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Subject: Life Forms program

misty opened this issue on Jan 06, 2000 · 5 posts
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misty ( ) posted Thu, 06 January 2000 at 12:24 AM · edited Wed, 27 November 2024 at 7:38 AM

does anyone have info on Life Forms Creativity in Motion programs. Use it make BVH files does it work or is it an over price program. It should be a good one at $495.00. I was thinking about getting it but--- info is very lim. thanks misty@digital.net

Serpent ( ) posted Thu, 06 January 2000 at 3:30 PM

LifeForms
Hello, Go to their web site and sign up for the free demo cd. It will be mailed to you and you can try it for free. Version 3 had some problems with Poser exported BVH, but it seems to be fixed now in version 3.5. I think the program could be very useful to those that need to do heavy animation. I have the demo and have edited Poser exported BVH files in it. They also seem to be upgrading the BVH support by having new plug-in versions of the BVH for DL on the web site. They also stated that Zygote would be making LifeForm ready models. Hope this info is helpfull. Serpent

Thoth ( ) posted Fri, 07 January 2000 at 8:26 AM

I'm an avid trueSpace user, and I saw Life Forms at the tS booth at Siggraph. I just sent off for the demo CD last week. Hopefully, I'll have something to report in a week or so. Glad to see there are LF users already here on the forum; I'm sure I'll have lotsa questions. :o) Thoth

pack ( ) posted Mon, 10 January 2000 at 11:22 PM

I have Lifeforms Studio 3.5. Very happy with the Poser compatability so far. I bought because I was going insane due to Posers wacky spline interpolations going off between keys. Wasted 80% of my time fixing splines & converting to linear interpolation, which Lifeforms defaults to. If you spend (or plan to ) much time animating Poser characters, I think Lifeforms is a must ,if you intend on accomplishing very much. The non BVH files are many and fairly useful, but are not really polished. I also bought Zygotes Motion CD during a sale. Lifeforms will import motions for just a part (arm for example) of any BVH file, & can merge motions together in any way you like. It has an incredible Browser to thumb thru the multitude of included files & also Poser bvh files, with outline figures. Sort of like Explorer style browsing. Can zoom in & rotate/translate during the browser playing the BVH or motion file. I would say Lifeforms opens up animations possibilities considerably for a 1 man operation. Pack

Dmurphy ( ) posted Tue, 11 January 2000 at 10:03 PM

I have Lifeforms 3.5 i use it alot. Don Murphy

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