mike,
I have similar likes and dislikes with the mixer. I
don't think however that you want to build a global
clip every time you start animating at least not a
regular clip.
i think what is really needed is a new clip type. I
would like to see a type of empty clip that would
dynamically populate itself with the fcurves of any
parameter that are being transitioned or mixed against
it. In this way you could create a link to the world
outside of clips but still interact with the mixer.
then if you decide you could transform this dynamic
clip into a normal one in similar fashion to the
current method.
If you do something similar to this plus make it far
easier to edit animation already within clips then the
mixer might start to realize its potential.
Hopefully soft will update the mixer soon.
scott
--- Mike Werckle <stumbly(at)gmail.com> wrote:
> There was a thread recently about using the mixer
> for animation, and it got
> me thinking of a question I've had about XSI for
> some time.
>
> Why is there a distinction between animation
> existing "out in the world" (or
> on the timeline I guess), and animation existing "in
> a clip?" For that
> matter, why does "out in the world" even exist,
> other than it's just the way
> that people are used to working?
>
> Why can't animation exist both on the timeline and
> in a clip?
>
> In my work as a character animator, I have fallen in
> love with some of the
> functionality of the mixer, but the work flow seems
> a little stodgy. You
> have to animate, then save a clip and remove the
> animation from the
> character, then re-apply the animation, so on and so
> forth.
>
> It seems to me it would solve some workflow problems
> if there was no such
> thing as "out in the world," only clips on tracks.
> When setting a keyframe
> on an object, XSI would automatically start creating
> a clip on a track in
> the timeline. You could then duplicate and trim
> and mix the clip, isolate
> loops, whatever, then open the clip and edit the
> keyframes with the same
> ease you have as when they are in the world. (You
> can open the clip and
> edit individual keyframes in the current setup, but
> the curves are all
> lumped together and not neatly arranged on nodes
> anymore.)
>
> I realize that "in the world" probably isn't going
> to go away, but what do
> people think about the idea of being able to animate
> directly into a clip,
> and see immidiatley how it's going to "mix" in?
> What would some of the
> issues/problems be with that way of doing things?
>
> Mike
>
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