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2 stages in the same scene?
Hi there,
Is is possible to have 2 stages in the same scene? I am trying to use 2 different sets of camera’s dependent on what animation I am creating, yet whilst keeping all work done on once scene to I dont have to duplicate everything, does that make sense?
I tried using the on / off toggles for the scene but it doesnt seem to affect it.
Thanks for any help in advance
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3 Replies
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sounds like you want to use the Stage object
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You can have two stage objects, but only the top one is going to be in effect. So if you swap them you’ll get different sets of cameras.
Or you can create your animations at vastly different points on the timeline.
Or you can do what most people end up doing, and creating different scenes and keeping careful control over the assets that go into each scene. That means keeping things in self-contained, carefully named nulls, such as ‘Cams, ‘Trees,’ ‘Bushes’–and I say carefully because sometimes you have to number the nulls and note down which is the most current set of each section of your scene. Also it sometimes is a good idea to keep your lighting self-contained inside those sets using light restrictions. The idea is that you can swap in fixed geometry to multiple camera takes without accidentally rendering with the wrong geometry or the wrong cameras.
This is all a dumbed-down version of the asset management systems that VFX shops spend so much time getting right so as not to make a huge versioning error in a setting where a lot of artists are sharing the same assets.
But we don’t have xrefs like they do, which may is a mixed blessing.
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BRILLIANT!
Thank you…. the 2 stages one above the other works great!!
Thanks again for the reply
Scott
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