Timeline Help - How to 'warp' characters without the ragdoll physics between animations

[thisguy7890]

Hi everyone,

I have a question with Timeline that I was hoping you all could help with. I'm new to the tool, so please forgive me if I'm overlooking something obvious or if there are instructions for this I could reference. Did a lot of searching but couldn't find an answer.

I'm trying to set up a scene where I'm moving one model around a room. For example, let's say I want to have two animations, one where the model is standing in one corner of the room and another where she is lying down in the bed. How can I set up the animations / layers / segments so that when I play the standing animation, she 'warps' to the standing position without ragdolling and breaking the physics? And then if I play the lying in bed animation, how can I warp her there from the standing position without her flying across the room?

I watched the YouTube tutorials and reviewed the wiki, but didn't have any luck. Any guidance or references would be appreciated.

Thank you!

 

[SlimerJSpud]

Other than creating transition animations to make the character move smoothly, what you can do is "fade to black" in between. The VamOverlays plugin does that.

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[rokoc]

in animation 1 in timeline under the Pose tab, create the pose, click "use current pose/overwrite pose" then check "Apply pose on transition" at the bottom of the pose tab

do the same for each animation.

 

[thisguy7890]

@SlimerJSpud thank you, I will definitely want to use this for more fluid transitions. Wasn't sure what this was, but know it from other scenes, so appreciate it.

@rokoc - awesome, got it to work this way, thank you. Good to go for now.