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Is there a way to press a button to record your actions with selected objects in a specific frame rate?

maybe a stupid answer but, if you put the wanted framerate, press play and move your object in autokey ?

fabilabo wrote:maybe a stupid answer but, if you put the wanted framerate, press play and move your object in autokey ?

Would be cool if it were that easy

I'm curious since I have an idea how to make it happen, just don't want to do the same feature, if it exist at all

iamVFX wrote:I'm curious since I have an idea how to make it happen

What trouble are you up to now

iamVFX wrote:Is there a way to press a button to record your actions with selected objects in a specific frame rate?

Animate > Choose Tools > Devices > Start Capture
No?

No. 'No device active'. Constantine, I want that too. So useful for sketching out animation.

Just add/define your devices on the Device Manager (under the same menu) and then capture them

are we talking about the same thing here? I don't want to capture a device, I want to capture an object (null or whatever) while I'm translating/rotating/sizing it. If I do what you say, I can only choose 'mouse' as my device, and that results in a weird kind of control with the object loosely following what I do with the mouse (in my case, a wacom pen, and it stops capture as soon as the pen hits the surface of the tablet)

Device capture is not what I'm looking for. The problem with it is that you should map specific parameters on device callbacks, map mouse movements to the translation of the null for example - you're limited to the chosen object and two dimensional plane. It's not that intuitive and fun as I imagine it, so I will test if my idea will work out the way I wanted [after releasing updated Procedural Topo pack in a few hours]

Sounds like you're thinking about the same thing as I am, Constantine. Like what After Effects allows you to do - directly recording SRT-changes as you make them while the timeline is running. I'd very much like to be able to do that in Soft.

And... procedural topo! Yahoo!

Hey, yahoo again!

Hello iamVfx, did you ever get around to publishing this? It recently hit me again and I would still be interested.

Regards,
Jasper

This looks handy actually. ;)

I too tried the playback with autokey thing :]
ended-up recording my mouse, it was for a handheld camera lookaround move

Made a slowly travelling null on a path as a parent to my camera , and mapped the x y rotation of the cam to my mouse (had to calibrate ranges)
then I would play and record my looking around.


But this would indeed be really great for all sorts of puppeteerinig work (even in several passes)

Sorry guys, didn't saw these comments. But I don't know what you've expected, I've done this 2 years ago

Anyone who interested in this kind of functionality (and more), email me: iamvfx at gmail dot com, and I will send you a standalone open source animation app that I preparing to do in the next couple of months. This shit will be crazy, like this app that I've made yesterday: