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2013/10/9 20:59:43
Muvizu Play 1.2 Feedback (also Play+) Dylly wrote:
Now then my Young Lamb

I must do a spot of wicket keeping here or at least bat for the opposing team...I hate Blender with a vengeance. .


lol feel free to pitch

just as an aside I have spent quite awhile working in 3dsmax at one point its just that blender has come a long way. I have never tried mudbox but I would liken it down just by reading the info that its a stripped down version of 3dsmax and would compare to the modelling interface of blender if you were to remove all the extraneous bits.

Either way given a choice after I had worked with a group who I was forced to use 3dsmax with when I left this group (we made a mediochre video game and I had to do all the avatars ) I didn't see the point in sinking so much money into a tool that I could get exact results with for free this is the same concept of "do i use gimp or photoshop" In this case however I use photoshop. Both work equally as well only in a different way. Remember blender is a full on cgi tool that is why is has so many buttons


Sketchup was not designed for game engine use they just sort of decided to try it that way its for conceptualization mostly but if you worried about ensuring you use your pc's resources in the best manner possible sketchup is not a very good choice. Unless you use the free version if your going to spend money thought dont do it on sketchup


also..
as i was perusing the wiki about the fbx upgrades (Having a hard time finishing this project because i want to spend my spare time playing with this new feature) if you want to make normal maps and spec maps (cant wait to add windows and other things to models now )

I found this tool really handy i have had it for years
Crazybump http://www.crazybump.com/

the other one that is now sold by iclone does more but it also costs more is this one its awesome but i have not had a need to purchase it yet crazybump works fine for me bitmap2material is like crazybump on steroids but probably overkill for muvizu http://www.reallusion.com/creative/creative_b2m.aspx

i had planned to purchase this for myself soonish but not gotten around to spending the money as i am a stingy so and so
edited by urbanlamb on 11/10/2013
edited by urbanlamb on 11/10/2013
2013/10/9 17:50:25
Muvizu Play 1.2 Feedback (also Play+) Jamie wrote:
fazz68 wrote:
Dreeko ive just had a little experiment with the sketchup to FBX thing. you can export a sketchup model as a COLLADA file and import it into Blender. and export from blender as a FBX file. i just tried on a simple chair model and it works but if you can understand all this texture info then you are a better man than me lol... see pic
urbanlamb is the expert on blender and may know what it all means Big Grin



What your seeing Fazz is another quirk of Sketchup. It applies everything as a separate material to the object. If you have slightly different shades of red it'll give you a material for each shade of red on the object.

In blender, if you go to the materials tab you'll see a list of materials that match all the names you see listed in Muvizu. You probably want to delete them all and re-apply just 1 or 2 new materials to the unique coloured areas of your model.



yes sketchup is a material "whore" if you use blender or whatever you can optimize and match up as jamie says anyhow um I should do a few more blender lessons I suppose I just find as I get older I suck more at teaching things (loss of brain cells maybe?)

I do now know how well the fbx exporter works in blender to be honest at the moment I dont use it much I know its rated as compatible with maya I dont know if there are a lot of peculiarities with the unreal engine and what they are. I would encourage anyone and everyone no matter how attached you are to your sketchup to learn blender at the very least if you want to spend money get 3ds max or maya but its not necessary. As you learn the concepts you will see just how much resources you save by doing it "the right way"

what I have learned when looking at skethcup models in blender is its actually faster to build an entire model from scratch then trying to sort through the sketchup mess. The grocery store in the asset gallery was what happened after I imported a sketchup model into (them other softwares and tried to make it pretty by adding normal maps it took up so many resources I opened it up on blender and tried to optimize it after sitting for about 4 hours I slapped my forehead and called myself names and created my own grocery store in 45 minutes reminding myself of why i swore to never do that the last time i tried)

hopefully this does not offend anyone but i am a self proclaimed "skethcup hater"


edited in: later I have not the time now i have something i am obligated to finish before returning to my superman madness I will try to work out the blender quirks for muvizu I dont imagine they are much different then the ase quirks I encounter. The shading issues in muvizu have to do with making edges sharp, adding edge creases and a few other things. This is an unreal engine thing and actually not seen in other engines (god did i mention this week how much of a geek i am? if not i am now)
edited by urbanlamb on 09/10/2013
2013/10/9 0:40:07
Video Codecs I dont use many codecs I would suggest doing what ziggy said from scratch but remove them all first and clean up your registry and reinstall in the order ziggy suggests.

Anyhow if this is your issue I would imagine that if you remove everything and redo it from scratch unless there is something unique about your system. I would suspect that your stuck with uncompressed. If this is the case use a video editor to process the uncompressed video.

most of us to be honest tend to use uncompressed or the image sequence ability and edit in a video editor. I know this is not likely the answer your looking for unfortunately.
edited by urbanlamb on 09/10/2013
2013/10/8 23:28:09
The Importance of Eyebrows dreeko's eyebrow obsession resurfaces hehe. I did enjoy that little comedy skit though but *cough* since we are on the topic of eyebrows it would be nice to have one that aren't seperate objects as they dont um really do all that much for me I prefer the type that moves with the face as well
2013/10/8 23:26:31
Doctor Who title sequence 2014 in Muvizu yup nice title sequence Mr Dr. sorry for some reason i like using Mr in front of a lot of people's names. I know you told me to use something else but forever more your MR Dr or Mr D. to me

anyhow nice sequence hopefully you will do something longer soon
2013/10/8 19:09:40
Coming Soon... oh dang I even think I have a storm trooper outfit sitting around somewhere on my hard drive but can't remember. OH well next time. This new ability makes a bunch of things possible especially if said things are mechanical or space "suity" like in nature

I need to shut my imagination off or I might explode so running away now.. I will enjoy your video regardless of the method of 'storm troopyness' you decide to use
2013/10/8 18:46:54
Muvizu Play 1.2 Feedback (also Play+) I would still like to see the avi 2.0, wmv and an mpeg I know the first two are like not hard to do. I already have a semi compressed "lossless" codec but i like paid for that one so it wont be helping anyone around here I just like 'options' .

I can't wait to get on with my next video now i am curious as to how a scene I have been agonizing over is going to work in this new improved version of muvizu and the fact that FINALLY superman and his boss can hold the telephone and move is just well *happy dance*.

tears mesh inanimate dudes out of my airplanes and replaces them with real muvizuzu dudes!
edited by urbanlamb on 08/10/2013
2013/10/8 18:43:11
Coming Soon... yeah i bet ziggy now your redesigning all your storm troopers as well you know with all this ability no more painted storm troopers hehe.

I will just be watching until next week unfortunately as I have to finish a collaborative project sitting in a folder. But I am glad I dragged my feet for this superman video cause my spidey sense told me to move slowly and i am glad that I listened to my spidey sense

I am sure this muvizu video will be a whole new level of awesome
2013/10/8 0:25:04
"Unable to load Muvizu.dll (Exception 0x8007007E) (I am pretty sure windows 8 has a thing to use for windows 7 compatibilty as I heard someone else switch to full windows 7 inside windows 8. There is not much software out for it right now especially something like this as they need to wait for things to catch up in the unreal engine realm.)

oh nevermind again not up to date on this apparently windows is not embracing backwards compatibility with windows 8 so you will need to create a partition on your hard drive and run both versions of windows.
edited by urbanlamb on 08/10/2013
2013/10/7 23:00:21
Muvizu Play 1.2 Feedback (also Play+) (well can someone tell me where this upgrade option is I have clicked all the menus and only am given an option to remove watermark this is an install from scratch it says "from the license management pane" but i see no such panel )

/shrug where is said panel?

nevermind found it finally :/

(accessed by clicking on the pink question mark in the top right hand corner of Muvizu:Play).

I figured it would be more obvious i had to reread the blog to find the infos. Also that clipboard thing caught me.


trust me to find all the wierd bits.. now hopefully the set i was working on will load without telling me something about downloading whatevers that is already on my desktop
edited by urbanlamb on 07/10/2013
2013/10/7 22:56:24
Muvizu Play 1.2 Feedback (also Play+) no it was the full version

I installed it over top of the old version so now i just removed all trace and am trying again. I only had the option to pay per minute it wanted to download a custom set not any of the packs those all installed it didnt want to load me set with my two planes in it.. so let me try again after removing all trace
2013/10/7 22:40:56
Muvizu Play 1.2 Feedback (also Play+) Mine is acting wierd I can find now upgrade option and it gave me a message it had to download stuff when I tried to load a set ..
So far no joy i am removing it all and clearning my registry maybe then I will get the right message. Unless I am having a brain fart moment I can't find any way to upgrade it so far
2013/10/7 19:06:15
Muvizu Play 1.2 Feedback (also Play+) It would be great if they could add a couple of windows formats for example wmv there is a version that the quality is very good and it plays no matter the length. I use this often for things. Also an mpeg format would be good. I have both these on "them other softwares" and rarely resort to these other formats as a result. I dont think anyone can tell the difference in quality.

I also want to say thanks for doing this as its been very hard even with the superman project as of late due to what I had to do to stop it from being stolen as I had put money into rights for music and sound and needed to enter the dreaded content ID arena of youtube in order to chase downloads around. I know that a price tag will upset many and theoretically the concept of money is something that could be done away with if the world leaders decided to. Unfortunately until such a time as we enter the era of star trek where there is no money and everyone can access everything this had to happen.

I am by no means rich but at the end of the day if we want to keep muvizu and its parent company alive and working on this software something had to give. I hope that muvizu makes bucket loads of money now enabling it to pour money into further development and hire more staff.
edited by urbanlamb on 07/10/2013
2013/10/7 19:02:39
file locked check in your taskmanager if there are any applications running or muvizu is running twice there were some bugs that if you didnt wipe muvizu off your system completely it would lock up like that. I temporarily had this issue but found a stray instance of muvizu running and after I shut it down it never recurred again.
2013/10/7 18:27:39
sketchup ase file - collision do not work right... did you check in the box under physics "can be stood on" ?
2013/10/6 17:48:54
Inspired by Muvizu Desings. SilverCrow wrote:
urbanlamb wrote:
SilverCrow wrote:
ziggy72 wrote:
He's right, Comic Sans is overused and doesn't do your project any favours. Otherwise, the characters are quite appealing, yes. One question though - what's Newgrounds? I could go searching for it of course, but y'know, I'm busy and all...


Newgrounds.com is a web site where you can share your art, animation, games or music with millions or maybe billions of people that visit new ground.




i have been by there before I liked it but it seemed hard to find anything that was not anime so I never went back (not a huge anime fan) I might give it a go again I think it was like 2 years ago now that I checked

anyhow its a flash based movie place although it may have changed supposedly it has 3d cartoons as well but 99.9999% of it is 2D stuff and 3D seems to be only at the bottom. They have a lot of good stuff if you enjoy 2D comics and especially if you enjoy anime hehe

http://www.newgrounds.com/movies


Yeah NG people don't realy like projects that were made with easy tools like muvizu There are lots of music there as well. But again it has to be original



hehe i wasnt speaking of "easy tools" I saw some bare bones cgi stuff but it was rated badly even though it was very good because it was 3d and not anime. However the cartoons were clearly done in maya or blender. They like 2D anime cartoons only from what I can tell.
2013/10/6 5:05:05
Inspired by Muvizu Desings. SilverCrow wrote:
ziggy72 wrote:
He's right, Comic Sans is overused and doesn't do your project any favours. Otherwise, the characters are quite appealing, yes. One question though - what's Newgrounds? I could go searching for it of course, but y'know, I'm busy and all...


Newgrounds.com is a web site where you can share your art, animation, games or music with millions or maybe billions of people that visit new ground.




i have been by there before I liked it but it seemed hard to find anything that was not anime so I never went back (not a huge anime fan) I might give it a go again I think it was like 2 years ago now that I checked

anyhow its a flash based movie place although it may have changed supposedly it has 3d cartoons as well but 99.9999% of it is 2D stuff and 3D seems to be only at the bottom. They have a lot of good stuff if you enjoy 2D comics and especially if you enjoy anime hehe

http://www.newgrounds.com/movies
2013/10/5 22:07:24
Inspired by Muvizu Desings. nice drawing it is
Applause
2013/10/4 5:44:52
Coming Soon... well that sounds more cerebral lets go for that
2013/10/3 22:56:32
Coming Soon... muvizu "the wonderful magical land of cheese" We need like a banner like that

or possibly "the wonderful magical land of cheese and fart jokes" I am not sure which
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