I think I get it now.  After going back to the robot model and trying to
recreate some animations I've done before, there appear to be a couple
of bugs...

First thing I noticed is that you really need to select "linear" or
"cubic" before setting the key (and it appears you may need to reselect
for each new key at times).  Otherwise the subobjects of the robot don't
have their interpolation set to linear.

An apparent bug (introduced in the last beta or so) is that if you force
a key (using Set|Object) doesn't properly propagate the
step/linear/cubic down into the subobjects.  this, I believe, is what is
causing your problems.

Xander

Bob Hughes wrote:
> 
> "Alexander Enzmann" <xan### [at] mitreorg> wrote in message
> news:38A84028.A4F5FCF3@mitre.org...
> |
> | Bob Hughes wrote:
> | >
> | > Figured I better go ahead and bring this up here.
> | > The IK Keyframing isn't able to do multiple segments in one run apparently.
> |
> | I have a feeling that I'm going to need more information to really
> | understand the problem here.  To make sure that I both understand what's
> | happening (bug fix stuff), as well as what you really want to do
> | (features), I might need a real step by step description.
> 
> I'm probably not the best person to describe it since I just started out several
> days ago, really new to the whole thing, but here goes:
> 
> I'm trying out the robot.mdl for testing with the IK and I can get a one-time
> animation which has just a beginning point (frame zero, only the key button
> pressed) and end point (last frame, key button goes yellow automatically after a
> movement is performed on the robot model).  It works fine, no problems.
> However, if I try to do two such movements on the robot model it breaks the
> keyframing and will not interpolate the two sequences.  This is what I was
> unsure was supposed to be able to be done or not anyhow, one sequence of
> interpolations or if multiple ones were at all possible.
> At best the motions get muffled down to a slight movement, as if the
> interpolation were being scaled way down.
> 
> | > I've managed a work around by doing separate segments where I right-click on
> the
> | > Key button before beginning the next part and choosing Delete/Scene keys.
> That
> | > way it starts fresh where the objects left off from the previous run.
> |
> | Are you trying to go from one point in time to another, yet keep an
> | object in it's current orientation/position?  If that's all, then hold
> | down the Shift key as you move the time slider.  No interpolation will
> | occur.  When you get to the point in time you want to start things at,
> | force a key (or keys) at that point.  Did I forget to add that in the
> | docs (it may be under the place that talks about copying keys)?
> 
> I think so if I understand right.  The reason for that was simply to do one
> keyframing sequence at a time since it didn't work all together in one
> animation.  I made it render each separate animation instead was what I was
> doing to get around the problem of the model not switching from one motion
> segment to another.
> The held Shift key is something I didn't know about.
> 
> | If you are just using IK in the process of building an animation, then I
> | really need more info.  I've had no problems playing with Lutz's robot
> | arm & IK to do little animations.
> 
> Not much to it to tell about.  I open the robot.mdl and press the Key button,
> then I set the Options to have a certain number of frames, ie. 0 to 30.  I go
> place the slider at 10 for example and move the robot arm into another position.
> Move the slider to 20 and move the robot arm again and finally likewise a third
> time.
> Moving the slider from beginning to end to see the actions that will be done
> only shows it to move from one position to another without any interpolating of
> the movements.
> I just saw a message posted tonight in which someone else at AOL has said the
> official Moray 3.2 seemed to not have any bugs concerning this sort of thing but
> I don't know exactly what was meant by that if the animation plugin isn't
> updated as well.
> Hopefully you could understand my explanations here, hate to make it tougher on
> you than it already must be working with this stuff.  I was thrilled enough just
> to see it in action, since after all Moray was able to do a IK animation but
> like others I was trying to get multiple motions rendered out too and not able
> too.  Still whether that is a bug or not is the whole reason for my question to
> begin with.
> Thanks for listening Alexander, anything more you want me to drone on about I'd
> be more than willing.
> 
> Bob

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