Greg Neumayer
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Well, 5 years later, I’m asking the same question.
Chris, your link is broken. Can either of you answer this question? I’d like C4D to spit out named object buffers. Can I?Thanks,
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Ah. That’s right. I was wondering why I hadn’t ponied up to just buying it. Now I remember. I’m on Macs as well. Anyway, it’s good to know that it’s a successful workflow if I do get some PC units.
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I had the same situation when I needed to animate an industrial product that only existed as Solidworks. I didn’t have a direct line of communication with the CAD guy, which didn’t help. So, from him I got a solidworks file.
From my research, I found the Polytrans might be a good pipeline solution. Their product is basically intended for that conversion.
However, before having to get Polytrans, I was able to do this:
0. If you can get the SW person to turn off what you don’t need before export (like internal parts that won’t show), this would’ve made my job easier.
1. Open the SW file in a trial (or purchased) version of MOI (Moment of Inspiration). It’s a bit of a fringe application, but has the nice feature of being able to open a SW file.
2. Crawl my way through the MOI interface deleting parts that I didn’t need. (It was a complete unit with a thousand internal parts)
3. Export to OBJ. IMPORTANT: There’s an interface that would let me dictate how curved surfaces are tessellated. It took a bit of trial and error to get this how I liked it. I had to do multiple exports because the tesselator didn’t have adaptive adjustments. That means that tight little curves could get by with less tessellation in one export, but long sweeping curves (like the ergonomic desk) needed a higher count. This higher count was too heavy to apply to everything, hence the multiple exports.
4. Open in C4D and ungroup the polys.
5. Enjoy an afternoon of re-grouping every item into a useable hierarchy.It was a no-cost solution, but by no means an obvious or simple workflow. In hindsight, It’d be worth a few hundred dollars if Polytrans (or other) simplified that process.
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Did you find any solution on this? It seems like a basic workflow concept, but I can’t get it rolling. I’ve got a foreground photo I’m using as a guide. (can’t use bkgnd. The scene is filled).
I’ve tried enabling transparency on the foreground texture
I’ve added a display tag and enabled ghosting
I’ve set the disp. tag visibility to 50%
In the viewport, I’ve selected Options>Tags and Options>Xray.What’s left?! I’m still getting a 100% opaque foreground object. Surely I’m missing something. What good is a foreground object that occludes everything?
Thanks!
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This confused me for a bit as well. Cassius is correct, but let me add some clarity:
I created a “tail” shape out of a trianglular masked solid in a 500×100 comp, and made it it’s own composition.
I brought Tail into a new comp, and applied the Wave Warp. Now, if Tail is sitting in the middle of the larger new comp, none of the pinning will seem to have any effect. That’s because the effect (apparently) isn’t calculated to Tail, it’s calculated on the entire comp Tail is sitting in. To understand what I mean, try sliding your Tail comp around in the new, larger comp. You’ll notice that the warp effect feels like an overlay over the entire new comp, even though it’s actually only applied to the Tail. So, to get my Tail to waggle, but stay put at it’s base, I need to put Tail right to the edge of this new comp, then set pin for that edge. Effectively, this new comp is now going to be the pre-comp called “Tail-wags”. Then, Tail-wags gets dropped into a new comp and is a sibling layer with “Body”.Antifreeze Design
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I’ve seen this font updated in the last couple years (~2012). Any idea what they’re using now?
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Thanks. Something more must be amiss.
I re-directed Cineware to my R15 app, without improvement in speed.
For now, I just had to old-skool it and pre-render my C4D and bring it in as footage. One frame renders in about 10 sec. in C4D, but in AE, it was taking about a minute.It is noteworthy that I’ve got quite a bit of compositing going on with it, which would slow it down, but doesn’t seem like it would be that bad. I have two obj buffers knocking it out in two different Cineware instances, then I’m layering some AE textures over the top of those as well as transforming the scale of the (precomped, of course) C4D layers.
Thanks for the link
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Since you’re in 3D space, try making sure your z-depth of your layers is literally stacked like you want it (0.01, 0.02…), not just all at 0.00. I get that sometimes in 3D when my layer stack can’t (because of compositing needs) be the same as my z-depth order.
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It’s hard to know what you don’t know. I’d recommend finding someone that needs some work done and get messy doing a real world project. You’ll start to discover all the things you don’t know, and the things that you’d like to be better at for a particular project. The skill-sets can be far-reaching, from big things like C4D integration, keying, compositing, expressions, scripting, footage, and output, to small things like bugs, workarounds, and memory efficiency.
I’ve been using AE professionally for 15 years and every project has me Googling something to get some input or a solution.
Dive in! Each new project will stretch you, especially if you have a real project (even free) where you have aclient that requires you to solve the problem. Clients are especially good at helping you know where you skills need improving!
Enjoy!
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Dave, are you just trying to keep your face in the top bar? 😉
Seriously, though, thanks for feeling my pain. You’ve had a wealth of advice over the years.
I’m familiar with the process. I’m looking for a way to suppress the warning.
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