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Forest Pack => Forest Pro (*) => Topic started by: in3des on December 09, 2015, 06:57:49 PM

Title: animation
Post by: in3des on December 09, 2015, 06:57:49 PM
Hi,
I'm trying to make lights animation - and it seems not working when I add lights to forest...
Forest can catch light material animation (intensity - keyframes), but result is not very good.
I tried to animate visibility of objects, but looks like forest cannot catch it.

Any walkaround or other solution?

Thx.
Title: Re: animation
Post by: in3des on December 10, 2015, 09:39:16 AM
temp walkaround solution - instantiate forest objects, then use standard 3dmax 'clone & align' tool to replace instances with original animated objects
luckily I used not too many different instances
Title: Re: animation
Post by: Michal Karmazín on December 10, 2015, 10:21:08 AM
Hi,

That's a a common request both for Forest Pack and RailClone, but unfortunately 3ds Max handles lights as non-geometric entities, and cannot be generated by a geometric plug-in. In the past we tried several tricks to implement it, but results were not satisfactory.

You've used the most recommendable work-around (http://forum.itoosoft.com/index.php?topic=2600.msg9891#msg9891) - convert the Forest (or its copy) object to instances with help of Forest Tools (http://docs.itoosoft.com/display/FORESTPACK/Forest+Tools) (to individual instanced objects) and than clone your light object with 3ds Max's Clone and Align tool or replace these instances with help of this Replace Objects Script (http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/replace-objects-script) (or any similar script).

Best regards,
Title: Re: animation
Post by: in3des on December 10, 2015, 03:31:55 PM
Hi, thanks for reply
Ok, lights is lights...
Is it possible for forest to catch all parameters animation from instances (disregarding object type)? It's not geometry related.

P.S. in my case I used light material over geometry.
Title: Re: animation
Post by: Michal Karmazín on December 10, 2015, 03:49:14 PM
Hi,

With help of Forest Tools - Forest Exporter (http://docs.itoosoft.com/display/FORESTPACK/Forest+Tools#ForestTools-ForestExporter) you can get Animation sample index (animSample) & Animation Offset (animOffset) values for each item. Attaching screenshot.

Best regards,