Motion Tools 1.0

[gustavoeb]

Hey guys, v1.1 is out. Nothing big some of the rotation problems discussed in this thread are gone (I hope) and a pivot for constrained polygon islands was added. There is a new sample scene in the sample scene folder showing how to use this feature.
No news on the MB front, sorry MR users but my time to work on this is limmited

As usual as files and release notes can be found here:
http://www.gustavoeb.com.br/mtools/

[Bullit]

Thanks.

[angelous4x]

awesome

thanks for all your hard work, this has totally become one of my Favorite tool.

[Nizar]

Thanks Mr Gustavo!

[angelous4x]

hey Gustavo

I Just installed the MT 1.1, but the animation clip doesnt seem to work. and nor does the pivot for constrained polygon islands. i tried using both 2012 and 2013.

might be be doing something wrong?

[angelous4x]

for the few guys who asked me to do, an "How i did it" video. on my sphere animation.

sorry about the video quality is the beginning, but after the first min. it gets better.
and please excuse all my swearing.
i tried making the video simple quick and fun.
cheers

[gustavoeb]

hey Angel, thank you very much for taking the time to record and share that... great creative use of the tools
plus it is funny to listen to not like my videos.

Ill take a look into the problems you report. Was animation clip thingy working for you prior to the update? Plus, note that it will only work on 2013, as it has a little node inside which is 2013 only.


Cheers!

[angelous4x]

yeah that seemed to be the problem.

but when i try the slice poly to islands, and try to change the pivot, it doesn't seem to work. and when i do that and add an animation clip mod. the node is red.

it works but its red, i dove into it, but i couldn't see anything off the back

[blondimage]

Thanks for the Vid! It looked awesome.

I found the swearing added to the entertainment value!

[GiorgioAdolfoKrenkel]

I am having some problems when trying to use the new addon. Are the addon OS related?! Im using linux. Here are the error messages im geting when trying to use the mtools:

CreatePrim "Sphere", "MeshSurface"
SwitchToolbar 4
' ERROR : 2000 - Argument 0 (PresetObj) is invalid
' ERROR : 2027-EDIT-ApplyOp - Traceback (most recent call last):
' File "<Script Block 2>", line 256, in mTools_CreatePolyIslandControl_Execute
' oGeo_ICEtree = str(xsi.ApplyOp("ICEtree", oInputGeo, "siNode", "", "", 0))
' File "<COMObject Application>", line 2, in ApplyOp
' COM Error: Invalid preset argument, cannot load ICEtree - [line 255 in /root/Autodesk/Softimage_2013_SP1/Addons/MotionTools/Application/Plugins/mTools_ICEFlow_Plugin.py]
' ERROR : OLE error 0x80020101
mTools_CreatePolyIslandControl 1
' ERROR : Traceback (most recent call last):
' File "<Script Block 2>", line 153, in ICEFlow_CreateInstanceArray_Callback
' elif oTmp == "Slice Polygons into Polygon Islands": xsi.mTools_CreatePolyIslandControl(1)
' File "<COMObject Application>", line 2, in mTools_CreatePolyIslandControl
' COM Error: Exception occurred.
' (0x-7ffdfff7) - [line 152 in /root/Autodesk/Softimage_2013_SP1/Addons/MotionTools/Application/Plugins/mTools_ICEFlow_Plugin.py]

Also when trying to create the ice nodes in the Ice editor, ive got nothing there.Guess it will not work in Linux?!

[gustavoeb]

Hi Giorgio. Yeap I guess Linux is the one to blame. I have received other complaints and tried to get info from other people on the SI Mailing List. I cant promisse anything other then I will try to address this :/

But are you saying that the compounds are missing? Have you relaunched SI after installing the plugin?
It should not be the case, even in Linux, as far as I know... Nothing shows up under Tasks - Motion Tools?

[GiorgioAdolfoKrenkel]

But are you saying that the compounds are missing? Have you relaunched SI after installing the plugin?
It should not be the case, even in Linux, as far as I know... Nothing shows up under Tasks - Motion Tools?

Hello Gustavo.Thank you for looking this problem.
Well, i got a node called, "Initialize PolyIsland Data". Nothing else.

[gustavoeb]

when i try the slice poly to islands

yeah it is actually in known limitations. I did not implement this because is sligthly different then the implementation for existing polygon islands... but should be there shortly

when i do that and add an animation clip mod. the node is red

this is because the clip is not keyed in all transforms (scale, rot, trans) but as you can see it still works... I will try to fix this bogus visual feedback next update

Well, i got a node called, "Initialize PolyIsland Data". Nothing else.

well "Initialize PolyIsland Data" is under tools not tasks. so only tools showing up in Linux? I have no experience with SI on Linux, so Im attatching two images just to make sure we are talking about the same things...

Hey Angelous thanks again for the grrreat tutorial... did you see it got its own post from Bellsey?!
http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/graham/c ... -softimage

Ps: by the way, thanks for spreading the word Bellsey

[gustavoeb]

oops, forgot to attach the images, here they go Giorgio

[angelous4x]

Hey Gustavo

This is great there is alot of attention on motion tools. which is awesome and well deserved. again its one of my favorite tools.

they also posted it on softimage Facebook page.
http://www.facebook.com/AutodeskSoftimage

thats links to lesterbanks

http://lesterbanks.com/2012/09/using-mo ... nimations/

keep up the amazing work.

[GiorgioAdolfoKrenkel]

oops, forgot to attach the images, here they go Giorgio

Thank you Gustavo.

All the nodes are present in both tabs. But i still get those error messages when trying to use the tool.