Comments on: Learning Action Constraints

By: david kolb

david kolb — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 06:49:59 +0000

well I managed to solve my problem a few weeks back, and then I finally got around to finishing the tutorial. The problem was that under the object properies, under duplication I had FRAMES turned on, when I switched it to NONE it worked. Thanks for a great tutorial, and the nanu nanu was good for a chuckle.

By: the animator

the animator — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 06:26:41 +0000

I’ve enjoyed your alien tuts so far, and have been reasonably successful, but I didn’t get very far in this tutorial, because when I tried to set a pose with the fingers(or any bones) they snapped back to they’re original position. Any idea why.

By: eukleyv

eukleyv — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 09:07:32 +0000

David,
In the last beta version of 2.5 You can copy constraints.

You make the constraint for the first bone, then you select the next one that you want to add the same constraint, Shift + clik on the bone with the constraint already set.

Then you come down here, next to where you change modes (object-edit-etc) and click on Pose (not the pose mode but the pose next to that mode changin box). Scroll up to Constraints and click Copy Constraints to Selected.

And it’s done

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:28:28 +0000

Hmmm – I think I could make an Osipa style rig like this. Very cool. The “actions” in Blender is very powerful. I think I would compare it to the Cinema 4d pose morph tag.

Could I control bone movement and the slider for a face morph shape in one control bone? Can I link multiple actions to one control bone to say, make one bone close the whole hand?

As always, great work!

By: Win Brookhouse

Win Brookhouse — Wed, 05 May 2010 21:28:59 +0000

First, Thanks for all your tutorials they have rally help me to make the transition to blender and start to get up to speed.
This comment is not for this tutorial but for the walk cycle tutorial, which can not be found.

On working in NLE, in the video, you had problems with deformation of the character. Well it was because you did everything on one track.
If you use add, and add a track, then add action “standing around”. you can move it anywhere and move the “walk cycle”.
Once you have them where you want you can add them both to the same track and it will not deform.
Hope that makes sense.

Again Great tutorials. Look forward to more.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:43:02 +0000

Ah ok, I see what you mean now =) Thanks!

By: Dave Ward

Dave Ward — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 03:23:49 +0000

you’d probably just need to throw in a generic blank expression in there between each keyframe set (like the limp hand). i haven’t gotten REAL indepth with this constraint, but i would think that would be the best way to do it.

By: Tobey

Tobey — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:52:06 +0000

Pretty neat stuff indeed! Thanks for this nice animation insight. A little advanced for me but I still enjoyed it much and learned a lot.

Oh, and David, you can tell the direction/axis by either the colors on the “translation widget” or by looking into the bottom left corner of 3D view where a 3 small rotating axes with descriptions are located. HTH

Thanks!

By: Wes Burke

Wes Burke — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:04:05 +0000

Heh Kris, Glad you are able to watch it also directly on Vimeo, it seems to be a bug going around with accounts. but I updated code to see if that changes it and will keep an eye on it.

By: Solineoz

Solineoz — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:50:06 +0000

If I understand well both (you and the tut), you have to duplicate the frame 1 “A” just before the frame 3 “I”.
But you probably should put a “neutral frame” between each of them… as it is in the tut.

Watch it again, maybe you could find your answer faster