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collapsing animation into mesh
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17 Sep 2005hi , im new to this forum its a very creative idea , i entered here for the animations contests. now here is my question: if i have a model animated with bones, modifiers, etc. how can i collapse that animation to the model itself so i can take away the bones etc.? by the way im using 3dsmax 7.5
Thanks in advance
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17 Sep 2005Hey man....although you can't bake vertex animation into an object (to my knowledge)....what you can do is setup a point cache modifier at the top of your stack and "bake" the animation from there. Once your point cache recroding is finished....you can delete all the bones and deformation modifiers in the stack of your chosen object.
Mind you....don't delete any modifiers that pertain to the UVW mapping of your object....since point cache does not store texture information!
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17 Sep 2005I actually didn't know you could do that... I'm just curious as to why you would want to do it?
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17 Sep 2005thanxx for the quick reply ivanisavich! i want to make an animatic of a scene wich will be in the final shot a big crowd of people in a royal party, so i will animete like 4 or 5 character (lowpoly) to clone them sevral times to previsualize how it will look. those are my plans till i get a better idea of how to do it
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17 Sep 2005Wow, a great tip!
I remember wondering how to do this a while ago, now I know.
Thanks Tyson! -
17 Sep 2005 No probs!
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17 Sep 2005That is a very cool tip indeed!
Keeo us updated with your progress Luima -
troubadour 207 posts19 Sep 2005there is a way of baking any animation into pure vertexanimation..
heres a script which bakes it into a clone of the object...
it's explained here:
http://visual-distractions.com/tools.php
even though this problem seems to be solved, this might be interesting...
greetz
marcus
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