Path constraints affecting previous actions???

[TeresaNord]

I know I should know how to do this, but I don't. I've been messing around with it for forever and finally decided that I need help. It's probably something simple that I'm not doing, but I can't figure out what it is...

 

Okay, so I'm playing around with the Knight and reusable actions in the Dark Room (in the projects folder).

I have him be idle and then yawn. (No problem)

Where I run into a problem is when I try to have him walk on a path after that.

 

When I create the path and constrain him to it and the type of walk I want, then it automatically constrains him to the path when he is idle and yawns. So I end up with a knight yawning as he slides along a path. The obvious thing I tried first was to create the walk in a new choreography action, but that didn't work, I had the same results.

 

Does anybody know what I'm doing wrong?

 

 

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[luckbat]

You control the knight's movement down the path using the constraint's Ease property. Keep it set to zero until you want the knight to start travelling.

[TeresaNord]

constraint's Ease property

That makes sense , thanks.

Keep it set to zero until you want the knight to start travelling.

Umm, where is that?

 

Is this it in the properties? and I just change the percent?

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Never mind just tried that. Umm? Well, I'll keep playing around with it... Thanks luckbat!

[luckbat]

Make sure the walk cycle action has a stride length, too. Otherwise there's little value in using a path constraint.

[TeresaNord]

Yeah, I'll put more of a walk cycle on. I'm just not finding how you set that constraint ease thing to zero until 00:12:04?