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How to translate a figure during a walk cycle?

faisanfaisan Posts: 600
in The Commons

Hi guys! I have a problem with some walk cycles. When I load the walk cycles on my figures from this user, I don't have traslation:

https://www.sharecg.com/v/81073/browse/11/Poser/v4-run-cycle#commentAnchor

He has awesome walk cycles, but the problem is they don´t have traslation, the figures stay in the same place during the cycle. I've tried to save the animation traslating the figure in the end frame in a z position, but when I load the saved walk cycle, the figure goes to the original end z postion I saved.

Any idea how can I save these animations with traslation correctly? I hope you can help me guys!

 

 

 

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  • Sven DullahSven Dullah Posts: 7,621

    Try parenting your figure to a null and translate the null!

  • faisanfaisan Posts: 600
    Sven Dullah said:

    Try parenting your figure to a null and translate the null!

    And how do I do that? Excuse my ignorance, I'm almost new in Poser

  • Sven DullahSven Dullah Posts: 7,621
    taiuri said:
    Sven Dullah said:

    Try parenting your figure to a null and translate the null!

    And how do I do that? Excuse my ignorance, I'm almost new in Poser

    Go up to create/new null. You will be asked to name the new null then click ok. Go to the scene tab and you should see your null object there. Just drag your figure onto the null to parent it.

  • faisanfaisan Posts: 600
    Sven Dullah said:
    taiuri said:
    Sven Dullah said:

    Try parenting your figure to a null and translate the null!

    And how do I do that? Excuse my ignorance, I'm almost new in Poser

    Go up to create/new null. You will be asked to name the new null then click ok. Go to the scene tab and you should see your null object there. Just drag your figure onto the null to parent it.

    Ok, I'll try it and let you know my results. Thank you for the tip! ;D

  • faisanfaisan Posts: 600
    Sven Dullah said:
    taiuri said:
    Sven Dullah said:

    Try parenting your figure to a null and translate the null!

    And how do I do that? Excuse my ignorance, I'm almost new in Poser

    Go up to create/new null. You will be asked to name the new null then click ok. Go to the scene tab and you should see your null object there. Just drag your figure onto the null to parent it.

    Excuse me, where is the create/new null option in Poser? I can't find it in anywhere.

  • Sven DullahSven Dullah Posts: 7,621
    taiuri said:
    Sven Dullah said:
    taiuri said:
    Sven Dullah said:

    Try parenting your figure to a null and translate the null!

    And how do I do that? Excuse my ignorance, I'm almost new in Poser

    Go up to create/new null. You will be asked to name the new null then click ok. Go to the scene tab and you should see your null object there. Just drag your figure onto the null to parent it.

    Excuse me, where is the create/new null option in Poser? I can't find it in anywhere.

    Oh sorry mate, I didn't realise you were a Poser user, I was talking DS. Hope some Poser user can help you out!

  • faisanfaisan Posts: 600
    Sven Dullah said:
    taiuri said:
    Sven Dullah said:
    taiuri said:
    Sven Dullah said:

    Try parenting your figure to a null and translate the null!

    And how do I do that? Excuse my ignorance, I'm almost new in Poser

    Go up to create/new null. You will be asked to name the new null then click ok. Go to the scene tab and you should see your null object there. Just drag your figure onto the null to parent it.

    Excuse me, where is the create/new null option in Poser? I can't find it in anywhere.

    Oh sorry mate, I didn't realise you were a Poser user, I was talking DS. Hope some Poser user can help you out!

    It's okay. I'll see if I can get it in Daz then.

  • wolf359wolf359 Posts: 3,934
    edited December 2017

    Hi
    You must select the hip at the last frame in the poser graph editor and increase the Z
    axis translation until his forward motion is in synch with his foot steps

    (See attached image )

     

     

     

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    Post edited by Chohole on
  • faisanfaisan Posts: 600
    edited December 2017
    wolf359 said:

    Hi
    You must select the hip at the last frame in the poser graph editor and increase the Z
    axis translation until his forward motion is in synch with his foot steps

    (See attached image )

     

     

     

    When I go to the Graph, some dots appears which don't let me to incrase the z traslation in straight line. How do you get it?

    Post edited by Chohole on
  • faisanfaisan Posts: 600

    Any other idea guys? I still don't get the figure traslates during the walk cycle, I mean, I can't save it with traslation.

  • Sven DullahSven Dullah Posts: 7,621
    taiuri said:

    Any other idea guys? I still don't get the figure traslates during the walk cycle, I mean, I can't save it with traslation.

    Uhumm, I've never used Poser but can't you parent your figure to some object and make it invisible, then perform the z-translation on that object?

  • faisanfaisan Posts: 600
    Sven Dullah said:
    taiuri said:

    Any other idea guys? I still don't get the figure traslates during the walk cycle, I mean, I can't save it with traslation.

    Uhumm, I've never used Poser but can't you parent your figure to some object and make it invisible, then perform the z-translation on that object?

    It doesn't work, I mean it works in the scene, but if I save the animation and load it again, the figure stays in the same place, even if I select Body transformation :(

  • faisanfaisan Posts: 600

    Anymatter, the creator of the animations, knows how to do it. Unfortunately there's no way to contact him, because he has been offline for a long time :(

  • Sven DullahSven Dullah Posts: 7,621
    taiuri said:
    Sven Dullah said:
    taiuri said:

    Any other idea guys? I still don't get the figure traslates during the walk cycle, I mean, I can't save it with traslation.

    Uhumm, I've never used Poser but can't you parent your figure to some object and make it invisible, then perform the z-translation on that object?

    It doesn't work, I mean it works in the scene, but if I save the animation and load it again, the figure stays in the same place, even if I select Body transformation :(

    Ok, see what you mean, but can't help you with animation inside Poser:( Try asking in the Poser discussion forum, I'm sure you'll find someone who knows how to fix it;)

  • Syrus_DanteSyrus_Dante Posts: 983
    edited December 2017

    Hey guys did you know there are walk paths build in Poser? (at least there where these paths as I tryed ancient Poser)

    An advantage of Poser are these walkpaths that can be manipulated like a bezier curve on the floor.

    Some similar approach for DS is this "Walk It Plugin" from GenerationX link: http://www.pilning.net/about.html

    Demonstration Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoXU5BLO-ms

    Actualy this was the first thing I try as I changed from Poser to Daz - I used the Walkeditor on V4 then I load in the environment from DS into Poser and after animating I get the motion path from Poser with a BHV file into DazStudio.

    Here I found a Youtube Video explayning the process WalkDesigner + Walk Paths: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_oFtWlxxys

    @ 4:40 the WalkPath is mentioned

    Post edited by Syrus_Dante on
  • wolf359wolf359 Posts: 3,934
    taiuri said:
    wolf359 said:

    Hi
    You must select the hip at the last frame in the poser graph editor and increase the Z
    axis translation until his forward motion is in synch with his foot steps

    (See attached image )

     

     

     

    When I go to the Graph, some dots appears which don't let me to incrase the z traslation in straight line. How do you get it?

    That is because there is a key frame on every frame for the HIP

    Select & delete everyone except the last one and change
     its value.

  • faisanfaisan Posts: 600
    wolf359 said:
    taiuri said:
    wolf359 said:

    Hi
    You must select the hip at the last frame in the poser graph editor and increase the Z
    axis translation until his forward motion is in synch with his foot steps

    (See attached image )

     

     

     

    When I go to the Graph, some dots appears which don't let me to incrase the z traslation in straight line. How do you get it?

    That is because there is a key frame on every frame for the HIP

    Select & delete everyone except the last one and change
     its value.

    It worked!! Thank you so much!! :D

  • Syrus_DanteSyrus_Dante Posts: 983

    I was posting some "Quote" from this threat in another here:

    Daz 3D Forums > General > New Users > Character Flying Around

    @ Daz 3D Forums > General > The Commons> How to translate a figure during a walk cycle?

    Hey guys did you know there are walk paths build in Poser? (at least there where these paths as I tryed ancient Poser)

    An advantage of Poser are these walkpaths that can be manipulated like a bezier curve on the floor.

    Some similar approach for DS is this "Walk It Plugin" from GenerationX link: http://www.pilning.net/about.html

    Demonstration Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoXU5BLO-ms

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