Merging two bip files in one animation

[_Shimmer]

Heydiho,

I want to merge two bip files into one animtion, so the one starts at Frame 0 and the other opne starts at Frame 100 after the first bip animation is finihed. I tried a lot like in the Motion flow editor where I could make both files playable in one animtion but its effectly not one animation. Can I somehow export it to a single bip file or is there another solution to append the bip file?

Any help appreciated.

[CrazyButcher]

motion mixer also (I think easier) allows several bips to be combined.
moflow works, too, but you need to make sure the transitions last just 1 frame ( you will loose the last frame of the previous animation). it is a bit more manual work than the mixer.

[_Shimmer]

The mixer doesnt work for me for some reasons, I can besaiclly do Nothing.

However, I manged to combine ttwo bips in the moflow with a 1 frame transition.

2 Problems:

First, its still 2 animations with a script inbetween instead of one bip. And the second problem is, that the foot , defined as object in this case to remain on the same place, does move minimally but annoyingly /images/graemlins/frown.gif

any other ideas? That cant be soo hard...

[Toomas]

It is hard because you are supposed to do it with motion mixer.
Maybe its not working for you because you dont know how to use it? If i were you i would dig out the Max8 (or maybe 7 something) demo videos and check out how autodesk wants you to use it.

[thomasp]

you can convert/"bake" motion flow to a single anim, as far as i remember. however motion mixer has replaced it for me a long time ago. and yes, go follow a tutorial, the mixer is totally counter-intuitive at first.