然循环，您也可以转到最后一个关键帧并选择 Del(ete)。
- 加载姿势不会“设置”关键帧。您可以在“更多”、“高级关键帧工具”中一次性设置所有关键帧。因此，加载姿势、所有关键帧，现在关键帧也应该有姿势！

让我知道这是否有帮助

Hello, first of all, thank you very much for designing such a great plugin, but I have encountered a problem and hope to get your help.
The problem is that in one scene, two characters, one can save/overwrite poses normally. Another issue that has been bothering me for a long time is that there is no response after clicking on any option in "POSE". I hope to receive your guidance.

My English proficiency is not good, I hope you can be more patient!

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