The DCMF Modding Hour With Stevndysn & Mike D Boing

[stvndysn]

coming this saturday on tmoa is

The DCMF Modding Hour With Stvndysn & Mike D Boing

and for our first show we will delve into what modding means, the tools you use and a few little insights.

also on our first show we have a guest---our very own leader GLEEM, who will be talking about new stuff happening at dcmf, and we may even talk him into doing the animation app we have been planning for a while.

if you have any mods you want advertising, from The Movies, Iclone or Moviestorm, send either me or mike the files for us to devour and we will review it on air.

also as we dont know any iclone and moviestorm modders apart from dulci, and the evil one (and if you dont know who the evil one is -- Guppy), then let us know and we may get you on our show in the future.

we will also be taking questions from the chatroom, so join our resident chat host judy, who will be given an upgrade to the 9 iron, should things get out of hand.

and remember the time 3pm-4pm EST; 8pm-9pm UK) right after norrie and chris62

[Dulci]

Looking forward to the show!

[MikeDBoing]

Man we had fun, lets do this again... WE will be back next week for more modding goodness and like we said on the show, post questions here for next week's show so we have more than an hour of random geek chatter to pester you with.
Any modding related question is welcome, from modeling in blender to getting your modds into either The Movies, iClone or MovieStorm.

[stvndysn]

ok has we said on the show last night we will be posting links to stuff, so-

first off if you dont have it yet, you need blender (http://www.blender.org), you will also need Med (http://www.dcmodding.com/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=97&Itemid=2). and for texturing gimp is good (http://www.gimp.org/).


now if you wanna learn blender your best starting on blender wiki (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro/Coordinate_Spaces_in_Blender) or you could also check out our comprehensive tutorials over on DCMF (http://www.dcmodding.com/main/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=79&topic=1229.0)

happy modding and we will see you next saturday

[Dulci]

Can't wait until the download - circumstances beyond my control prevented me from listening to the live show :(

[stvndysn]

thanks dulci and yes we did miss you.

btw if you wanna come on air and chat about modding in iclone your very welcome

same with all modders from TM, Iclone or MS. do you have a new mod releasing soon or wanna talk about modding in general to give tips pm myself or mike

[stvndysn]

BREAKING NEWS

Do you know a Iclone or Moviestorm modder.

Are you in regular contact with them

would you willing to speak to them on our behalf

we need a modder from both platforms to be REPORTERS for a 10 minute section each

so if you know of someone who wants to be famous for 10 minutes each week please help, donate a small bit of your time in asking them.

your reward -- a better modding show that gives you all 3 platforms.

[animatechnica]

Hi i can help support from an iclone perspective - what do you need - text replies to questions, voice recording, live SKYPE reporting? (depending on days/schedule)

thanks

gabe


BREAKING NEWS

Do you know a Iclone or Moviestorm modder.

Are you in regular contact with them

would you willing to speak to them on our behalf

we need a modder from both platforms to be REPORTERS for a 10 minute section each

so if you know of someone who wants to be famous for 10 minutes each week please help, donate a small bit of your time in asking them.

your reward -- a better modding show that gives you all 3 platforms.

[stvndysn]

thanks animatechnica, please check you messages, you as a reporter would be awesome

[macwemyss]

We get to hear from Gabe? Awesome! :yes:

[Dulci]

Listened to the download of last week's show & I'm excited about the news regarding DCMF's website!

[stvndysn]

on this saturdays show mike will be joined by gleem as i have to go and spread my mums ashes on saturday and will be staying overnight.

had it been for anything else but this i would have said no, got a show to do, but don't worry i will be back for the show after.

[sexymaria]

ok got it. I can't wait till yesterday's show is availuable.
A great fantasic show. Im glad gleem was the guest. Really, the hardest part for me in changing scenes with animation changer, is trying to view them. So... Is there anyway gleem will release the script that at least imports into blender the animation?
It would make things so much easier.
Also, I believe we are not utalizing all the resources availuable to us in terms of making new scenes. I believe the way we present a costume can provide a new scene.
Like my latest release of the Nova costume. Since I use the costume with the space arena set, walking was not how she was designed. And although it looks cool walking in space, It would be better to display the nova costume flying. So I made a bottom half of her costume in which she is hovering and flying. This will look good on any set. And it simuats flying. Make a walk scene, and she is hovering along. I talk more in depth on the subject in my web log at my web site.
Cant wait to hear the next show. Great hour well spent.

My question for the radio program is:
How do I remove an object from a costume, so that I can weight it to another armature?

Like the head from the cos_g_fut_tz1.msh
The robot with the square head.
Once I have just the square head, how can I make it a stand alone object that I can then weight to a different armature?

[stvndysn]

last weeks show is now available for [ur=http://www.tmoaradio.com/infusions/fs_downloads/fsdownloads.php?action=view&folder_id=1&subfolder=/TMOA%20Show%20Archives/DCMF%20Modding%20Hour/]download[/url]

this saturdays show you will here me chat about some of the great mods out there, some from the ollie nominated movies and some from the newly released movies/trailers.

more techy chat about blender, and dcmf tools

unsure of a guest this week so if your in the chatroom we may pull you in to our torture chamber (whoops green room)

i will be premiering a couple of new effects ive learnt as well

so lets see all you modders in chatroom where our chat goddess JudyAnn will be there with her 9 iron if things get non geeky there.


@ sexymaria -- good question and we will cover that in the show

[themonk]

No guest? ummm... Im allways available...

[stvndysn]

we know that monk..

runs off and giggles

[Uber]

monk and modding? zomg!!!111!!1!!!!1

[stvndysn]

on this saturdays show, we will have the usual hour of mike babbling on and on and on, lol

no seriously we have, some amazing news for you all, we have a very special guest coming on, and he goes by the name of ANIMATECHNICA from iclone, he will be coming on to chat about his work, porting stuff from sketchup into 3dexchange and various other iclone goodies

i will be reviewing some more films about their mods, i will also be showing you some animation tests ive been working on, one of which im sure monk would like, as its close to his general sickiness.

dont forget to go into the chatroom where, tm's modding goddess judyann will be patrolling


and we will be right on straight after norrie and chris at 8pm uk time

[Jake]

Will be there.

[sexymaria]

No download? I work on saterdays. I wish last weeks show can be downloaded:(

[MikeDBoing]

Say what? you are catering to Monk's sickyness...this i got to see..ermm i mean, to evaluate.

Woohoo our first official guest(Gleem does'nt count as he is the dungeaon master so...(snap.Ouchy)

Should be a fun informative and maybe deviant show...im hoping for deviant lol

[kuroken]

No download? I work on saterdays. I wish last weeks show can be downloaded:(
Monk....lost....the download file for all the Saturday shows last week.

It won't happen again.

I've made it clear to him that if he overwrites another saved file from the Saturday shows, Mike will be modding him a nice hook to go where his right hand used to be.

Ken

[sexymaria]

OOOH! (sniff sniff) now I'll never find out how to remove an object from an armature. All my projects are on hold due to that next step. What am I going to do?

[MikeDBoing]

OOOH! (sniff sniff) now I'll never find out how to remove an object from an armature. All my projects are on hold due to that next step. What am I going to do?
That question will be answered tomorow i promiss..and ill make sure the hook is extra sharp, Ken..rasor edged sharp :shuriken:

[MikeDBoing]

On this week's show Gleem will be co-hosting the show as unfortunate events will keep my ususal partener-in-crime from attending. But fear not We will post some amazing Tutorial links, some of Stvn's latest hellish delvings in the bowels of Blender, and from his twisted mind, Demovideos and a few surprises are in the wings. So be there or be not....there..your choice.

The chat room will be scutinized for the poor souls brave or foolish enaugh to wander in and we might have enaugh time to field a few questions.

Feel free to ask ...but be aware that our Lady Guard Judyann88 will be patroling the perimeters with her Laser Targeted Ultra Modded 9Iron(tm)..so be civil about your ranting of Blender and modding in general.

It all starts at 3 PM est and some ungodly time of the day for the rest of the world.

[animatechnica]

folks thanks for the invite to the show - just postign a few links to help in the disussion

my gallery of iclone costume and set mods (http://achanzar.smugmug.com/Art/Digital-Characters/1422567_jLdDy#580385946_peXKe)

just some of my iclone movies (http://www.youtube.com/user/abukhatar)

My iclone tutorial thread (http://forum.reallusion.com/Topic24858-82-1.aspx)

[MikeDBoing]

Thanks Gabe, your work is just pure awsome...I promiss we will get you on the show..unless Stvn finds another excuse..sheesh...(slacker)....:18:

It was another fun fact filled episode and for those of you who where listening, here are some..no, all the links we talked about and a bit more ( so at least you can see what the heck we where ramblimg about ):

Projection Painting
http://www.cgcookie.com/articles/projection-painting

The Navy Dress Uniform WIP
http://www.tmoaradio.com/vb/showthread.php?p=45810#post45810

A few Blender modeling Tutorials.
http://totallyblended.com/New/?page_id=206
http://totallyblended.com/New/?page_id=428
http://www.free3dtutorials.com/modeling/blender/modeling-furniture.php

And a few of Stvn's latest animation tests. Some awsome work there.
http://s82.photobucket.com/albums/j262/stvndysn/?action=view&current=nowthatsafreakyaliententacle.flv

http://s82.photobucket.com/albums/j262/stvndysn/?action=view&current=magicwand.flv

Untill next time, look em over and get back to us on this thread if you have any question or topics for the show, please feel free to lets us know about that burning desire you have to get into modding, because being a modd god is all there is to be good in life..or so i keep telling myself :18:

We shall see you all next week!

[stvndysn]

sounded like a good show again, sorry i couldnt have been there as stupid isp provider decided to cut me off the day before i was paying bill, i mean how greedy can you get.

[sexymaria]

I hope stvn is back next show.
Thankyou for anwsering my question. It works!!! But...
I have another problem with bone weight. It works, detatching the mesh from an armature. I mean clear parent. Yet, when I clear an mesh from the cow armature, and then parent it to a human armature, i get the python error. I went down to the buttons and cleared the groups... deleted them, and then from there tried to parent, then weight them to another armature. Got the python error. The process works with items that came from the same amature that I parent the object to. But if the item is parented to an armature different from one it came from then I get the python error. Even after deleting the groups at the bottum. I don't think it is the type of armature. I see anchors and extra stuff that comes with those animated props. The cow has something called an "A#@ Hole anchor". And its located at the... $%^##.
The Black Box says "Bone key must be a string"
I know rysto made the animal costumes, and he weighted the meshes to the human bones. I want to know how he made the animals able to be parented to the human armatures.
I need to know this so I can finish my animal people costumes. I guess if I really wanted to i could just edit his costumes... (I cant, strangely they have the animal bones, How the hell did he make scenes for them!!??))
but I could never finish my AT walker if I dont know this.
I experimented with putting a human arm on the side of a dog and i got the python error.

[rileyman]

The guys on the show might be able to better answer, but...

I'm not sure you can just plop a skinned mesh from one armature to another in that manner. Each armature typically has a completely different set of bones. The python errors you're getting are likely being caused by the two armatures having a different number of bones.

I don't know for certain what rysto did to achieve his various costumes or the walking ants.
But if I were doing something similar, I'd probably just break apart the mesh into pieces. Each piece would correspond to the bone I'd want to skin it to. I'd then attach each mesh such that it's initially weighted 100% to that bone. Then tweak the weights for those vertices along the "joints" (knees, elbows, neck, etc.).

[stvndysn]

thanks maria i will be back next show, i hate missing it.

as far as your question goes we are doing bit of mad science looking into this very idea, we will report more on our findings on the show.

[stvndysn]

ok everyone if you was like me and missed this last saturdays show.... i know its criminal isnt it. well no worries has you can download the show right here (http://www.tmoaradio.com/infusions/fs_downloads/fsdownloads.php?action=view&folder_id=1&subfolder=/TMOA%20Show%20Archives/DCMF%20Modding%20Hour/004-26th%20September%202009/)

ok now onto next saturdays show

we will be discussing what are edgeloops and why they improve your model, a new tutorial created by the genius beside me-mike, and my result from that tutorial.
we will also have all the usual banter, questions from the chatroom, and if you skype monk on the day questions from all listeners.

i will review another film about the mods used

and we will get animatechnica in this week, as we couldnt do it last week due to technical issues otherwise known as themonk

so join us in the chatroom with our bouncer judyann

remember the time we are straight after chris and norrie at 8pm gmt (british time)

[sexymaria]

Where's the download??!

[stvndysn]

on the dcmf modding show this week dated 10/10

along with our usual stuff we have 2 very big news for you all.

yes news that will change the way we mod, the movies, this is very exciting news and myself and mike cant wait till saturday

so if you wanna be left behind dont tune in but if you do your gonna have the hour of your modding life, so catch us on tmoa (http://www.tmoaradio.com/news.php) and why not join everyone for Tea and Bisqwits in the chatroom (http://www.tmoaradio.com/v3chat/index.php) where judy may if you are good not hit you with her 9iron.

[Dulci]

Sounds like you have a very exciting show planned for us this Saturday!

[stvndysn]

we did didnt we dulci

now this saturdays show we are going to be boasting about dcmfs latest conquest, starmaker heads and how this will affect us all

[MikeDBoing]

This week's episode could turn into the BarryDBoing special as I'm battleing a nasty cold that has turned my usual squeeky voice into a baritone..oh yeah baby, right on...so come on over and maybe we can get some Barry White tunes during the break...no i will not be singing...but then again....right on, right on...

[stvndysn]

also dont forget to send us any questions via skype or in the chatroom,

[sexymaria]

what a show next week is going to be!!! I can't wait to hear about the starmaker stuff. You continuelly blow are minds.
my questions conserning the new starmaker armatures being found:
Are we looking at an armature for starmaker head creation? And if it is, does it do so by moving the bone... thus moving the object head?
Like when we raise the top of the head in starmaker, is just the head getting bigger, or are the bones connected to the top of the head changing position allowing the head to raise? If this is the case, is there anyway to see how the game utalizes moving bones from one position to another, so that we may learn how to do so with other armatures? (I hope its the bones moving and not just the head) Or does a file similar to an animation file tell the bone to be further extended above the head in order to accomidate a high crown of the head? And if it is such a file, and if that file is not an animation, but another kind, Are there more? Can they be utalised in scenes?
I will wait to hear the answers on the show, if you want to wait till the show. I so gotta skip my afternoon shift and just hear the show!

[Doc Z]

I'll be sure to tune in this Saturday. I've read and seen about it (DCMF progress), now for the real deal on air! :)


Regards,

Doc

[stvndysn]

well saturdays shows gonna be a biggie, we have 2 guests, one is a newcomer to tmu and the other is a brilliant up and coming modder, personally i cant wait.

we also have our usual banter with gabe, after he strangely didnt turn up to the studio, which i later found out his transport broke down on the way here, gotta get onto the tmoa garage and complain that their limos need servicing.

[sexymaria]

Loved the show, despite the deadair for a few minutes. Sweenytodd was a super guest!
I have a question for next saterday, gleem's new talking wolf!!!
Can this be accomplished with Silvia's weight transfer script?
Can the emoting properties from the generic_facial be transfered to any costume by using this transfer?
Can the transfer be done to objects with a different set of vertices? And does it only work if the objects being used have the same vertice groups for each object?
And Question number2:
Is there anyway, as long as the vertice count is the same, the.hd heads can be exported as .hd? Rather then being exported as .msh? It would be nice to have more heads to choose from in starmaker. Does gleem have an export for .hd?

And the slimer was a fantastic mod! Can particle effects be added to costumes so that we could see slime being projected from slimer?

[stvndysn]

thanks sexy we will answer your questions for you on saturday

[stvndysn]

there will be a little change to this weeks show, as mike is unable to connect to internet due to moving home, he will not be attending todays show, luckily gleem and doc is coming in to join me, also gabe wont be able to make it so guy who we met last time is covering for him.

[sexymaria]

I have a quick question for the show. (Hope mike is back and moved in), I heard of several blender scripts that can copy a uvmap from one object to another, so long as the other object has the same vertices, but is there one that can copy the uv to another object that has a different number of vertices? And would it work if one decimated the other object to the same number of vertices the uv object has? Being that they both look like humans..?

[stvndysn]

hope all you modders out there that has been messing with rigs have something to show for tomorrows show if so please pm me on dcmf

[stvndysn]

thankfully mikes back with us, so you wont have to listen to me much today.

we may cover the moviestorm row from a modders point of view

animatechnica is away on business, so hopefully guy will be coming in.

and more of the same chat

hope you come and listen to us from the chatroom where judy ann will be patrolling.

[MikeDBoing]

Was a lot of confusion this week, mostly by my lack of presence and Stvn's sudden No-Show...must be something afoot..must investigate...in the meantime..you guys who have downloaded the rigs and the blender scripts need to come up with something to show us...its time for you to show us what you are made of..what will it be?...Dazzle us, we know you can.

[stvndysn]

yeh sorry about yesterday i was in chat running up to the show, ready and waiting.

then i about 15 minutes to go i got a skype call from friend, 2 minutes into call my mic suddenly started conking out, even after moving the mic around i got nothing going through.

so i tried restarting laptop and then my resident isp provided safety protocols crapped out on me (bloody virgin media), so i decided to leave it alone for night, while i give the isp hell for their crappy software.

will have a new mic bought and paid for before next weeks show, providing my finances allows.

[sexymaria]

I hope stvn is still not out from the holidays. I know I had a heck of a party. Just cleaning up the christmas stuff at home... and at my father's store, never seems to end. But, stvn's armature:
Is stvndysn's full human body rig for an upcoming animation program soon to be released from dcmf?
Is blender's animation capacities going to become the limelight of dcmf's future focus?
And with so many stipulations from the movies game, will an animation script ever become a reality... I understand that the movies game has lots and lots of details to its scene animations... especially when emoting is something separate from a scene. Does this mean that an animation script would have to assume an incredible amount of data? Or is an animation script a possibility after all?
Plus, the titanic... is the background also apart of the set, the image beyond the water, and does it take up alot of space on the lot? I don't mind... I got a movie in mind for it. It just looks like an incredible job. Can people stand on the deck? Are there scenes to the titanic? I can just imagine the camera looking over the shoulder of an actor who is watching the sea for any peculiar developments. An IceBerg!!!

[MikeDBoing]

Today is another seat-of-the-pants-without-Stvn episode.
I will be fielding questions from the chat room if there are any. Got a few ideas for topics, thanks to Monk and Kinte.
It all starts at 3pm eastern and some ungoddly hour on the other parts of the globe.

See you there.

[stvndysn]

just to let everyone know i currently am without internet access at home and will be without between 1 to 2 months.

hopefully mike can get gleem or someone to cover for me

[JohnnyEx]

Sorry to hear that Stvn, you will be missed, hurry back sir.

[Dulci]

Come back soon Steve!!

[MikeDBoing]

This is the one thing that came up on this weeks show and i think its a good one.....What is the top ten modds of all time according to you, the TMO/TMU conmmunity...Beside the tarison blue screen sets...everyone uses it, and if you dont, why not? but there are so many modds out there the question came up, what are the top ten modds that struck you as so far out, so unbelievably cool, the ones you realy wished you could have that when you where strugling on your movie not so long ago?

Post it here and we will talk about them on next week's show.

[JohnnyEx]

Blood puddle
Hypno Goggles
drivable cars
modded weapons
lowered floor bluescreen
overlays
Death rays!
makeups
costumes
all scenes every set

[Harb40]

Blood puddle
makeups
costumes
all scenes every set

Yuppers.
I also like:
the alternate eyes (a couple people did them)
Casting Couch (allows you to max out attributes)
Bluescreen floor packs
Dr. House's animation/scene addons for the bluescreen
MED
Vemkeit's Unlocker
animated overlays
nude costumes (when used properly)

[MikeDBoing]

Hi Everybody!!
Today we will go through the Top Ten Modds Of all Time according to the People who use them: You, the TMO/TMU Community....or anyone who bothered posting them here. I will annouce .....oh did I mention there was going to be a door prize on this show?...no?...oh, my bad :biggrin:

Kinte and I will be comparing ours and will......

What about the singers?...dancers?.....a cameo by Godzilla?...realy? not a word?..darn..must be all the shinny objects around here..but anywho, the fun starts at 3 pm Eastern and at another time depending on your location, you should know that by now....right? :54:

[onald]

sounds fun....

[MikeDBoing]

So Steve is still not up and running but that will not keep me from doing this week's show..no sir...maybe shinny objects, but.....ooooh shinnyyyyyyy..... :001_tt1:

(slap) this week will be full of stuff, preferably not shinny, so tune in or you might miss the one show that could have turned you into the modding wiz you always wanted to be.:arabia:

It starts at 3pm eastern.

[sexymaria]

I can't wait till stvn comes back. I may have to start the paypal to get his computer back in the saddle. I'll contribute what I can. I can understand why someone wouldn't start one themselves, it should be a friend who starts it.... Anyways, Another host that would be excelent to hear is GLEEM!!!! Or at least a guest. Because, how is this animation script coming. Now that the brothers are back (evol&jab), Gleem could aswer what bone needs to be renamed to what empty or viceversa. Anyways, dcmodding hour is the best!

[JohnnyEx]

Frankly Maria, I'm certain I'm not the only one of your fans that would like to hear you as a guest...

[sexymaria]

Believe it or not, my skills are in childhood still. What I know now, I could redo all of my previous mods, and do them so much better. So, I would like to get some more mods under my belt before I go on to boast about any blender mesh I generated.

[stvndysn]

if you listened to last saturdays show i am back

and this saturday we have an 2 important announcements

so make sure your listening

[MikeDBoing]

This week we will be delving in the nuts and bolts..and any other props we might find, in the Numerouno tool of choice, wich means the only one:blink: ..i think, to modding The Movies.

Yes, the one and only MED!!..i repeat myself a lot in these posts, darn it.. anywho..:001_huh:

Stvn and I will go from the very first click of the Med icon to a total shutdown of your brain cells..and that is just in the first...oh...say 5 minutes...yeah, about right.:lol:

A lot of forum questions of late have been targeting this wonderfull tool and, its quirks, missing functions, wtf moments. But today is the day we tackle as many we can cram in an hour, and if that is still not enaugh (i have to take a break for breating too ya know...yeah, long time listeners will say "What? he stops to breathe?":blink:)..where was i? oh yeah...if we run out of time, we will continue on the next week show.

Stvn and I feel a lot of users are not fully aware of all the features that Med has been crammed with, as well as bugs and not so obvious workarounds available.:33:

So if you have been strugling with Med , this is the one,or two,or three shows not to be missed.

It starts at 3Pm eastern and some other time depending on where you are..be there and join us in the TMOA chatroom, we will be looking for questions and getting feedback from all attendees.

See y'all today!

[sexymaria]

Hey guys, I have a question for the show.
Can a mesh be uvmapped to more then one texture? I noticed that lightmaps often don't mirror the usual texture, so maybe the mesh is uvmapped to it differently..?
Also, It would simplify so much if a mesh could have more then one texture. (since a lot of textures are already made, and I may have done a lot with another texture) Or have two different unwarappings to two different textures. Is this possible in the movies game?
Does the movies game allow a mesh to have more then one material?

[stvndysn]

just finished version 2 of our logo.

hope you like it cos i do

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j262/stvndysn/dcmfshowlogosmall.gif

[sexymaria]

Its very cool... But hey, did you notice that stvn's name gets bigger, while mike's shrinks into the background?:001_tt2:

p.s. when is gleem going to ba a guest again?

[stvndysn]

thanks sexy, btw its not the final version.

on the show this week.

SET CREATION (http://www.dcmodding.com/main/smf/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=79&topic=2190.msg15233#new): after our discovery straight after last weeks show, we will be discussing the ins and outs of set creation.

HOW TO CREATE TITLE SEQUENCES WITH BLENDER (http://www.tmunderground.com/watch/73511070b95ee0a884c2/how-to-create-title-sequences-using-blender): here i will be discussing the uploaded video you can see by clicking the coloured text, on how to create new title sequences.

we will also be answering any questions we have received in pms here and on dcmf.

as well as being interupted by monk we have a guest. the one and only pet of dulci, WOLF, to try and get out of him easy ways for us to get new characters into iclone

why not join us in the chatroom (http://www.tmoaradio.com/v3chat/index.php) where hopefully our resident bossy boots and generally nice person, judyann88 will be swinging her 9 iron, thinking shes still on the golf course

you might want to settle back and listen a bit earlier to the 2 shows about movies, before us

programming starts at 6pm uk time, our show will air at 8pm on saturday.

dont forget the modding questions by pm only or in the chatroom on the day

[stvndysn]

sorry to all our listeners we didnt get time to talk about the subjects in the last post.

reason mainly is mike rambling on and our great guest wolf, gave me good advice on getting tm content into iclone.

you can see how the advice went when me and wolf chatted yesterday below

tm gorilla in iclone animated (http://www.tmunderground.com/watch/5a28a855a11894b2e795/tm-in-iclone)

and a pic wolf took of gorilla in a jungle scene

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j262/stvndysn/gorilla.jpg

so you guessed it the conversion has started

and if you do want to get your own models in then the tm rigs are very handy

[stvndysn]

wow long time no see thread.

on the dcmf modding hour i will explain how i did this

DCMF MORPHING VIDEO (http://s82.photobucket.com/albums/j262/stvndysn/?action=view&current=DCMF_MODMORPH_FINALE.mp4)

if you have some blender knowledge. you might want to take a look at the blend file provided below as you follow the little on air tutorial on how i did it or even have blender open ready for the tutorial

TUTORIAL BLEND FILE (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/771639/dcmf%20morph.blend)

[stvndysn]

ok this post has nothing much to do about saturdays show, more about my what im doing for modders.

I recently sent an email to Reallusion asking if they would support blender as a content tool, so we can do equal to what their 3dsmax support has, ie being able to create proper content.

Well the reply i got back was soo lame i couldnt believe it, and was on the lines of the following.


Just watch the pipeline tutorial on blender to iclone.

personally i find this sickening that the reply said this so i have formulated another email to them saying the following


hello.

I am a modder (what you call developer) for the movies game and machinima and part of TheMoviesUnderground. I also do a online radio show on TMOA, about using 3d applications to create machinima content, Since some of your great stars like Dulci and Animatechnica started using Iclone and showing what iclone can do i became a big fan of iclone and wanted to create content for them.

But heres the issue i have, i use Blender an open source 3d application that has come along way in the industry and has in a lot of ways equalled what 3dsMax can do.

ive emailed before asking if you could create a addon for blender, so blender users can create content for iclone, and the reply i got wasnt satisfactory. ie oh just watch the pipeline tutorial for blender.

I believe if REALLUSION wants to grow you should, support more 3d software and i believe Blender is one such application that deserves your support.

Now my question is could this be possible, either by one of your coders who knows python, or if not, pay a blender coder to write the addon for you.

If this happens you will get a lot more CTD being able to create stuff that 3dsMax can do..

i would also like to know if someone from RL would like to come on my radio show to talk about this, and see how we all can take this into the future.

thank you for your time in reading this email, and await a response.

stvndysn

[stvndysn]

saturday 12 march 2011

on the show we have something very special to talk about..lets just say things have been going well for us recently over at dcmf. And after a chat with rik earlier we are also gonna discuss what we are gonna be doing after the release of the DIRECTORS CUT MOVIE FOUNDRY.

so listen in all you modders out there and hopefully some of you THE MOVIES DIRECTORS as well.

[Uber]

Do Icloners know that they can't use any TM stuff in commercial ventures?

[stvndysn]

yes ubes i have said that

[shidden]

i only use iclone, why shall i use TM stuff too? or did i understand something wrong?

[Rik Vargard]

i only use iclone, why shall i use TM stuff too? or did i understand something wrong?

I think he means developing a tool like for the movies, but for iclone, where you can create your own models & animations with blender and easily get them into iClone.
Right...?

:sorcerer:Rik

[shidden]

ah, thanks rik. now i get the picture :wheelchair:

[stvndysn]

shidden dude, using blender with iclone is very easy.

make your model in blender and export as .fbx and bring it into 3dxchange

[stvndysn]

on our next show - tomorow 20 march 2011

we will be mostly talking about this

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j262/stvndysn/dcmodding/DCMF%20MODDING%20TOOL/meshesin-1.jpg

[Uber]

The alley set?

[shidden]

steven? why dontcha talk about this?

http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb272/yesmon/yeah.jpg

[Rik Vargard]

steven? why dontcha talk about this?

http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb272/yesmon/yeah.jpg

What's this...?


:sorcerer:Rik

[stvndysn]

because shidden, i am not a iclone developer, i am still a noob when it comes to iclone modding. if you want i clone modding all the time listen to wolf and dulci.

our show is aimed at the movies and blender, with bits of iclone and moviestorm if theres any news.

[shidden]

i know steven. just wanted to post that pic to make u guys happy. coz its a hot war chick on the pic :001_tt2:

[Uber]

This is a hot war chick, the previous is just a cartoon.

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/2383/151vcm.jpg

[stvndysn]

nah shes not that hot, her boobs arent big enough and shes not a redhead

same with yours ubes

[MikeDBoing]

As some..or maybe all of you know, the DCMF Modding Hour has been rescheduled to the Saturday 4.00 PM eastern time slot because of the difficulties RL has imposed on some of us at DCMF.

After 3 weeks i thought Jake could take a break in making sure our audience knew about it... as well as his :shifty:

Hoping to see you all this weekend in the chatroom and on TMOA radio :4:

MikeDBoing

[MikeDBoing]

Hi everyone, as RL is keeping a death grip on my schedule, I have decided to let Monk re-run the highlights...or low lights depending on how you look at it :001_smile: of the DCMF Modding Hour.
Those of you who have missed this treasure trove of modding goodness and the occasionnal BS, will be delighted I'm sure. For those of you who where there, ......memoriiiiiies....ahhhh...good times.
So be there at 4 PM EST. :punk:

I will post any news about new shows as they happen.