Comments on: Making It Look Great 7 – MoGraph Unleashed

By: Akash

Akash — Wed, 12 May 2010 10:43:44 +0000

wonderfull gifts from the pro.
Thank you so much.

By: Marc Allen

Marc Allen — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:53:31 +0000

I’ve just opened the project on my laptop & it works fine…I may have to reinstall C4D on my Mac maybe.

Cheers,
Marc

By: Marc Allen

Marc Allen — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:58:43 +0000

Hi Tim, Great tutorials; thanks!!!

But, I’m having the same issue as Jake, above; on the MoCap tutorial.

You mentioned, in the movie, that unchecking “Trace Vertices” rectifies the problem of not seeing the trace; but despite this, I can’t seem to. I’m using version 11.5 of C4D. The FBX file did bring in joints & not bones.

Also, on your version of the Shader Effector, when set to linear, you could define the orientation under “Offset”; mine didn’t have this option.

Hope you can help.

Marc

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:50:42 +0000

Tim

Got it working – If I switch off traces vertices it makes the splines

Jake

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:10:05 +0000

Thanks Tim – I tried that but I don’t get any splines from the tracer
Any ideas?

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:14:22 +0000

Hey Jake,

You should be able to just link the joints in the Tracer object instead of bones. Is there a problem doing it that way?

cheers
Tim

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:03:44 +0000

I’m having a problem with MOCAP tutorial. I imported an FBX file that I got from TurboSquid – but it has imported with joints so I converted the joints to bones but I lose the animation on the character.
Is there anyway I can keep this animation or transfer it onto the bones?

Cheers

Jake

By: Karl

Karl — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:12:25 +0000

cool, thanks for that Tim, i’ll give it a go this evening!

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:10:24 +0000

If you don’t have the orientation option, then you could update to 11.530. Choose Help > Check for updates, then install the latest version.

If you don’t want to update, you can just rotate the effector. The falloff defaults to the Z axis so rotate the effector so the falloff is along the correct axis.

Hope that helps

By: Karl

Karl — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:51:00 +0000

bought these this afternoon, great pace and very clear. My only frustration is on this tutorial I don’t seem to have an orientation option parameter in the inheritance effectors panel when set to linear so I can’t really finish it off. I’m using 11.5 but it doesn’t seem to be in 10 either? Is there a preference or something I should change?