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Bake Spline Mask
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!
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3 Replies
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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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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 -
Alembic does splines but you have to check them on export and import (called Curves perhaps on import)
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