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I design avatars out of .dimp files

How interesting. I'd really like to hear more from you. How are you finding the transition?

Haha. Time flies whilst talking to Sijmen.
Dimp has the feature to turn position A and B into a nice smooth animation in-between, whilst I think you have to do everything manually for Pivot?

Don't forget that you can change the stick-figure's position at very small increments of time, not just every second.

"Easing"? And .stk file will be read very soon by Dimp. Sijmen already made a sub-program to do so but unfortunately lost a days work before he could consider implementing it into Dimp. So you'll just have to wait a little longer.

just you have to keep the movements at an equal rate for realistic animation

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Yeah, thats exactly what bugs me, because it throws away everything Ive ever animated for the past 2 years as slow.. If I animate in Pivot like I do in Dimp then the animation would be very very stiff

Last edited by Prescot (2009-01-02 04:11:21)

The term “easing” comes from a car accelerating and gaining speed. It’s slow at first, but speeds up. It then slows down gradually to come to a stop. The same principle applies to Pivot. Since Dimp automatically makes my frame spacing smooth, if I try to ease it will end up looking slow and awkward, and since Im so used to this idea, its hard for me to evenly space an animation without thinking it'll look stiff.

Does this make any more sense to you?

I preferred Prescot's explanation.
But I know what easing it before you just explained.

Nice, but I find the arms coming out of the cartwheel are very disproportionate.

By the way, I've tried a couple of times, and easing is more than possible on Dimp. Either you pick specific time-intervals and make a limb move by an increasing, then decreasing margin, or you pick specific distances that are all equal-lengths for the limb to travel, and then you make keyframes at decreases time intervals, then increasing (e.g. 0.1cm every 0.5s, 0.4s, 0.3s, 0.2s, etc.).

I've tried it and it's easy to do on Dimp. What's more, the automated animation in-between keyframes still kicks in so you get animations in-between those intervals creating a highly-smoothed easing process.

I just tried it, too easy.
Send me your MSN via a forum e-mail if you don't mind. I'll show you how it's possible, and more than easy to do.