{"id":5047,"date":"2019-04-30T20:32:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T20:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avastar.guru\/?page_id=5047"},"modified":"2019-04-30T20:32:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T20:32:58","slug":"animations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/avalab.org\/avastar\/279\/workflows\/basic\/animations\/","title":{"rendered":"Animations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Making Animations<\/h2>\n

A Single Pose in Easy Steps<\/h3>
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1. In the main window in object mode Press Add>Avastar>Either Basic or Extended.
\n2. Switch to the Animation screen layout at the top of Blender using the drop down arrows.<\/p>\n

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\n3. You might notice the vertical Tools panel has disappeared. So, put the mouse in the main window, press keyboard T\u00a0<\/em>then click the Avastar tab.
\n4. In Workflows<\/em>\u00a0at the top of the Avastar panel, choose\u00a0Pose & Animate<\/em>\u00a0preset.
\n5. In Rig Display<\/em>, untick the Limit<\/em> checkbox.<\/p>\n

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\n6. The green rings on the character are animation bones. Select one with a right click on your mouse. Press keyboard R<\/em> and move the mouse to rotate it. Press keyboard G<\/em> and move the mouse to grab a bone to a new position.
\n7. Select all the bones with keyboard A,<\/em>\u00a0press keyboard i<\/em> and choose Rotation<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\n8. Select only the COG bone and press keyboard i<\/em> and choose LocRot<\/em> because this is the bone that controls the\u00a0location\u00a0<\/em>of the character.<\/p>\n

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9. Look in the Dope sheet on the left and find the Origin<\/em> in the list. Left click the name and then hover your mouse over it and press X to delete it.<\/p>\n

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\n10. Press the Camera button in the properties bar on the right. Scroll down to Animation Export<\/em>.
\n11. Enter these settings, ensuring that the loop is set and then hit the Export button there.<\/p>\n

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A Moving Animation in Easy Steps (tbd)<\/h3>
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Working with Bone constraints<\/h3>
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<\/image> Bone Constraints (Pose- & Edit-mode)<\/h4>\n

The Avastar Rig tries to keep most of its complexity under the covers. The most important and unfortunately also the least understood part of the rig is its control bone section together with its set of Bone constraints. Here is a bit of information to shed some light on this.<\/p>\n

The (green) Animation Bones and the (blue) Deform Bones of the Avastar rig are closely related to each other. Actually the Deform Bones by default inherit the Animation Bone’s Transformation matrices. So the animation bone skeleton and the deform bone skeleton are like almost perfectly synchronized twins. You can see this best with Bone display mode set to Octahedral:<\/p>\n

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The Green Animation Bones are the master bones used for Animation<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Deform Bones are used for Skinning (Weighting). They normally follow the green animation bones<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\nDue to the Bone constraints the Deform bones can normally not be directly moved or rotated. So you have to move (animate) the Animation bones and weight the Deform bones.
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However there are 2 situations where you want to change the default behavior:<\/p>\n

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