EvoShandor opened this issue on Feb 10, 2003 ยท 7 posts
EvoShandor posted Mon, 10 February 2003 at 8:05 AM
For those of you who took advantage of the offer from 3DBuzz and got motionbuilder....what do you think of the application? Have you found it useful? Have you had any troubles with it? What are your favorite features of the app? What don't you like or wish that it did? Is it as easy to use as it seems? Just looking for opinions here, as I'm looking to buy it, but I want to know beforehand if its going to be a waste of my time.... Thanks. Evo
mizombie posted Tue, 11 February 2003 at 11:56 AM
Evo I think Its a wonderful, wonderful app. takes a little time geting used to the layout but, the manual and Buzz 3d are very helpful. My only gripe is, I had been under the impression thst you can take a Poser figure and load straight into this. This you cannot do (yet) ubless you own LW or Maya and have the BodyStudio plugin or other well versed 3d app that accepts Poser .obj. Once the conversion and the import into said 3d application, you load it up, set the rig and away you go. If you check the Buzz forum frequently and read some of the post and watch the training VTM's you'll get a bettter understanding of what power this app has. There just isn't enough time in a day to play with this to its fullest possibility. Best $100 plus shipping, I have spent on a software app in a long time
EvoShandor posted Tue, 11 February 2003 at 12:43 PM
mizombie....would it not be preferable to use MB's defualt figures to get your desired BVH..then import that into poser, and forgo the OBJ rigging issue? That is what I had planned on doing....will it work?
mizombie posted Tue, 11 February 2003 at 2:04 PM
yes that will work just fine. you still have issue with Gimbal Lock though. When I imported into LW, then into MB I could control the GL a little better. Poser Geometry doesn't really allow for much of an improvement but, this does help the issue greatly. Making the BVH files is easy and hoot to make up. I have so fricking many BVH files sitting here waiting to rigged to the approriate characters to see how well they work.
EvoShandor posted Wed, 12 February 2003 at 8:29 AM
I ordered it a couple of days ago...can't wait to try it out, hopefully I'll get it before the weekend. I'm wondering if the EULA allows me to install it on 2 PC's as my animation rig will be completed whenever the send my motherboard back. :0 Evo
markdc posted Thu, 27 February 2003 at 2:05 PM
EvoShandor, I think it's locked to a single PC. You can contact Kaydara to transfer the license. My review: Motion blending makes it worth the price alone. There are couple of problems that I've noticed with bvh export for Poser. Poser has the hip at z=0 when the feet are on the ground. MB has the feet at 0 when the feet are on the ground (more logical). This causes bvh files to but vicky way above the floor. You can just move the floor up or write a script to move vicky down. It also mangles the hands. I haven't fixed this yet. -Mark
markdc posted Thu, 27 February 2003 at 2:08 PM
Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/artistdownload.ez?Who=markdc&fileid=2692&key=804226
Also, with a LOT of work you can rig vicky in another app and bring her into mb.