[Matt Rhodes]

Good idea, Brent. It will be in the next build.

Matt

[Matt Rhodes]

Hi Mike.

Are you using a Greek font? Or are you trying to type Greek characters from a non-Greek font?

Can you tell us which font you’re using? And are you on the Mac or Windows?

Thanks.

Matt Rhodes
Zaxwerks, Inc.

[Matt Rhodes]

Hi Aaron.

You’re right about the camera controls in the ProAnimator app. We’ll be improving this in the future.
The camera type in the ProAnimator app is an Orbit style camera.
You can only zoom in as far as the camera’s focus point.

Here are a few camera usage tips:
– To focus on a particular object (or objects), select them and then press the f key.
This changes the focal point to that location.
– Pressing capital F will focus on everything in the scene.
– Each Camera Pose has its own set of camera parameters,
including focal point, tumble left, tumble right, distance, etc.,
so you can animate from Pose to Pose with different focal points.

Simple example (Click here for the project):
– We have an Object Track with the word “Zaxwerks” and a Camera Track.
– We unlink the text so that we can select individual characters.
– We select the Z object and then press f on the keyboard. This changes the camera focus to the Z.
– We create a second Camera Pose and then select the s Object – the last letter. (Make sure the second Camera Pose is selected).
– We press f on the keyboard and this focuses the camera on the letter s.
– When we play back the animation, the camera pans from Z to s.
– I added a third Camera Pose where I focused on everything in the scene and animated to that.
I did this by Selecting All (Cmd+A on the Mac or Ctrl+A on Windows) and then pressing capital F on the keyboard.

By using the f key or F key, you can change the focus of the camera at each Pose. You can achieve a lot of different camera moves this way.

Let me know what you’re trying to accomplish. We can provide suggestions.

Matt Rhodes
Zaxwerks, Inc.

[Matt Rhodes]

Hi Aaron.

If you put objects into a hierarchy, the children of the hierarchy aren’t affected by the Pose and Transition controls.
Their top-level parents are, however, as I’m sure you’ve seen.

It sounds like you may want to set up your hierarchy and use Tweaks to animate the Group parents.
This can be seen as keyframing the objects at specific points in time. If you ignore the Pose settings,
you may be able to get the effect you’re looking for.

Unfortunately, we don’t currently offer sub-Tracks for only certain objects.

Simple example:
I set up a simple person hierarchy and used Poses to make the person walk across the screen.
I used the Pose Controls to move the whole body, but I used Tweaks (hand-set Rotation values)
to animate the arms and legs. The hands and feet are children of hierarchies, and I wanted them
to not move, so I didn’t Tweak them.

Click to see the movie.

You can get the simple scene here:
https://zaxwerks.com/zxpr/person_walk.zip

This may not exactly fit your scenario. Feel free to email me directly if you’d like to describe
what you’re trying to do. Perhaps I can offer some suggestions.

[Matt Rhodes]

Hi Aaron.

I believe I have a fix for you.
Can you please send your email address to: matt at zaxwerks dot com

Also let me know if you own the PA standalone, the PA After Effects plug-in, or both.

Thanks.

m

[Matt Rhodes]

Hi Aaron.

After some quick checking, it looks like there’s a bug when outputting the Lossless format at 29.97fps.
The H.264 output seems to have the correct fps of 29.97, but the Lossless version needs to get fixed.

I’ll let you know when we have a fix.
You’re using ProAnimator on the Mac, correct?

Thanks.

Matt Rhodes
Zaxwerks, Inc.

[Matt Rhodes]

Hi Aaron.

We’ll look into this and do some tests.

Matt Rhodes
Zaxwerks, Inc.

[Matt Rhodes]

Hi Cliff.

While we don’t have specific parameters to control the opacity of individual Object Sets in version 7,
you’ll be happy to see what’s in version 8 – coming very soon.

Matt Rhodes
Zaxwerks, Inc.

[Matt Rhodes]

Hi Mike.

A quick note: 3D Invigorator does support AE Point Lights on Invigorator objects.

m

[Matt Rhodes]

Hi Austin.

Can you tell me which version of which product you’re running,
and on which platform?

I may have a fix to send you.

Thanks.

Matt Rhodes
Zaxwerks, Inc.