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3 Dimensional Chat / Animating a Backflip

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adr
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Posted: 14th Jul 2003 17:09
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I'm using Character FX to animate my little Kung Fu dude and I've hit a bit of a problem. Even though I've been cursing DBP for not supporting spline interpolation of skeletal animation, it's actually causing me a problem when I try to animate my character doing a backflip.

I can't really describe the problem, but if you've any experience of keyframing, then you'll know what would happen if I tried to make a character rotate through 360 degrees.

Any animators know of a work around? Thanks...
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Posted: 14th Jul 2003 17:17
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Um how about make 3 keyframes each rotating 120 deg in the direction you want?

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Hmmmm, shame Simple does'nt seem to be around today, but I suggest tweening every 45 degrees - Like animate him doing a 180 flip, then from there to the full flip. This should stop him doing weird stuff or cutting corners with the auto-tweening.


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Posted: 14th Jul 2003 17:26 Edited at: 14th Jul 2003 17:29
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VanB - I think I got that far, but I seem to remember it being a little more difficult than that. I rotated him using the "root bone" which resides, comically enough, between his legs. He therefore didn't pivot around his centre, but around the end of his root bone *stiffled giggles*.

I'll try that again tonight - a more structured approach...

Incidentally, it's for a remake of IK+... I think I'll call it IK++, although I think I'd probably run into problems with that name. I'm open to donations of fighter dudes.

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Cool - I love IK+!!!

I still play it on STeem on my Laptop.
Good luck, I could probably help with a limbed model, but mesh animation is greek to me.


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If you imagine that it's animating like someone's picking him up by his feet, then that's how it looks. It's hard to describe...

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Posted: 15th Jul 2003 11:29 Edited at: 15th Jul 2003 12:17
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OK, I've found that I don't have to use the root bone to flip him, which means I can now rotate him around his waist. Cool...

but the spline interpolation means he does it in stages, because the character movement slows down slightly at each keyframe.

any advice?

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I tweaked the keyframes just before I left for work and I figure if I sneakily put the keyframes around where he'd be still(ish) anyway, it won't be so bad.

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