aXYZ people

[dpcaltdcah]

we just got some new axyz people with mocap data and are having fun playing with them. but a couple of them have a problem when you group them and them move them from their original location.

 

this happens (see attached image)

 

and it gets worse the farther you move them.

 

anyone?

[stone145]

...dont do it. hehe

[dpcaltdcah]

gee thanks

[Paul Twyman]

Hey there,

 

Go to the physique modifier on the figure mesh and in the envelope sub-object select the head or neck envelope (which ever one contains the problem area) and increase the strength slightly. 1.1 or 1.2 should do it.

 

Think this should help

[dpcaltdcah]

ok, that worked.

but then when I closed the group again and moved him again, his bones separated from the mesh and moved at a different speed somewhere else.

[Paul Twyman]

Have you scaled the figure correctly to your units using figure mode (figure modes not still on is it??) in the biped panel?

 

There's a tutorial here on the aXYZ website that tells you exactly what to do.

 

http://www.axyz-design.com/axyz-design-3d-humans-characters-products-tutorials.php?ccSID-d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e=5f7918f48a69bba9859d2270618145f3

 

make sure you follow it exactly, you then may have to do what i said previously in order to get those problem vertices to follow the rest.

 

If it's grouped it should just be the biped grouped without the mesh, the mesh should follow the bones without being selected.

 

Hope this helps.

[dpcaltdcah]

yes, that's the first thing we did. and we followed very carefully. I emailed the guy from axyz and he said you just should't group them. you should use the move all mode instead. that seems dumb but it works.

[Paul Twyman]

Yeah i noticed it says to do that now, it definietly used to say "select all the bones and create a group" i just had a look at the pdf i downloaded at the time.

Oh well, as long as they're working

[alfienoakes]

looks like a scene out of "the Omen"..!!!

[Devin Johnston]

This is how I move them around, it seem to work in most cases.

 

1. select xxxx-bip

2. go to motion pannel

3. under biped select load file

4. select approprate .bip file

5. set amimation to frame 0

6. under layers select "create layer"

7. move character to desired location

8. under key infor click "set key"

 

This works for me I hope it works for you, I do wish that AXYZ could come up with a plugin that made these figures as easy to use as RPC's.

[rotten42]

we just got some new axyz people with mocap data and are having fun playing with them. but a couple of them have a problem when you group them and them move them from their original location.

 

this happens (see attached image)

 

and it gets worse the farther you move them.

 

anyone?

 

 

It looks like a "kill shot" like you would see on CSI:p