Fcurves are missing spline interpolation on freezing actions
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Symptom
A series of clips have been laid down in the mixer. You select the same and, in order to combine them into a new action source, use clip > freeze to new source/freeze and replace, from the animation mixer. Now when you try to edit the fcurves from the new source you notice that the fcurves have only linear interpolation (missing the tangents).
Cause
When you freeze a series of clips in the mixer, the plot that takes place yields raw data fcurves, i.e. fcurves without tangents whose only interpolation is linear. This was chosen to minimize the amount of memory used when using freeze in the mixer.
Solution
Select the clips out of which you want to create a new source.Use the following command that will call 'FreezeClips' and will create fcurves with spline interpolation. You can drag and drop the following line to the script editor and then to a custom toolbar:
FreezeClips , , , , 20
You will now have a new source which has fcurves with tangents.
Applies To: XSI 1.5 on NT,Win2K,Irix
Posted: 2/8/2001
