EDIT
OK the images are in the zip file
Genete wrote:rplate,
the image files are missing in the zp files. Please check them.
BTW, you told us this in one post:
I didn't use any switches in the animation. I simply hi -lited the group I wanted to hide and used the scale tool to reduce it to a size so I could hide it behind a darker color. For example when the eye disappeared as the head turned, I hid the eye in Capt Kirks sideburns
But in this animation you are not using this technique. In this animation you are putting away the shape that is hidden in some frames. For example in the 3/4 walk, the bottom of the shoe is sometimes shown, sometimes hidden. But not really hidden, only taken away. This produces some "sparkles" in the animation that should be fixed. See frames 2,7 and 29.
Why didn't you use your mentioned technique in this particular animation? To solve this problem I suggest to put the vector layer in a group layer and create some kind of maks around him that hide those needed hidden shapes.
Regards
Genete
I guess I got lazy. I saw those jumping around but it was three in the morning and I was too tired to do anything about it. (I just now got up from my afternoon nap. I'm sixty seven years old you know.)
The parts went into view because I scaled or moved the original figures and the hidden parts came into view. Its not hard to go back in and pull them back out of screen view.
My main objective was to show how the figures could be used in a scene.
Another problem with a walk in place figure is that the movement across the screen is by moving the whole figure. Foot sliding is obvious at times. However a walk in place figures give more flexability to do what I did here. My figures , as you can see, can be resized and moved. So it's a trade off. The foot slide can be tweaked a bit better than it is, by frame by frame nudging but it was late and I was too tired.
I always forget that the iimage files need to be with the zip file. It always works when I test it on my computer but then that's because the image files are already on it. Sorry! Old age is getting the best of me every now and then. I'll upload a new zip in about an hour. Thanks for pointing that out to me.
I didn't give any mention of the techniques I used because this was primarily in response to artfx, who wanted to see my figures in a scene setting rather than just an empty background.
Sometime the points are too many to hide so I just pull them out of screen view.
Thanks again for the response.
