 | | | Re: scripting in C4 or C5 | Re: scripting in C4 or C5 2005-11-08 - By Andrew
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There are only a handful of animation from Carrara that I've seen.
There is a mini-movie project called Rogue, that uses Carrara. There
are samples of FBX imports and renders, demos of various features, and
other small stuff.
However, there hasn't been any "big" publicly announced projects that
uses Carrara for animation.
Until C4, Carrara had a quirky IK system. C4 improved that and
included a means to root bones into places... great for walk cycles.
C5 Beta adds a bone to vertex weighting and a joint orientation tool.
(C3 and C4, you could control the weight of a vertex to a bone on a
vertex by vertex basis unless you want all vertexes to in a group
selected to have the exact same values.)
It's getting better and as the animation system improves there will be
more seen. It still has a ways to go before it can be used in a
production environment. For example, you cann't save an animation
like a walk cycle and apply it to the same character on a different
scene. It has to be re-animated. (You can import animated FBX but
you can't export animated FBX from Carrara...)
AWBenson
--- In Carrara@(protected), "kreagh3d" <kevin@(protected)> wrote:
>
>
> > I doubt procedural animations is patiented. With any scripting
> > language that has access to the animation system, this sort of things
> > should be possible.
> >
> > AWBenson
>
> Correct. Many 3D, as well as compositing and 2D apps implement
> scripting in different ways. And procedural animation does not
> necessarily require scripting. Cinema 4D's Xpresso enables procedural
> animation without any scripting at all.
>
> It may be an open question to the developers as to whether or not
> procedural animation is important to Carrara's market.
>
> Its been a long, long time since I've looked at carrara, and I'm
> seeing some very nice work. I also appreciate that someone can easily
> acquire a base package and move up to the higher end. However, I
> haven't seen many examples of animation. Is there a good collection
> somewhere. I googled for some but didn't find many.
>
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