Rotating/moving bones along axis

Support Animation and Rigging
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NEVERMIND

I got it

was stupidly easy. Local view…

I’m sure I’m missing something here.

When my character is walking in a straight line, a walk cycle is pretty simple. I can go into side view, get the rotation I want, move it to where I want it to move etc…

But when the character is walking diagonally for example, or slightly bending their walk, how do I keep rotation and movement to the correct axis? It seems to take me ages, with movements slightly off alignment from where I want it to be.

The closest think I have got to what I’m looking for is to move my viewport view to a rough side view angle of the character and set the axis to view. But this is a pretty crappy way of doing it.

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change the rotation mode (bottom of the 3D view, in the middle, with the icons for translation, location and scale), Usually at default it is on “Global”, I think you want it on “Local”, or the one that will represent exactly the reality and your curves is “Gimbal”.

I hope that what’s you are looking for!

Mathias.