Make biped bones have seperate animation tracks

Olli.

Im trying to animate a biped, but some of the bones seem to be sharing an animation track which makes creating complex and smooth animations hard for me.

what i mean by sharing a track is that when i create a keyframe for one bone, it is also created for various other bones (even if i didnt move them at all)
when i delete this keyframe for one of the bones, it is deleted for all the bones (which is bad since if i had some animation data on the other bones that i wanted to keep)

so any ideas on how to split the tracks?

Olli.

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monster

In the Keyframing Tools rollout there is a group called Separate FK Tracks. You can separate them from there.

At a glance it doesn't look like it does anything because it duplicates the current keys to all the tracks. But if you start moving them around you'll see they are separated.

Sliding and planted keys are always on every track.

Olli.

i have all of the seperate FK tracks option ticked, including the "extras" option, but the fingers are still refusing to cooperate.

The rig im using is the setup that came with the cryengine 3 SDK
I wouldnt use it normally since its a massive clusterfuck but i have no choice since im trying to make an add-on to the original content.

heres a link to the rig: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15275414/player.max

if anyone can figure this out id be really greatful... ill keep trying to find a fix in the meantime

EDIT: to clarify, the seperate FK tracks did help a bit.. now each finger has its own track, but one finger (which consists of 3 bones) is still one track (and i need it to be 3)

Olli.

bump still need help

Mark Dygert

That's as far as you can take it. It's biped, there isn't much more you can do... except use another system. Before they added knuckles I would build my own hand rigs from regular max bones. It was a bit of a pain managing two systems but I built a lot of tools and controls to make it easy to work with, but never automated the setup. Now with knucles biped gets it close enough so I don't bother with the setup.

Other rigs like CAT might give you what you're looking for?

Olli.

unfortunately im forced to use this rig as im making this as an add-on to a game so it needs to be made with the same setup as the vanilla assets..

thanks for the help anyways