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IdlePoser Mini Tutorial - Explaining the bare basics of the powerful IdlePoser plugin.

This is a Mini Tutorial for my IdlePoser plugin. I wrote this for a discussion thread. I decided I might as well make it a resource so it can be found.

IdlePoser is an extremely powerful animation plugin that is using an alternative approach than Acid...

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MacGruber updated IdlePoser Mini Tutorial with a new update entry:

Added a Best-Practices section

I have added a Best-Practices section as well as fixed some typos.

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[MacGruber]

MacGruber updated IdlePoser Mini Tutorial with a new update entry:

Added more detail for transitions and some advanced stuff

Did another pass over the tutorial, mostly focused on extending the section explaining "Transitions".
Also added quick mentioning of "Intermediate Points" and "One-Way Transitions" in the advanced section.

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[pinosante]

Could your idle poser and particularly Anchoring, help with the problem of different body sizes? I have an animtion where a girl is leaning on a guy for support. But if the guy is smaller, she is hovering instead of leaning on his chest. Is that something which could be solvable by using an anchor?

 

[MacGruber]

Could your idle poser and particularly Anchoring, help with the problem of different body sizes? I have an animtion where a girl is leaning on a guy for support. But if the guy is smaller, she is hovering instead of leaning on his chest. Is that something which could be solvable by using an anchor?

Within reason, yes, it can help somewhat. However, note that you may still need to adjust animation / control node positions for the guy.

If character height changes or some morphs change the character too much in a way that would require angle or finger morph changes for the touching hand for example, there is simply nothing that can be done. Anchors simply mean "place this control in this distance with this relative rotation to that other control". While very powerful for animated characters, it isn't magic ?‍

 

[pinosante]

Within reason, yes, it can help somewhat. However, note that you may still need to adjust animation / control node positions for the guy.

If character height changes or some morphs change the character too much in a way that would require angle or finger morph changes for the touching hand for example, there is simply nothing that can be done. Anchors simply mean "place this control in this distance with this relative rotation to that other control". While very powerful for animated characters, it isn't magic ?‍

Thank you for your explanation!