model changing pose and position between shots

[Volt]

As the title says, I am, working on an animation that consists of multiple jump cuts. For some reason, when I transition from cut 3 to 4, my model teleports to a different part in the map, and gets contorted in a strange pose. I have tried deleting any keyframes in shot 4, but it doesn't seem to work. The model in question keeps its pose fine for shots 1, 2, and 3, so I'm extremely confused as to why its now not cooperating.

[Zappy]

Originally posted by PilotVolt:

- For some reason, when I transition from cut 3 to 4, my model teleports to a different part in the map, and gets contorted in a strange pose. -

Information about the issue that you don't necessarily need to know, but might still be nice to know:
When you attach or detach an IK rig script to a model, the model's current motion is "baked" into the new set of controls, so that you don't have to re-animate everything.
This only happens within the model's animation set's timeframe, though, which only extends about 5 seconds before and after where the shot started and ended when you made an animation set for the model.
Any part of time before or after the model's animation set will have the model in a "zero"-state once you attach/detach an IK rig script, with all of its new controls' positions and rotations being set to 0 instead of the intended values.
Usually, this doesn't really matter that much, as the problems lie outside the shot... but if you create keyframes in the Graph Editor and move the first keyframe or move/delete the last keyframe, (or alternatively Alt-drag on the time selection in the Motion Editor, or just extend the shot in the Clip Editor,) you may bring those "zero-state" points towards, and eventually inside, the shot, making them visible.
This sounds like your issue to me.


Instructions to fix the issue:
- Switch to the Clip Editor.
- Double-click on the shot in question.
- Extend all yellow bars in the timeline (by dragging on their edges, not by just moving the entire bars), one by one, to cover the whole shot.
- Click on the curvy up arrow above the timeline to return to the normal Clip Editor afterwards.
- Switch to the Motion Editor.
- Move the playhead (time cursor) to the last frame before the model distortion.
- Click in the timeline and press Ctrl+A to select all time.
- Move the left edge of the time selection to where the playhead is (so that the time selection starts at the playhead and extends into infinity).
- Select the affected model(s) or control(s) in the Animation Set Editor.
- Fully apply the procedural "Playhead" preset in the upper right area of the Animation Set Editor.
- Press Enter to apply the changes.

This should freeze the selected controls in place from just before the distortion, after which you should be able to continue working on the animation as normal.



To mostly avoid this problem in the future, just extend a shot to be much longer than you need before creating animation sets in the shot, and then shorten the shot afterwards.

[Volt]

Originally posted by Zappy:

- Fully apply the procedural "Playhead" preset in the upper right area of the Animation Set Editor.

The one thing that didn't seem to work was this. When I dragged the bar to fully apply this preset, as soon as I let go of the mouse button, the bar went back to blank. The problem still persists...

[Zappy]

Originally posted by PilotVolt:

- as soon as I let go of the mouse button, the bar went back to blank. -

That's normal. If you have an appropriate time selection, its effects will apply in the selected region of time even if the slider appears blank afterwards.

[Volt]

Originally posted by Zappy:

This should freeze the selected controls in place from just before the distortion, after which you should be able to continue working on the animation as normal.

I doesn't seem to be working. Even after I press enter, the model still changes pose when I move to the next frame...

[Zappy]

Originally posted by PilotVolt:

- Even after I press enter, the model still changes pose when I move to the next frame...

Make sure that you also have the model selected while using the "Playhead" preset. If that doesn't work, please show me screenshots (or a video) of Source Filmmaker before and after you try to use the "Playhead" preset.