Animation moves at the root after upload..

[AstraGenesis]

New strange thing.. All good in blender but after upload the animation just doesn't stay in 1 place... it moves at the root.. Does anyone know how to fix this?

[sharra Bravin]

Im having the same issue as well....not sure what is going on with it...been messing with it all morning

[AstraGenesis]

Like you see my post is quite old, No responses so far.. All i could do is go back in Avatar to the older version again.. 

 

[sharra Bravin]

Ah, well I was using qavimator before, because blender has a big learning curve lol and im very ADD and its aggravating, but *shrug* onward goes the search through google and whatnot.

[sharra Bravin]

I figured it out. change it to an .Anim and make sure in blender the priority is around 6 and it will work

[AstraGenesis]

Yes, I did upload as anim. Don't think i changed priority to 6 though, had it at 5, But I'll try.. Thank you much.. <3

[sharra Bravin]

np

[OptimoMaximo]

This isn't a good solution, as maxing out an animation priority leads to priority slots consumption for really just a detail, which might have been solved in a cleaner way. If the root bone still moves during playback, it's most likely to have no position data for it, only rotation, which causes a lower priority animation to keep playing in the background, playing along with the higher priority animation and affecting this latter animation's unused data slots (the position values). As a result, you get a sort of blend between the higher priority animation, supposed to override everything but lacking the position data, and the lower priority animation playing in the background that instead *has* position data.

When you make an animation, make sure to add keyframes on bones for the type of data that bone needs! The root bone (COG in Avastar) needs rotation and translation data, all the other bones need just rotation. Begin by going to your first frame. Select all the bones you intend to use and hit "i" on keyboard to add a keyframe and choose "rotation". Then, select the COG alone, hit "i" and choose "translation". From this moment on, Blender knows what you want to keyframe on each single bone, hence next time you want to set a keyframe, select the bones, hit "i" and, this time, you can use the "Available" option on the bottom to tell Blender "set keyframes of the same type as those found on the bone". 

[AstraGenesis]

Hi Maximo, thank you so much for your explanation. However when I select COG and hit "i" it does not give me an option  for "translation". Is this only an option in Avestar2? I switched back to the older version of Avesta since i did not have any issues there..

[OptimoMaximo]

Blender's shortcuts are contextual to the view where you're hovering your mouse, make sure you hover it on the 3D view when you hit "i" and a list of those options will appear. It is a Blender's default behavior, Avastar isn't involved