How to remove hand lifting animation while carrying object ?

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Akhil raja rao K asked Dec 4, '19 Matthew Gillespie commented Dec 9, '19

How to remove hand lifting animation while carrying object ?

I'm doing a process flow in which a person carrys a bag from a Queue and drops at another queue then walks to another destination. I've kept bag to the person as shown in the figure using change visual.

The problem here I'm facing is - As I've kept the bag position on to his shoulders, while walking I don't want his hands to be like he is lifting an object (which happens in the normal case). I want the person to walk normally with the bag in shoulders, i.e,. his hands should be down. I'm attaching my model, please find the attachment.

animation-problem.fsm

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FlexSim 19.2.3

processflow animation people module create object create objects

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animation-problem.fsm (1.5 MiB)

Answer 1 · 2019-12-04T17:44:17Z

Matthew Gillespie answered Dec 4, '19 Matthew Gillespie commented Dec 9, '19

You could play the WalkWithBriefcase animation before walking which will override the WalkLoaded animation since it's lower in the list of animations:

walkwithbriefcase.fsm

In 20.0 there's a new feature that lets you set a variable on the person to say which animation is should use for it's walking loaded animation. You just need to set the walkLoadedAnimation variable to the name of the animation you want it to play:

Object person = token.Person;
person.setVariable("walkLoadedAnimation", "WalkWithBriefcase");

walkwithbriefcase2020.fsm

walkwithbriefcase.fsm (1.5 MiB)

walkwithbriefcase2020.fsm (1.5 MiB)

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Akhil raja rao K commented · Dec 05, 2019 at 06:55 AM

@Matthew Gillespie Sir, I've tried to replicate the same model again but the "walk with briefcase" animation is not running in my model. I'm attaching my model. Please find the attachment.

answer-model.fsm

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Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ Akhil raja rao K commented · Dec 05, 2019 at 10:21 PM

There are two things you need to change:

1) You misspelled WalkWithBriefcase in the Custom Code activity.

2) You need to set the WalkWithBriefcase animation to be Travel-Distance Based in the Time Basis drop down of Quick Properties. So open the Animation editor, find the WalkWithBriefcase animation, and in Quick Properties set it to be Travel-Distance based:

traveldistance.png

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Akhil raja rao K Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ commented · Dec 06, 2019 at 09:09 AM

@Matthew Gillespie thank you very much sir.

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Akhil raja rao K commented · Dec 09, 2019 at 10:09 AM

@Matthew Gillespie

How to update Flexsim to 20.0 version. Shall I need to uninstall and download latest version from website and reinstall?

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Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ Akhil raja rao K commented · Dec 09, 2019 at 06:01 PM

You don't have to uninstall 19.2 since 20.0 will be a separate application and you can have both installed at the same time. But you can uninstall it if you don't want both.

Yes, just download the latest version from the website.

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