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1. Max 7 animation issue

   

   Topic by LEViATHAN · Mar 2010 · Home› Technical Talk

   To illustrate: This only happens in this particular scene, when I try to do the same in a new scene with a box primitive, it's fine. It has a rather complex hierarchy using basic links and link constrains to link the revolver to the wrist, but other, similar, projects don't have this problem. Ideas?

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   Reply by LEViATHAN · Mar 2010 · Home› Technical Talk

   Meh, did a hacky workaround instead, created a dummy and linked the wrist to that. It works. :\

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   Reply by Mark Dygert · Mar 2010 · Home› Technical Talk

   I'm not sure its gimbal lock... but it could be. 3 things to try. 1) Rotate it with the gizmo set to local. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1306131/3dsmaxLocalWorldPivot.jpg Sometimes when you rotate with it set to world or view you get something that looks a lot like gimbal lock. 2) Turn off angle snap and rotate it slightly less…

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   Reply by Piflik · Mar 2010 · Home› Technical Talk

   Definately a Rotation Order/Gimbal Lock Problem. Have a look here...(and here)

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   Reply by LEViATHAN · Mar 2010 · Home› Technical Talk

   I have no idea actually, I'm not an expert, I just rotate and move stuff until it looks snazzy enough.

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   Reply by MoP · Mar 2010 · Home› Technical Talk

   Looks like a rotation axis order issue? If you look at your screenshots, the rotate values at the bottom have Y at -90 and Z at 0 in the "zero pose", then you have Y at 0 and Z at -25. That means somehow to reach that position your Y axis has gone through +90 degree rotation. It doesn't look like it visually, so I'd guess…