CharaStudio FK animation issues

[Mallson]

Okay so is it just me or are there a lot more nodes on the FK skeleton? They seem pretty useful in the way that you can manually change how the body actually lines up in certain poses and I think they're pretty cool... HOWEVER I'm having so much trouble trying to grab joints because all of these additional nodes are like, overlapping the main important ones.

I haven't dug deep into where these nodes are coming from or if I can turn them off so please tell me if I'm just an idiot, but they're really annoying because I can't actually animate anything because of them.

[jestir]

It has been a few months since i have used CharaStudio but there should be a scroll bar that lets you make them smaller

[Mallson]

Haah yeah I've used that, but they seem to be placed practically on top of each other... like it feels almost random which one I get to move as they both function and visually look like they're in the exact same place

[cyäegha]

are you using FK, or the combined FK/IK tab?
the latter effectively doubles-up all of the FK nodes - which i'm not entirely sure is WAI - rendering combined FK/IK practically unusable

[Mallson]

Nope, just in the FK tab. And sorry for the late reply. Yeah I fiddled around with that and can agree completely. And as far as the actual issue I'm unsure how to really describe it, other than just a whole set of extra FK nodes that seem to deal with muscle alignment. They just suddenly appeared one day unprompted

[cyäegha]

i recall somebody reported something similar in a previous thread

Originally posted by cyäegha:

...i was able to reproduce this behavior by checking every single radio button in combined FK IK, so it stands to reason that either deselecting radio buttons that don't correspond to body parts you're trying to edit should fix it.

while it isn't normal behavior for the FK/IK nodes to remain highlighted if you're only using the FK menu, going into the combined FK/IK menu and deselecting all of the nodes should stop them from appearing in the other kinematic menus
seems that the newer versions of charastudio default to rendering FK/IK regardless of whether you want it to or not