Making my toons WALK?! HELP!

ARGH! This is the one thing I cannot get right. I can film my characters running, flying, swimming, but not WALKING. And it is driving me MAD. Can anyone help me with this?

(And by WALK I mean at a fairly relaxed pace, neither galumphing nor that somewhat hurried "I'm important and I have to be somewhere important and don't I look important" kind of walk.)

*bangs head repeatedly against desk*

It's official - I cannot consider myself a good videographer until my characters can WALK in a video.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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ARGH! This is the one thing I cannot get right. I can film my characters running, flying, swimming, but not WALKING. And it is driving me MAD. Can anyone help me with this?

(And by WALK I mean at a fairly relaxed pace, neither galumphing nor that somewhat hurried "I'm important and I have to be somewhere important and don't I look important" kind of walk.)

*bangs head repeatedly against desk*

It's official - I cannot consider myself a good videographer until my characters can WALK in a video.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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I may not be able to help but I do have a suggestion. . . CHOCOLATE. . . . perhaps some warm milk,. . . anything to calm those frazzled nerves of yours

You mean like in Dies Irae? You have to use demos, there's no way to make your character walk. Or is that walk too important looking?

Yes, I mean like in demos. I have tried the various WALK commands and not gotten it right. I know I can't make a toon walk in-game.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

the MOV command IWALKCYCLEREADY looks like an ok enough walk. As for getting a character to move slowly enough without further editing, maybe hover would work?

The MOV you need to use is called WalkCycle. There are other NPC Walks, but that's the only one I've found that works for PCs and there's a reason for it, but don't worry about it for now.

The timing for walking depends on how fast or slow you want to go and the distance you move with each iteration. If you want a pretty standard walk, try something like this:

1 0 Version 2
0 0 Map maps/City_Zones/City_06_01/City_06_01.txt
0 0 Time 17

0 CAM POS -280 965 -35
0 CAM PYR 0.3 -1 0

0 3 <Your Character>
0 3 POS -278 954 -50
0 3 PYR 0 1.5 0
0 3 MOV READY

2000 3 POS -277 954 -50
0 3 MOV WalkCycle
350 3 POS -276 954 -50.1
350 3 POS -275 953.8 -50.2
350 3 POS -274 953.8 -50.3
350 3 POS -273 953.6 -50.4
350 3 POS -272 953.6 -50.5
350 3 POS -271 953.4 -50.6
350 3 POS -270 953.4 -50.7
350 3 POS -269 953.2 -50.8
350 3 POS -268 953.2 -50.9
350 3 POS -267 953 -51
350 3 POS -266 953 -51.1
350 3 POS -265 952.8 -51.2
350 3 POS -264 952.8 -51.3
350 3 POS -263 952.6 -51.4
350 3 POS -262 952.6 -51.5
350 3 POS -261 952.4 -51.6
350 3 POS -260 952.4 -51.7
0 3 MOV READY

10000 3 MOV GLORY

If you want to make it go faster, make the 350 about 400. I've found 350-400 to be a pretty decent walking speed if you move at only 1 ft. per interval. If you want to go slower, try using intervals of about 500-700 and moving 0.5 ft. per interval instead of 1. It takes a lot of trial and error to get the exact speed you want, which is why I'm making a custom Camera/Walking program to write all the code for me. Good luck!

Ahhhhhhhh. Excellent! This was just driving me batty. Much experimenting to do with this when I get home from work today.

Neutra, if you end up doing a program like that, PLEASE share it. The two things I have the hardest time with are SMOOTH camera movements (I can fake it in-game but it doesn't always come out right) and mass group movement (I can code myself running from here to there, but getting a large group of people is a trick).

Hmmmm. Anything that you guys need help with that I can provide info on? Wish I could be fair on the sharing of info... :S

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Hooray! I made it work! And while walking down a hill, no less!

Now if I could just master that pan-around circle coding thing, I'd really be golden. But this will definitely do for now. Thank you guys!

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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Hooray! I made it work! And while walking down a hill, no less!

Now if I could just master that pan-around circle coding thing, I'd really be golden. But this will definitely do for now. Thank you guys!

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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Ah I think I can help with that

Cam Pan Around Object

Theres 5 files in *.cohdemo language, each part is broken up into seperate files. Ex: PYR file, POS file, and a completed demo file. Hope this helps.

For a lot of help in making a demo I would suggest A Kitty's guide to making CoH movies! most helpful guide I found to date.

Just my luck - four of the five download no problem - CPOS keeps giving me the error that "no server with this file is currently available." Grrrrrrrrr. But I do appreciate the other four, and I've sort of progressed beyond Kitty's Guide.

But thank you very much! Figuring out camera work is always a PITA.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite