Plugins + Scripts Timeline

[KajaGoo]

Hi, does anyone know how to make it work? NextAnimation and NextLayer are working fine, but NextSegment (and PreviousSegment) are not working and can't be triggered. Test button does not work either. I created a clean scene and added 2 UIButtons with triggers. Then created 2 simple segments with pose only. When I click the buttons, they do not switch segments. I tested it with other scenes too.

I know that Next/Previous Segment option has been added in the latest update, may be it is broken?

I tried to make it another way - using Logic Bricks, but it is a pain, I have to add every single segment to the brick and if I want to switch animations set, I have to change all the bricks again.

@Acid Bubbles

 

[KajaGoo]

After creating an animation, "detaching" and "moving" the "root" of the character seems to completely break the animation.

IS there a way to fix it?
As in fix the animation retaining the new position of the root?

You do not detach the root node from the character to move root node. Here's how I move the root node alone:

Remember that all active controls on the atom have to be included in Timeline. For example, if you have a pelvis atom active on the atom and it is not present on the Timeline, moving root node my way is going to break animation. You just have to add those nodes to Timeline (using Target tab) and apply Pose in Timeline. Then you can procees with the procedure.

 

[dhasww]

Hello,

First of all, thanks a lot for your awesome plugins !

I have a weird bug, when doing small rotations between two keyframes, in some cases, it seems the resulting rotation does for example 340 degrees instead of simply doing 20 degrees. (see attachment)

Any idea please ?

(I tried several curve types)

I can send the scene to reproduce the problem if you want.


EDIT : found the solution when there are weird rotations between keyframes :
- check "Ensure quaternion" continuity in Edit tab
- select bugged keyframes and override them wih a simple copy / paste
- enjoy !

 

[RunRudolf]

I've been getting this error lately too, not sure why as I have not done any changes to the plugin timelines that should be causing this. This occurs with a single animation that I imported from another scene. The animation from the other scene doesnt spawn this error, and i make no changes to it upon load into my timeline.

ETA: Seems there is a limit to the length of animations in total. I deleted a few of the other animations in my timeline and the error goes away, i left the new "offending" animation. Once i deleted some of the other animations the error goes away. I ended up deleting about 2 minutes less than the new animation I imported, so i must have only a had a few minutes left before the error would show up. Looks like it takes into consideration any segment, so these could all be in 1 segment or across many.

I face the same issue now, after I added a very long CamRide animation (seemingly). This one is 671 sec long, but it does not seem to get destroyed when the message appears ("Suspiciously long animation rebuild"). I have no idea what the limit would be. Does anyone know? Or does it help to split a "very" long CamRide animation?

 

[dhasww]

I face the same issue now, after I added a very long CamRide animation (seemingly). This one is 671 sec long, but it does not seem to get destroyed when the message appears ("Suspiciously long animation rebuild"). I have no idea what the limit would be. Does anyone know? Or does it help to split a "very" long CamRide animation?

Hello, I looked at the code, if animation "building" took more than 1 second, this message appears.

As far as I understand, this operation concerns only one animation, so I guess that that if you split it it should be better (or put less keyframes inside it).

Let us know if it helped

 

[b00marrows]

You do not detach the root node from the character to move root node. Here's how I move the root node alone:


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Remember that all active controls on the atom have to be included in Timeline. For example, if you have a pelvis atom active on the atom and it is not present on the Timeline, moving root node my way is going to break animation. You just have to add those nodes to Timeline (using Target tab) and apply Pose in Timeline. Then you can procees with the procedure.

Well for me its too late for weird stuff like that. I already moved the root and saved.
Whenever i press play or pause the complete animations is broken and unrecoverable even with pose changes/saves etc.

 

[hammondfish]

Hi. Great plugin. I have a problem - I can't edit or add animations. I can set-up the first animation fine, then if I want to change a keyframe in the existing one or place any new keyframes in a new animation, I move the time 1 sec then move the controller but no keyframe appears - just a grey vertical bar - there is no error message. Also - I cannot change the duration of the existing animation or change a new one from 2 secs. In both cases when the time is advanced from the first frame the box below says 'no keyframe' and it deselects the targets. Can't find this issue replicated elsewhere. I assume I have something wrong but I am following the wiki and video examples exactly. Using latest VAM and timeline versions. Thanks for any help.

 

[henshin]

Is possible to edit morphs outside Timeline (from another plugin or morphs tab directly) and then save the current morph as a frame?

 

[VAMSOY]

Hi, does anyone know how to make it work? NextAnimation and NextLayer are working fine, but NextSegment (and PreviousSegment) are not working and can't be triggered. Test button does not work either. I created a clean scene and added 2 UIButtons with triggers. Then created 2 simple segments with pose only. When I click the buttons, they do not switch segments. I tested it with other scenes too.

I know that Next/Previous Segment option has been added in the latest update, may be it is broken?

I tried to make it another way - using Logic Bricks, but it is a pain, I have to add every single segment to the brick and if I want to switch animations set, I have to change all the bricks again.

@Acid Bubbles

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Hi there!

I had the exact issue at the beginning of the year. Just wondering if you found a fix for this yet (other than using Logicbrick). It seems this is a built-in function which should be working just as "next animation". I rarely use the logicBrick approach since I usually have a lot of different segments in my scene, and it takes too long to set it up just for this next/previous function.

Thanks!

 

[bakcasa]

The latest VAM patch ended up breaking the plugin for me. It's giving me a bunch of security errors and it won't play any scenes anymore. Going back to the previous version of VAM fixed the issue.

 

[Kaeders]

The latest VAM patch ended up breaking the plugin for me. It's giving me a bunch of security errors and it won't play any scenes anymore. Going back to the previous version of VAM fixed the issue.

I can second this as I'm seeing the same error codes.

 

[julianes30]

The latest VAM patch ended up breaking the plugin for me. It's giving me a bunch of security errors and it won't play any scenes anymore. Going back to the previous version of VAM fixed the issue.

Exactly the same thing is happening to me. I tried deleting it from the folder so that it could download again but the error persists. Does anyone know how to solve it or what happened? That plugin is basically the VAM engine.

 

[FxB]

The other day, VaM released a new patch and since then I get an error with this plugin. I removed it from my files and downloaded it again, but the error still remain.
The one on top, ugh.vmb has been there forever, and it has not kept me from using the plugin.

 

[dhasww]

Hello,

It's a security issue with buttons that open browsers to https://github.com/acidbubbles/vam-timeline/wiki and https://www.patreon.com/acidbubbles

Is there an option in the new VAM version to allow this ? Something like "allow open url" or "allow browser opening" (I can't check myself right right now)

@Acid Bubbles are you here please ?

 

[poke19]

Hello,

First of all, thanks a lot for your awesome plugins !

I have a weird bug, when doing small rotations between two keyframes, in some cases, it seems the resulting rotation does for example 340 degrees instead of simply doing 20 degrees. (see attachment)

Any idea please ?

(I tried several curve types)

I can send the scene to reproduce the problem if you want.


EDIT : found the solution when there are weird rotations between keyframes :
- check "Ensure quaternion" continuity in Edit tab
- select bugged keyframes and override them wih a simple copy / paste
- enjoy !

My saver, I recently encountered this problem.
If I fix that keyframe that problem will passed to other joint, It Confused me for days.
Now you've solved it and saved my life.Thank you!

 

[p76525]

Hello ，could you tell me how to solve the issue as "!> Timeline: The storable float 'geometry uMKAxc62SI - Woo' has been removed. Remove it from Timeline to silence this error." because I can't find the mocap at the time line plugin

 

[rokoc]

Hi, I have a scene were I put timeline in "scene plugins" and animated two cua's in a loop (rolling road). It seemed like a good idea at the time but proving to be a bit tricky/inefficient syncing up with timeline on my person atom so im trying to move the cua animations on to the persons timeline but cant it seems ?

I have tried: scene plugins>timeline>bulk changes and copy/paste to person timeline but i don't think you can paste to a different instance of timeline ? i get the message "Timeline: Clipboard is empty"

using import/export exporting scene plugins timeline then importing on the persons timeline i get this error "Timeline: Loaded animation for "CoreControl" but current atom type is Person" the exported animation from scene plugins only has control node targets for the 2 cua's and a trigger track.

i'm about to try using record in some way but im expecting strange results and too many keyframes. any other suggestions or am i doing it wrong ?

Edited to add,
found a solution, D'oh.

soon as i posted this I had a brain fart. I opened the exported anim from scene plugins in notepad and changed line 3 form "AtomType" : "CoreControl" to "AtomType" : "Person"
to my surprise I was able to import the animation to the person as a new segment and then use bulk changes copy and paste. worked a treat!

 

[TheBlueBlood]

Hello hello, I was wondering if it was possible to save only a small section from an animation.
Basically, I downloaded a mocap that's 2-3min long, but there's a section of about 10-15s that I really like. Would it be possible to save/extract/copy only that small section?

Thanks

 

[xexka]

Potential bug when using the controller parenting TL?

When pressing stop any parented controllers are not returning to their original key framed position. This happens each time stop is pressed or when switching back and forth between animations. It happens with"Always on parenting" on or off.

I second this. I fix it by parenting inside the timeline, but this information should be passed to the plugin automatically, I suppose.

 

[Thorozar]

Question for folks out there. I wish to take a few animations from various scenes and mesh them together into a single scene where I can randomly sequence them and whatnot. The issue is that the control nodes for the girl are all over the place. As a result I have had to save the pose with the root control once I get the animation aligned where I want it to start and then load that pose when the new animation begins. I would love to blend in for this, but that function doesnt work when you use poses. Is there a way to import/export animations where that silly root node doesnt cause issues when you want to move stuff around? Each animation has different x,y,z locations since the root node is in a different location. This also means I cannot simply copy the starting node points for the beginning of the next animation and paste 2 seconds after the end of the last animation by extending it to have timeline extrapolate an animation from the end of anim 1 to the starting position of animation 2 while still in anim 1.

I have tried going back to the base scene I exported the animations from and detached the root and tried to set everything to 0, but as soon as you fool with the position on one, the Parent Atom Relative moves or vice versa. I figured if I could keep the root uniform before I export and then import the root node wouldnt be an issue and -1.005 in the X coord for instance would be the same location regardless of which animation i was working in. I know that using a control node in timeline can take care of this, but that requires a ton of extra work setting that target otherwise the animation will drift to that control location as the animation works its way though.

What is the best way to go about this process?

 

[LightningBunny]

Does the plugin have an option to customize the ease in and out curves, that would be great. Unfortunately I didn't find it

 

[Loggy]

Little Bug: The value for “Random group weight” for sequencing is not saved. When loading, the variable is restored to its default value.

 

[Kamesan]

In my Timeline, I have two animations: Anim1 and Anim2.
I'm using a trigger to scrub an animation, but both animations are playing.
So I use a trigger to set Anim1’s weight to 0% and Anim2’s weight to 100% to scrub only the animation I want.
But this is not working as expected.
Did I misunderstand something? How Scrub Anim1 and Scrub Anim2?

 

[RonBurgundy]

I'm trying to import a native animation that has finger animations and the animation imports just fine but I'm not getting any of the finger movements in timeline.
How am i able to import those into timeline?
I know timeline supports finger animations and Im surprised that nobody else has asked this question?

 

[Nobis]

Something ain't right with keyframing float parameters. When applied at certain point in time, they will apply to all of the points. Not all all of the morthps tho, but recently, few more morphs started behaving like this.