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johnar Steve To be honest, I have no problem naming it lock, or hold, or keep, or block, or stop, or anything else, as long as it eases the animation process and works correctly. I dunno how it's called in other programs because I do not use other programs.

nemyax Because, for example, I lock my character's feet, and just animate the walk. When I move the feet, I keep them locked, and only rotate them if I need to. That's one of the IK tool purposes.

Thank you very much, thecolclough.
As I said, even if it sounds weird, I'm all a smile since I've seen that
Damn, I love anim8or.

Nice work, Steve!
Just a little something I've just noticed. When I drag outside the work area, it seems the figure change position... I usually drag outside to reset the last action, but now it jumps
Btw. Any idea when you'll be able to fix the end effectors not to wiggle around?
Thanks.
Keep up the good work.

Nice job! Also IK ?

johnar: I totally agree. I've been thinking a lot about that. But it seems sometimes would be very helpful to have the locked feet follow the body (example: jumping), but also other times would be essential to have the feet stay in place... I don't really know which would be better...

Steve: Got it. Thanks

Wow, Steve! An8 is going in the right direction.
It's the best way to animate when the feet are locked, as I said before even for a quadruped.
The position of the locked feet is still a bit jiggly when playback, but I'm sure you gonna solve that too.

What I've observed, the feet jump to last feet position if I try to adjust any previous root position.
A similar jump happened when I deleted the keyframes too.
Here's in this video what I'm talking about.

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