Whichway opened this issue on Aug 07, 2009 · 200 posts
Slowhands posted Tue, 18 August 2009 at 4:57 PM
I don't know if many her do animation, but I have a few bugs that I reported.
1). if I try to add a mimic file to an animation. It doesn't take. meaning. no the audio files are placed into the animation, but the lips do not take the mouth and head movements. Basicly the animation just sits there unless I have other movements already hand animated, or BVH files added.
My painful workaround is to go back to Poser 7 and then add the Mimic files. save them, then reopen Poser 8. Then eveything works great. The problem with that is I can't see the good detail with the type of lighting I like to use in poser 8 when I'm in poser 7 because the scene is to dark. Which when in Poser 8 the scene show up nice and brightly.
Here is something that I think I might understand, maybe someone can tell me if I'm right or not. I can animate a scene of 180 frames say. The big change is if I am using Raytracing. Sometimes the animation per will be 7:15 min. per frame. and at the end will drop down all the way to 4:30 per frame.
I can animate that same scene at a different angle and same charactures and the animation will range frome 2:35 to 5:00 per fame. The only thing that I can think to cause such radical time differences is possibly Raytracing. I have two mirrors in both animations along with the charactures and interior scene.
My guess sometimes the mirrors might be closer to the camera, or mabe if the mirror is more, this maybe what is causing a longer render. As I have 2 people reflecting in the mirror, and the walls are shiny with a reflextion of the people also, As Amos & Andy might say. Their is a whole lots of reflextions goin on here.
Also in the animation Palette. It's scroll bar doen't show. It works, but I have to guess where it is. This only applies when doing animations. along with that also in the animation palette, when I click on the play button. it plays when I click on it to stop, it stops for a second and begins a second later with out me clicking to get it to go again.
When they get all the bugs out. Poser 8 will be a great program.