Flag wave - Macromedia Director 3D

[Gianpiero Colagiacomo]

Anyone know how I can animate a flag flapping in the wind for export to Dir
MX?

I have an animation that looks great in MAX but the phase animation I've
used on the wave modifier won't export as it's unsupported...

Cheers,

GP

[Karl Sigiscar]

In 3DS Max, you have to sample the animation before exporting.

Choose the number of keyframes to create.
E.g, for an animation running from frame 1 to 1000, selecting 1 keyframe
every then frame will sample the animation to 100 keyframes. Then you can
export to Shockwave 3D.

This method is also used when creating a spline based animation in 3DS Max
as splines are not supported by the exporter.

Cheers,
Karl.

[Gianpiero Colagiacomo]

Hi Karl,

I need some guidance here... 'Sampling' an animation is not something that
I can find in the help for MAX and I've never done it before so could do
with some idea of how you do it!

I tried creating keyframes every ten frames but still my animation won't
export.

How do I go about 'sampling' my animation?

Cheers,

GP

"Karl Sigiscar" <karl.sigiscarlaposte.net> ha scritto nel messaggio
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> In 3DS Max, you have to sample the animation before exporting.
>
> Choose the number of keyframes to create.
> E.g, for an animation running from frame 1 to 1000, selecting 1 keyframe
> every then frame will sample the animation to 100 keyframes. Then you can
> export to Shockwave 3D.
>
> This method is also used when creating a spline based animation in 3DS Max
> as splines are not supported by the exporter.
>
> Cheers,
> Karl.
>
>
>

[Karl Sigiscar]

You don't have to create keyframes every n frames by yourself. 3DS Max does
it when you sample the animation. I'm not a graphic artist, but a developer.
You should ask a fellow 3d artist or animator to guide you here.

Cheers,
Karl.

[Karl Sigiscar]

My 6 years professional experience show that a collaboration between a
graphic artist and a developer who understand each other's job yields a
better result. The graphic artists I work with master drawing on paper,
painting as much as 3D modelling and animation. So, I focus on my work, that
is interactivity, OOP, databases and so on...

However, you're right in that many companies search for people who know
both.

Karl.

[Mark McCoy]

> Anyone know how I can animate a flag flapping in the wind for export to
Dir

> MX?

As you know, animation on modifiers doesn't export. So to export the flag
you will need to rig the flag with bones. Then animate the bones. This
process is very dependant on the version of the exporter you are using.

-- mark
[url]http://ezupa.com[/url]

[Gianpiero Colagiacomo]

Mark,

'Sampling' the animation as Karl suggested isn't the way to go with this
then? I still haven't found any information regarding sampling despite my
repeated searching of the 'net. :(

Again, being new to MAX bones animation is something I haven't tried yet but
at least I know where to find the tutorials!

Cheers,

GP

"Mark McCoy" <markmd3d_NO_SPAM_ezupa.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
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> > Anyone know how I can animate a flag flapping in the wind for export to

> Dir

> > MX?

>
> As you know, animation on modifiers doesn't export. So to export the flag
> you will need to rig the flag with bones. Then animate the bones. This
> process is very dependant on the version of the exporter you are using.
>
> -- mark
> [url]http://ezupa.com[/url]
>
>
>

[Gianpiero Colagiacomo]

Thanks Mark, I'll try bones animation and see how it goes...

GP

"Mark McCoy" <markmd3d_NO_SPAM_ezupa.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
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> I think he was referring to what is also called "baking" where you convert
> the motion of an unsupported controller into standard keyframe data. This
> won't work well with the wave modifier.
>
> The best/easiest way to do the flag is with bones.
>
> -- mark
>
>
> "Gianpiero Colagiacomo" <gp1lg.com> wrote:

> > Mark,
> >
> > 'Sampling' the animation as Karl suggested isn't the way to go with this
> > then? I still haven't found any information regarding sampling despite

my

> > repeated searching of the 'net. :(
> >
> > Again, being new to MAX bones animation is something I haven't tried yet

> but

> > at least I know where to find the tutorials!
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > GP

>
>
>