xsi7 - Animation Editor - Automatic Slope

[SolaGratia77]

In xsi7's animation editor
Automatic Slope behaves like Plateau slope
it this normal behavior?
Is there any way to make it behave like 6.5 ?

try the following scene and you'll see what I mean
NewScene(null, null);
GetPrim("Null", null, null, null);
SaveKey("null.kine.local.posy", 1, 0, null, null, false, null);
SaveKey("null.kine.local.posy", 15, 5, null, null, false, null);
SaveKey("null.kine.local.posy", 45, 5, null, null, false, null);
SaveKey("null.kine.local.posy", 60, 0, null, null, false, null);Automatic Slope in 7.0
http://www.jaeham.net/pics/Clipboard01.jpg

Automatic Slope in 6.5
http://www.jaeham.net/pics/Clipboard02.jpg

[scaron]

they removed the old automatic slope, sorry...

while alpha/beta testing all of our animators were very happy with the new auto slope it is unfortunate but softimage cannot always support legacy methods, sometimes you gotta move forward.

[mattmos]

I have to say I'm all for the new method of slope calculation. The old way positively encouraged floaty animation...

[SolaGratia77]

Thank you scaron & mattmos
I am very much used to 6.5's behavior and
found it be a little awkward at first...
but it seems like I don't have to press SHIFT+0 all the time....
so it's great... Thanks :biggrin:

-J

[tuna]

The old way positively encouraged floaty animation...

Naah, you got it wrong, the old way positively encouraged moving holds :smartass:

[ThE_JacO]

The old way positively encouraged animators to b**** at xsi, and by reflection TDs would suffer.
All hail the new auto-slope!

[Intuition]

Bow down and beg forgiveness from the new auto-slope!!!

Naw but seriously, I thought it was weird at first but then realized I use that method much more often so it was a welcome change for me.

[tribasic]

I'm really surprised that there aren't any animators who dislike the new auto slope feature that has been imposed in the latest version of XSI.

In the old XSI, if I wanted to make an animation with subtle movement, I would just use the Auto Slope feature, and do some minor fine tuning to the curves. Now I need to do major reworking of the tangents on multiple keys in order to get the same result. It insane! I really don't understand how an animator would be content with not having full control over the fcurves. Now I can't make a proper spline fcurve without adjusting the tangents of 2 keys on a single animation curve.

I've spent the past 2 days doing secondary animation for hair on a dancing character. The Auto Slope feature would normally save me time, because it would help keep a smooth fluid motion. Now I'm still adjusting fcurves to get the same result! It's driving me crazy!!

Removing the old Automatic Slope feature is NOT a step forward! Keeping the OLD Auto Slope feature and adding the new Auto Slope feature IS a step forward.