I'm afraid I have my first serious problem with "Play", and it is of course a set compatibility issue.

I cannot animate actions for any characters brought forward from sets made in 23b. In prepare mode the animation fires, but nothing happens in direct mode.

If I copy and paste the character then the direction works again, but all movement and actions seem to be lost (is that right Ziggy - I thought they came over with a copy now ??).

Obviously I have about 40 mins worth of sets made with 23b and it would be a shame if I could not edit them in PLAY.

Bum.

My set and the actions for the characters works fine.... maybe they are less complex than yours... hmmm...

My hard drive chugged so badly at the beginning I thought it would crash but the set is now usable if i dont shut down muvizu.

MrDrWho13 wrote:



Mmm - Well I have tried creating a character in 23b from a blank set and animating him waving or something.
Save the set and open in Muvizu PLAY.
Then try and add another animation from the existing list, or even a new one and nothing happens.

urbanlamb wrote:



I've just stopped playing with Muvizu and have to do some work and noticed that everything on my PC was now sluggish.
Sure enough I have 6 Muvizu Play processes running even though I'm not in it.
If I start Muvizu Play and come out immediately then another process is added to the list.

Is anyone else getting this ?

MrDrWho13 wrote:



Mmm - Well I have tried creating a character in 23b from a blank set and animating him waving or something.
Save the set and open in Muvizu PLAY.
Then try and add another animation from the existing list, or even a new one and nothing happens.

ziggy72 wrote:


Well, lets hope that you make lots of cash with it when you sell it to Pixar or something! ;-)

MrDrWho13 wrote:


Actually DW13, my alarmed looking smiley was in reference to the fact that my movie is not going to happen, not with this method of pricing. Flat rate, one off, or nothing. It's just the way I make movies - I generate a ton of footage and direct it though editing (like real films, funnily enough). The current pricing method is of no consequence to me, unfortunately, as I'm never going to use it. If there's not going to be a 'pro' version, then this movie's not going to happen.

If I copy and paste the character then the direction works again, but all movement and actions seem to be lost (is that right Ziggy - I thought they came over with a copy now ??).

ziggy72 wrote:



*sigh*

yeah I had something planned as well but as a "director" this present situation (something that I was worried was going to happen) is absolutely not the way I work or can work and never will be. This price structure (although even then its too high.. the reasonable price tag would be half a pound to a pound per minute max (even 1 pound is too high) will work for people who are into making small joke 1 minute/2 minute long videos on a whim for a friend. Anyone else is not going to be using this method its simply not practical. I just gave reallussion more of my money by the way. I had been saving it for muvizu but its a no go and I dont want to wait any longer for this project. My superman videos will remain in muvizu with hopes that something will be changing

*tries to stop whining*

okay cough ignoring the fact that I have to mortgage my house to render out a video here is the "what's wrong" with the timeline stuff with a ?? beside it

I would have gladly have signed an nda and tested this on a weekend for you and sent you this information. I am good at keeping my mouth shut despite outwards appearances ask ziggy and a couple of others re: NDA stuff.

okay so here is the problem

your timeline loads everything into it upon start up. What it needs to do is start out empty and we pick and choose from a menu what to add. Not subtract it afterwards. ...At present this timeline is hogging memory even if I uncheck the objects. I have 12 gigs of ram and a 1 gig graphics card and was able to create epics muvizuzu movies last week.

Having said that after spending far too much time last night (all evening actually ) unchecking boxes on a set that I use a lot without paring it down (metropolis set) even after doing that. I could record animations and walks that seemed to work well, but I was fighting with this timeline and all the open menus that kept flipping open even after paring it down to find the stuff I needed. We need to be able to select what we want to see in the timeline this includes the submenues of the characters otherwise it gets horribly gangly. So if i am working on dialogue and head movement I need to see only that in my character not anything else.

Now as for actually getting dialogue to work well. Unfortunately with the massive lag and delay I was experiencing there was no way to sync the voices up (timeline issue again)

It took me about 1 hour last night to realize that I could not use muvizu play but I wanted to persist to see what all was going on.

So in conclusion I have had to uninstall muvizu play and roll back to 23b to finish my current project lets hope I can do this.

(edited to remove some of my typos..)


found another bug.. this render took me like 8 hours of work due to the timeline issues

edited by urbanlamb on 10/04/2013

Hmmn...

Sad to report but..Yeah, I too have a problem with directing characters.

If you open one of the lighting sets from within Muvizu ( I chose "crystal clear") and prepare a few of the character actions (using the already on set character), then try and direct the actions, nothing happens!

The little guy just doesn't move!

No moving = no movies....Eek!

D

PS: are those the movement dots in the video?!
edited by MrDrWho13 on 10/04/2013

MrDrWho13 wrote:


yes they are

Ok. Now I have tried a few different sets ( a batman one, one from my apple iDea movie and a couple of others) and I can not add any further character actions to any of them using the existing characters....

D
edited by Dreeko on 10/04/2013

Ok. Now I have tried a few different sets ( a batman one, one from my apple iDea movie and a couple of others) and I can not add any further character actions to any of them using the existing characters....

D
edited by Dreeko on 10/04/2013