Kris, do you store poses for your character at its reset point?
I love the flexibility of mixer actions either internal to scene or referenced. I generally store based on keyable parameters, or using the new store based on character key set, but have found a few hiccups with character key sets that I have yet to nail down.
I just keep them in my sources folder and call them up using apply action.
The rule of thumb for reset actor is if you've applied any constraints to your base skeleton, forget about reset actor, unless you cheat it and make the constraint objects deformers as well. Go with stored actions.
irie
Adam
----- Original Message -----
From: Raffaele Fragapane <jaco(at)thejaco.com>
Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2007 8:50 pm
Subject: Re: Scaling rigs -> Kudos to Softimage
> buffering the transformation by a null in the hierarchy.
> neutral poses on rotations are the really dangerous bit by the
> way,
> translation and scaling are normally fairly safe.
>
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>
> Kris Rivel wrote:
>
> > So what do you guys use if you want to bring the character or
> parts of
> > the character to its rest pose? "Reset Actor" doesn't always
> work
> > sometimes for me so I always have everything zeroed out with
> neutral
> > poses...never had a problem.
> >
> > Kris Rivel
> > 3D Artist
> > kris(at)krisrivel.com <mailto:kris(at)krisrivel.com>
> > www.krisrivel.com <http://www.krisrivel.com>
> >
> >
> >
> > Bradley Gabe wrote:
> >
> >>There are also potential problems with transform offsets and
> rotation>>order, if you use it for animation controls.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>I wouldn't use neutral poses if any of your animators has
> enough of a
> >>>clue to use par mode for translations.
> >>>It misaligns the Fcurve representation from the actual parent
> space,
> >>>like if local was being used.
> >>>However, if the animators are noobish enough to animate in
> local you
> >>>won't hear them complaining.
> >>>
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> >>>| Rising Sun Pictures |
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> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Bernard Lebel wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>I would use neutral poses to not take any chance. I don't know
> if you
> >>>>can *really* freeze the SRTs without breaking anything.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Cheers
> >>>>Bernard
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>On 3/2/07, Brinkley, Marc <mbrinkley(at)ea.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>Wow, perfect timing.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>So here is a question for you...is there a way in XSI to
> scale a
> >>>>>complete skeleton up or down in size and to then be able to
> freeze the
> >>>>>scale of the skeleton back to 1?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Cheers!
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>_______________________________________
> >>>>>Marc Brinkley - EA|Chicago
> >>>>>mbrinkley [at] ea.com
> >>>>>312.661.7412
> >>>>>This space for Rent.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>>>From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-
> xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf
> >>>>>Of Bernard Lebel
> >>>>>Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 8:34 AM
> >>>>>To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> >>>>>Subject: Scaling rigs -> Kudos to Softimage
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Hello,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>On a positive note for a change.... ;-)
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I wanted to say THANKS to Softimage. You guys just avoided me
> a big, BIG
> >>>>>truckload of s**t.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>We had this character fully rigged (with countless
> constraints and all
> >>>>>that stuff) and animated in several shots.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>The director somehow felt the scaling was not working
> anymore, and asked
> >>>>>for the character to be scaled up. I feared that contraints
> could be a
> >>>>>problem (like, resutling in a quartered pose), that the rig
> would have
> >>>>>to be redone, as well as existing animation.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Well, no. Simply scaling the top SRT control under the model
> made the
> >>>>>whole operation successful. Animation work perfectly well for
> export and
> >>>>>import. The only thing that needs to be adjusted is the animation
> >>>>>because of the change of scale. In short, nothing was
> problematic.>>>>>Phew. I have no experience with other softwares
> about this, but having
> >>>>>this done in such a breeze was a HUGE relief.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Thanks!!!
> >>>>>Bernard
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