What's the best way to "break joints"?

[PixelDust]

Hi, newbie here... I just got Moho a week or so ago, and so far so good. I'm fairly familiar with Animation:Master, so that helps.

What's the best way to adjust keyframes in Moho to get the "breaking of joints" movement?

BTW, by that I mean offsetting the movement of parts of a limb so the movement is more fluid. I've seen that mentioned in animation books.

In 3D apps, you have a "dopesheet" view where you can see all the keyframes of all the bones at once. Then, you'd move the forearm keyframes ahead of the bicep keyframes a couple of frames, and then the hand keyframes ahead of the forearm frames.

But Moho only seems to let you see and adjust one bone's keyframes at a time, so it's harder to see where one bones keyframes are in relation to another's.

Any suggestions would be welcome - thanks!

[heyvern]

In the view settings of the timeline you can set to show the "selected bone angle"... or "selected bone scale" etc...

For instance in the time line you see all of the key frames for all of the bones rotation. With selected bone angle showing (these are highlighted red) when you select a bone you see only its key frames highlighted along with all of the others above it in the time line.

I use this to "offset" the bone motion of different bones as you described.

If the bicep and forearm are all moving exactly on the same keyframes and you want to offset this... select just the forearm and move those key frames in the "selected bone angle" line on the timeline.

You will notice after doing this that in the "main" time line "Bone Angle"... uh... thingy... you now see all the keyframes for the bones.. things look a little jammed up but select individual bones and see which ones are actually keyframed at any time.

Coming from A:M this may feel a bit... limiting. Just like A:M... all of us Moho users hope for future updates. In the meantime just have to make do.


p.s. I think you are right... I us A:M and felt right at home using Moho. The bones look exactly the same don't they?

-vern

[PixelDust]

Thanks, Vern! It's a bit hard to sort out the keyframes in the main timeline, since they do get jammed together like you said. I hope there'll be something like a dopesheet in a future version. (I looked at the Exposure Sheet script, but that's different from the dopesheet in a 3D app.)

Rigging in 2D is a lot easier than in 3D, though, since you don't get all the IK jittering that happens in 3D apps. Maybe one day I can actually get some animation done!