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help locking body part in animation

trojanx97trojanx97 Posts: 45
in Daz Studio Discussion

hi i need help from the pros

i tried limb stick its useful altho usually adds a jitter to limb in animation but

 

i am trying to make an animation in which lower abdomen and lower chest is moving and i want to lock or keep in place uper chest
i am ready to do it manually but even after placing each keyframe it still feels like uper chest is moving slightly because other body parts are moving

is there any method that anybody can suggest ? or a youtube video :)

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  • wolf359wolf359 Posts: 3,828
    edited August 2

    Manually create the animation as best you can and then go into the Dope sheet and delete any keys that are causing unwanted movement in the upper chest area.

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  • trojanx97trojanx97 Posts: 45

    what is dope sheet ? and where can i find it ?

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,833

    The dope sheet is the portion of the Timeline pane which lists properties and their keys. The section below that is the graph sheet.

  • trojanx97trojanx97 Posts: 45

    currently i am using graphmate to edit animation

    is there anything similar to graphmate ? or better that shows flow of keyframes so i can edit them

  • wolf359wolf359 Posts: 3,828
    edited August 7

    The Dopesheet in Daz studio is the area above the Graph editor in this picture.
     


    GraphMate and it’s companion dope sheet “keyMate” are no longer for sale in the Daz store  but frankly the Daz studio Graph editor and Dope sheet is just as good at this point.

     

     

     

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  • Michal P.Michal P. Posts: 77

    trojanx97 said:

    hi i need help from the pros

    i tried limb stick its useful altho usually adds a jitter to limb in animation but

     

    i am trying to make an animation in which lower abdomen and lower chest is moving and i want to lock or keep in place uper chest
    i am ready to do it manually but even after placing each keyframe it still feels like uper chest is moving slightly because other body parts are moving

    is there any method that anybody can suggest ? or a youtube video :)

    From my expeience, if you want to do animations you need to learn scripting. For your problem I would start with mcjAutoLimb2015 and mcjKeepOrient

    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/66717/mcjautolimb2015-a-kind-of-ik-system-g3-and-g8-workability-confirmed

    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/540121/mcjkeeporient

    It is made for hands and legs. I suggest you to modify it for chest.

  • trojanx97trojanx97 Posts: 45

    thank you for the help

    i am trying to find a product that was showing a body part movement in view area .... so i can make that line straight by adjusting bend each frame

    dopesheet is useful to look at but not very helpful to make one body part (chest) stick to same place

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