Mothdiver

Thank you chaps I will try to move on before asking more questions, because assuredly they will come. Once again thanks for the assistance Moth

After watching your video, I think I also spotted my problem, didn't realise that every bone requires it's own keyframe on it's own timeline, whether you're trying to control it, moving or not. I noted you like to select all the bones that you think you are going to need, at the beginning, what happens after a couple of hours of input, you discover one misbehaving bone, that wasn't part of the original selection. again thanks for the links to the toots, very clear. Moth

Many thnaks for that, I will let you know how it turns out Moth

continuation of the no keyframe problem, each time I ty to animate any sequence, I don't appear to have added any Keyframes or just can't see them (?) I have been trying to complete Ex. 6 the doors stuck,but I just can't seem to stick appropriate key frames in. I have tried to follow the various examples in previous video tutorials, plus the above thread. To add a new key frame, I am making sure nothing in the window is selected, then typing the frame number in and hitting return, I am in animation mode. I have attached a screen shot of what I am doing. Once complete, the animation doesn't behave the way I expect ( that could be just me), but using the forward and backward keyframe step buttons indicate no keyframes. any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Moth

Yet another Newbie say ing hello for the first time, acuired A:M at Wondercon, but live in UK. Having furn with the maual toontorials, particularly loving the foibles, just taken about 2 hours trying to work out why it wouldn't allow key frames. Did find out in the course of researching that there is a couple of software updates that have been released, since my CD was burnt. Anyway it looks like lots of fun, if I could only see over the top of the learning curve. Moth