• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Bake Spline Mask

  Posted by Chris Thompson on February 19, 2016 at 1:59 am

  Hi all,

  I’m having a bit of a problem as I have a bunch of small animations that need to be exported in FBX format, however many of them have Spline Masks which cannot be exported in this format. So, my question is – is there a way to bake a spline mask? I’ve tried the Nitobake and Steadybake plugins but have not had any luck so far. Could Xpresso be the answer? I’ve tried but failed to create a spline that replicates the Spline Mask inside Xpresso but my knowledge in that area needs some sharpening.

  I’ve included a c4d file that shows an example of the kind that I’d like to export in FBX format.

  https://f1.creativecow.net/9798/bake-spline-mask?uploaded=file

  Any ideas?

  Thanks!

  Brian Jones replied 10 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Adam Trachtenberg

  February 19, 2016 at 5:30 pm

  I don’t think it’s possible because the spline masks are essentially generating new geometry every frame. I believe Alembic is the only export format that would work.
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  Chris Thompson

  February 26, 2016 at 9:51 am

  Hey Adam,

  Unfortunately it seems Alembic only exports polygons, and I was working purely in splines. Bit of a bummer. However, I’ve just discovered Bodymovin https://github.com/bodymovin/bodymovin which allows you to export AE shape layers as JSON files which is perfect for my needs as I was porting everything over to MaxMSP.

  Thanks again!
  Chris

  http://www.lumiko.com.au
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  Brian Jones

  February 26, 2016 at 2:54 pm

  Alembic does splines but you have to check them on export and import (called Curves perhaps on import)

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