Best animator
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Which is the best anim package( in your opinion) at a low or medium price with b3d format. |
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low or medium? well what price rang is that? under $100 or under $500? For the under $100 I would look at pacemaker, fragmotion or one of the freeware ones (blender is good if you can get your head around it) For the under $500 I would say XSI: FND |
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Pacemaker & 3DS Max |
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3ds max is hardly a medium priced option |
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Thanks. I have got Milkshape but never tried the animation. I considered Character Shop but it's not got b3d format. This file format thing is a real pain at times. |
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I prefer Milkshape's animation to Gamespace's. It is very easy to use as you simply rotate joints where you want them at each keyframe. There are a few issues with Milkshape's animation that I have never understood such as occasionally objects, for example an 'axe' being carried by a soldier, will distort and stretch in all funny directions if you rotate the bones in a particular order when creating the animation. I find this is especially the case when working with very low polygon models (<700 polygons) with a relatively large number of bones. |
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Pacemaker is by far the best for blitz3d but for non human models like my transformers models i find it a bit easyer in Character FX but for everything else i use Pacemaker. Pete |
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That one is a puzzle Matty! You've just got to come out of the animation and back in again and you're fine though! Gord, I use Milkshape for animation, my biggest bug bare with it is that you can't set up a loop or change the playback speed easily. |
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i think you'll find PaceMaker is a bit easier to use than CharFX... when i was looking for an easy and quick animator i checked both out, and was really sold on CharFX... until i demoed PaceMaker... i found that i could do more quickly with it... (i'm an animating noob though, so put this view in perspective) --Mike |
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Milkshape's ok for some animations but it doesn't support weighted vertices so organic meshes stretch and distort in a horrible way. |
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For every animation tool you need some time to learn how to use it. I'd suggest to choose PaceMaker. Definitively. |
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Where is Pacemaker website? Thanks all. |
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http://www.goddysey.com I also second the opinion of it being one of the easiest. The vertex-assignment is easier than in any other alternative. |