a tip for those with lower powered computers

I'm using iClone 7 on a laptop with 2GB GTX960M graphics.
It struggles with iC7, but still usable with some workarounds.

One thing I noticed in one of my scenes, which contains quite a bit of motions/animation on the main character.
I split one of the motions using 'break' in the timeline
Next time I opened the project and attempted to continue editing motions on that character, I noticed that any rotate/move motion or transform I attempted to apply to the character, using the gizmo had roughly a 10-15 second delay before it actually moved the character. Was extremely slow and unworkable. Yet the other characters in the scene didn't have the same issues.

After working back through the animations of that character, I noticed that when I used the 'break' function on a motion clip, iClone automatically 'sampled' or expanded the motion clip into 100 or more individual key frames. When I 'flattened' that motion clip, the problem was resolved.

I still haven't exactly got my head around the enhanced timeline features in the 7.2 update, so it was probably more my lack of experience with these new features that lead to my issues. If you have a higher spec computer, it probably wouldn't be a problem. But it might assist those of us who have lower spec machines which are struggling.

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4u2ges	4u2ges Posted 7 Years Ago
Distinguished Member Group: Forum Members Last Active: Yesterday Posts: 5.3K, Visits: 16.8K	Darren01 (6/9/2018) ok thanks for that tip about the solid key. I wasn't aware that was the cause. Was wondering why it only sampled that one clip that I broke when others didn't. Unfortunately RL's own manual and even tutorial isn't great in explaining the timeline enhancement features. I've just sort of stumbled my way through it by trial & error. The rules of sampling is a bit weird, hard to explain, and my findings are inconclusive. But it seems for the most cases: At the break, iClone would try to fill sequentially to the right and left all hollow and empty bone keys until it hits a solid key (less torso and fingers). Hollow torso and fingers keys are also getting sampled, but only to the point where it meets a frame where the rest of the bone keys are solid. My video between 0:03 - 0:08 makes it a bit clear. But the solid key at the break point would always stop sampling short.

Darren01	Darren01 Posted 7 Years Ago
Distinguished Member Group: Forum Members Last Active: 4 Months Ago Posts: 654, Visits: 4.1K	I'm using iClone 7 on a laptop with 2GB GTX960M graphics. It struggles with iC7, but still usable with some workarounds. One thing I noticed in one of my scenes, which contains quite a bit of motions/animation on the main character. I split one of the motions using 'break' in the timeline Next time I opened the project and attempted to continue editing motions on that character, I noticed that any rotate/move motion or transform I attempted to apply to the character, using the gizmo had roughly a 10-15 second delay before it actually moved the character. Was extremely slow and unworkable. Yet the other characters in the scene didn't have the same issues. After working back through the animations of that character, I noticed that when I used the 'break' function on a motion clip, iClone automatically 'sampled' or expanded the motion clip into 100 or more individual key frames. When I 'flattened' that motion clip, the problem was resolved. I still haven't exactly got my head around the enhanced timeline features in the 7.2 update, so it was probably more my lack of experience with these new features that lead to my issues. If you have a higher spec computer, it probably wouldn't be a problem. But it might assist those of us who have lower spec machines which are struggling. _________________________________________________________

a tip for those with lower powered computers

a tip for those with lower powered computers

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