thinkcooper opened this issue on Dec 03, 2008 · 177 posts
Dale B posted Mon, 09 February 2009 at 5:42 AM
More attention to the animation system in general; I just noticed that Optitrak has released a beta of a plugin for Daz Studio to accept the data input from their ARENA $5k mocap system in realtime. And that Poser has had several requests for something similar. Poser is about at the limit vis-a-vis stills; a more robust renderer plugin (ooooh, Renderman.... stewer has given the python guru's a challenge, he has he has....) is what most seem to want in that regard. That leaves the animating aspect....and if that native data plugin happens, Poser would be in an excellent position for the poor man's Body Studio (particularly since the 12 camera rig can handle 2 character capture).....if there were just a little bit more to the animation system. I'd go so far as to say create an animation tab, with dockable windows so that the layout could be configured to meet the users preferences (and no library access in that window; save all the real estate for controls). Multiple graph panes would be lovely, as would the color coded spline handles (like they use in Vue Infinite). Also more control over the IK chains; assigning sticky IK on the fly would really help in motion and action sequences.....but the main thrust should be configurability.