WEBVTT 00:00.480 --> 00:06.630 Now that we have our walk cycle on a pretty good spot, no pun intended, because it's still sticking 00:06.630 --> 00:09.930 on the same spot here, let's actually get it moving in space. 00:10.230 --> 00:11.700 So let's think about how we need to do that. 00:12.230 --> 00:13.440 To move it in space. 00:13.440 --> 00:17.250 We need to figure out what distance it would need to travel and one stride. 00:17.580 --> 00:23.460 And that's pretty easy to do based on the values that we put on the foot controls in the Z axis. 00:23.880 --> 00:28.820 So if we take a look here, we can see we have an eight right there and we have a negative nine. 00:29.100 --> 00:34.680 And we know if we scroll forward and we do the same thing here, we have the opposite on each other 00:34.720 --> 00:37.080 for each of the feet there. 00:37.530 --> 00:39.150 So what we can do is just pretty simple. 00:39.150 --> 00:46.290 Math is eight plus nine is 17, but we need to do that twice because we have two strides across 40 frames. 00:46.600 --> 00:48.210 So that'll be 34. 00:48.510 --> 00:51.400 So let's get this back to zero. 00:51.420 --> 00:54.270 It looks like accidentally maybe had some values here. 00:54.600 --> 00:55.950 So I'm just zero that out. 00:56.370 --> 01:02.430 And I'm going to open up the graph editor as well, which looks like I need to reset this panel by going 01:02.430 --> 01:08.670 to panels, layouts, two panes stacked and then getting the graph editor up here. 01:11.290 --> 01:16.540 And then I can just delete these other keys here, because we just want to zero it out and I'm in a 01:16.540 --> 01:20.140 hole down command and shift and right click to get this all kind of framed up. 01:20.980 --> 01:24.670 And I'm going to go back to the first frame and set a key by hitting us. 01:25.150 --> 01:32.260 And then I'm going to go to frame 40 and drag this out to thirty four. 01:32.680 --> 01:34.420 I can just type that number in here. 01:35.140 --> 01:44.500 And you also want to keep in mind that this person, the skeleton character, is not slowing down. 01:44.500 --> 01:45.970 It's a consistent walk. 01:45.970 --> 01:50.650 So we don't want these tangent handles to be blind. 01:50.650 --> 01:51.820 We want them to be linear. 01:52.150 --> 01:56.110 So I'm going to go to the spline tangent here. 01:56.530 --> 02:00.760 I think it has the wrong tool tip popping up for some reason right there. 02:00.760 --> 02:01.930 Yeah, it says motion blur. 02:02.330 --> 02:05.500 I think it thinks I'm doing these up here. 02:05.860 --> 02:07.510 So it's just a little goofy thing. 02:07.510 --> 02:07.770 Yeah. 02:07.780 --> 02:08.470 Now it's fixed. 02:08.740 --> 02:10.150 So it's called the spline tangent. 02:10.630 --> 02:12.610 And so let's play this back. 02:12.880 --> 02:15.340 And now we actually have our character walking in space. 02:15.700 --> 02:22.540 And to get him to continue or her to continue walking straight, we need to cycle the animation. 02:22.690 --> 02:26.140 So let's select all of the curves here. 02:26.140 --> 02:32.800 And I'm just going to check off the joints and the geometry and I'm gonna select all of the curves. 02:33.100 --> 02:40.480 I'm going to deselect the locator that we have translated this character in. 02:41.050 --> 02:47.110 And so now I know when I select all the curves, I'm going to add a to make sure I frame up on all my 02:47.110 --> 02:48.040 select all occurs. 02:48.040 --> 02:52.150 I'm going to go to Curves, post infinity and I'm going to go to cycle. 02:52.660 --> 03:03.880 And with the view infinity turned on, we can see these dotted lines and we can continue this animation 03:03.880 --> 03:05.530 as far as we want to basically. 03:05.860 --> 03:10.840 So now when we hit play, that animation will continue, but we need to do something special with the 03:11.110 --> 03:14.470 locator itself down here, which is what is doing the translating. 03:14.800 --> 03:25.150 We need to continue this same kind of trajectory of this speed over time with with the rest of the animation 03:25.150 --> 03:28.060 so we can try to figure that out with more math. 03:28.060 --> 03:34.150 Or what we could do is just select this key frame and with the spline tangent applied so we can see 03:34.150 --> 03:37.660 the tangent handles are also going in the direction that we want it to go in. 03:37.660 --> 03:42.490 We can go to Curve's post Infinity Linear, so that will keep the animation going. 03:42.490 --> 03:43.750 So now when we hit play. 03:46.130 --> 03:50.960 I'm just going to dislike the character so we can see it without at all selected, it will continue 03:50.960 --> 03:52.550 going past the frame 40. 03:53.210 --> 03:58.100 Now we have maybe some slight foot slides here, maybe not. 03:58.100 --> 03:58.910 It's hard to tell. 03:59.490 --> 04:04.340 Yeah, the feet might be sliding just a little bit, but that's nothing really difficult to clean up 04:04.700 --> 04:11.690 its way, way quicker to do this if we need the character to walk a distance than it is to animate every 04:11.690 --> 04:12.380 single step. 04:12.530 --> 04:12.870 Right. 04:13.160 --> 04:15.600 This is the power of cycles, right? 04:15.650 --> 04:22.670 We can make a cycle and then we can have it continue as long as we have the math figured out for how 04:22.670 --> 04:23.560 to translate it. 04:23.900 --> 04:24.740 So it's pretty cool. 04:25.040 --> 04:29.870 The other thing that this allows us to do is see and catch other things that we need to polish up. 04:30.080 --> 04:34.550 So the next lesson we're going to take another look at how we can polish up this walk cycle a little 04:34.550 --> 04:37.160 bit more now that we can see it moving in space. 04:37.460 --> 04:38.510 So I'll see the next lesson. 04:38.570 --> 04:39.260 Thanks for watching.