[Bf-animsys] Need feedback about a simple walk cycle helper

[Jonatan Bijl]

I think you'd rather want to have it the other way around: you know the average speed of your character, and then you make the animation for that.

Calculating the speed from bones is also a  bit tricky, as this requires a lot of assumptions about the walk cycle. For sneaking, running, etc the maximum distance between the ankles is not what you want because probably only one ankle bone and one toe bone will be touching the ground, or none at all.
 
Jonatan

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From: bf-animsys-bounces at blender.org [mailto:bf-animsys-bounces at blender.org] On Behalf Of Gaia
Sent: maandag 11 augustus 2014 13:57
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Subject: Re: [Bf-animsys] Need feedback about a simple walk cycle helper

Hi, Jonatan;
Thanks for your feedback.
Would it be helpful to detemine the maximum distance between the left/right ankle bones (or any other selectable bone pair) and then calculate the "speed" of the root bone (or any other selectable bone) ?

cheers,
Gaia

On 11.08.2014 11:15, Jonatan Bijl wrote:
> Thanks for your work on the plugin. I have an idea for something that could be helpful.
>
> What I find tricky when animating a walk cycle, is preventing a sliding-feet / moonwalking  movement.
>
> I currently work-around this problem, by animating a movement of the root bone, for the distance of two strides. Then I animate the walking, and can easily see if the feet are sliding or not. After that, I remove the root bone animation again.
>
> Another solution could be that a plugin would use stride length and stride duration as input to show "footprint" helper objects, or zebra-crossing-stripes, to show the walking-speed to the animator.
>
> I think this kind of feature would be very helpful.
>
>
> Jonatan
>
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> Sent: zondag 10 augustus 2014 12:20
> To: Discussion list to assist 2.5 animation recode
> Subject: [Bf-animsys] Need feedback about a simple walk cycle helper
>
> Hi;
>
> Recently i needed a simple walk cycle for testing the weighting of a character. So i learned how to make basic walk cycles.
> However after an hour of playing with the concepts i thought, why not making a small helper tool for this?
> And i ended with this:
>
> http://blog.machinimatrix.org/sparkles/walk-cycle-helper/
>
> This tool works for me. But maybe it can be made more useful even.
> So if you are missing something that would fit well into this tool, 
> then i am all ears :)
>
> Thanks for any feedback on this!
> cheers,
> Gaia
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