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problems with walking women avatars

Hi there,

I am really having a hard time trying to make some women avatars walk. The avatars come from the vizard Complete characters set.

Specifically, the avatar has these strange s-shaped arms visible in the attached picture "strange walking woman.jpg". Here is the code

Code:

import viz

import vizact

import viztask



def world():

        global root

        view = viz.MainView



        viz.MainView.getHeadLight().disable()

        #add sun-like directional light



        l = viz.addLight()

        l.position(0, 1, 0, 0) #sets light direction

        l.intensity(0.9)



        l2 = viz.addLight()

        l2.position(1, 0, 1, 0) #sets light direction

        l2.intensity(0.8)



        l3 = viz.addLight()

        l3.position(-1, 0, -1, 0) #sets light direction

        l3.intensity(0.6)        



        l4 = viz.addLight()

        l4.position(0, 0, 1, 0) #sets light direction

        l4.intensity(1)



        l5 = viz.addLight()

        l5.position(0, -1, -1, 0) #sets light direction

        l5.intensity(0.8)



        #root encapsulates all world geometry

        root = viz.addGroup()

world()



viz.go()

#viz.mouse(viz.OFF)



av_trial = viz.add('avatars_happiness/sportive03_f_highpoly/sportive03_f_highpoly.cfg', pos=( 0, 0, 3 ), euler=(180,0,0))



viz.MainView.setPosition( 0, 1.6, 0 )





# ACTIONS



# walk action

WALK = vizact.walkTo( pos=[ 0, 0, 0 ], walkSpeed = 0.5, walkAnim=44)

        

def move(av):

        '''the avatar walks'''

        av.addAction(WALK)

        

# some callbacks to start animation

def HandleKeyboard(key): 

        

        if key == 'w':

                move(av_trial)

                

viz.callback(viz.KEYDOWN_EVENT, HandleKeyboard)

I am seeing this strange effect on more than one women avatars

However, if I try to substitute the WALK variable with this:

Code:

WALK = vizact.walkTo( pos=[ 0, 0, 0 ], walkSpeed = 0.5, walkAnim=viz.AUTO_COMPUTE, verb = 'walk' )

I get instead an even stranger result visible in the attached picture "walkAnim_vizAUTO_COMPUTE.jpg"

but what really puzzle me is that everything works fine with male avatars

Any suggestions?

best regards,
armo

I'll test this out and get back to you.

Hi Jeff

I was wondering if there were any updates on this issue

thanks in advance,
armo

Has the avatar source file been modified and re-exported or is this the original Cal3D model that came with the Complete Character set? I'll try and reproduce the issue here.

Dear Jeff

I am having this problem with the original models from the Complete Character set. No changes on the source file occured.

Please contact support@worldviz.com and we'll open a support ticket for the issue with the arms.

To find the walk animation using the verb argument there must be an entry in the CFG file that has verb + '_animation'. This should be equal to the animation number. Add the following line to the end of the CFG file:

Code:

walk_animation = 44

Then when you run the following line of code animation 44 will be applied with the walkTo action:

Code:

WALK = vizact.walkTo( pos=[ 0, 0, 0 ], walkSpeed = 0.5, verb = 'walk' )

I had the same problem with that specific avatar a few months ago. It seems the Skin modifier in 3Ds Max doesn't have the correct skin weights (both the Max model and the exported avatar have this issue).
I guess it was the first time that I used her, so I hadn't encountered the issue before. I wanted to open a ticket, but it was faster for me to simply reskin the model and I forgot about it afterwards :D
Sorry I couldn't reply earlier.