Manipulators Disappear /sadface

[Static Brown]

I was working on an animation to try something new and decided to use casual (hwm) Medic. His phonemes, visemes and emotion tabs were gone, so I went into the element viewr and added them to the preset groupr, right? No biggie. Everything was fine, I thought, then at some point I noticed that the 3D manipuators were gone during animation mode. Whether using the motion editor or graph editor, they no longer stay visible while actually animating in real time. Only when I stop playback in motion editor, will they reappear. Does anyone have any idea what the hell I did? I think I broke it!

I verified cache, found 32 items were messed up. Restarted...still the same problem. I imported other models to see if it was just medic, same problem! I went back to a big animation that I was just working on yesterday, same problem! I didnt know what else to do so I just uninstalled and am reinstalling. Any idea whats going on with this thing?

EDIT: I should add that I can still manipulate the model during real time animation, I just cant actually see the manipulators during that time anymore!

Thanks guys!

[R234]

If by real time animation you mean puppeteering (hold manipulator, press space, move mouse, press space again), the manipulator is supposed to go invisible. It always was like that as far as I know.

[Static Brown]

Hmmm...thats what I mean, but it was always visible for me. Thank you for responding! This is the weirdest thing!

[Pte Jack]

I think I am experiencing the same problem now on my laptop. I select a modulator and if it is the move manipulator the cyan box appears but not the move arms, if I select the rotate manipulator only the small white box shows up and not the rotation gimble.

I'm trying to work through it to see if I can find out why this is happening. (Anyone know of an update lately??)

[raptornx01]

not that I noticed.

[Static Brown]

引用自 Pte Jack：

I think I am experiencing the same problem now on my laptop. I select a modulator and if it is the move manipulator the cyan box appears but not the move arms, if I select the rotate manipulator only the small white box shows up and not the rotation gimble.

I'm trying to work through it to see if I can find out why this is happening. (Anyone know of an update lately??)

There was an update to source sdk. Thats the only one I noticed but I'm not sure if it applies.

[Pte Jack]

Did a refresh on my local cache and it seems to have fixed the problem, but not for the session I was working in when the problem occurred. There must be a switch somewhere I guess.

[Static Brown]

引用自 Pte Jack：

Did a refresh on my local cache and it seems to have fixed the problem, but not for the session I was working in when the problem occurred. There must be a switch somewhere I guess.

How do you refresh your local cache? By verifying or another method?

[Pte Jack]

Steam Client, Library, All Softwares, right click SFM, Properties, Local Files Tab, Verify intergrity of Application cache. Let the process completely finish...

[Static Brown]

引用自 Pte Jack：

Steam Client, Library, All Softwares, right click SFM, Properties, Local Files Tab, Verify intergrity of Application cache. Let the process completely finish...

Yes, that's what I thought you meant. Thanks Pte Jack! I did try this before and it didnt work for me, but its all good. I guess this is the best time ti learn the graph editor anyways LOL!. Thanks for your help. Just gave you a follow on YouTube XD

[Pte Jack]

Thanks Static Brown. Like I say, I think there may be a switch or a console command that has been fowled up somehow. I know the the manipulators appear properly in any new session I create, but the one where they disappeared, well, I can't see the assist tools for the manipulator.

[Static Brown]

Yea, I hear you and I thinkn you're right. I'll just work with the graph editor for now.