I went ahead and watched further and saw that you then selected each controller individually and explained that you were modifying the Z-rotatiuon curve on each. So that clarified one of my points of confusion. Up to point 12:54 you seemd to purposelyy selectpoints when all three tail controllers were selected. (That is what confused me as I assumed you were selecting them on purpose. I need to realize that often times you do things that we are not supposed to follow verbatim. But it is confusing. Maybe you could throw in a small tidbit for other students that you should watch the enitre video first before trying to follow along.) Maybe I am the only one who gets confused.
I found a way to fix the abrupt curves that happen to me when adding the Cyclic Modifier (which I explained in detail in my email to you). I simply copied the keyframe 32 frames ahead of the abrupt change in the curve and copy/pasted it back 32 frames.
That fixes the problem but doesn’t explain why I get the abrupt changes in the curves to begin with. As my email states, this happens to me almost every time, in this course, where I apply a cyclic modifier to any curve. Hopefully it is a bug in my Blender 4.2.3. just as it also occasionally adds an extra keframe around the 250 time point when I duplicate or copy/paste a keyframe.
I totally get why you’d be running into this issue. With the Cyclic Modifier, the curve’s first and last frames need to have the same value to loop smoothly.
In the file you sent, I noticed that your frame 12 is around 0.02, while frame 38 is about -0.01. Since they’re not the same, the curve ends up with a “jump” when you add the Cyclic Modifier. To fix it, you can copy the keyframe from frame 12 to frame 38. This should match the values and smooth out the curve for a clean loop.
Hi Jerry, I am stuck at the 12:54 point in this video. I won’t waste your time here explaining it. I sent you an email with a detailed explanation along with the blend file that I save at this point. I hope you can help me solve some of the things that are gouing on in my file. Thanks.
I went ahead and watched further and saw that you then selected each controller individually and explained that you were modifying the Z-rotatiuon curve on each. So that clarified one of my points of confusion. Up to point 12:54 you seemd to purposelyy selectpoints when all three tail controllers were selected. (That is what confused me as I assumed you were selecting them on purpose. I need to realize that often times you do things that we are not supposed to follow verbatim. But it is confusing. Maybe you could throw in a small tidbit for other students that you should watch the enitre video first before trying to follow along.) Maybe I am the only one who gets confused.
I found a way to fix the abrupt curves that happen to me when adding the Cyclic Modifier (which I explained in detail in my email to you). I simply copied the keyframe 32 frames ahead of the abrupt change in the curve and copy/pasted it back 32 frames.
That fixes the problem but doesn’t explain why I get the abrupt changes in the curves to begin with. As my email states, this happens to me almost every time, in this course, where I apply a cyclic modifier to any curve. Hopefully it is a bug in my Blender 4.2.3. just as it also occasionally adds an extra keframe around the 250 time point when I duplicate or copy/paste a keyframe.
I totally get why you’d be running into this issue. With the Cyclic Modifier, the curve’s first and last frames need to have the same value to loop smoothly.
In the file you sent, I noticed that your frame 12 is around 0.02, while frame 38 is about -0.01. Since they’re not the same, the curve ends up with a “jump” when you add the Cyclic Modifier. To fix it, you can copy the keyframe from frame 12 to frame 38. This should match the values and smooth out the curve for a clean loop.
Thanks Jerry.
Hi Jerry, I am stuck at the 12:54 point in this video. I won’t waste your time here explaining it. I sent you an email with a detailed explanation along with the blend file that I save at this point. I hope you can help me solve some of the things that are gouing on in my file. Thanks.