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I want to try a simple animation in DS. Car going up hill on a mountain...trees and road and some foreground grass and weeds that stick up and pass by as the camera keeps pace with the car. I don't know if I can do it or not. I want to use pwToon on the scene, too.
Dana
Sounds really do-able in Studio, do yourself a favour and render in lowest possible rez while you get the movements right :)
I've done a few brief animations.. yeah, 320x240 is good to check motion and such, run with a high shading rate to start, beware fancy lighting and high reflection counts.
I've done flybys at 30fps, 10 seconds, that took 45 min to render - which is decent for any render engine. Your proposed scene is far more complex, though, and will take quite some time I imagine.
DS's Timeline is a PITA, it needs ease-in/ease-out curves for motion but you can fake it with a carpload of keyframes.
Best of luck! :coolsmile:
There are a couple of addons for the animate plugin that make keyframing a bit easier :)
I don't have animate, though. And I can't keep spending money. :down: Does DS come with a free "lite" version of animate2? Would that be usefull for a car, anyway? The AM Limo has a wheel spin dial I think. It would seem to be a pain to keep changing that every frame, though. Perhaps it wouldn't matter with the pwToon shader applied, I don't know.
Dana
Yes it is in a tab called Timeline, if you open it you will see a series of little blocks where you set (and delete) keyframes with the lil buttons with key icons :)
I want to try a simple animation in DS. Car going up hill on a mountain...trees and road and some foreground grass and weeds that stick up and pass by as the camera keeps pace with the car. I don't know if I can do it or not. I want to use pwToon on the scene, too.
Dana
Sounds really do-able in Studio, do yourself a favour and render in lowest possible rez while you get the movements right :)
I've done a few brief animations.. yeah, 320x240 is good to check motion and such, run with a high shading rate to start, beware fancy lighting and high reflection counts.
I've done flybys at 30fps, 10 seconds, that took 45 min to render - which is decent for any render engine. Your proposed scene is far more complex, though, and will take quite some time I imagine.
DS's Timeline is a PITA, it needs ease-in/ease-out curves for motion but you can fake it with a carpload of keyframes.
Best of luck! :coolsmile:
There are a couple of addons for the animate plugin that make keyframing a bit easier :)
I don't have animate, though. And I can't keep spending money. :down: Does DS come with a free "lite" version of animate2? Would that be usefull for a car, anyway? The AM Limo has a wheel spin dial I think. It would seem to be a pain to keep changing that every frame, though. Perhaps it wouldn't matter with the pwToon shader applied, I don't know.
Dana
Yes it is in a tab called Timeline, if you open it you will see a series of little blocks where you set (and delete) keyframes with the lil buttons with key icons :)
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And don't be quite so quick to assume someone is 'complaining', rather than perhaps simply intending gentle teasing. I'm not sure which server you are on, but if we share a server and a time online, I would be happy to help you out if I have a character of the right faction and level. If you ever see an 'Omegan' Legacy name, that's probably me. And I'd offer to have my 55's back you, but they would really nerf your xp.
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So far it's been kinda fun, but then again everything's so simple at this point - I'm sure the fun aspect will dissipate fairly soon :lol:
Oooh Misty has a cute wittle red draggem plush on her desk!
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I want to try a simple animation in DS. Car going up hill on a mountain...trees and road and some foreground grass and weeds that stick up and pass by as the camera keeps pace with the car. I don't know if I can do it or not. I want to use pwToon on the scene, too.
Dana
Sounds really do-able in Studio, do yourself a favour and render in lowest possible rez while you get the movements right :)
I've done a few brief animations.. yeah, 320x240 is good to check motion and such, run with a high shading rate to start, beware fancy lighting and high reflection counts.
I've done flybys at 30fps, 10 seconds, that took 45 min to render - which is decent for any render engine. Your proposed scene is far more complex, though, and will take quite some time I imagine.
DS's Timeline is a PITA, it needs ease-in/ease-out curves for motion but you can fake it with a carpload of keyframes.
Best of luck! :coolsmile:
There are a couple of addons for the animate plugin that make keyframing a bit easier :)
I don't have animate, though. And I can't keep spending money. :down: Does DS come with a free "lite" version of animate2? Would that be usefull for a car, anyway? The AM Limo has a wheel spin dial I think. It would seem to be a pain to keep changing that every frame, though. Perhaps it wouldn't matter with the pwToon shader applied, I don't know.
Dana
Yes it is in a tab called Timeline, if you open it you will see a series of little blocks where you set (and delete) keyframes with the lil buttons with key icons :)
The Timeline is the timeline, Animate Lite appears as aniMate Lite - and no, without aniBlocks it wouldn't be very useful for a car.
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spreadsheets to do buy my eyes hurty. hurt hurt hurt hurt hurt
hugz from a certain plushie draggie :)
sigh, i went round to find someone to talk to, but theyz on the phone.
puppies in the yard this morning. puppy twin power activate! they aren't twins one is 14 weeks, one is 11 months.
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woh sherrie, our luv hold on hold on, on and on
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whoosh a lil dragon flying around my office. whoooshhhh perches on scanner to watch me with curious lil eyes.
trouties at the fish hatchery :lol: mov clip (8 mb). http://realmsandgalaxies.com/mov/trout.mov
took this at connetquot park 2008. back when i had a car and was able to get to the nature preserve.
for a quarter you could feed them pellets. the ducks liked the pellets,too.
"I am Ironsphere..." :)
Wednesday complaints!
- Tummy kind of unhappy with me
- Soup for lunch again
- Cold coffee
- Crummy sleep last night
- Broke until Friday
- Might rain today/tomorrow/Friday
Non-complaints:
- Got USB working on the device at work (whew)
- Chunky Sirloin Burger soup
- Plenty of beer at home
- Payday Friday
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Looks like a place I wouldn't want to be during the daytime! :grrr:
Dana
I want to try a simple animation in DS. Car going up hill on a mountain...trees and road and some foreground grass and weeds that stick up and pass by as the camera keeps pace with the car. I don't know if I can do it or not. I want to use pwToon on the scene, too.
Dana
Sounds really do-able in Studio, do yourself a favour and render in lowest possible rez while you get the movements right :)
I've done a few brief animations.. yeah, 320x240 is good to check motion and such, run with a high shading rate to start, beware fancy lighting and high reflection counts.
I've done flybys at 30fps, 10 seconds, that took 45 min to render - which is decent for any render engine. Your proposed scene is far more complex, though, and will take quite some time I imagine.
DS's Timeline is a PITA, it needs ease-in/ease-out curves for motion but you can fake it with a carpload of keyframes.
Best of luck! :coolsmile:
There are a couple of addons for the animate plugin that make keyframing a bit easier :)
I don't have animate, though. And I can't keep spending money. :down: Does DS come with a free "lite" version of animate2? Would that be usefull for a car, anyway? The AM Limo has a wheel spin dial I think. It would seem to be a pain to keep changing that every frame, though. Perhaps it wouldn't matter with the pwToon shader applied, I don't know.
Dana
Yes it is in a tab called Timeline, if you open it you will see a series of little blocks where you set (and delete) keyframes with the lil buttons with key icons :)
The Timeline is the timeline, Animate Lite appears as aniMate Lite - and no, without aniBlocks it wouldn't be very useful for a car.
Thanks, I kind of thought so. But is aniMate Lite free with DS? I guess I'll just have to fish around and find out. There were some free aniBlocks, but I don't think any for the AM Limo.
Dana
"I am Ironsphere..." :)
I was thinking almost the same exact thing! :lol:
Dana
There's a simple recipe that Diane and I like once in a while. It came from a Campbell's Chunky Soup cookbook we had at one time, maybe still have it. It's called Mexicali Burgers. It involves a can of stewed tomatoes, chili powder, and Minute Rice and an oven. Maybe it can be done in a microwave, I don't know. Found it online for you...Mexicali Burgers
Dana
There's a simple recipe that Diane and I like once in a while. It came from a Campbell's Chunky Soup cookbook we had at one time, maybe still have it. It's called Mexicali Burgers. It involves a can of stewed tomatoes, chili powder, and Minute Rice and an oven. Maybe it can be done in a microwave, I don't know. Found it online for you...Mexicali Burgers
Dana
Looks doable.. will try that next time I feel adventurous, thanks! :coolsmile:
AniMate Lite is installed on my DS4.6 Pro, I didn't buy anything special.
Stared at it for 10 minutes and went back to the Timeline, which makes intuitive sense for this old-skool animator... :blank:
Like Richard said, you need aniBlocks to work with it. There are some free ones, but not a lot that I can tell.
Just Googled and found this: Wolfs free aniblocks for V4
And then did a search in ShareCG for aniBlock and found this page:
[url=http://www.sharecg.com/b/21/DAZ-Studio/?keywords=aniBlocks&member;_type[All]=on&attribute;[4277][-1]=1&attribute;[4279][-1]=1&attribute;[4278][-1]=1&tdm=a&s=rd]aniBlock search results
I don't know if that link will work...we'll see when I post. It has a lot of brackets in it.
Dana
I think you need the paid version of aniMate 2 to make your own aniBlocks.
Dana
Ahhh, ok, that makes sense to me. I believe you are correct, sir.
almost time to head out. :cheese:
still haven't typed a tentacles chapter. haven't found tentacles i really like yet. got the ones from rdna.
the old curious theme 'mushroom magic' looks ruder.
i wanna work on chapters tnite, but i wanna go clothes shopping. age old dilemma
Rendo has some decent tentacles, or USED to.. they could be retired by now... :long:
TERROR OF THE DEEP jellyfish on sale! :ahhh: Was in my wishlist, had just enough cash to cover it. :coolsmile:
Rendo has some decent tentacles, or USED to.. they could be retired by now... :long:
TERROR OF THE DEEP jellyfish on sale! :ahhh: Was in my wishlist, had just enough cash to cover it. :coolsmile:
Did you pick this up, too? It's free!
Dana
With all this talk about animate lite I decided to try it.
Here is the worst gif ever...Dance Monkey Dance!
Did you pick this up, too? It's free!
Dana
Yep, sure did! :cheese: A floating monster to be summoned! :snake:
Morning. Gentle rain putting a sheen on city towers and freshening the air a little outside my window :)
boston creme donuts - dreams
...like Kryptonite is to Superman, Boston Creme Donuts are my ultimate weakness.
I am sleepy but just got up from a nap. Usually when you say good morning I want to say good night.
Good morning! Sounds nice, I like the rain.. :)