Anim8or Community

Hi Kevin,
Thanks so much for the link for NiftyToolbox.
I tested your experimental "Converting Frame Morph targets in Scene Mode to Morph Targets in Object Mode"
I followed your instructions and made a simple cube Object with 8 points, made 2 morph targets, put the object into a 50 frame Scene, activated 1,0 and 0 and 0 and 1,0 at the beginning and end of 50 frames, chose frame 20 and saved the file with the name you gave.
I inserted it into NiftyTool Object Morph Target creator and it said "successful" and then Processing 2/2 displayed.

I did as you said and waited for the new file to appear in NiftyToolbox but 5 hours later it still wasn't there.
I know you don't have much time and I appreciate your efforts! I just wanted to bring it to your attention.

Hopefully it's something simple in your script?

Thanks again 👍

Thanks so much Kevin!
I tried to follow the "Here" link but it says it contains an error. Really excited to see what you've done!
I think the comma in the URL is causing the problem.
Would you mind checking it please? Thanks!👍

Thanks so much for your interest and answer Steve!
I really appreciate it. I fancy your 1B option of being able to export as OBJ in Scene mode but as you say the features is not yet available. I think Steve is a very busy man and totally unselfish, still regularly responding to requests and questions and freely giving up his time to do so much at no cost to anyone. I truly admire him!
I like your Option 2, to open the script of the Anim8or Scene and find the mixed Morph Targets and calculate new coordinates and "inject" them in OBJ mode in the script to create a new Morph Target.
I think it could be quite a calculation but perhaps an Excel Spreadsheet could be made to auto calculate combined coordinates from inputs without having to calculate manually. It would then mean taking the Excel outputs, copying them and pasting them as a New Morph Target into the Object part of the script.
What do you think of the idea? Do you think it could work?
I'm not a Script writer but I can go by example in Notepad and do a test.
Perhaps you have a better way or idea.
I'd love to hear what you think 👍
Thanks again.

Thanks a lot Claude! I've checked it out and am going to give it a go now.
Thanks for taking the time 👍

Thanks so much Steve!
You're an absolute star! Thank you again for your constant hard work, support, and awesome animation software!

Hi all, it's been a long time since I've been on here but I'm back into Anim8or and loving it as always.

One problem I've constantly had is UV Mapping with Image Textures. It's easy enough to insert a jpeg image into diffuse in a material and finally apply the material to the object but it looks great from one angle and is stretched and blurred at other angles.

I downloaded Lithunwrap and have used it before but whichever Planar or other map I save never fits my object on default and even when I move it with the UV button pressed, it still comes out in a combo of clear and smudged.

I tried a Blender video tutorial on UV mapping and tried to follow all instructions exactly but can't find where to export the model, (including the textured UV Map), as either a .obj or .3ds.

All I keep getting is the Unwrapped png without the texture.

If anyone has advice or knowledge on this complex topic, I would really appreciate it!

I feel it's one of the more important aspects of animation as it can make or break an otherwise good model.

Please help!!

Thanks in advance...

Hi all,

Is it possible to use reference images in sequence mode for accurate bone movement for various things. I'm doing a human walk sequence and think I will find it a lot more accurate to use reference images for accuracy.
Any input will be appreciated!

Thanks in advance,
Ian