I'm solid on walking a path, as well as pointing my character in a desired direction and letting her go with a MixMove.  Both work perfectly for me, but there is one more way to walk that I'd like, and I just can't make it work.  I want to position the playhead where I want her to start walking and move her there, then advance the playhead to the end time and move her to the desired end point.  Without walking that works perfectly.  But as soon as I give her a MixMove walk, everything goes bad.  Her feet slip and slide, and she walks way, way past the endpoint, even though without the walk she hits the endpoint at the correct time.  Somehow just adding the walk changed the destination.  I assume that her total walk distance is my A->B distance PLUS her MixMove walking distance.  Is there a way to make a MixMove walk work with a point-to-point transition?  Thank you!

Hi...

Instead of using a motion clip that moves away from the root, try recording the walk motion in Motion Puppet where the character stays on the root. Just record the walk motion for the time it takes to walk from A to B.

                                                                

Peter
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Thank you for responding.  Actually, that's one of the first things I tried, and it doesn't work, though I don't know why.
Motion Puppet works excellently for following a path.  However, the character does not move away from the root with Motion Puppet when it's just a point-to-point move.
In other words, before I apply the Motion Puppet, the character slides from Point A to Point B perfectly.  But when I apply the motion (both during Preview, and Record, and after recording), the character just stays at Point A, walking in place.  If I then erase the motion track, she goes back to moving to Point B correctly.

Some Persona files have move commands. If you have one loaded on your character, then you can both click to walk from A to B, and also click to walk along a path without attaching to the path. 


Download the Persona I made here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1okGh-cMSTy8MQC-rURh5uBdH5NAOU5Ki/view

Thank you, but I'm still very new at this, so digging into personas is way beyond me right now.  But it is certainly on my list.  Right now I'd just like a simple way to walk between two points without a path, or know that there is no such thing as a simple way.

Tim

Using the Persona move command is the only way. The Persona file is what associates a specific set of animations to work with the character in a specific way.

To use the Persona I included:

Load your character into your scene.
Download and unzip the persona file I linked.
drag and drop the Persona file from an Explorer window onto your character in iClone.
The move command will then be be available in the drop-down when you right-click on the character.

If you would like the Persona file to show up in your content manager, for easier access, then you can put in this directory:
C:\Users\Public\Documents\Reallusion\Template\iClone 7 Template\iClone Template\Persona

Thanks Rampa!  That is the most useful animation tool/tutorial I have ever seen for iClone locomotion.

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Thank you very much!  You have given me two useful things:
1) I now know that there is no simple way to do this with just basic commands
2) I now have a great toolkit to use when I get a bit more proficient in iClone.

I skimmed that file, and its amazing!
Tim

To me, Rampa is one of the gurus here on the forum, always have something to learn from him.
Thanks, Rampa!

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