topic Make an object's animation loop up to a certain frame in 3ds Max Forum

Make an object's animation loop up to a certain frame

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 00:05:18 GMT

Hi. I have a fly that flies around for a while and then stops at a certain point. In the Track View, I went to Edit > Controller > Out of ranger types and used Loop to repeat the animation of its flapping wings. The problem is that I need them to stop flapping after the frame in which the fly stops flying. How do I do this?

Re: Make an object's animation loop up to a certain frame

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 08:47:39 GMT

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(ps: you can control the ease in/out too, not just using Step like in my video)

Re: Make an object's animation loop up to a certain frame

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 19:51:26 GMT

Whoa, a response with a detailed video. Thank you!

...Unfortunately, I'm currently unable to try that due to a new issue I've just run into. For some reason, the rotation changes and keyframes won't show up in the Track View:

http://imgur.com/a/xThTF

I have no idea why, I've used the Track View plenty of times and this is the first time this happens...

Anyone has any ideas?

Re: Make an object's animation loop up to a certain frame

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 21:15:43 GMT

have you skinned it....? Tho I can't quite see the skin modifier there anyway...

if so,simply apply the Multiplier to your animated bone that's being rotated...not the mesh.

fyi, the Multiplier value of 0 would 'stop' any animation, 1 would be 100% original animation......and anything in between would be a fraction (eg. 0.5 would be half the amount of the orig animation)

(ah got it, you must have LINKED it, again simply apply Multiplier to whatever object was rotated...not the linked mesh)

Re: Make an object's animation loop up to a certain frame

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 22:58:19 GMT

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Re: Make an object's animation loop up to a certain frame

Alfred.DeFlaminis — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 00:15:12 GMT

Hello @Anonymous,

Did you ever get those curves to show up? Is there anything I can do?

Best Regards,

Re: Make an object's animation loop up to a certain frame

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 10:16:40 GMT

Thank you video tutorial