camSwitcher.mel update

[Sanctuary]

v4.0 is on highend ready to be dl.

hope you enjoy it

[Sanctuary]

v4.7 is on highend ready to be dl.

hope you enjoy it

[Sanctuary]

v4.9 is on highend ready to be dl.

hope you enjoy it

[lowkey]

i get the following message on execution of your script:

Error: Cannot find procedure "as_alertv"

doesn't it work on the 4.5 API? :shrug:

[Sanctuary]

make sure the as_core.mel from the same .zip file is in your scripts directory

this should solve your problem

[lowkey]

that's exactly what i did!
maybe i've got to put it in .../4.5/scripts?

thanks anyway, i will try! :)

[Sanctuary]

v4.9.1 is on highend ready to be dl.

i`ve remove the as_core.mel file ...

hope you enjoy it

[lowkey]

yeeeeeees, you rule! :thumbsup:

i especially love the 'copy/paste translation and rotation' feature, which i have not found in maya yet!

nice script!

[Sanctuary]

great :) i`m glad you find it useful

btw if you want something implemented ... just let me know

[lowkey]

well, i don't know if it's possible and i didn't find a way to achieve the following yet:

i want the animation of a keyframed camera to be overtaken by motion path animation at a specific point of time.

i.e. when i copy the translate/rotate values of the first cam at frame 'x' and paste those on a second cam, which i wanted to be controlled by the path later on, the second cam always re-adjusts it's orientation when put onto the path.

it would be great to avoid this behaviour, so that the second camera, though attached to a path, will inherit the orientation of the first cam and use these setting as initial state (frame 1 of the path animation)!

hmmmm ... maybe there's another way, i didn't think of yet. if not, this would be a highly appreciated field of application for your script! :)

[Sanctuary]

yeah ... unfortunately that`s quite a problem ... i`m working on for some time but without any real success

[lowkey]

what a pity! :thumbsdow

another nice feature would be the ability to perform camera-cuts and animate those via keyframing.

i know there are scripts for that already out there, but the ones i know are not too comfortable and a function like that, integrated into camSwitcher's UI would make out really nice, i guess.

keep on the good work!

[Sanctuary]

yeah i`m thinking to implement an camera-cuts system inside camSwitcher ... but haven`t much time to work on lately

btw what do you think about the MMB pop menu ... useful ?

[Dudeman]

But it would only be useful for me if it supported multiple camera nodes.

But it has great functionality.

-Dudeman:thumbsup:

[Sanctuary]

tkx Dudeman ... i`m trying to remove that limitation ... but i`ts quite dificult to identify a multiple node camera in MEL because has nothing diferent from a single node one ...


i`ll remove the limitation on next release :) (i hope)

[Sanctuary]

v5.0 beta1 is on highend ready to be dl.

new things :

- modified Poses UI;
- added possibility to choose what information to save/apply in/from poses (e.g. translate only, rotate only or both)
- added Cut Scene Animation Preview window (Shots -> Preview);



hope you enjoy it

[wrend]

lowkey:
re: blending your camera animation between path and kFrame, see if my animStreamBlender works for ya:
page of scrit (http://www.users.on.net/neilandbron)

- animate your kFrames,
- apply belnding construct,
- flip to secondary streams, apply motn path,
- flip to blend state,
- blend between kFrames and motn path animatn over desired number of frames (animate t- and r-Blnd 0-1 blending attribs).

yay! :)

[lowkey]

whooooohoo! nice, man. i'll check it out in a minute! (gotta get some caffeine into my head first!) -

and guess what:
i'm working on a project where this might come in more than handy! you rule. :bounce:

[Sanctuary]

lowkey what do you think about "Cut Scene Animation Preview"

[lowkey]

this is one very neat and useful feature! still i'd like to see the possibility of keyframing cameraCuts directly from the switcher panel. anyway, you're on the right way! :thumbsup:

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