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tcastudios

03-27-2004, 06:21 PM

Hi. I´ve spent the better half of today trying to master the MoMix. I´ve learnt a lot and got basic different movements of simple geometry to blend.
A regular sphere with three different animations blends fine as it seems.

What I realy need MoMix for are however boned animations.

I have a -very- simple "butterfly" using a NullBone and a Bone for each wing on a flat polygon..

I have two animations using PoseMix. One with fast flapping wings and one with slow flapping.
Both work fine.

Now, I can´t find a way to place the MoMix without either getting one half of the Butterfly sort of work but the other side is distorted. The bone for that wing suddenly points at the wrong direction.

I know there are issues with this sort of behaviour in PoseMix but I got that to work. ("Nulling" out objects or as I do, put targets in separate new Nulls)

There seems to be another "level" that have to be "nulled" when using MoMix, I can´t for the life of me sort it out thou....

So, does anyone have succes with this?

I´d -love- to see a Object Manager how to place the MoMix.

Regards
Lennart

MJV

03-27-2004, 07:59 PM

Let me just save you some time and trouble. Users who have already experimented with Momix have found it to not be of much use. Save you hair and start planning a different strategy.

tcastudios

03-27-2004, 08:30 PM

OK. thanks. It seems so straight forward when using simple geometry objects but gets screwed up with any kind of object trees. Well....it´s a pity really.

I´ve -just- installed MB 5.1. Let´s hope it´s easier..

...hmmm another week of learning new things. When will it ever end....

Cheers
Lennart

bobzilla

03-27-2004, 08:43 PM

tcastudios: It NEVER ends. Which is good and bad. I never seem to finish anything, becasue I keep learning new things, and sometimes in the process wind up spending more time redoing things than actually doing new things.

Sometimes frustrating, but always fun...

MJV

03-27-2004, 09:22 PM

Originally posted by bobzilla
tcastudios: It NEVER ends. Which is good and bad. I never seem to finish anything, becasue I keep learning new things, and sometimes in the process wind up spending more time redoing things than actually doing new things.

Sometimes frustrating, but always fun...

It is frustrating. I find it very frustrating learning a new app. It's like having to learn to walk all over again. I'm going thru the MB5.1 tutorials in the Kaydara knowledge base as we speak. Having a bit of a hard time wrapping my head around it all, but so far I'm impressed by what I see. I keep thinking to myself, "wow, this is great, this could totally change things, what's the catch?" There must be a catch, right?

bobzilla

03-27-2004, 09:24 PM

The catch? Version 6!!! Start learning again...

JDP

03-28-2004, 12:43 AM

Originally posted by tcastudios
OK. thanks. It seems so straight forward when using simple geometry objects but gets screwed up with any kind of object trees. Well....it´s a pity really.

I´ve -just- installed MB 5.1. Let´s hope it´s easier..

...hmmm another week of learning new things. When will it ever end....

Cheers
Lennart

Non linear animation using the storyboard tool in MB5.1 is easy to use, I was up and running in minutes. I wish we had this in Cinema!

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