What are the differences between Aniblocks and other animations?

RexRed

What are the differences between Aniblocks and other animations?

There are aniblocks animations and then there are these kinds of animations that do not mention aniblocks in their description

https://www.daz3d.com/catwalk-animations-for-clothes-presentation-for-genesis-8-and-81-female

https://www.daz3d.com/pirate-animations-for-wolfgang-81

https://www.daz3d.com/runway-animations-for-genesis-8

I can't seem to wrap my head around the differences and how each type is used.

I would really like to animate figures but these seemingly divergent approaches to animation have me confused.

How would I apply these non aniblocks animations?

I own aniblocks but these seem to work in a different way and that has made me hesitant to invest in these products.

...and, (another inquiry) can you animate the rotation of a HDRI environment?

Gordig

Aniblocks work through the Animate plugin, a "player" version of which is included with DS. If those products aren't aniblocks, then they write keyframes directly to the timeline.

Padone

With animate lite you can always convert aniblocks to timeline and back, just you can't save aniblocks.

Then aniblocks serve a different purpose that's to mix animations, that's not possible with the timeline. Usually timeline animations are converted to aniblocks then mixed.

juvesatriani

RexRed said:

What are the differences between Aniblocks and other animations?

There are aniblocks animations and then there are these kinds of animations that do not mention aniblocks in their description

https://www.daz3d.com/catwalk-animations-for-clothes-presentation-for-genesis-8-and-81-female

https://www.daz3d.com/pirate-animations-for-wolfgang-81

https://www.daz3d.com/runway-animations-for-genesis-8

I can't seem to wrap my head around the differences and how each type is used.

I would really like to animate figures but these seemingly divergent approaches to animation have me confused.

How would I apply these non aniblocks animations?

I own aniblocks but these seem to work in a different way and that has made me hesitant to invest in these products.

...and, (another inquiry) can you animate the rotation of a HDRI environment?

Aniblok like lite version of Blender NLA . its called NLA because you can easily doing manipulation ( bone/pose correction - overide each body part motion - time scalling  etc) over the base motion . Imagine like combination of  Photoshop`s Smart object and  photoshop layer system . It works like container or if you familiar with After effect that will be like composition 

 Standard animotion pose/files  should be possible converted into Animate kind of files . So you can tweaking it for better fit your need ,

Just remember if you need to render out animation , you need to "Baking" NLA editing ( which how ANimate works) into standard (tdaz imeline) keyframe .

So how we know which one we need ? The basic rules is Animate version will be awesome , because you can easily tweak it , but since it possible to convert standard animation file into Animate , so I think both version will be safe investments

Check this video about NLA in youtube . Although that video for Blender  it will give you basic idea how NLA works . Then see all videos from animate developer

RexRed

Wow this is a lot of information which I have really needed!

Thank you for these explainations! 

I am still confused, but I am a bit more clear about this and I will watch all of the videos to see if i understand.

I think this is as complicated as sequencing genes.. lol