Avatar not articulated anymore after disabling gravity and going up in the air !

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Walk a bit in a world using an Evolver avatar, e.g. the empty world
2. Disable gravity
3. Go up a bit in the air
4. Try to walk

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

The avatar is not articulated anymore.

Try to re-enable gravity : the avatar stays in the air

Go down onto the ground : the avatar is not articulated

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

2 tests done:

1. Local Win7/Win7 WL 4756 built from trunk (with LOTS of optional modules)
2. Local Ubuntu9.04/Ubuntu9.04 4756 from trunk (with LOTS of optional modules)

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by michel.m...@gmail.com on 21 Jan 2012 at 5:50

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I have tried in a mac and it seems a bit ramdom. I don't have to disable 
gravity to fly, and the only difference with gravity is that if it is not 
active, then I can go beneath the floor, and if it is, my avatar stops at floor 
level. But as Michel mentions, you do have to fly back down again.

Original comment by josmasfl...@gmail.com on 22 Jan 2012 at 2:04

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The avatar is not animated when you are off the ground because we don't have 
the artwork for a flying animation. I had originally left the flying state as 
using the walking animation, but it looked strange, so I set it to idle instead.

The behavior I would expect it this:

- when you are standing on the ground, use page-up to take off and enter flying 
mode
- when you are in the air, a single press of page-down should drop you to the 
ground and exit flying mode
- if gravity is off, a single page-down will not drop you to the floor, and you 
may never exit flying mode

I think the bug is that in some cases with gravity on, the avatar never exits 
flying mode, even though it is on the ground.

Original comment by jonathan...@gmail.com on 23 Jan 2012 at 5:59

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is there a temporary workaround so that avatars are not un-animated ? a small 
change in the code for instance ?

thanks,
-michel

Original comment by michel.m...@gmail.com on 20 Apr 2012 at 7:28