please, help me with cycle in timeline

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 3:40 pm

i should know how to work with it, but no.
i never can use the cycle well.
i have a walking leg, i want to cycle the movement, but the cycle option is too complex to me.

i saw the tutorial, and there is no much explanation about.
can somebody help me?
(and, by pass, can explain me what is ease in/out?)

alano · Post by **alano** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 5:12 pm

I can't do cycles either. I just copy and paste keyframes a bunch. Ease in and ease out simply mean that the spacing between keyframes is bunched up near the keyframes. For example, if you had a ball start at one side of the screen and roll to the other side and stop over 10 seconds, you would want the ball to ease out of the first keyframe and ease in to the last one. Easing in and out is a way of showing how much mass the ball has: a ping pong ball wouldn't need to ease out and in, but a bowling ball or cannon ball would need a lot to show that it accelerates slowly and decelerates slowly. Hope this helps.

Alan

Atum · Post by **Atum** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 5:56 pm

The cycle in pretty simple. All you gotta do is animate, and make sure you end the same way you started.

For example, in frame 1 the ball is on the floor , in frame 15 it's in the air, and by frame 30 it's on the floor again, where it started.

Now, in frame 30 you can tel the keyframe to cycle back to frame one, and you get a loop.

I hope this helps.

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 10:13 pm

thanks alano. there is a lot of "technical" language i don't understand (and there is a lot of "simple language" that i don't understand either).

thanks atum, but this works fine just when you don't have more keyframes between them. but, for example, in walk, there is many movements inside the cycle.

Nolan Scott · Post by **Nolan Scott** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 6:31 am

Well, I presume it really doesn’t matter how many keyframes
you might have in your walk-cycle, Moho loops back to the
first frame if you choose Cycle... in the Timeline pop-up-menu.

If you like you might download my walk-cycle here:

http://www.lostmarble.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=902

and have a look at the “Animator”-file - a very simple walk-cycle.

Cheers
Nolan