Massive uses AMC/ASF motioncapture a lot - and using Motionbuilder here
to retarget, we found that there are issues with ASF skeleton files from
Motionbuilder - mostly to do with the fact that Masssive has no roots or
effectors in it's skeleton structures - so we had interesting DOF
problems, which required some fiddling around and discussion with
Autodesk support, who BTW are not up to par with Softimage support - we
kind of got, "we know there is a big problem with asf support in MB, but
since you have found a workaround, even though it is difficult and
tricky, we are closing this support request"
Anyway - yes we did get stuff out of XSI into MB, and then on into
Massive - and it is possible - BTW I am using Jordi's script to convert
cameras to Massive - works great all except for it forgets to transfer
the pixel aspect!!!!! We also wrote a few tools to convert in and out
of XSI, Maya, Houdini, Massive and Flame.
S.
Tim Leydecker wrote:
Since many of you guys have allready used either some
Massive or Behaviour, or some had their home-brewn
crowd simulation implemented (Kim´s tools look nice):
How about the pipeline?
Ideally, endorphin, massive and behaviour could be
mixed, meshes, rigs and animation shared or re-used.
Maybe using motionbuilder as an interchange plattform.
I don´t want to bitch about prices in the $20 000 league
but would say that an average commercial usually wouldn´t
allow for the R&D cycles required to set-up an artdirectable
pipeline but instead would ideally be tackled with off-the-shelf
products like Massive JET plus some Agent Libaries, for crowds
in the 2-250 heads range or better said, uncountable screen fillers?
In a one-two week turnaround cycle including revisions one has
to default to pre-build-ready-to-use stuff that´s known to work, right?
No experiments but industrial level 75% quality guaranteed allready?
Cheers
tim
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