Michael disappears with aniMate...

Bobby.Ryan

I've been working with aniMate's 'Martialm Arts Kicks' and I'm trying to use the 'Flying Side Kick'. The problem is Michael gets a running start and ends up running to the left off of the layout. I'm new with this and I have tried to figure it out but I'm stumped. Any thoughts?

Thanks----Bob Ryan.

carolinebegbie

Hi, Bob - Did you see my post the other day? Or didn't it help? Or did I misunderstand what you need?

This is what I said:

If you have aniBlocks side by side, it works like this:

| start to run | run | kick |

Those are your three aniBlocks. So they work, but you want to specify the end position rather than the start position.

Make sure you’re NOT in aniBlock editing mode.
Click the root of the figure (ie the name of the figure) in the scene tab, NOT a body part.
Take the playhead to where you want to specify the end position.
Position the figure (translating the ROOT not the body part).

aniMate2 should then automatically track back to where the figure should start.

That should work - I don’t have DAZ Studio installed at the moment, so can’t do pictures.

Bobby.Ryan

Thanks Carnite. I did miss your other post (sorry) but it sounds like that'll do the trick.

Bobby.Ryan

In DAZ Studio I've found the aniMate time line. There appears to be only one aniBlock on the time line and it lasts about 5 seconds. She starts in the middle of the scene so I freeze framed where it shows her going off the left side of the scene. In the time line there appears to be a single blue aniBlock with the pointer paused about half way through her kick. I can position her anywhere in the aniBlock but I need to either reposition her so she starts at the right side of the scene or freeze her where she goes off the scene and drag her back in frame.

Bobby.Ryan

I poked around for a couple of hours last night with no success and I just tried again and I found it in under 10 minutes. In the ‘Pose & Animate’ tab click on ‘Editor’ then click on ‘All’ and you get 10 different sliders to change xyz translation, rotation and scaling.
I hate being a newbie!

—-BR—-