New Specialized Animation Controls for 2.121

[thyme]

Dear Seamless Friends

Seamless3d 2.121 is available for download at:

http://www.seamless3d.com/download

This version of Seamless completes my second priority for the year by adding the long awaited specialized controls for the animation interface. The Anim control panel now has a time-line and a slider which makes it much more intuitive. It also has your self explanatory play, pause and loop buttons too

To see how straight forward and simple it is to use the new "anim bar" see the new tutorial:

Beeline to Animation

http://www.seamless3d.com/tut/beeline_anim

Because Avatar Studio is one of the easiest programs to animate with and because Seamless's animation interface is much influenced by this simplicity, it should not only be easy for anyone who can animate with avatar studio to be able to animate with seamless but it should also make seamless one of the easiest programs to animate with too. See:

Relating to Avatar Studio's Animation Interface

http://www.seamless3d.com/tut/av_studio

I have updated the demos, build an av and worm animation to use the new anim bar.

I have added the Anim node to the Seamless3d node index for further documentation:

http://www.seamless3d.com/tut/node/anim.html

Happy Animating

[Lilly]

Hello thyme

merci beaucoup pour ce formidable travail
je vais essayer d'étudier comme il faut tout ceci
pour en tirer le meilleur profit ;o)

bisous
Lilly

[Alain]

quick test , just back from school

it "sounds" nice , bravo

http://dumenieu.free.fr/louizeforum/sea ... imtest.wrl

réédit :


hum

it seems a nice way ,

http://dumenieu.free.fr/louizeforum/sea ... e_anim.wrl

[bumpy]

Hi thyme

I downloaded the seamless3d source coz i just couldn't wait till i got home to try this fantastic new animation interface
I have got it working on my laptop but found i had to make some very minor changes to your source:

1. My assembler (bundled with vc2005) needs a small change to do_operation.asm to assemble; setcc [mem8] needs a size specifier
sete byte ptr [esi]
setne byte ptr [esi]

2. Something seems to have gone missing from the resource files. I think it's the seamless3d.rc file.

Wooooooo Hoooooo Now I'm animating a worm at work

Wonderful work(art ) thyme,

bumpy

[bumpy]

Oooo thyme this is very gooooood the red marks which mark the sampled poses can be dragged and what's more you can do it while the animation is running

[Alain]

yas it seems very more simple to use now ,

thanx




http://dumenieu.free.fr/louizeforum/sea ... mtest3.wrl

[Lilly]

http://pageperso.aol.fr/SUGAR7306242888/thymou.wrl

Hello thyme and Alain

my first animation with the new wonderful Seamless !
bisoussssssssssssssssssssssss thymouuuuuuuuuuuuu
bisous Alain too ehehe
Lillt

[Lilly]

http://pageperso.aol.fr/SUGAR7306242888/thymou2.wrl

dance for thyme

[Lilly]

http://pageperso.aol.fr/SUGAR7306242888/dance3.wrl

Attention GHOST !

As I make to paint eyes and mouth please thyme ?

[thyme]

Hi Alain, Bumpy and Lilly sorry for the delay in replying, I have been trying to get back to your posts for days now! Very sorry I promise I will reply soon as I can but want to let you know all of your posts are much apreciated

I will just answer Lilly's question now so that she can move ahead

first let me say Lilly its great to see you have mastered position animation all by your self!!!

As I make to paint eyes and mouth please thyme ?

To be able to colour individual triangles you must convert the part that owns the triangle to a blue part first.
(blue bone I mean for the part's icon, I do not mean the triangles will be blue)

To convert a white part to a blue part:

Right click on the white part and select "convert"
then you see the part turns into a blue part

then your will see the colour buttons in the tool bar and they will work same as how you used the old version of seamless once but seamless is now better then before for this type of editing (immediate editing).

see Coloring Vertices in the Immediate Commands tutorial.

Seamless now has both the old paste colour vertex command and paste colour triangle command

remeber to copy the vertex before pasting the colour in.

and please try to avoid scaling blue parts if you can (scale them when they are white parts is best for avoiding problems).

[bumpy]

Ahhrrrggg thyme, Lilli asked me the same thing but you explain better i think

[Lilly]

thanks much thymou
But I do not understand and I am afraid that you should make to me photos of the various stages so that I can arrive there!
thanks
bisouxoxoxoxoxox
Lilly

[Alain]

hello dear friends ,
I am happy to see that thymou1 and thymou2 are so dancing ,
I am used to see Thyme busy ,
so happy to know that he gets time to dance ,
bravo ,

work well all ,
semaless3d is more and more easy to use ,

all the improvements are great , bravo and thanx
keep on building

[Lilly]

Hello Alain
merci beaucoup
et bravo aussi pour tes animations
oui Seamless est maintenant facile pour les animations
notre ami thyme à fait un splendide travail
une fois de plus
et j'espère que nous pourrons voir bientôt de nouvelles créations
sur ce forum, car je me sens tout de même bien seule
j'aimerais tant voir d'autres artistes s'exprimer
avec Seamless, je fais pour cela toute la publicité que je peux
à Cybertown...
amitié
Lilly

[thyme]

hello dear freinds

Matthieu has already translated the beeline animation demo to French!

Cap sur l'Animation

I think this is the best intro tutorial I have written yet because it gets right into the exciting stuff very fast (animation) and one even learns how to add a Cone and a Cylinder at the same time, so I am really happy this has been translated to French

Matthieu has also translated the Relating to Avatar Studio's Animation Interface tutorial too:

Comparaison des interfaces de Seamless3d et d'Avatar Studio


Things are looking up for Seamless let me wave my flag hehehe