Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: New 3D Web standard gaining momentum -- Are you listening, CL?

duanemoody opened this issue on Feb 26, 2002 ยท 14 posts


saxon posted Wed, 27 February 2002 at 8:49 AM

Attached Link: http://www.macromedia.com/software/director/special/inspiration/

Here you are! You'll find quite a few examples from this page. I'm hoping to get a page up with some tips and tricks, in the meantime: *************** I've discovered that the way the animation is prepared is important. The exporter isn't as forgiving as Poser. Some glitches that are hidden by the IK in Poser become exposed when exported to Director. It's necessary to create the animation and then check it by turning off IK to see if any of the movements will be wildly out in the final exportation. **************** In Director, it's tempting to just put the 'keyboard input' trigger on first with the 'drag camera' action, this will cause a crash (hit escape to free everything up again) You need to add the camera's movements in instalment. Add pan camera first, then add the keyboard actions individually. Add the next set of camera movements, 'pan camera horizontally' add the keyboard from the cast window and so on. ***************** Sometimes, when the Shockwave player is installed twice it causes problems with play back, the page will ask to download the player again and won't be available for off-line viewing. It's easy to put right, download the 'uninstall Shockwave player' from Macromedia's site and reinstall the player. That solves most problems with the player. ******************** To get your animation to play in the largest possible size, i.e. taking the whole of the web browser, select the second tab on the publish settings and select percentage, Director automatically selects 100%. ******************* The Poser Exporter works best with versions of Windows after Win 98. It will still work in Win 98 however it can't cope with as many vertices. You can export figures but only up to the Mannikin, even lo-res is too big. To export a decent Poser figure upgrade to a flavour of Win 2000 or XP or be content with the Mannikin and props. ************ You can save your animation by right clicking, this will take you to Macromedia where you'll be given the option to download Shock Machine. This app is a little gimicky but it's a useful way to store your animations. To view it properly you'll need to make a tiny bitmap image, you can add this at any time. Once you've downloaded Shock Machine, navigate to the folder called Shockwave.com in your program files folder and explore the content folders. You'll find the default .bmp files there just load one into Fireworks or a similar program and create a more relevant one. Then save it into the same folder as Shock Machine saved your file. If anyone else comes up with others, please let me know and I'll collate them all together....