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# 1 10-07-2008 , 06:20 AM

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hi - i've been having an issue with a character that i've been trying to pose.

when i open the project i will find that the wrist joint has rotated out of the pose that i left it in when i saved. I'm not sure why this is happening - as far as i know, i haven't set any keys.

any ideas why it might be doing this?

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# 2 10-07-2008 , 08:00 AM

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so i think i've narrowed it down to the wrist joint - sometimes when i open the scene it's joint rotations are zeroed out. Any idea why this is happening?

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# 3 10-07-2008 , 08:51 PM

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maybe freeze the transforms.., just a wild guess??

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# 4 10-07-2008 , 11:39 PM

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thanks mirek.

actually it was cos i hadn't set any keys - i figured it out late last night. i thought if i wasn't animating, than i could just pose my model without setting any keys, which seemed to work, accept for the wrist joint.

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# 5 11-07-2008 , 12:20 AM

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how odd??.., i thought it was jumping back to a bind pose until it clicked you are saying its just the wrist?? that is odd.., i dont know much about rigging and such.., so i guess there is a straight forward reason for this.., was it both wrists??

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