Use audio amplitude to control objects?

[dhenion]

Anyone?

Or maybe any ideas on using some other program to analyze the audio and generate a text file of amplitude at 30fps that I could translate into maya keyframes, etc?

[randomsheep]

I havnt used it myself yet, but have you had a look here? http://highend3d.com/maya/downloads/mel_scripts/animation/3937.html ...

[yenvalmar]

there is an afterfx plugin that can change audio to a color in a movie, or a motion path that can be exported into a maya file, you can figure out how to hook that up into maya from there to whatever you need to drive in any number of ways (sdk, expression, connections editor blah blah).

unfortunately i dont know the name of the plugin, i was at a job and they just had it there but i dont think i comes with the program. but at least that might get you in a direction that i know works.

[dhenion]

Thanks for the link to audioAnimator - I hadn't seen the before. I downloaded it but can't get it to do anything other that spit out error messages. Has anyone ever used it?

Yes, I've been playing with the 'convert audio to keyframes' routine thats built into after effects - its very cool - I'm driving all sorts of things from it in after effects. Will look into getting that data into maya some more.

[vancliff]

There is a tutorial on something similar in the site www.learningmaya.com that could help you. Is under the animation tab and the title is "Animation thru sounds for maya 4.5".

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