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pxlwizard
Inspiring
June 12, 2018
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Full body swap from walking to seated

  • June 12, 2018
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I started off with the Maddy character and built my own character with frontal, right and left profiles. It all worked great including lip sync and walking.

Now I want to add a full swap to a seated version of the character. I have put all the standing and walk cycle versions into "Default" and put my seated version in "Seated" and created a swap set. It now swaps between standing and seated. The only problem is he doesn't walk any more!

How should I structure the character so the walk cycle works but I can still do a full body swap?

Thank you!

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Correct answer pxlwizard

I got it working. It was a rookie error...when I restructured my character to have "Default" and "Seated" views I didn't realise it would lose all the rigging.

Now I've added back the rigging, it all works great!

Only problem is when he appears seated at his desk, it always appears in the same place, not necessarily where he's standing. That will be my next thing to fix.

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pxlwizardAuthorCorrect answer
Inspiring
June 12, 2018

I got it working. It was a rookie error...when I restructured my character to have "Default" and "Seated" views I didn't realise it would lose all the rigging.

Now I've added back the rigging, it all works great!

Only problem is when he appears seated at his desk, it always appears in the same place, not necessarily where he's standing. That will be my next thing to fix.

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alank99101739
Legend
June 12, 2018

Sounds like you are powering along. Personally I am a bit careful in putting too much in a single puppet. You can always have two puppets and hide one and reveal the other at transition points.

A problem that can occur is the mesh is worked out including hidden layers. So when the positions are too different, you can find body movements start looking “off”.

You can keep an eye on it by turning on the yellow mesh (an icon at bottom of scene and rig panels).

Just something to keep an eye on. Adding more alternatives in the one puppet can cause the old puppet to behave different.

Oh, structural changes triggering re rigging can mess up old recordings as well. So get the puppet right then don’t make big changes later. Create a copy of the puppet and modify that to be safe.

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