mirroring an action

[cribbidaj]

I have a model performing a dance action and am wondering if there is a quicker way to mirror the whole action other than to "copy/paste mirrored" each keyframe. Using A:M 15j on Mac OS 10.6.8. Thanks.

[robcat2075]

If you just need to use the action without transitioning to other actions you could scale the character -100% on one axis (probably X) to mirror him and everything he does.

[cribbidaj]

If you just need to use the action without transitioning to other actions you could scale the character -100% on one axis (probably X) to mirror him and everything he does.

 

Thanks Robert! That should have been obvious to me as that's how I mirror the bones while rigging. Truly appreciate your help!

[robcat2075]

I'll note that what I meant is to scale the character's model bone in the chor. That will be simplest, but making a new version of the character in the model window might be possible... hmmm... I'm not sure.

[Rodney]

This (mirroring) is such a useful concept for modeling, rigging and animation that I thought I'd put together a quick video to demo the process of mirroring and saving out an Action.

Nothing fancy here... just a cancan dance mirrored by scaling as Robert suggested (the model being scaled -100 in the X axis producing a quickly mirrored Action that can be saved for later usage.)

 

Note that this is in an Action... but only because I wanted to export/save the mirrored Action.

If not I might just flip the Action in the Chor and called it a day.

 

I distinctly recall the first time someone clued me in to mirroring via scale in a Choreography and I was considerably impressed that such an easy and straightforward solution was available. Prior to that I had thought of Scale as only useful for making things bigger or smaller. Go figure.

MirrorAction.mp4

[markw]

...I had thought of Scale as only useful for making things bigger or smaller...

Same here!

Still so much to learn

[cribbidaj]

This (mirroring) is such a useful concept for modeling, rigging and animation that I thought I'd put together a quick video to demo the process of mirroring and saving out an Action.

Nothing fancy here... just a cancan dance mirrored by scaling as Robert suggested (the model being scaled -100 in the X axis producing a quickly mirrored Action that can be saved for later usage.)

 

Note that this is in an Action... but only because I wanted to export/save the mirrored Action.

If not I might just flip the Action in the Chor and called it a day.

 

I distinctly recall the first time someone clued me in to mirroring via scale in a Choreography and I was considerably impressed that such an easy and straightforward solution was available. Prior to that I had thought of Scale as only useful for making things bigger or smaller. Go figure.

 

Amazing! Thanks so much for this quick demonstration. As you stated - "easy and straightforward". You guys rock!

[NancyGormezano]

NEAT!