Motion Tools 1.0

[Daniel Brassard]

Good work Gustavoeb, very nice tool, i'm glad you finished it.

[gustavoeb]

Thanks so much for this. I'll be using this in my testing of the Mitsuba exporter. Its gonna be super-easy to setup particle test scenes now.

Cool
Post us some images when you do ;)

[gaboraa]

As an ex Cinema 4D user I find this great cause I have missed Mograph module:) Thank you Gustavoeb.

[nuverian]

Looks great. Well done and thank you.

[druitre]

Thanks a lot, also for the tutorial video and documentation, much appreciated!

[bottleofram]

This has come long way. I applaud your effort, Gustavo.

[omidkurd]

billion thnx sir Gustavo

[angelous4x]

i been looking at the progression of your tool, and i got to say well done. this is going to be fun.
C4d Mo_graph who?

[angelous4x]

i have a small error while trying to do a simulated ice tree. not sure why i get it. when i select the texts like in your video, i then apply the create instances from islands, then simulate always. and i get theses warning and errors.
not sure what the problem might be.


SelectObj "PolyIsland_Control", , True
DeleteObj "PolyIsland_Control"
SelectObj "polymsh", , True
' WARNING : 3000-EDIT-AddICECompoundNode - Could not set value on [InstanceShapeNode 6].rbdtype
mTools_CreatePolyIslandControl 0
' WARNING : 3000 - **** Cycle breaking point polymsh.polymsh.secondaryshapemarker
' WARNING : 3000 - Cycle through PolyIsland_Control.pointcloud.ICEtree
' WARNING : 3000 - Cycle through PolyIsland_Control.pointcloud.ICETree1
' WARNING : 3000 - PROBLEMATIC EVALUATION CYCLES ARE IN THE SPECIFIED GRAPH
' WARNING : 3000 - **** Cycle breaking point polymsh.polymsh.secondaryshapemarker
' WARNING : 3000 - Cycle through PolyIsland_Control.pointcloud.ICEtree
' WARNING : 3000 - Cycle through PolyIsland_Control.pointcloud.ICETree1
' WARNING : 3000 - PROBLEMATIC EVALUATION CYCLES ARE IN THE SPECIFIED GRAPH
' ERROR : 2000 - Argument 0 (PresetObj) is invalid
' ERROR : 2027-EDIT-AddICENode - Traceback (most recent call last):
' File "<Script Block 2>", line 311, in mTools_CreateSimulationFramework_Execute
' xsi.AddICENode("$XSI_DSPRESETS\\ICENodes\\SimulateBulletRigidBodiesNode.Preset", oICEtree)
' File "<COMObject Application>", line 2, in AddICENode
' COM Error: Invalid preset argument, cannot load $XSI_DSPRESETS\ICENodes\SimulateBulletRigidBodiesNode.Preset - [line 310 in C:\Users\d20\Autodesk\Softimage_2012_SP1\Addons\MotionTools\Application\Plugins\mTools_ICEFlow_Plugin.py]
' ERROR : OLE error 0x80020101
mTools_CreateSimulationFramework 0
' ERROR : Traceback (most recent call last):
' File "<Script Block 2>", line 161, in ICEFlow_CreateSimulation_Callback
' if oTmp == "Simulate Always": xsi.mTools_CreateSimulationFramework(0)
' File "<COMObject Application>", line 2, in mTools_CreateSimulationFramework
' COM Error: Exception occurred. (0x-7ffdfff7) - [line 160 in C:\Users\d20\Autodesk\Softimage_2012_SP1\Addons\MotionTools\Application\Plugins\mTools_ICEFlow_Plugin.py]

[NNois]

This is a good time to put this up the priority list and find a decent workaround for the time being... thanks for bumping on this

Yes, bouuuh MentalRay... PS: LK Lightning do MB do it so i've looked at it but i don't find this stuff in the tree, maybe it's hard coded...

[gustavoeb]

SelectObj "PolyIsland_Control", , True
DeleteObj "PolyIsland_Control"
SelectObj "polymsh", , True

From your log I can see PolyIsland_Control (the pointcloud) was deleted. This should not be done...
You gave to create intace from islands and with PolyIsland_Control selected run "Simulate Always"

The "****Cycke breaking point" thing wont go away, but it seems to be no biggy

hope it works for you now

[gustavoeb]

PS: LK Lightning do MB do it so i've looked at it but i don't find this stuff in the tree

thats how I want to implement it, as invisible to the user as possible
I should check LK Lightning, thanks for the tip

[GiorgioAdolfoKrenkel]

Hello Gustavo, thank you again for this addon.
Have one question, is there a way to change the pivot position of the elements, when using the create instances from islands?

[gustavoeb]

Hi Giorgio! The base shapes (cube, cone, sphere, etc...) cant have theyre pivot change, but you can just enable instancing and use a custom shape (cube, cone, sphere, etc...) with a modified pivot.
As for instances from islands, this cannot be done, yet... but it has already been added in the to-do list

[i.animator]

First off, thank you so much for for creating and sharing this tool. It has been very easy for me to get non-tecnical artists who have barely touched Softimage to make some great looking stuff using 'Motion Tools'.
FYI: I did, however, have to hack in the version 0.4 "Modify and Modulate Particles Orientation" into the "Modify Transform" In order to get the Additive option to work properly.

[gustavoeb]

Hey i.animator, great to hear that do you have any images you can share?
Good thing ice is open for hacks, what exactly was the problem? Is it fixed in v. 1.0?

Cheers