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Daz Studio animation issues?

SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 5,970
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

This is using the latest non-beta DS (4.12. ... er, soemthing) under Win 7 64-bit. Tried to do a simpl eanimation of a cnadle flame flickering and after a while faffing around adjusting settings and properties gave it a quick look and .. none of the adjustments ahd bene retained - theer were no keyframes at all!  Thought it may have been down to the prop/model in question which 'just' had morphs so tried it with another item that had a separate flame bone and after a bit of twiddling of side-side, etc., noticed that this too was not being kept as keyframes.

Having done soem aniamtions not too long ago, using aniblocks (and baking them to DS keyframes) I knew (kind of!) that it was possible!  So I shut Daz Studio and restarted (in case it was down to underlying storage/memory issues) and the same thing happened.  I then loaded a G8F figure and .. yes, the same thign happened.  Then I noticed soemthign strange.  If I manually typed a bend value in to the property the value stuck, it wa sonly if I used the sliders to set teh value did it not 'take'.

Please tell me that it's not just me seeing this?

Comments

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 99,429

    During a session or on reloading a saved scene? The latter is a known issue, shaping presets will work but scenes don't: the chnage log shows that this has been fixed for a forthcoming build.

  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 5,970

    During a session: inasmuch as DS had been open and 'stuff' done, then a new scene was initiated (Ctrl-N) and the slider modified parameters did not stick as keyframes, plus the same happened after shutting and starting DS - in no case was a saved scene used, it was all from scratch.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 99,429

    Loading a scene from a save is enough to show the issue, even if DS hasn't been restarted.

  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 5,970

    I may (probably) loaded a scene at one stage in the initial session, but after the restart did not, and the problem was still shown.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 99,429

    Then I don't understand what you mean - how do you expect the keyframes to persist from one scene to a new scene?

  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 5,970

    Um, never rmentioned between scenes ... I move the Timeline to frame 10, say, then adjust a property slider. Then move to frame 20 and move the property slider to another value.  The first keyframe disappears. If I repeat that, but intead of using the slider I click on the numeric value and manually enter a new value, the keyframes stay in place.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 99,429

    Sorry, I misread your post - I thought you were doing File>New between setting and losing the keys.

    Is this happening only with the flame prop, or more generally?

  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 5,970

    I did do a File> New (using Ctrl-N) to clear out what was there and start again, but no load/save of any scene was done.  It was a candle prop, a cnadle figure but also a G8F, so pretty universal from what I could see.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 99,429

    I tried using Forearm size on Genesis 8 female in DS 4.12.1.118 and can't reproduce the issue.

  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 5,970

    I have been trying to recreate it, again, and think it might be down to me using Alt-Click on aa slider to reset it to it's default value and that nullifying ALL keyframes based on that property - has it always done that?

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 99,429
    SimonJM said:

    I have been trying to recreate it, again, and think it might be down to me using Alt-Click on aa slider to reset it to it's default value and that nullifying ALL keyframes based on that property - has it always done that?

    Yes, as far as I recall.

  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 5,970

    Seems a slight change in methodology threw a spanner in the works!

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