http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3302-help--need-a-digital-camera-for-my-next-movie-.aspx Forum - Collaboration Requests - Help ! Need a digital camera for my next movie ! - Messages en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit AspNetForum Tue, 24 Dec 2013 20:04:15 GMT Tue, 24 Dec 2013 20:04:15 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3302-help--need-a-digital-camera-for-my-next-movie-.aspx
I know people dont want to hear this but I would encourage people to seriously take some time to work with FBX if you have invested in play+ then what you know will be up to date because development has all but stopped on the ASE front and the only way your going to be able to keep using this file format is to use old software.

My two cents on the subject lol for lack of a better way to phrase it "this is the way of living on the bleeding edge" your constantly learning and updating ]]> Tue, 24 Dec 2013 20:04:15 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3302-help--need-a-digital-camera-for-my-next-movie-.aspx Tue, 24 Dec 2013 19:26:29 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3302-help--need-a-digital-camera-for-my-next-movie-.aspx
I tried to use a Sketchup model, following ziggy's instructions. Here's the result :


http://vimeo.com/82623353


As you can see, when I import the object in the set without hand attachment, the digital camera looks good.

However, when I import it using the hand attachment, it works but we can see there's a problem with some textures.

Maybe I can get a better result if I follow the Parts 2 and 3 of the sketchup import tutorial ?
How can make it look like when it's without hand attachment ?

I'm all ears, by the way, merry christmas ;-) .
edited by ReggieMetalFox on 24/12/2013]]> Tue, 24 Dec 2013 15:21:21 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3302-help--need-a-digital-camera-for-my-next-movie-.aspx Personally, I'd recommend using the Sketchup route - tons of models of cameras, of various levels of complexity, free on the Google 3D Warehouse.
http://www.muvizu.com/Video/12611/Importing-from-Sketchup-Part-1
ASE Exporter here :
http://www.rodneyandberty.co.uk/downloads
Still requires a bit of learning though...


Or wait and see if someone will make you one, there are some great modelers on this site, I'm sure one will help you out. Come on people, it's Christmas!
edited by ziggy72 on 23/12/2013]]> Mon, 23 Dec 2013 19:07:13 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3302-help--need-a-digital-camera-for-my-next-movie-.aspx
you can do this in blender

these cameras are free http://archive3d.net/?tag=Camera

but they may or may not work inside muvizu you will need to open them up in blender and modify it.

here are some blender tutorials

this is the wiki on scale although myself my grid is not set up the same way at times so scale is relative to how blender is set up but the article is on the default setup http://muvizu.com/Wiki/wiki/106/fbx-scale-guidelines-scene-objects-vs-attachments

here is stuff on blender http://muvizu.com/Forum/topic2241-learning-blender.aspx

and here is a video i made to fix an item in blender and add collision that will work inside muvizu
http://muvizu.com/Video/31664/How-to-use-Decimate-lower-Polygon-count-Impor

you can try a shortcut if you want just using the autodesk converter, but then you wont have proper collision in the model and it might be the wrong scale among other things

the converter can be found on the autodesk site its burried and i always spend half an hour finding the page (they hide it well) but here is the main link http://www.autodesk.com/

you can try sketchup as well but you will have to do a bunch of stuff to make it usable which i know not about because i am a blender geek lol so personally if i wanted a quick camera i would download one from that 3d archive and modify it quickly in blender and then export it as fbx into muvizu
edited by urbanlamb on 23/12/2013]]> Mon, 23 Dec 2013 19:02:27 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3302-help--need-a-digital-camera-for-my-next-movie-.aspx Mon, 23 Dec 2013 18:46:58 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3302-help--need-a-digital-camera-for-my-next-movie-.aspx
I'm asking your help because I don't have a lot of experience with 3D modelising.
For my next movie (The Intrepid Returns), I need a digital camera that I can attach to the hands of my characters (Play +).

A digital camera like this one would be perfect :

http://www.3dcadbrowser.com/download.aspx?3dmodel=2120

(I don't need a model with a lot of details, just one that we can identify easily as a camera)


And for the next time, I'm also interested by a tutorial, so I can learn how to do it myself. Is it possible with Blender ?

Best regards,
Reggie.]]> Mon, 23 Dec 2013 17:15:16 GMT