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keyframes fails to record and copy // Bugs

Post by Tiles // Jun 6, 2008, 11:33pm

Tiles

Total Posts: 1037

End of road. I give up. trueSpace bones are useless for me. I cannot animate with them. I know how to work with Motion studio, i even managed to animate with the old bones, which is very hard. So it's not that i don't know how to use a bones system. But the new bones system is simply unanimatable. Even when all the countless bugs would be fixed.

I have battled several minutes with the IK handlers just to have one somehow useful pose. A task that takes a few seconds up to maximum a few minutes in Motion Studio because i know my poses. I battle with the navigation, i battle with jumpiness, i battle with the IK locks, with the IK handlers, with the whole bones system. It is anger, hate, frustration. I start to sleep bad. Not a single moment where it makes fun. Not a single one. Never had this before, really.

I haven't given up for two weeks and countless bugs and workarounds. Now i do. I cannot pose this baby. The IK handler stuff is like touching a cotton ball and trying to do some fine mechanics with it. Impossible to get something useful out of it. Well, yeah, it may be good enough to load and play BVH files. Then you don't need the IK handlers anyways. But it is definitely not good enough to animate anything with it.

A last bug report: I have set a keyframe, it didn`t record it. I have copied and pasted a keyframe, it doesn't arrive.

This and the fact that the recording of the keyframes fails lets me decide to finally stop here. This is the last bit. You battle an hour or two with a single pose, record it, and when you play it, it is gone. Ha ha ha, very funny. I came so far just to stumble across the fact that even recording the keyframes fails. :rolleyes:

keyframesfails.wmv, 6 Mb (http://reinerstileset.4players.de/ext/keyframesfails.wmv)

I have pushed it as far as i could, which was not enough to finish my animation. Now it is over. I cannot push it any further. End of story. Away from this bones system. On with something working.

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