Problems with Shape animation from Lightwave

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Problems with Shape animation from Lightwave

Problems with Shape animation from Lightwave

2005-05-31 - By mark wilson

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>From the docs, have you:

1. Select the mesh, go to animate->shapes->convert Shape Reference node,
and make sure it is set to local

2. go to the cluster shape combiner for your mesh and turn off Normalise
overlap weights

m

-- --Original Message-- --
From: owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf
Of John Liebler
Sent: 31 May 2005 15:07
To: XSI@(protected)
Subject: Problems with Shape animation from Lightwave

Hi,

I'm making the transition from Lightwave to XSI, and I've run into a
problem.

I'm trying to use Mark Wilson's DotXSI exporter to bring a character
into
XSI from Lightwave.

All of the Endomorphs from the object are coming over as shape source
clips
in XSI. I also get a Shape track with all of the shapes inserted for one
frame each. Yesterday, I deleted the default track(with all the shapes
in
it), and then I was able to create new shape tracks, and insert sources
from
the list , which I could then control with the sliders at the end of the
tracks.
However, today in trying to do the same thing with exactly the same
object,
I'm getting what looks like a double transformation whenever I have more
than one track, or adjust the weight sliders to anything other than zero
or
one. Specifically, if theres more than one clip on, The object scales
up
from the origin, and if there are less than 1 (only one clip active,
with
the slider anywhere other than 0 or 100) the object scales down. I kept
the
scene I created yesterday, but I can't find what is different between
the
two.

Any help, advice or insight would be greatly appreciated. And if anyone
has
a good workflow for bringing over Lightwave ojects, with their morph
targets, I'd love to know what you're doing.

John

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From the docs, have you:

 

 

1. Select the mesh, go to
animate->shapes->convert Shape Reference node, and make sure it is set to
local

2. go to the cluster shape combiner for
your mesh and turn off Normalise overlap weights

 

m

 

-- --Original Message-- -- 
From: owner-xsi@(protected)
[mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf Of
John Liebler 
Sent: 31 May 2005 15:07 
To: XSI@(protected) 
Subject: Problems with Shape
animation from Lightwave

 

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Hi, 
 
I'm making the transition from Lightwave to XSI, and I've run into a 
problem. 
 
I'm trying to use Mark Wilson's DotXSI exporter to bring a character into 
XSI from Lightwave. 
 
All of the Endomorphs from the object are coming over as shape source clips 
in XSI. I also get a Shape track with all of the shapes inserted for one 
frame each. Yesterday, I deleted the default track(with all the shapes in 
it), and then I was able to create new shape tracks, and insert sources from 
the list , which I could then control with the sliders at the end of the 
tracks. 
However, today in trying to do the same thing with exactly the same object, 
I'm getting what looks like a double transformation whenever I have more 
than one track, or adjust the weight sliders to anything other than zero or 
one. Specifically, if theres  more than one clip on, The object scales up
 
from the origin, and if there are less than 1 (only one clip active, with 
the slider anywhere other than 0 or 100) the object scales down. I kept the 
scene I created yesterday, but I can't find what is different between the 
two. 
 
Any help, advice or insight would be greatly appreciated. And if anyone has 
a good workflow for bringing over Lightwave ojects, with their morph 
targets, I'd love to know what you're doing. 
 
John

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