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  Syntheyes to C4D..Lightwave Scene File Scale???????

  Posted by Ryan Walker on August 2, 2010 at 12:22 am

  Hello everyone.

  Does anyone know what the scale of the imported Lightwave scene file should be?

  Everything looks fine in Syntheyes. I can place a box in Syntheyes, and everything is in place, with no slipping. Then I export a lightwave scene file, using Units as Meters, and synch to frame 0. Once in Cinema 4d I open my lightwave scene file but then I am asked what scale to import the scene as. Whether its 1 or 20, this is where the major slippage happens.

  Anyone have this problem or know what scale I need to import as? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I am using C4D R11.5

  Thanks for anyone who can help.

  Shawn Marshall replied 15 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Shawn Marshall

  August 2, 2010 at 8:23 am

  I’m not exactly an expert in this, but I have been dabbling with Syntheyes and C4D for the past week, 3D motion tracking a greenscreen shot to drop a person into a virtual set. I built the 3D set in C4D at a real world scale of around 30′ across and made sure to set the coordinate system on Syntheyes correctly, setting an accurate distance between several of the trackers. I think I had the Lightwave import set to 10.

  I grouped the camera and trackers together to be able to move the view in my 3D set where I wanted, and the actress maintained good registration with the 3D set.

  Don’t know if that helps.

  Shawn Marshall
  Marshall Arts Motion Graphics

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