<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 20, 2008 7:50 PM, Stefan Andersson <<a href="mailto:sanders3d@gmail.com">sanders3d@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello Everyone.<br><br>I think this REALLY have to be discussed for future releases of<br>Blender. As I have yet to meet an actual character animator who likes<br>working with Quats. There are so many problems with how you are
<br>editing Quats that I don't really know where to begin.<br><br>The main problem would be that we are looking at three axis, but are<br>given four curves. When you are doing extensive editing for final<br>adjustments you are also trying to limit the number of keyframes that
<br>you have. You refine the motion curve... but with quats that is almost<br>impossible. You end up using more curves instead.<br>Granted you don't run into gimbal lock, but you solve at least 90% of<br>those problems with having rotation reordering XYZ, YZX, ZXY, etc..
<br><br>I know a lot of animators out there will agree with me.<br><br>I'm aware that this might be a huge problem for the code base of<br>Blender, but I think it should really be discussed and let the<br>animators with some experience get heard. And for the.... well... ask
<br>the animators what's best, not what is the most logical way for a<br>programmer :)<br></blockquote><br>i would also like to see this. i skimmed over the meeting minutes and the coders all said that eulers won't really work... but when i still used maya i always animated with eulers and there never seemed to be much of a problem. there must be some solution i guess? maybe some way to internally still use quaternions and only use some euler conversion for editing?
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