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Interesting and unwanted animation artifacts About Truespace Archives These pages are a copy of the official truespace forums prior to their removal somewhere around 2011. They are retained here for archive purposes only. Interesting and unwanted animation artifacts // Tech Forum 1  |   Order by default Post by W!ZARD // Aug 21, 2008, 6:23am W!ZARD Total Posts: 2603 As many of you will know I'm doing a bit of animation work with tS. I have a character walking up to the camera and morphs on his head to simulate speaking - everything works fine until.... I've decided the animation is too quick so I merge all the character anim tracks together so I can scale the track. This sends the morphs ballistic and the characters head turns inside out! Not a good look:D Is this something I'm doing wrong, am I asking too much of the program to be able to scale complex animation tracks this way or is this a bug/fault/ problem with tS? Has anyone else struck exploding morphs like this? Post by Jack Edwards // Aug 21, 2008, 3:18pm Jack Edwards Total Posts: 4062 I don't think I've every tried to time scale a keyframed morph... :o Could it be an issue with the keyframe FCurve interpolation when the morph keyfames were scaled? Have you checked to see what the keyframes and curves look like in the Fcurve editor? :confused: Post by W!ZARD // Aug 21, 2008, 7:21pm W!ZARD Total Posts: 2603 I don't think I've every tried to time scale a keyframed morph... :o Could it be an issue with the keyframe FCurve interpolation when the morph keyfames were scaled? Have you checked to see what the keyframes and curves look like in the Fcurve editor? :confused: No I've not yet looked at the FCurve editor but I suspect the interpolation too. I'll look into it further later this evening - thanks Jack. Post by W!ZARD // Aug 22, 2008, 4:40am W!ZARD Total Posts: 2603 well I still haven't checked the FCurve Editor but I have determined that I can merge all the tracks that don't contain morphs and stretch them without problems. It looks like I'll just have to redo the tracks with Morphs on (I knew it was a good idea to keep the morph tracks separate!). At least I don't have to completely redo all the skeleton animation!:D Post by frootee // Aug 22, 2008, 5:00am frootee Total Posts: 2667 Hm... well the morphs are a new feature. Could be that, scaling them in the keyframe editor was a feature not thought of; I dunno. Would this be a feature request? Post by W!ZARD // Aug 23, 2008, 1:53am W!ZARD Total Posts: 2603 Hm... well the morphs are a new feature. Could be that, scaling them in the keyframe editor was a feature not thought of; I dunno. Would this be a feature request? It's not strictly necessary I suppose but seeing as all the other types of animclips scale well it would at least be consistent.

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