character wizard - walk cycle not properly saved

[myaloha]

I made a video to show the problem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU4qhvJnXpk

The animation I made using the character wizard worked until I saved it. Then when I opened it back up, the walk cycle and animations after the walk cycle no longer appeared.

I discovered, however, that if you cilck the same frame where the walk cycle used to be, the walk cycle and other animations are arestored. If you do not do that, you lose the walk cycle and the animations.

Note: while this did restore the walk cycle to my editing, I still could not render the walk cycle for playback in a movie later.

ASP8.2
Win 7 (64bit)
HP
AMD Vision A4 processor

[jonbo]

I don't think this a bug, I noticed from your video that you are not using your action palette right. I think you might be editing your actions instead of inserting them into the timeline. You might want to read the manual on actions . Also, here's a video I did for someone to show how you bring a walk cycle into the timeline from the action palette. It might help.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53649091/cwwalk.wmv

[myaloha]

@jonbo - thanks for the video and pointing out the manual. I spent hours trying to figure out why the section on character wizard was so insufficient. The section on actions is deeper, but after your video, everything is clearer and seems to work.

I got stuck on the CW since I tried to follow the manual and it didn't save my modified characters. After an hour of trying, I think I couldn't get past trying to better interpret the CW manual info.

Many thanks! You lifted a pound of frustration.