boneanimation

[swordworks]

Hi there, I've got a very big problem, since my clip must be rendered as fast as possible.
I created a character and want to animate it with bones. The animation is ok, but the rendered figure doesn't move with the bones. It seems to me, that the character is not updated with the bones before render. What can I do?

[atyss]

Have you done bone animation before?

The only thing I can think of is that your model is not assigned to your skeleton (!) If your model is assigned, well, it should follow the skeleton, depending on the weighting you defined.

When you say that your model does not follow the skeleton, do you mean that your model simply does not react in any way to the bone animation (in other words, the skeleton moves but the model doesn't), or does your model makes erratic and weird movements (in other words, does it get f...d-up when the skeleton moves)?

Bernard Lebel

[juan-sanchez]

Have you tried rendering as say depth-cue or line to rule out a problem with renderer itself ?

[pomme]

Do you mean, the geomatry is moving with the bone when playback, but not in render? Have you apply quick stretch? Have you apply any shape animations or expression?

[swordworks]

I can describe it in this way, that the bones are in the proper places, but the mesh is on the origin of the coordinate system. When I'm moving the timeslider, the bones move correct, but do not deform the mesh. After a while, the mesh jumps to it's proper position and moves accordingly to the skeleton. But in rendering, the mesh doesn't jump to the right location. I work around this problem by rendering only the songle frame. Then it works, but it's seems not really correct.

[pomme]

hum, i have this problem before. But not the geomatry with the bone. is one object constraint pos and ori to another object. and i 'd put dis activate and activate within different frames. Did you envolope the bones properly?