CGTalk - Boujou and Maya

Tierackk

04-04-2003, 05:47 AM

Hi everyone:D

I was hoping there are some boujou users out there that can help me with this question.

I am using Boujou 1.3 and have finished tracking the clip and camera. I save it at as a Maya scene file and it is ready to be opened. I open the file up in maya and everything seems to be ok, except that I cannot see the video clip in the world or through the camera. In the Image Plane Atrrib. the clip is set up properly and a thumbnail of the clip is also visable in the Atriib. ed. I'm not sure what im missing in order to see the clip in Maya. I am using Maya 4.5 and the clip was brought into Boujou as .Tga's
Can someone please help?:surprised

Norb

04-04-2003, 09:09 AM

open up the attrib editor for the image plane and where it says "use frame extension" enable it and then right click on frame extension and pick "create expression"...then enter :

imagePlane1.frameExtension = frame

and if your tga's are numbered like image.001.tga, image.002.tga etc then it should work

lowkey

04-04-2003, 03:36 PM

maybe, you'll just have to hit '6' to enable texture-display in your viewport? :shrug:

Tierackk

04-04-2003, 05:04 PM

Thanks for the responses!:)

Norb: the frame extention is already enable by default from Boujou, so I right click on frame extention but I don't see "create expression" . My choices are
1-Camera_1__Image_plane_1_frame_extention_.output
2-set key
3-set driven key
4-break connection
5-lock attrib
6-ignore when rendering

What to do??

Lowkey: I was thinking that too, but then I remembered that image planes are visable no matter what(unless camer'a are turned off).

Any help would be appreciated Norb!:hmm:

Tierackk

04-04-2003, 05:08 PM

OK, I seem to see what I think is the problem...
In the image plane attrib the width and height are both 0
probably the reason I cannot see it. The problem is that I cannot change them..!!:scream:
the words

center
height
width

are 'faded'

could this be the problem?

Tierackk

04-04-2003, 05:11 PM

ok well.. i've changed the display mode from rbga to rbg which lets me see the frame, however when i play through the scene the frame does not change. The frame ex is set and and the numbers change as I move through the scene but it does not in the camera..
sorry this is one of those pain in the ass questions but this is driving me nuts:D

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