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How do you end an animation in the same position as the beginning?

wildbillnashwildbillnash Posts: 756
edited March 2019 in New Users

I was wondering if there was a way to copy the beginning pose of an animation and paste it at the end.  I want to animation to loop without the image jumping from the end position to the beginning position.

I tried to search the tutorials but several of the links are dead, one video doesn't have sound, or it just doesn't cover what I'm looking for.

Also, is there a way you can save separate animation that can be spliced together like the preset animation in AniMate Lite?

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  • Seven193Seven193 Posts: 1,080
    edited March 2019
    Does this work? Copy paste keyframes:

    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/172346/copying-and-pasting-keyframes-or-inserting-multiple-keyframes-at-once

    I think the first frame of animation has to be keyed to copy it?
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  • wildbillnashwildbillnash Posts: 756

    No, it's talking about dragging a box around a keyframe.  It won't do that.  If I'm correct, the keyframe is the little triangle in the timeline.  You can't drag a box around it.  There should be a "Copy Keyframe" option in the Edit menu.  That would help greatly.

  • Sven DullahSven Dullah Posts: 7,621
    wildbillnash said:

    I was wondering if there was a way to copy the beginning pose of an animation and paste it at the end.  I want to animation to loop without the image jumping from the end position to the beginning position.

    You need the kemate or graphmate plugins to be able to copy/paste and easily move keyframes. However you can go to frame 0 and select the figure, then rightclick on the parameterpane and choose memorize figure pose, then go to the end frame and choose restore figure pose.



    I tried to search the tutorials but several of the links are dead, one video doesn't have sound, or it just doesn't cover what I'm looking for.

    wildbillnash said:

    Also, is there a way you can save separate animation that can be spliced together like the preset animation in AniMate Lite?

    Yup, just save your animation as a pose preset (animated range).

  • wildbillnashwildbillnash Posts: 756
    edited March 2019
    Sven Dullah said:

    You need the kemate or graphmate plugins to be able to copy/paste and easily move keyframes. However you can go to frame 0 and select the figure, then rightclick on the parameterpane and choose memorize figure pose, then go to the end frame and choose restore figure pose.

     

    What is the "parameterpane"? 

    Post edited by Richard Haseltine on
  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,841
    wildbillnash said:
    Sven Dullah said:

    You need the kemate or graphmate plugins to be able to copy/paste and easily move keyframes. However you can go to frame 0 and select the figure, then rightclick on the parameterpane and choose memorize figure pose, then go to the end frame and choose restore figure pose.

     

    What is the "parameterpane"? 

    The Parameters pane - Windoe>Panes(Tabs)>Parameters

  • wildbillnashwildbillnash Posts: 756

    Oh, thank you.  I'll try that.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,208

    Casual has a keyframe decimator that also creates loops

    https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts/mcjdecimate-for-ds-12-3

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