Animation Guides / Tutorials Need UPDATING

MoonCraft3D

I would love to play around with animating content in Daz3d. However, I am extremely discouraged by the lack of current content tutorials or information on how to do even the most simple of animation tasks like adding keyframes in Daz3d. A quick google search shows that most tutorials for Daz3d animation is out of date by years, and there seems to be minimal support for the current ersion.

We need tutorials for the current animation system. Please publish some that are effective walkthroughs.

Faeryl Womyn

Check out WP Guru on youtube, he has some animation video's he made this past year. He has 3 called step into the light showing his progress as he created the animation. He explains everything in great detail so everyone understands what he is doing.

Ivy

Good Luck , Ive been trying to get daz to update documents since daz 11 was released.

I have a tutorial on basic animation with daz studio. https://www.daz3d.com/daz-studio--getting-started-with-animation

  But I have not been able to make any updates to it on using the new timeline and IK-chain features because of lack of documents updates from daz techinical

 The daz docment center is not much help either http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/userguide/start

Ive been animating wth daz studio a long time. but these new changes in 4.12 have left me feeling like a newbie

Ivy

I would say your lucky you got a pdf doc of animate2 . by the looks of it gofigure  website is gone which had all those step by steps documents for animate2 .. which are now all gone  http://www.gofigure3d.com

 this was the link I had to the user guide for animate 2, that is also now gone as well http://gofigure3d.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=92&Itemid=86

I wonder what this means for the future of animate 2,  is going to become unsupported and obsolete?,  I guess it properly be good idea to grab all the aniblocks you don't already own before those disappear as well

be interesting to see what daz is going to come up with to replace animate if at all.  animate and aniblocks are very old I started using them back in the daz3 days so I can see tthat being phased out for new way of doing animated scripting  guess we'll have to wait and see .

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Ivy said:

I would say your lucky you got a pdf doc of animate2 . by the looks of it gofigure  website is gone which had all those step by steps documents for animate2 .. which are now all gone  http://www.gofigure3d.com

 this was the link I had to the user guide for animate 2, that is also now gone as well http://gofigure3d.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=92&Itemid=86

I wonder what this means for the future of animate 2,  is going to become unsupported and obsolete?,  I guess it properly be good idea to grab all the aniblocks you don't already own before those disappear as well

be interesting to see what daz is going to come up with to replace animate if at all.  animate and aniblocks are very old I started using them back in the daz3 days so I can see tthat being phased out for new way of doing animated scripting  guess we'll have to wait and see .

Yes. They have replaced Animate2. I wonder with what. Is it able to both read and create Aniblocks? I assume yes. It would have to be, wouldn't it? The v 4.12 release notes I've read here suggest yes. They may have just bought the rights for it and given it a face lift. I'd like to know more. Maybe a screen shot will appear, who knows. I doubt Aniblocks will disappear, since we are still using old Poser files. There's a bunch of old Animate2 vids on the GoFigure3D channel on YT. https://www.youtube.com/user/GoFigure3D/featured ; I have faith that everything I learn about Animate2 will be applicable to v 4.12. :-) [knocks on wood]

 

wolf359

Animate 2 is quite easy for an iclone user like yourself.... I rarely use it because my iclone imported BVH files have my IK baked to FK and iclone's motion library has way more content.

Richard Haseltine

Rottenham said:

Ivy said:

I would say your lucky you got a pdf doc of animate2 . by the looks of it gofigure  website is gone which had all those step by steps documents for animate2 .. which are now all gone  http://www.gofigure3d.com

 this was the link I had to the user guide for animate 2, that is also now gone as well http://gofigure3d.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=92&Itemid=86

I wonder what this means for the future of animate 2,  is going to become unsupported and obsolete?,  I guess it properly be good idea to grab all the aniblocks you don't already own before those disappear as well

be interesting to see what daz is going to come up with to replace animate if at all.  animate and aniblocks are very old I started using them back in the daz3 days so I can see tthat being phased out for new way of doing animated scripting  guess we'll have to wait and see .

Yes. They have replaced Animate2. I wonder with what. Is it able to both read and create Aniblocks? I assume yes. It would have to be, wouldn't it? The v 4.12 release notes I've read here suggest yes. They may have just bought the rights for it and given it a face lift. I'd like to know more. Maybe a screen shot will appear, who knows. I doubt Aniblocks will disappear, since we are still using old Poser files. There's a bunch of old Animate2 vids on the GoFigure3D channel on YT. https://www.youtube.com/user/GoFigure3D/featured ; I have faith that everything I learn about Animate2 will be applicable to v 4.12. :-) [knocks on wood]

Rob says false - I assume to Daz buying AniMate 2 though I'm not sure, it might simply be to the idea of replacement.

Richard Haseltine

Richard Haseltine said:

Rottenham said:

Ivy said:

I would say your lucky you got a pdf doc of animate2 . by the looks of it gofigure  website is gone which had all those step by steps documents for animate2 .. which are now all gone  http://www.gofigure3d.com

 this was the link I had to the user guide for animate 2, that is also now gone as well http://gofigure3d.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=92&Itemid=86

I wonder what this means for the future of animate 2,  is going to become unsupported and obsolete?,  I guess it properly be good idea to grab all the aniblocks you don't already own before those disappear as well

be interesting to see what daz is going to come up with to replace animate if at all.  animate and aniblocks are very old I started using them back in the daz3 days so I can see tthat being phased out for new way of doing animated scripting  guess we'll have to wait and see .

Yes. They have replaced Animate2. I wonder with what. Is it able to both read and create Aniblocks? I assume yes. It would have to be, wouldn't it? The v 4.12 release notes I've read here suggest yes. They may have just bought the rights for it and given it a face lift. I'd like to know more. Maybe a screen shot will appear, who knows. I doubt Aniblocks will disappear, since we are still using old Poser files. There's a bunch of old Animate2 vids on the GoFigure3D channel on YT. https://www.youtube.com/user/GoFigure3D/featured ; I have faith that everything I learn about Animate2 will be applicable to v 4.12. :-) [knocks on wood]

Rob says false - I assume to Daz buying AniMate 2 though I'm not sure, it might simply be to the idea of replacement.

All the AniMate stuff - AniMate 2 has not been purchased by Daz, and has not been replaced or withdrawn.

Auroratrek

FYI, for those interested in animation, a couple of us Daz animators thought it might be nice to have a dedicated animation thread. It can be found here. Please share your work and knowledge!

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/358051/the-animators-assemble-thread-for-daz-animation-wips-clips-and-tips

MoonCraft3D

Daz need to update thier documents, end story. Or at least make some fresh YouTube videos.

kervala

You can find an archive of last tutorial on this URL :

https://web.archive.org/web/20190902122134/http://gofigure3d.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=92&Itemid=86

I saved it to my disk if it disappears later :p