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Need Advice. How to have characters GRAB and HOLD during clips. About Truespace Archives These pages are a copy of the official truespace forums prior to their removal somewhere around 2011. They are retained here for archive purposes only. Need Advice. How to have characters GRAB and HOLD during clips. // Roundtable 1  |   Order by default Post by jhowell // Sep 13, 2008, 10:27am jhowell Total Posts: 400 http://4webs.biz/truespacestuff/sept13guyjumpingonplole.gif I have a question. See the example video on youtube. I made character grab on to pole and swing. But had to do it the slow key frame way when character got to pole. The running and jumping to the pole was bvh of course. What I really want to do is have character run and jump and GRAB pole with the bvh animation THEN add a PROCEDURAL PHYSICS ANIM CLIP to the POLE AND TO THE CHARACTER and let Truespace work its awesome physics magic. However, Iam stuck on this one as to how to attach character to pole when it grabs pole at that moment in time. Couple other programs I use I can do it in but am a little stuck in Truespace. Any advice? Thanks Much! Here is youtube of my character grabbing the pole ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSp6zI3gX1A and blip.tv http://www.blip.tv/file/1258845 :jumpy: P.S. Yesterdays animation practice. 4 man fight scene with Tank Girl and Bobby looking on~ view youtube here ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asaB-jGl6Tc&fmt=18 or view bliptv here ... http://www.blip.tv/file/1257915 Post by mrbones // Sep 13, 2008, 12:35pm mrbones Total Posts: 1280 Cool anim, A couple things come to mind, One is Wind-bones attribute and another is using the cloth attribute as it has a way to lock the selected vertices. I will post more info as I can find it. Cheers Post by J90 // Sep 13, 2008, 5:03pm J90 Total Posts: 107 Have you tried using the "Attach object to bone" tool? Not sure if it would work though. Post by trueBlue // Sep 13, 2008, 6:08pm trueBlue Total Posts: 1761 It sounds like you should use Physics Events. There is a scene "3DSoundBall" in the Scenes - Base library that demonstrates their use. They are very powerful and can be used to trigger tS76 commands and or scripts. Post by jhowell // Sep 13, 2008, 6:38pm jhowell Total Posts: 400 Thanks for your suggestion j90. I use attach object to bone all the time. Wont work for this. I think trueblues post that he posted might be the ticket. I will check that out. :jumpy: Have you tried using the "Attach object to bone" tool? Not sure if it would work though. Post by J90 // Sep 14, 2008, 9:07am J90 Total Posts: 107 It didn't work? Yea, trueblues idea is a good one. How did you make the pole bend so well? Post by jhowell // Sep 14, 2008, 10:28am jhowell Total Posts: 400 Hi j90, Pole bending was easy. I just created a tube and put a skeleton in it. POSITION locked the base and using dynamic pose I moved and keyframed pole. What I want to do is more complex. When my characters GETS to the pole I want to attach him to the top of the pole (or top bone) AT THAT GIVEN FRAME. Then add a dynamics procedural clip to the pole and to the character starting at THAT frame. Then by using some "dynamic" position constraints the pole and character would sway and move naturally while the procedural clips are building the physics frames. I made it look pretty natural just by manually keyframing pole but Truespaces awesome dynamic procedural clips and dynamic constraints should be able to do it automatically. hmmmmmm :jumpy: Here is youtube of my character grabbing the pole ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSp6zI3gX1A and blip.tv http://www.blip.tv/file/1258845 :jumpy: P.S. Yesterdays animation practice. 4 man fight scene with Tank Girl and Bobby looking on~ view youtube here ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asaB-jGl6Tc&fmt=18 or view bliptv here ... http://www.blip.tv/file/1257915 It didn't work? Yea, trueblues idea is a good one. How did you make the pole bend so well? Post by J90 // Sep 14, 2008, 11:18am J90 Total Posts: 107 I thought that is how you did it. I wasn't sure though. Thanks for letting me know :)

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