[Patric Logan]

There’s a new very advanced Motion 5 / FCPX lens flare plugin called mFlare. It is jus as great as Optical Flares fo AE and it’s much cheaper. It includes over 110 presets, dynamic animation engine, 3D lights tracking, 13 lens flare objects and all important stuff. Check it out at https://www.motionvfx.com/mplugs-1.html

[Patric Logan]

id fx3DAPI 3dnow = [_apiManager apiForProtocol:@protocol(Fx3DAPI)];

NSData* camData = [3dnow cameraMatrixAtTime:renderInfo.frame];

double camMatrix [4][4];

[camData getBytes:&camMatrix
length:16 * sizeof (double)];

NSString *string = [NSString stringWithFormat:
@"Camera position:\n\nX: %f\nY: %f\nZ: %f",
camMatrix [0][3],camMatrix [1][3], camMatrix [2][3]];
camMatrix [0][3],camMatrix [1][3], camMatrix [2][3]];

p.s. fx3DAPI should be in angle bracket – code doesn’t allow me to do that and in last post it dissapeared

[Patric Logan]

I found the topic where guys had same problem as me:
https://lists.apple.com/archives/pro-apps-dev/2007/Apr/msg00008.html

How to get access to Motion objects camera and lights?

[Patric Logan]

I want to create in code some kind of connection between apple motion light object and plug-in I write in fxplug. Like i wrote before – it should reads light position while I move the light in apple motion. I know light position is in Inspector in apple motion, but it’s necessary to me, that my plug-in does that, ’cause I want to use that position.
Anybody can help? 🙂

[Patric Logan]

Haha ok :]
I’ve done some stuff since last post. I have my own window in Apple Motion, couple of buttons.
I have a question now. Can anybody tell me how can i track the light position in Apple Motion? I mean that: you add the light object in apple motion and in the created window – position of light is written. When you move the light, position of light is written in real time.
Can anybody help me?
Thx! :]

[Patric Logan]

Thank U for your respond but i still don’t know how to start my challenge with fxplug… :/

[Patric Logan]

I wrote to them. I know they nice – they always respond :] They said that fxfactory hasn’t that options what i need yet and i have to do it other way [they wrote that they will think about my solutions in future version of fxfactory].
So now here’s my question. How can i build plugin for Motion, which has separate window with options [not in Inspector] and how can i get f.e. light position in Motion?
I’m waiting for answers ;]

[Patric Logan]

Yeah. I want to write my own plugin. Noise Industries does’t have that kind of options what i need. That’s why i wrote this post. Anybody can send me a link to any tutorials how to write in fxplug to Motion? Thans!