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pseudopod
02-15-2005, 10:37 PM
Hello,
When I import the .XSI camera tracked file from Boujiou, it takes forever to load and then before it does XSI crashes. I am using a fast and very capable computer. The footage that was tracked is High res however.

Whats wrong? What can I do?

Please help
JDex
02-15-2005, 10:55 PM
I'm trying to remember if it was Boujou or Matchmover, but if there is an option to export the camera as a .vbs script in Boujou, you should try that. That was the most successful format in my limited past experiences. If Boujou doesn't have that feature, sorry for wasting your time :D
Ablefish
02-16-2005, 02:25 AM
Maybe you're exporting too many points? Haven't used boujou for a little while now, but I seem to remember you could limit the export to gold points, or selected points, or something like that. Bottom line - you don't end up with a massive array of nulls in the xsi scene which might be your prob?
StefanA
02-16-2005, 11:39 AM
The problem with 2D3 Boujou is that each null is actually a Model null that is exported. Which is kinda stupid... since each model can contain a mixer... so if you have 30.000 points you will in a way have 30.000 animation mixers in your scene.

This might be what crashes xsi. I wish Boujou would change the way it exports dotXSI files.

Another workaround would be to import it into Softimage|3D if you have access to it. And there save the scene and then export just the camera and a few necessary nulls

best regards
stefan andersson
pseudopod
02-16-2005, 08:14 PM
ABELFISH
"Maybe you're exporting too many points? Haven't used boujou for a little while now, but I seem to remember you could limit the export to gold points, or selected points, or something like that. Bottom line - you don't end up with a massive array of nulls in the xsi scene which might be your prob?"
How do I limit the export to just the gold points? I think this could solve the problem. Pls rsvp asap.
Ablefish
02-17-2005, 06:15 AM
Doh, wish I'd checked the page from work. Going by memory - on the export window I thought there was a little checkbox - "Selected Points only" or something like that. I'm pretty sure it was on the same page where you would enter the range of the sequence you wanted to export...
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