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Truespace 7.6 animation using animated UV's
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Truespace 7.6 animation using animated UV's // Roundtable
Post by jhowell // Aug 2, 2008, 12:53pm
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I forgot how easy it is to animate UV'S in Truespace 7.6. Just click on your uv and right click on the set keyframe to open up the keying panel. Can come in handy for many specific situations. Like this tv scene ....
http://www.blip.tv/file/1139356
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Post by 3dfrog // Aug 3, 2008, 7:04pm
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thats really neat. I love that little character, and he sure loves caligari :) |
Post by jhowell // Aug 3, 2008, 7:11pm
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UPDATE: HERE IT IS ...
CLICK HERE LOW QUALITY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3dere396sI
CLICK HERE HIGH QUALITY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3dere396sI&fmt=18
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Hi 3dfrog, Thanks. He sure does. Iam right now finishing up a 8,000 real time render animation with a big city scene and animations, physics, particle effects etc. What amazes me is updated 7.6 did not crash or bog down at all. This is a huge high poly scene with lots of buildings etc and in real time display. I was pleasantly surprised. I will post animation in an hour or so. :jumpy:
thats really neat. I love that little character, and he sure loves caligari :) |
Post by Igor K Handel // Aug 4, 2008, 11:35pm
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Hey Jhowell, just need to pick your brains on this one..
When I have a moderately high poly object selected say 30000 ish. When I open the UV editor TS locks up and I have have to ctrl alt del to get out of it.
You not getting this problem?
Cheers
IK |
Post by jhowell // Aug 5, 2008, 5:18am
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Hi Igor!
Yes, I used to get all kinds of lockups. But do not now. After awhile I slowly figured things out.... and with help from this great forum. Here is what worked for me (your problem may be different but I bet its still part memory and resources problems). This info works for allowing lots of polys in your display and doing large real time renders.
1. First (this part hurts wallet a little) you must if you have not already upgrade your ram to its max. I have a laptop and went to my max 4 GIGS of ram. This was a day and night difference for me. Even though Windows XP only shows 3 gigs that 4th gig does help.
2. You must clean up your computer. I will paste the info I made in a forum post awhile back. Many computers have adware, viruses and unneeded junk in windows "startup" and windows "services" area. This causes many of the lockups due to running out of windows resources and memory.
Here is that info ... this worked for me.................
From previous post.......
I always turn off the bridge before I do a big render. Better yet, after rebooting your computer and starting Truespace dont do anything but turn off your bridge then jump in and render to file your scene. Dont load any other objects or anything. Just open scene you are going to render to file.
Also, before I do a huge real time render I reboot my computer and have no other programs running and so important to immediately open Truespace and turn off bridge then load the scene you are going to render.
This is huge. Go to the windows start button. Then go to RUN. Then type in msconfig. Then when in msconfig go to START and uncheck all the auto start up programs. Trust me, most you do not need and all auto starts take up lots of ram. If you find there is one thing you did need then go back in and turn that back on. You will find your computer will work much much better. I have been doing that for years now. With much better performance. While you are in msconfig you can also click on SERVICES. Then click HIDE ALL MICROSOFT SERVICES. Now you will see non essentional SERVICES that are running on your computer. You can turn off not needed services if you like. You are safe because you TEMPORARILY hid from view the microsoft services, which many of those you need. Now you will see other services that were added to your computer after Windows xp or vista was first installed. So after getting rid of most your autostarts and some of your unneeded services reboot your computer. Will be much faster... and real time render much better in Truespace. If you got your computer new with preloaded software it will be loaded to the max with not needed autostarts and not needed background SERVICES running. Slowing computer down and robbing memory and resources like you would not believe.
Download the free shareware program http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/index.html .I have used security task manager for many years. Finds all adware and viruses and lets you put them in quarantine in less than a couple minutes. I have found instantly viruses and adware that other programs could not find. Usually in less than 30 seconds. Then I put them in quarantine and if I find I should not of quarantined it then I can go unquarantine. We all are getting adware and viruses all the time. That robs our memory bigtime! Security task manager is unbelievable. NORTON ANTIVIRUS and all those anti virus anti adware programs are huge huge memory and resource hogs. Just use security task manager. Takes almost no memory to run it.
Finally render to file your huge scenes in blocks. If you have 100,000 frames do lets say 10 or 20,000 a time.
So to summarize. GO MAX RAM! . Use msconfig to get rid (REALLY TURNS OFF WHICH YOU CAN TURN BACK ON) of most all if not all your autostarts and a bunch of your non essential services (for instance, adobe reader and many programs put a service in that you do not need. Abobe reader runs fine without its SERVICE always running ALL THE TIME in the background, many programs run services in the background which are not needed to run their programs ... TURN THEM OFF in your msconfig ... you can always turn back on if needed). Use security task manager to get rid of all viruses and adware instantly. Put them in quarantine. Reboot computer before you open Truespace to render to file your lots of frames. Dont load or do anything else before you do your render to file except turn off bridge. All of this should work like a charm.
p.s. if you are still having problems HOLD DOWN THE CNTRL KEY WHILE STARTING TRUESPACE. CLICK ON OPENGL. Try running and rendering in OPENGL to render to file. Thats worked for me several times. OPENGL sometimes uses much less ram for what you are rendering to file. Also, before you open the render to file dialog box click once with your mouse in your scene area. I dont know why but that many times avoids getting the can not render to file messag
Hey Jhowell, just need to pick your brains on this one..
When I have a moderately high poly object selected say 30000 ish. When I open the UV editor TS locks up and I have have to ctrl alt del to get out of it.
You not getting this problem?
Cheers
IK |
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