Are user created walk cycles possible?

[corthew]

Initially I would like to be able to create a sideways walk cycle but I may want to do others later.

I've not seen a tutorial on that though. Is it something we can import into MS?

I need some dance sequences for the show tune scene and having a sideways walk option will simplify alot of the moves.

If its not something I'd be able to import could MS add that?

Left foot moves in front and over right foot then right foot moves in back and around left foot for left to right walking, then right foot moves in front and over left foot and left foot moves in back and around right foot for for left walking.

Pretty much everything is upper body and walking. The walking is the hardest part if I need to key it for every single upper body animation.

[Ben_S]

The problem is happening because one of the animation tracks doesnt have any keyframes after the guy puts his left foot down so that it contacts the floor (at about 1.5 seconds into the anim).

I've not sure which track this is, but I do note that you have very little (posibly none at all) animation on the upper body and arms. It might be worth trying having some animation for each arm, and for the head. It probably doesnt have to be anything much, but nothing at all might be breaking it.


Edit: Think I found a code fix to stop this from breaking things, but I'm afraid it isnt going to make todays patch, so you will need to actually animate the upper body a bit so that the keyframes dont all get discarded because they are identical, causing the animation reordering to fail.

[corthew]

I've not sure which track this is, but I do note that you have very little (posibly none at all) animation on the upper body and arms. It might be worth trying having some animation for each arm, and for the head. It probably doesnt have to be anything much, but nothing at all might be breaking it.

Ok, I tried keyframing a small upper torso bend to a left and right walk animation. One translated forward a bit. The other backward.

Neither one worked.

Then

I created a very simple left and right walk, both with upper body twists and arms swinging lightly.

I tried that with neither root translating forward then I tried with both of them translating forward.

Didn't work.

I've replaced the addon file linked in an earlier post with my latest attempt.

Here it is also:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/51344100/HoC_Walks.addon

I think I'm going to try doing a straight forward walk tomorrow night.

Unless you have any ideas.