John Bigboote
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What? Wow- can't wait to play with this--- I am on a deadline now so as soon as I free-up some time! Great!
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Well HELLO SpleenGene! I hope you are still able to model and animate, and that your health is not too bad. We miss you and your 'quirky' style around here! Still getting any work from Sony?
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Hey- Malo is on to a great idea there... with Rob's help... how to automate an TSM rigged 'minimal-character' to ANY high CP count character's proportions by placing Nulls at the critical junctions... (ankles, knees, hips, spine base, neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, head top.) Then, use the 'scale to reach' feature to size the TSM bones...And then you are able to use Rob's Transfer_AW rigged in 60 seconds feature to do the rest...!
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This forum has some of the best. What do you have going?
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I am SO floored by the quality of the prizes Rob makes for this forum- really heartfelt! I look at my medallion and plaque on the shelf all the time and think - a LOT of time went into that! Priceless.
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DIG IT!
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Robcat says it is a logged bugg... I am jumping back and forth between 18 and 19 now...
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The decal application crash is a reported bug in v19f.
OK- good to know. THX!
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Great! Always interested in what Kevin Detwiler is up to!
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I am crashing upon applying a decal... png or jpeg... alpha or not. Steps to reproduce:
-Open A:M
-Make new model
-Make 2 point spline horizontally
-Extrude spline so you have a patch
-Import image
-Drag image onto model window
-Choose decal option
-Position decal over patch
-Apply
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That is the way I was going to try... I was setting about making a simple prj but every time I go to apply a decal I crash?!?! (19.0F)
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Once you add those higher density meshes, you have to do more tweaking and work on the images? Right?
I don't think so... I am just referring to when you export your obj and you can choose between 1,4,16,64 etc polys-per-patch... 1 being just each patch being exported as a polygon- 4 splits/smooths it 4 ways etc. It is too bad that it is a '1 size fits all' approach because my models have parts that are sparse and parts that are already quite dense and I feel it unneccessary to further densify it...
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I am always late to the party... thanks Mark!
I found the way to set image dimensions, and it is easy. SO- I did a test render at 1600 X 1800 pixels at 'medium' render quality and let it go overnight. It looks pretty good but I think I am seeing a 'glitch' at the forward edge of the red box. Render time 3hours 12minutes 3seconds, not fast at ALL! Almost makes me think the image is being rendered 'in the cloud' offsite somewhere...
PLUS- as you can see in my Hash modeled ice-cream cone--- there is no SubDivisionSurfaces so I would need to export from A:M at a higher mesh density.
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SO- thinking more about this...
There are many-many high res models out there that could be employed here in A:M with this plug-in... if there was an easy-peasy way of getting the CP's and rig transferred over.
Does the lo-res model need to be generated from the hi-res? Could a minimal CP rigged model be used as a 'Universal Lo-Res'? I suppose a fair degree of scaling and sizing would be needed to fit the lo-res to the hi-res, and even tho rigs like TSM2 have great 'limb-stretch' capabilities- you can not activate them in a model window...
Could open new doors for A:M if 'mixamo' type capabilities were acheivable!
BTW- I love the little 'action to put him thru the paces' you made in the example!
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Dimension offers a neat feature called 'match image' for automatic placement of your scene to the background that you select parameters (lens, XYZ placement, even lighting) and will make a great reflective floor... but as you can see- it did NOT take the background into consideration for the depth-of-field. I suppose in Pshop I could use the depth layer to imitate the blur by eye...but...
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This just came acrosst my radars:
https://www.adobe.com/products/dimension/features.html?mv=product&mv2=accc#!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML0i68H-Xos
https://www.adobe.com/products/dimension/features.html
Adobe's foray into 3D rendering, still in beta- but highly functional with a great orientation interactive to get you up-and-running very swiftly- the beauty being that it is quite a simple program with no animation features... main use is for photorealistic still renders. It should be, however- compatible with A:M as a 3rd party still-renderer for anyone that wants to see what rendering with Vray looks and feels like...(via obj file format)
I am doing a test scene-render now... one frame is going over 20 minutes, so not too swift but I imagine people wanting photoreal images would have all day for a render. ( I did turn-ON a lot of bells and whistles...)
I can't seem to find any image size dialogue, so it looks like this early iteration is a one-size-fits-all for now...(1024 X 768) it claims it will give me photoshop layers so we'll see. (IMAGE FINISHED 21:57!)
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Well- I hit render on this animation and then went away for a week of vacation, came back to find it done... kinda cool!
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I have been thru this and feel your pain as the unwanted pose sliders pile-up and get in the way... but, I think there is an easier solution... and somewhere/sometime here on the forum it was pointed-out to me as I was going thru the same hoopla.
All you need to do is, as you have illustrated above... click the unwanted pose(relationship folder) in the PWS model/relationships and delete, you will get the 'Delete Pose Relationship?' feedback... next, select the pose slider in the User Properties window for the model and delete, you will get the same 'Delete Pose?' feedback- say yes and you are done. The relationship AND the pose slider have been deleted from the model.
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Wow! 'Pearls' of wisdom here. Wasn't this a 3rd party plug-in at one point? WeightMover or something? I seem to remember buying and trying it...
What is the underlying rig you use here, quite flexible and the beauty being that the plug-in divides the lo-res into the high res SO smoothly- quite valuable! I need to watch again!
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Sorry guys- I was out on vacation last week. Here is my response to Mark on some Q's he asked:
Hi Mark- SORRY for delay responding- was out on vacation.
If it looks good in the model window then you are on the right track... you will need to make sure you have the SSS option activated for choreography camera/render. Try this: Go up to the top menu's (File, Edit, Project, View, TOOLS) Select Tools, Options (Cntrl-P) and then open the RENDERING tab... make sure 'advanced' is selected- then you can select where you will set your render options (kind of redundant, sure.) IF you select 'Use Settings From: This Dialogue', then you will want to root thru the settings to the left to make sure SSS is set to ON(10th option down) IF you select 'Use Settings From: The Camera', then you will need to hit OKAY and then open the render settings for your Chor's Camera and make sure SSS is activated there. I usually use the camera's settings, so I can change them quickly on the fly as I work.
Another thing to remember when in the chor... to see effects such as SSS, you will want to use the preview render button to the far-left (hover-over it should say "Render Mode 'Q'") and not the quick render preview mode 2nd from Left(Hover-over says "Render Lock Mode "Shift Q"')
Another thing to consider when using SSS is that the effect is highly reliant on certain lighting conditions, and that it prefers a strong backlight... also- experiment with the MP render and the other non MP as well)
I remember when SSS was a new feature, I was playing with it in a multipass render and I noticed that for every pass the SSS had to recompute- which made it costly in a high pass animation render. I asked the Hash programmers if a recompute was really necessary for every new pass, it seemed rather redundant- and they responded 'your right!' NOT needed! and today SSS is not as render expensive, a little hit, not bad.
I've noticed as well that sometimes if you have multiple SSS objects(or groups with different SSS settings) in the same scene they may not render correctly.... been meaning to report that.
Hope this helps and you will have something cool to show.
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Playing with Rob's prj and adding stuff...FUN!
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I see them popping-up at McDonalds with holograms of the perfect Big Mac and fries and such before we will get them in our homes... a friend recently told me that the porn industry has a big history in oncoming technologies... it put movie projectors in peoples homes in the 50's... betamax and VCR's in the 70's... it was highly influential in the mainstreaming of the internet...
Good observation about the up/down tilting...hmm- that would be a big limitation.
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Yeah- I would think once they get a little bigger that retail storefronts would use them like crazy for POP displays and such.
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BUT- revisiting Rob's fantastic approach... THAT is the way!
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Very cool! Surprisingly easy to get a quality render... if only they could bring render times down and add animation!