Complex UV Layout in Maya
Over the last couple of years UV layout in Maya has changed for the better. In this course we're going to be taking a look at some of those changes as we UV map an entire character
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Seperate animations
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im just scared i havent explained my problem clearly enough
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You would have to key all the individual postions you want in your arms to take through the whole trax clip. Thats should stop it from going weird.
There might be an other way I'm just not familiar with the traxs edtior.
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as I read it you want to separate out the arms from the clip but retain the animation so you can build on it?
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the arms in the clip i want them to stay the same, but i ALSO want to animate the arms (like fine tune some bits, add totally new bits at the end of the enitre animation etc) without the animation in the slips messing up (like it does)what does baking mean?
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re seperate animations
check out this link (from anim forum at SM)
https://forum.simplymaya.com/showthre...&threadid=1909
Get back to me on this!!!!!!!!
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Check out these two links for animation theory/techniques. These will give you an overview of some approaches to animating. Remember to keep it simple yet expressive.
https://www.keithlango.com/
https://www.comet-cartoons.com/toons/3ddocs/animprocess/
Maybe send me the file (Zipped/Rar) and I' have a look.
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yeah i understand all that, so thats the theory side of it i have down, but now, its simply a case of overcoming the tecnical side of animation, which is weird for me because its usually the other way around!i thought id check its ok with you cos even zipped up and rarred its pretty big, 2mb i think? not sure, im on 56k, so i didnt wanna send it unless you were ok with it
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Yes, please send it to me, but,
please delete all textures, etc... to make the file size smaller. See if you can somehow compact the scene into its basic elements, eg. skeleton, geometry and animation, no fur or shaders, lights, etc.. as I too have 56k internet.
But yes I would be happy to look at it for you my friend.
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what my problem is is in trax and keys
in the trax you can see the theres a clip which controls the whole of the
character (arms and feet)
but tahts just the base of my animation, id like to add more ontop of it
without using clips cos its not something i want to reuse
if you grab the selection handles for the feet and set keys whenever in
time, it works fine, but if you grab the locators for the hands and set keys
for them, just play back the animation, itll mess up the arms where you have clips set
i dont understand why and i really need a workaround without animating the
arms from the start again (not enough time, not very efficient either)
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