 Genesis 2 is wearing high heels
But AniMate doesnt know it yet
So we click on the HighHeels adjustment
And we set the angle to its maximum, 60 degrees
 It's better but there's still a lot of poke-through
 those shoes come with a pose
we're at frame 0
If we apply it, everything looks fine
 If we go to frame 1
and come back to frame 0, our nice pose is gone !
 That's because, the animation is still under the total control of AniMate
Let's right click on AniMate's window
and activate the "Convert to DS Keyframes"
AniMate warns us that that we could come back here and work on the walk some more
 Ok, done.
Now the animation is just a plain finalized animation
First, we can solve the toes issue
Go to frame 0;
adjust the toes "manually" or using the special pose
The toes don't need to move
Select the 2 toes nodes
Go in the Parameters Tab
Click on the upper-right corner
do a "Memorize" / "Memorize Selected Item(s)"
then do a "Clear Animation" / "Selected Item(s)"
 If we were to force the foot to remain in the fixed pose, the walk would look bad
What we need to do is reign in the ankle movements so they don't exceed the shoe's acceptable range
Let's select the right foot node
Let's launch my free script mcjCycleFilter
It's normally used for cycling animations but can work for us
in the upper-right corner we select the Bend Channel
 We see that the foot's bend animation has a range of angles between 18 and 51 degrees
but we saw earlier the shoe-maker suggested a Bend angle was 43 degrees
Lets select mcjCycleFilter's "Synth" option
we can now generate/synthesize a new animation
we will use the default synthesizer named "Current values"
we change the Minimum value from 18 to 35
and press the Apply button
 Bam, the script compressed the ankle bend angles to the 35-53 degrees range
so the Bend doesn't ever exceed the shoe limits
but at the same time we didn't paralyze the foot, it still moves somewhat like AniMate wanted to
The ideal shoe pose had a side-side and twist angles of zero degrees
so you should use mcjCycleFilter to reduce the range AniMate used
say, bring it back in the -7 to 7 degrees range
 get the animation from this tutorial in DS3/DS4 compatible Pose Preset Animation ( .dsa )
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