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Sounds to me like you're importing a model that's a complete mesh rather than built of several objects right? You have to start with the rooth bone and add the figure to that, then add in the rest of the bones, or if the bones are all there already then start adding the influences those bones will hold over the mesh itself.

anyone know how to get intouch with Mongoose? It's a small program sure and probably isnt doing much to mysystem but it's really kinda annoying to know I can't move or remove this thing as it stands right now and I'd really like to ask his help if no one else knows how to fix this.

I downloaded the fram rate changer and I dunno I guess I didn't use it right, but I decided I was going to delete it. now for some reason my computer refuses to delete it because it says it's in use by another application. I mean even in safe mode it wont let me get rid of it, anyone have an idea what the deal is with this or how to remove it?

I'm using Winxp SP1

It'd be cool if anim8or had an audio merge function so we really could animate characters to a sound track. The way it is not you;d have to guess the time range for each word and hope you match up or try to edit it al together in post. Either way it wouldnt match what this guy does, he's inhuman!

They where children of the arm bones you see in the screen cap above, which themselves were children of the shoulders and the chest and so on. Same with the neck that I attached the head to.

But again this was in the figure mode, I just have to assume that mesh deformation just wasnt something that the figure mode does, I've since managed to output a working test animation, and the rig works as I expected, it just took stumbling my way through this to get there.

I ran across this tutorial years ago. It's not specificallt Anim8or but I think the techniques used are generic enough to be followed.
http://www.3dtotal.com/ffa/tutorials/max/joanofarc/head1.asp

Okay I'm messing with it some more right now and I'm noticing that it DOES work....


But onlin in sequence mode. I could swear it worked in figure mode too though. am I crazy? This seems to build on what I noticed in a previous thread where the figure dosent update as it should in scene mode either. You have to scrub the timelime a frame just to get the figure to snap to the skeleton. I swear this on one of the things that drives me nuts about Anim8or is that there are so many redundancies and things that you think SHOULD work a certain way yet dont.

Am I really the first person bothered by the way this works (or dosent) or is it just not working correctly for me?

Here's the skeleton, You can see the first bone at the bottom, that dosent own anything. the second bone in the pelvis is what I made the parent of the torso, the third bone in the chest SHOULD influence the part in yellow.

I know that the pelvis bone is the parent of the whole torso because if I delete it the torso goes too, the bone in the chest if deleted will not remove the torso.

Also like I said previous experiments that I'd done worked, but now they wont. It's like there was some setting in Anim8or that no longer exists.