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Subject: Problems with Sparsifier, Walk on Surface, Walk This Way pythons

Maxfield opened this issue on Mar 24, 2006 · 7 posts
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Maxfield ( ) posted Fri, 24 March 2006 at 6:09 PM · edited Thu, 21 November 2024 at 2:24 PM

When I use these scripts in P6, they keep crashing. Sometimes there's not even an error message, just a blank window. Is there anything I can do to stop them crashing? I've tried them with Daz figures and legacy P4 figures and the same thing happens. Any ideas?

Helgard ( ) posted Sat, 25 March 2006 at 2:38 AM

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This python script, Smoother 3, is the latest by Ockham and replaces the Sparsifier script. This one has been updated to work on Poser 6 as well. Not sure about the other two, they work well for me.


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Maxfield ( ) posted Sat, 25 March 2006 at 3:16 AM

Okay, I managed to sort out what was wrong with Walk on Surface - and I've got Smoother 3, and it works fine. But it's the Sparsifier that I'd like to get working, as I'm trying to clean up some BVH. I don't think Smoother 3 does any sparsifying, but correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks for the link, anyway!

Helgard ( ) posted Sat, 25 March 2006 at 7:12 AM

Smoother 3 is a totally new script that does something similar to Sparsifier, but better. Sparsifier had some problems, and it was from feedback on Sparsifier that Ockham wrote Smoother. I don't use Sparsifier anymore, and Smoother works great on cleaning up BVH files.


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svdl ( ) posted Sat, 25 March 2006 at 7:20 AM

Maxfield, could you tell me what is wrong with Walk on Surface? Then I can update the script.

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Maxfield ( ) posted Sun, 26 March 2006 at 1:54 AM

It was a false alarm with Walk on Surface. All of a sudden, it loaded with the "last frame" slider set to 1, so it thought the animation was 1 frame. All I had to do was move the slider over. So no worries there - it just hadn't done that before.

As for smoother, it smoothes out the animation fine, but it doesn't seem to delete the unnecessary keyframes.

Thanks for your help!

Maxfield ( ) posted Sun, 26 March 2006 at 4:39 AM

Okay - I tried it again and found that Smoother 3 actually does sparsify a bit - I just wasn't noticing it in the graph. You have to run it a couple of times for the dropped frames to become obvious. So thanks svdl and Helgard, I seem to have got the problems sorted out - just hadn't got used to how the scripts work.

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