Re: RE: Mixer headache

[Adam Sale <adamsale(at)shaw.ca>]

bernard..

what about using referencing?

that would get your mixers across,

at which point you could localize..

the delta's would hold any additional info..

 

you had a chance to look at OO's yet?

 

Adam

----- Original Message -----
From: Bernard Lebel <3dbernard@gmail.com>
Date: Saturday, September 15, 2007 4:01 pm
Subject: Re: RE: Mixer headache
To: XSI@Softimage.COM

> Thank Adam,
>
> I haven't checked Olivier's script, but I will on Monday.
>
> As for the sources, the sources are not really the problem. They
> import well. If I load them as clips into the imported the
> mixer, it
> works. But if I use the imported mixer as is, that is, with
> tracks and
> few clips with loops and transitions, then nothing happens.
>
> A script would have to take the existing mixer, and store its setup
> (tracks, clips, effects, parameters, etc), and rebuild it with
> it. I
> don't see that as a simple job, so I might just ask the animator to
> fix the import manually.
>
> Bernard
>
>
>
>
> On 9/15/07, Adam Sale <adamsale@shaw.ca> wrote:
> > hey Bernard...chiming in late, but Ive noted this as well. The
> export mixer
> > doesn't really live up to its billing and import to another model.
> >
> > I imagine you've already done this, I just resort to exporting
> the sources
> > to preset and reloading them onto the new model.
> >
> > Don't know if you saw Graham's post on his tinkering with
> Oliviers original
> > script. Have you had any success with it? is it 6.5 compatible?
> >
> > I'm guessing that you need to keep the sources on specific
> tracks, as
> > they're probably linked, or scop'd
> >
> > Adam
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Marc-Andre Carbonneau
> > <marc-andre.carbonneau@ubisoft.com>
> > Date: Friday, September 14, 2007 1:49 pm
> > Subject: RE: Mixer headache
> > To: XSI@Softimage.COM
> >
> > > Go home Bernard, it's Friday night. :P
> > > Enjoy the week-end and come back fresh on Monday!
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-xsi@Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi@Softimage.COM]
> > > On Behalf
> > > Of Bernard Lebel
> > > Sent: September 14, 2007 4:15 PM
> > > To: XSI@Softimage.COM
> > > Subject: Re: Mixer headache
> > >
> > > Anyone? I have to admit I'm getting desperate, I've spent
> all day
> > > trying to find out what the problem is....
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks..... hopefully
> > > Bernard
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 9/13/07, Bernard Lebel <3dbernard@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > I got a mixer onto a model. The mixer has some tracks and some
> > > clips.> I export the mixer.
> > > > I then import the mixer into a somewhat different models. The
> > > rigs are
> > > > the same as well as the names, differences are more in
> things like
> > > > geometry.
> > > > Nothing moves at all.
> > > >
> > > > I open the mixer, delete the clips, and re-create them.
> Character> > starts moving.
> > > >
> > > > Any idea?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Using 5.11.
> > > > Bernard
> > > >
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