Lost rotations?

[auan]

i'm back..........this is a good one.....either that or i'm missing something really simple.

I'm animating a simple character......all of a sudden the rotations in his arm stopped working. I'm tweaking the fcurves but nothing. His arm just stays frozen in it's relaxed pose. I don't get it because I can see the biceps fcurves.....tweak them .....and when I do the play back....nothing. I even deleted all of the animation and tried to start from scratch.......when I saved new keyframes the fcurve editor shows that they are there.....but it still wont move............ all the joints attached to it are fine......I'm stummped!

[fredc]

In reply to:
i'm back..........this is a good one.....either that or i'm missing something really simple.

I'm animating a simple character......all of a sudden the rotations in his arm stopped working. I'm tweaking the fcurves but nothing. His arm just stays frozen in it's relaxed pose. I don't get it because I can see the biceps fcurves.....tweak them .....and when I do the play back....nothing. I even deleted all of the animation and tried to start from scratch.......when I saved new keyframes the fcurve editor shows that they are there.....but it still wont move............ all the joints attached to it are fine......I'm stummped!

It sounds like you are mixing FK (rotations) with IK keys. Did you by any chance save an explicit translation key for the effector of
skeleton? If so, this is overriding the FK motion you are keying. If this is correct, remove the key for the effector, and you FK motion
return.

Hope this helps,
Urp