Looping Animations (dance, walk) Helper Script, This Morning (i'm adding goodies)

mCasual

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts10/mcjsymmetricloopanim

here you see the basic mode which replaces the second half of the PlayRange by the mirrored (in time) first half of the PlayRange

a second mode will do the opposite

a third mode will mix the whole PlayRange with the mirrored (in time) PlayRange ( didn't try it yet, so I don't know if it will be useful )

Then I added 2 copy modes and another mix mode (non-mirroring )

Then I added an exclusion list since you may not want to loop morphs and other non-pose properties

 

 

mCasual

it's coming along 

a bone exclusion list would be nice but can be done by selecting only the bones you want to loop not the root of the figure

( for dance animation loops, often the head is not looping )

all sorts of inclusion/exclusion schemes are possible, but for now I'll leave it at that and post the script INCESSANTLY ( meaning less than an hour the saying goes )

mCasual

well almost 6AM and there's a few more time needed to post the script

BUT if you know what the term "Beta Version" means

one issue could be that it doesn't work at all !

I attach the Beta Version to this Comment

no instructions nothing, but I think it's easy to figure

mCasual

there's no end to what can be done to a looping curve (see mcjCycleFilter) but for now I'll limit it to copying/mixing/mirroring/shifting

the swap left and right is just a special case of "rotation"

it's a 180 degrees rotation.

But when you want to do follow-through / Overlapping animation I must let the user choose something other than 0 and 180 degrees

note that the script at least for now doesn't have a graphical display - the ones you see here come from my free sceneGraf plugin and mcjCycleFilter script

mCasual

added the ability to shift the loop curve by a precise angle

-180 means the curve moves back by half the loop duration

+180 means the curve moves forth by half the loop duration

( so it covers 360 degrees )

moving back 90 degrees is the same as moving forth 270 degrees

In the second image you see the default settings for the case where a figure root node is selected

we protect the head animation since it's not necessarily loop-animated

we protect the eyeballs mostly because Aiko3's eyeballs tend to end up scary when we touch the keyframes

we only leave the rotations un-excluded, since we don't want to keyframe joint location or scaling

usually, only the hip node needs to have its translations animated, the root node will be added to the list of excluded nodes ( almost forgot that )

For keyframe by keyframe editing my free sceneGraf plugin lets you do that

 

mCasual

A PRO version would have filtering/smoothing/synthesis, scaling, ease-in/ease-out, repeat, move, curve-display,

and modified curve preview. mcjCycleFilter can do this but for only 1 property at a time. bLooper (MemorizeRestoreLooper)

can do the repeat-copy efficiently for one node or the entire figure.

 

mCasual

Beta Beta ( very Beta )

current version attached

not sure if totally usable 

if it doesn't, then I posted another version in the thread above

 

V8 Infinite

waw Thanks a lot 

Silver Dolphin

Thank you looks really great.