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Removeing animation

kanabyte.ronkanabyte.ron Posts: 0
edited December 1969 in Art Studio

First of all I apologize for being dense. I have read so many help pages about this but not a single explanation removes the walking animation I inadvertently applied.

I had a prefect Genesis model that was exactly what I wanted. I posed her in all kinds of ways and rendered one frame at a time. All was well. I then decided to apply walking animation and it was wonderful. However I cannot now go back to my static 1 frame model WITHOUT an animation being in the time line. All I want to do is take away the animation I applied so that I can have just that single frame so that when I go into the animation timeline panel and move the slider there will be no movement at all from frame zero to frame 1000. I may wish to apply a different animation later but I want to "begin" a new animation and not just apply another one to the one that is there and wont go away.

I have followed every explanation I can find on the web but absolutely none of them remove the walking animation I applied. Three months now I have been trying. So I am very very frustrated.

BTW there are no key frames anywhere to remove

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,961
    edited December 1969

    Was the animation made with AniMate rather than setting keyframes in the timeline? If nott here should be keys, but remember that they belong to the bones not to the body as a whole (unless you used the PoseControl sliders on the body). One option is to go to a frame that shows the desired pose, if any does, and save it out as a Pose preset choosing the Single Frame option, then clear the animation data entirely (Edit>Figure>Clear Animation sub-menu) and finally reapply the saved preset.

  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Yep Scrub the Time line until you have the POSE you need.
    Select the Figure and do Save As>Pose Preset.
    In the Parameters do the Clear Animation just the Animation none of the the other options
    Then you Apply the Pose you just saved to your figure on Zero Frame.
    You should now be where you want to be.

  • kanabyte.ronkanabyte.ron Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    None of this makes sense.. I cannot find the stuff you are talking about.
    I have followed these instructions over and over again for months from google searches.
    I am brand new to this and your language and it makes no sense to me.

    The funny thing is I have been programing for 30 years
    using Catia, AUtocad, Solid works cad/cam for 25 years
    I use Adobe Premier and After Effects almost every day for 15 years.

    There is simply nothing intuitive about this program and everyone talks to me like I should understand this foreign language.

    Simple solution to every other animation software is slice one frame you want to keep in the series and delete the others.

    I have simply never been so frustrated with a program ad its support as I am with this one.


    This has become so frustration AND expensive that I am going to have to give up a $7k project..

    I'll pay ANYONE to call me by phone

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,961
    edited December 1969

    Which version of DAZ Studio are you using? Do you not have the Clear Animation sub-menu in the Figure sub-menu of the Edit menu, or was the problem the way I listed it? Saving a preset is File(menu)>Save as (sub-menu)>Pose preset, then you give the file a name, then in the options dialogue you check the Single Frame option.

  • kanabyte.ronkanabyte.ron Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    DAZ 4.6.. I mean if I am a newbie and your software is FREE why would you ask me what version I have?

    Your response is perfect example of how inane this software is.. or at least how inane your attempt to support it is.
    You said:
    "Do you not have the Clear Animation sub-menu in the Figure sub-menu of the Edit menu?"

    WTF? All I want to do is clip the animation and save it as a different one with ONE FRAME!!! I have tried to following these steps before only to end up in a dead end

    Here is what I know about your product. It grew up as Zygot who begat Poser who begat DAZ. Your problem is that you give me software free in the hope that I buy Victoria or Michael plugins from you. In that process you are ignoring the free software DAZ3D. Now it may be good for the people who already know how to use DAZ3D after years but because there is no direct profit for you in the software they will keep buying the plugins. But as a software engineer who has more experience with "real" software than you do I can tell you that you will not survive unless you sell your software for something north of $500 and provide first class phone support. All you are doing is speaking the language you and current users understand and newbies do not.

    As I said, if I can pay someone to bail me out of this I will. However after this project is either finished or dies I will look into more professional 3D software such as Autodesk Maya.

    BTW I have seen this happen with Apple. In the early days if you bought Apple supported "Publisher" and then tried to run it on a PC and one was supposed to automatically understand the Apple way for keyboard shortcuts. Some of it is still irritating me but mostly they have converted to the Microsoft norm... or even the Adobe norm.

    kanabyte.ron@zoho.com

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,961
    edited December 1969

    As a note, Poser is not related to DAZ Studio except in as far as both can use most of the same content.

    Giving menu commands in the form Edit>Figure>Clear Animation is a fairly standard approach, I'm sure you see it in most of the documents you read (and as an engineer you may well write it in your own documents). I was providing this as you appeared to be wanting to clear the animation. If you simply want to save the pose then the other half of what I wrote applies - with the figure in the pose you want, and selected, go to File>Save as>Pose Preset. Give the preset a name and a location (if you don't want the default), then in the options dialogue make sure Current Frame Only is set and click Accept without making any other changes. You can then apply the preset, with a fresh copy of the figure loaded and selected, by finding it in the Content Library, under DAZ Studio Formats and the location you saved to, or if you are more confortable using a standard file dialogue use File>Merge.

  • kanabyte.ronkanabyte.ron Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    There is virtually no way I will ever be able to understand the robotic English used by the administrators here. I need to talk to someone on the phone. $100 for five minutes

    The most frustrated I have ever been in my life and it is eating into my profits.

    Leave me a email address and I will leave my phone number

    Location Western United States.

    Ron

  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,063
    edited December 1969

    Merged thread since it isn't a scripting question

  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Here try these then http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/32249/
    All tools Free or otherwise have a learning curve.

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