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🕑 Added 2021-07-05 15:08:40 +0000 UTCThank you all for your support! This one is an exclusive just for you! :)
The plugin description will follow shortly in a public post. Here are some quick instructions to get you started.
Load SilverMocap.cslist onto a character.
Select Load From Scene to load a VaM animation saved into an existing scene. I've tested this with a lot of existing animation and mocap scenes and found a few that don't load correctly, but the vast majority seem to work well. The file browser doesn't have all of the typical .VAR filtering features, so sifting through your var files can be a bit of a chore (I have ended up extracting all of my animation scene vars to a directory in Saves to simplify this, you might consider doing the same).
Select Load Animation to load a file that has been created by SilverMocap (below).
Select Save Animation to save the current character animation to a file. Some of the changes you make in the editor UI will be "baked" or saved with the animation. This includes root position changes, rotation changes, start and end time (so you can trim the animation and save a shorter version) and blending (the blending will be "baked" on save). This only saves the current character. For multi character animations, you'll need to save for each character.
After the animation finishes loading, select a character (Select Person in the upper right). Some scene animations involve multiple characters. When that's the case, you can choose which person's animation you'd like to apply to the current character.
There are two types of interpolation available. This fills in positions between frames if VaM is running at a higher framerate than the animation (or if Skip Frames, below, is higher than 1). Linear interpolates on a straight line between two positions. Catmull-Rom is a spline solution that interpolates along a curve. It usually provides better results, so it is the default.
Use Animation Time to scan through the animation.
Set Start Playback Time and End Playback Time to limit the playback to a specific section.
Skip Frames effectively reduces the framerate. At 1, is advances 1 frame at a time, effectively the base framerate of the animation. At higher values, it skips some of the animation frame and uses interpolated positions instead. This can be helpful if the animation is very jittery.
Rotation rotates the character relative to the root atom. This won't always be necessary, but it can be useful when aligning multiple characters. I'd recommend doing this after setting the root position to the character's current location (see below).
Set Root Position will move the atom location to the character's current hip XZ position. This can be very useful if the animated position (or the section of the animation, if you are making a trimmed clip) is far from the characters atom location.
Set, Bake, Clear Offsets. This feature is a little janky. It can still be useful, so I've left it in, but please be aware it can wonkify animations pretty quickly. You can set an offset position of an animated controller to, for example, raise the position of a hand that isn't lining up will with another character. To do this, advance the animation to a time where you'd like to make the adjustment, move the controller in the scene, and click Set Offset (either on the left, which sets offsets of ALL controllers, or on the right, where you can set the offset for a specific controller). It's hard to explain concisely, but if the character moves around a lot in a scene, these offsets can look wrong. But if you are happy, you can then choose to Bake Offsets which will write the changes to the animation (meaning the changes can now be saved with the animation file).
On the right, you'll find checkboxes to enable or disable position and rotation animations on each controller. This can be useful when you'd like to have a plugin control that property instead. For example, you can disable the Head Rotation and use Silver Gaze to control the rotation instead.
Enable Loop to have the animation continue from the Start Playback Time when the End Playback Time is reached.
Enable Blend Loop to smoothly transition a loop between it's start and end positions. Instead of jumping directly form the End Time pose back to the Start Time pos, the poses well be blended together over a period of time specific with Loop Blend Time. If you still see animation jumps, try trimming your loop and saving it to a file. Then load that file back in and enable blending.
This was a tough one! I've been working on it for a while. It's not perfect, but I decided to try and polish it as much as I could and get it into your hands.
Have Fun!!!!!
Comments
alex galea
yes , i think the problem was because i don't use so much vam animation,i use more timeline with some cycleforce, anyway thank for your answer,your plugins are great !!
:D I hope that means you are having some luck! Let me know!
Hey Alex! Is it possible the scenes you are loading use Timeline rather than VaM animations? The "No Step Data" error just means there wasn't any character animation data in the save file. Could you possibly link me to an example?
alex galea
ok i finally find my first !
alex galea
and when i try to save some animation nothing happened...
alex galea
not working for me... every time i try to load some animation : "no step data found in this scene"
Thanks, Saint! Yep, upping the skip frames and choosing to remove them on save will reduce the file size. I wanted to be sure to use the same JSON formatting used in VaM save files so things could be copy-pasted, but that does mean the files, just like the saves, can get pretty big.
Saint66
Anyway, I see countless days in hoarding and editing animations coming, lol
Saint66
Yeah, great work, kudos! Only thing is the filesize of the saved animation, it’s quite big. Would it help to skip frames in this respect?
Thanks Phillip! I have been pretty pleased with how it turned out (I've been using it for all mocap playback, always a good sign when you like you own plugin :P) I hope you find it useful!
Phillip Ballard
This kicks ass man. thanks. I can't wait to try it!
