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#repeating keys/tracks

    25-Jun-94 00:30:58
Sb: #repeating keys/tracks
Fm: Mark Pennel 72144,740
To: ALL
I've had this question in my mind for quite sometime, and finally got around to asking. I've done a little animating skeletons and other "walking" objects, but haven't had any luck looping/repeating only certain parts of the tracks. For example… Let's say that I wanted to make my skeleton/man stand up from a sitting position and than walk. I want to be able to repeat the walking keys WITHOUT repeating the standup keys. I know that I can waste time by creating a stand in object to swap out upon him standing and looping its walk sequence, but that seems redundat. Isn't there an easy way to tell 3ds which specific keys I want to repeat? I haven't had any luck doing it, and was wondering if anyone else had any ideas. No emergency, it was just one of those "how would you do that" type deals when pondering animation. Thanks! Mark