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Old School - Milking a Run Cycle About Truespace Archives These pages are a copy of the official truespace forums prior to their removal somewhere around 2011. They are retained here for archive purposes only. Old School - Milking a Run Cycle // Work in Progress 1  |   Order by default Post by Humdinger // Aug 1, 2007, 4:15pm Humdinger Total Posts: 319 Just recently found out that my video editor...Ulead Media Studio Pro 8 can import Flash .swf files!!!! Including my Action Scripts !!!! WooWho! Love flash and use it in almost everything. Alas may times my creations do not perform well on most machines, so to be able to create video of the .swf files rocks! Flash does this as well...but takes soooooooo much longer. Anyway wmv. How to milk a run cycle! - no sound - 720 x 480 - 30fps Initial character animation was rendered TS 6.6 - Motion Studio - done last year - Over the last 24 hours took animation and rendered exact same seqeunce from different angles, then imported the Targa sequences into Flash - landscape stills - Vue 6.o PLE (darn BBS does not want to upload file) So here is a link to a zip with the wmv within 16 meg http://www.meobeco.com/zips/oldschool_001.zip Post by 3dfrog // Aug 2, 2007, 12:39am 3dfrog Total Posts: 1225 That is awesome! It may just be a run cycle but the whole scene was very visually pleasing. The run cycle is very well done too. Did you do this with native 6.6 bones or motion studio? I could never figure out the old bones. Thank goodness for the new. Post by Humdinger // Aug 2, 2007, 2:44am Humdinger Total Posts: 319 Did you do this with native 6.6 bones or motion studio? I could never figure out the old bones. Native Bones...? lol Heck no! ( hereto referred to as Fossils ) :) Done with Motion Studio - running in TS 6.6 - total of 12 keyframes spanning 35 total frames Although new bones are a marked improvement there are a few features that keep me in Motion Studio and TS 6.6. Post by frootee // Aug 2, 2007, 3:59am frootee Total Posts: 2667 Nice animation Humdinger. Froo Post by Humdinger // Aug 2, 2007, 5:11am Humdinger Total Posts: 319 This is a good example.. playing as a swf file in a browser this puppy grinds to almost a hault - during the fake 'depth of field' effect due to heavy animated motion blur to fake depth of field. playing at 30fps -BUT convert that .swf into a video file...? WooWhoo!...'Priceless' Post by weaveribm // Aug 2, 2007, 5:30am weaveribm Total Posts: 592 Outstanding run cycle Humdinger I'm getting Chariots Of Fire :) Peter Post by Humdinger // Aug 2, 2007, 5:40am Humdinger Total Posts: 319 I'm getting Chariots Of Fire :) Peter Man that is funny! All the cycles except for the downshot towards the end are 15 frames. Only the down shot sequence is the true 36 frame original and that DOES have that 'COF' vibe to it! Funny Post by Humdinger // Aug 2, 2007, 12:20pm Humdinger Total Posts: 319 More Flash Grinding!!! http://www.meobeco.com/odds/cyberfloyd/oldschool4.wmv 8 Meg..no sound..720 x 480 Post by weaveribm // Aug 2, 2007, 10:46pm weaveribm Total Posts: 592 The character has mass and inertia very nice, good inertial thump on the ground with each pace Humdinger. Your character has more realistic mass than some dinosaurs I've seen Sorry but the Flash word does make me think about the superhero Flash, one of my favourite comic characters who also runs in a rather nifty outfit. He'd need motion blur :) Did you ever see 'Don't Look Now' Humdinger? where Little Red Riding Hood reappears in another guise as an agent of the Devil running before the innocent If you had the character climbing Chris's fire escapes we have a film contract. Usual 10% :) Peter Post by Humdinger // Aug 6, 2007, 2:40am Humdinger Total Posts: 319 This whole exercise has me feeling like the guys working on 'HeMan and the Master of the Universe' from the 80's. 'Okay Vinny we need run cycle 3 - overlayed on background 6 - running for 4 seconds.' This next video is an attempt at the classic 'long shadow' stuff in many of the Scooby Doo cartoons from the 60's. Simple example, but worked pretty darn well all things considered.

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