Quick Tip: It is often easiest to edit the walk path from the Top view. The 3/4, Side, Front and Top options change the view in the preview pane and the Figure Type button lets you open a different character file. To the left of the Walk Designer dialog box is a preview pane that will show a preview of the current walk settings when you click the Walk button. You open the Walk Designer dialog box by using the Window, Walk Designer menu command. Once you create a walk path, you can use the Walk Designer, shown in Figure 2, to set the parameters for the walk cycle. You can delete control points by holding down the Alt/Option key and clicking the control point. If you click the walk path, you can add new control points to the walk path.
By dragging these control points, you can edit the shape of the walk path. Editing a Walk PathĪlong the walk path are several control points that look like simple dots. You can select this path from the Props submenu in the Actor List and is called Path_1. To create a Walk Path, select the Figure, Create Walk Path menu command and the default walk path appears in the scene extending from the default figure, as shown in Figure 1. Poser includes an interface called the Walk Designer that can automatically create a walk cycle for the current figure.īefore you can use the Walk Designer, you need to create a Walk Path, which tells the current figure where to walk.
Although the keys involved in making a figure walk might seem rather simple, it is actually quite difficult to realistically create a walk cycle using manual keyframes. Once youve learned to create manual keyframes, try to create the keys to make a figure walk realistically across the floor.
In this lesson, you learn how to animate a walk cycle using the Walk Designer. We will offer step-by-step tutorials for each task, followed by projects that allow readers to apply each new skill. In the next few months, VFXWorld readers will develop the skills needed to create, render and animate scenes and projects using the amazing tools offered by Poser 7. This is the next in a new series of excerpts from the Thomson Course Technology book Poser 7 Revealed: The e frontier Official Guide.