movement between identical keyframes

sajiky

Can anyone tell me why if I set two identical keyframes to hold a figure still for a bit in an animation, there is some movement between them?  It seems like if I have a third keyframe on either side of the two identical ones, then the animation will move the figure toward the keyframe outside of the two, until it reaches the halfway point between the identical ones, and then start moving it back to it's original location. If that all makes any sense at all verbally. Basically if I move to either identical keyframe, everything is in the same spot, but in between each non keyframe is moving. One frame away from the first keyframe will look identical to one frame before the second, and so on till right between the two when the figure is at it's furthest from where it should be. If I managed to explain that well enough verbally.

Only way I seem to be able to make it sit there, is if I add a keyframe holding it in spot for every single frame. Which is rediculous. I realize Daz's default key editor is simplistic and feature poor, but this seems like a simple thing I should be able to do. I am using Daz 4.11 if that matters, as Daz 4.12 will not engage the gpu for renders. Well actually it does, but then disengages if the memory needed is over like 800 mb (on an 8 GB card that runs 4.11 renders like a dream).

Thanks.

pdr0

 

You need to set the interpolation between keyframes to "linear"

If you don't have keymate or graphmate,  or not using the new timeline , there is a script by  mccasual to set the interpolation

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts/setinterpolation-for-ds2-3

sajiky

Thank you much!

rames44

Another approach that has worked for me is to set the "hold still" key frames twice, on adjacent frames at each end of the range. That usually (for me) keeps any motion from outside the range from interpolating into the range.