Objects falling into an animation

[sara3d]

hello

I am currently working on my dissertation and need a bit of advice.

I have built a human female skeleton.

I want to have the skeleton walking etc - animated, - individually i want the bones to fall down one by one to join the animated model.

e.g. The walk cycle begins with a single foot walking, whilst in a walk cycle the other skeleton bones fall down and join the cycle.

I don't have much of an idea of how to achieve this, does anyone know of any links that can help, or how this can be done.

Thanks
Sara

[Clalan]

To maintain the hierarchy of your skeleton I would do the falling down part with a seperate set of bones. I would animate a walkcycle on one set of bones, and a falling down animation on another. Then I would constain a third set of bones to both, and animate the weights, so it blends from one animation to another.

[sara3d]

Thanks

Sounds a bit confusing but ill give it a go. If i get it woking ill post it up.

Cheers
Sara