Free Daz Script Controlled animated shifting between two poses

mCasual

Free Daz Script Controlled pose shifting

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts9/mcjbetweenposes

you animate the scale of a null node, thereby creating an animation curve

you pick two poses on your timeline between which you want to go back and forth of just back or just forth

and the script creates an animation using that curve and those two poses

 

atoxic

Thanks again

atoxic

 

Greymom

Ah, excellent - many thanks!!

johranshadi

This is very helpful thank you 

 

tfis

Great script!

Is it possible to shift between more than 2 Poses?
This would be great for more complex animations which repeat but with different speeds.
 

mCasual

well it would be a very different script

and the 'control node" method would need to be replaced by a sequencer

maybe in the form of a list table

then to make it more useful, you could specify shifting

the whole figure, 1 bone or a group of bones

would take more than an hour to write that script

in a way it's similar to my etherCam script

but ethercam sequenced a series of existing camera animations

To vary the speed of the in-betweening this would require more thinking

in the meantime there's aniMate that could help but I don't know

but I don't know enough about it to tell you if you could bend it to do what you want to achieve

 

tfis said:

Great script!

Is it possible to shift between more than 2 Poses?
This would be great for more complex animations which repeat but with different speeds.
 

tfis

Thanks for your answer.
I thought it might be possible to set 3 (or more) source poses.
So the size of the null object will interpolate between them
0-50% is first to second and 50-100% is second to third pose

But I think I can archieve the same by baking a part of the timeline to an erc.

 

 

mCasual said:

well it would be a very different script

and the 'control node" method would need to be replaced by a sequencer

maybe in the form of a list table

then to make it more useful, you could specify shifting

the whole figure, 1 bone or a group of bones

would take more than an hour to write that script

in a way it's similar to my etherCam script

but ethercam sequenced a series of existing camera animations

To vary the speed of the in-betweening this would require more thinking

in the meantime there's aniMate that could help but I don't know

but I don't know enough about it to tell you if you could bend it to do what you want to achieve

 

tfis said:

Great script!

Is it possible to shift between more than 2 Poses?
This would be great for more complex animations which repeat but with different speeds.
 

mCasual

 i'm making an animation wherein  Gabbie takes a keyblade , manipulates it, then puts it back on the table

using mcjParent and mcjMakeTarget and I wrote this short script that shows how to store a figure pose at a far point on the timeline

I thought this may interest you

using something like this, one could copy the pose stored at frame 300 and paste it at frames 0, 60, 120, 140

then take the pose stored at frame 301  and paste it at frames 30, 90, 130

the interpolation between the 2 poses would be Daz Studio's default splined interpolation

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var actionManager = MainWindow.getActionMgr();

var action1 = actionManager.findAction( "DzMemorizeFigureAction" );

var action2 = actionManager.findAction( "DzRestoreFigureAction" );

copyFrame( 0, 300 );

copyFrame( 90, 301 );

function copyFrame( frSrc, frDst )

{

fr = Scene.getFrame();

Scene.setFrame( frSrc );

action1.trigger();

Scene.setFrame( frDst );

action2.trigger();

Scene.setFrame( fr );

}

 

tfis said:

Thanks for your answer.

tfis

Thanks for your reply. I try to get my head around.

At the moment using erc sliders for the animation seems to work.
I'll try to use mcjbetweenposes to animate multiple sliders with the same values  - or i will try your new mcjcyclefilter to copy the slider values between characters.

 

mCasual

yesterday i tried using mcjbetweenposes for the animation below

and I suspected it doesn't work anymore, 

some of my older scripts broke when new versions of Daz Studio were released

but today I tried again and it seems to work fine

someday I'll improve it, add the code to store/move a pose to, another frame

so say you have a dance animation, you could send poses at frames 0,10, 20, 30 to frames 1000,1001, 1002, 1003

then you could delete all the animation at frames 0 to 100 

and build the animation in frames 1 to 100 using in-betweening that uses the stored poses

and instead of a control node you'll have on-screen display/editing of the control curve

 

 

tfis said: