Poser Pro keyframe issues

[RayRobert]

Hello all, I am new to poser and am having some issues with the keyframe animations.

 

I'll try my best to explain it....but an example of what i'm used to...in Qavimator , I could start a pose in from 1, hit the keyframe button, then jump to 15 make another pose and there would be a smooth transition to the poses. I am not getting that in poser. I do the same thing, keyframe in one frame, then move to another and it's not as smooth. THere are some odd movements in between, for example I am trying to animate someone picking a person up on ther shoulders, the first person animates fine, but when I animate the second one, he moves some before he is supposed to.  SO say I have the second figure being lifted up between frames 10 and 15, the figure does some off movements like sinking into the ground some, or legs moving before they are supposed to. Hopefully i made that easy to understand. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Medhue Simoni]

Basically, what is happening is called interpolation. When using interpolation, poser will round off the curves between 2 keyframes. You can change the interpolation affect or change the setting to linear. If you look at the Keyframing window, there will be 3 buttons of lines. 1 will be straight, another will be wavy, and the last a broken line. Play with those to get better results. Or, what I like to do is just add in more keyframes to make the movement more what I wanted, but this can get messy fast. A good window to learn to use is the Graph window. The Graph shows you the curves of all the movements of the parts. I don't really like how Poser's graph window works, but curve graphs are the best way to edit an animation and get smooth results.

Good luck!

[Coventina Dalgleish]

In Poser make sure you insert the break spline in frame 2, frame one being the reference frame, or legs, arms, and body parts seem to have a mind of their own ))  you can also try the other spline options but I have found the break to be the easiest to use it is the broken tilde symbol (~)