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RE: Wishful Feature & Roadmap

Sifr — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:44:38 GMT

Last Minute iClone 3 FeaturesA puppeeteering option to manipulate, record and layer character/object motions in real-time using a mouse or stylus like in Crazy Talk 5.When rendering out a scene I suggest an auto-smooth/ subdivision option be available to increase/decrease details of individual objects or the entire scene, like in 3Dxchange.The ability toimport PNG. textures filesSimple transform commands like bend taper and twist for primitives

RE: Wishful Feature & Roadmap

stuckon3d — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:32:32 GMT

hi RL, any chance your engine can support light mapping? I believe this would add the realism IC needs to take it to the next level. Dont you? :cool:

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Peter Edwards — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:08:14 GMT

[quote][b]alemar (5/31/2008)[/b][hr]Hi
I´d like to know if is there any enhancements in bvh conversion at IClone 3.
Alemar[/quote]

No news on improvements to the BVH Converter yet in iClone 3.0. Should know more very soon.

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alemar — Sat, 31 May 2008 18:30:18 GMT

HiI´d like to know if is there any enhancements in bvh conversion at IClone 3.Alemar

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stuckon3d — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:57:16 GMT

HI reallusion,

Is there any chance for you guys to add specular mapping? :D I know you can control specular strengh using exchange 2 but it would be great if we could control where those specular hits are.

thanks

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scottg — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 01:30:37 GMT

Something like this would be great. just the filename in the header? :D

Please.

cheers

scottg

iClone newbie

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Visconti — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:13:51 GMT

Hi, info

Your request really makes sense......
They should allow "Save the project" and easier access to the thumbnial you are working on.

Maybe you can use the "Modify time" to verify first...let's see if they can fix the problem in the next version.

Thanks
Visconti

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scottg — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:44:54 GMT

One feature that would be very handy is current document or file name be visable somewhere.

Our current project has 50 odd iclone files with different variations of movement and interaction between people. I forget which file I have open after an hour of editing. Currently there is no way to know which file i have open.

that would be most helpful.

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stuckon3d — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:59:50 GMT

Hi guys,
I'm a new kid on the block, with a few suggestions. It would be really cool if we could assign motion loops (like walking , jumping, idle, etc) to a game pad or keys on the keyboard that would allow us to move the character realtime and record the broad strokes of the actions we want, and them take that to the motion editor for fine them.

what do you think? :D

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jsinger — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:44:17 GMT

Character Interaction? - I Wish!
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I own the latest version of Antics 3D ( http://www.antics3d.com ). They've excelled at using artificial intelligence to smoothly handle character interaction (like game characters) with objects and with each other but the characters are quite robotic and customizing them is very tough and beyond the average user. Their tools for cinematic productions is half full. This is probably iClone's weakest machinima feature. There's lots of glamour and glitz with more coming in version 3 but substantive tools to build story lines not constrained by software functionality just isn't there and it frustrates. I don't want to build one man/woman music videos. I have to go through countless hoops and tricks to make the characters understand that they're not the only bucket of bytes on the screen and I have to micro manage every move and expression and word. Even a little collision detection with their own body or other objects would help! It's embarrassing and limiting to have a character effortlessly move their arm through their own torso or (oops) walk right through their co-star.

RE: Wishful Feature & Roadmap

Armstrong — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:08:07 GMT

ADDITIONALLY...

Visconti...
In the next version of iClone can you tel me if the limitation of imported Wave File has limitations? The current 2.5 tells me from time to time that the wave file is exceeding the seconds allowed???

Thanks.
[IMG]http://www.iclonetutorials.co.uk/iclonetutorialsforum3/images/smilies/Schneeemann2.gif[/IMG]Armstrong.[IMG]http://www.iclonetutorials.co.uk/iclonetutorialsforum3/images/smilies/Schneeemann2.gif[/IMG]

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Armstrong — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:05:53 GMT

[quote][b]aknzrdude (12/5/2007)[/b][hr]Hi david start saving money now :D
i just upgraded to a 8800 GT - mid range card but awesome performance for gaming and icloning[/quote]

Hi Aknzrdude,
Regarding the 8800 (which I believe is their current flagship) I use a 7800 500Mb nVidia. nVidia themselves promote the elements within the chip technology as something worthy of upgrade justification but I wondered, in your experience, and regarding whatever you used before, is there much of a performance difference.

Here things run like lightning, or so I imagine. But does the card increase rendering time? Or preview performance? Or drastically both?
If yes, it might be worth moving up this small step otherwise I'll wait their next creation. Not being a Graphics Accelerator buffoon I cant differentiate between the technologies of what now ARE as opposed to what was.

Armstrong.

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aknzrdude — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:14:42 GMT

Hi david start saving money now :D

i just upgraded to a 8800 GT - mid range card but awesome performance for gaming and icloning

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davidjosue007 — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:23:53 GMT

All of these features are superb, but I have a fear: I use a graphics card type Nvidia GeForce FX5200 128 MB DDR, I will not have to change to get the full functionality of iClone 3

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Armstrong — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:18:02 GMT

Hello Visconti...

I wonder if I could ask-

Regarding the Motion Integration Enhancement of V.3 v. V.2.5...
Can you even briefly explain how the motion editing will work even as a brief explanation.

I ask because certain phases of the work I am involved in demands that (for example) 80% of the time for a 5 minute take is spent in the motion editor.
IF... the motion editor is enhanced in such a way that when moving someones hand to pick someone up / something up it can be seen to do so in the Preview window
AND
IF... the user doesn't have to flick back and forth between the two applications
it MIGHT be that my wait for Version 3's enhancements in this arena are justified.

IF on the other hand the motion editing is something different, my wait will be foolhardy and I should therefore persevere.

Because I do not know the elements of enhancement I am in the dilemma of... "Shall I wait and lose time.. or shall I persevere!!??"

Just a little elaboration on the proposed new process would be very helpful for me and perhaps others as serious.

Many thanks.

Armstrong.

RE: Wishful Feature & Roadmap

Sifr — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:22:29 GMT

Hi Visc.,

Bummer on the animated preview idea making it to iClone 3, well shoot for v.3.01 maybe

How about direct realtime transform/manipulation of selected objects and characters with the mouse from within the preview window

RE: Wishful Feature & Roadmap

Visconti — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:51:59 GMT

Hi, Sirf

So, you would like to preview the motion when mouse-over the icon?
That's a good thought!

But...it seem not to be realized in the coming version.
I will let you know if anything updated.

Thanks
Visconti

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Armstrong — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:31:44 GMT

[quote][b]Visconti (11/29/2007)[/b][hr]Hi, Neil

Do you refer to something like this?
http://www.reallusion.com/iclone/Changing_Pivot.htm

Thanks
Visconti[/quote]

Hi Visconti.... Yes, :) Exactly like that. It's a great faciity.
Is it a "simplistic" possibility within iclone at the merging stage? I can only imagine the programming involved but even so.

Neil.

RE: Wishful Feature & Roadmap

Visconti — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:30:33 GMT

Hi, Neil

Do you refer to something like this?
http://www.reallusion.com/iclone/Changing_Pivot.htm

Thanks
Visconti

RE: Wishful Feature & Roadmap

Sifr — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:45:18 GMT

Hi Visconti,

The feature I'm referring to in theory and practice should work like the included link above, no click just hover, or which ever is the least resource hogging...and to help Armstrong out I believe the feature he's looking for can be preformed within 3d Xchange, but don't hold me to it, my trial version has expired so I can't positively confirm this.

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Armstrong — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 10:56:38 GMT

Hi Visconti... I've been modeling here for a while and I don't know if I covered this previously but in v.3 or ahead is it a possibility that we can actually choose where the Central axis is on the architecture.

For example, some blocks as standard inside iClone have a direct central point as their axis. Spheres and etc.

Door Axis etc:
Others, like the Door in the house architecture has an edge axis so that it rotates on this exactly as a door would. (So invaluable.)

Merging and thereafter selecting central axis:
After merging props and objects it would be superb if we could choose where the central axis was for the grouped/merged items and/or decide where we want the created object to rotate from, or, from what plane.

I know many promote the element of external software making such changes but I can't see any promotional disadvantage to iClone actually incorporating this important and necessary facility within its own capabilities.

Your thoughts? :)

[img]http://www.iclonetutorials.co.uk/iclonetutorialsforum3/images/smilies/Schneeemann2.gif[/img]Armstrong[img]http://www.iclonetutorials.co.uk/iclonetutorialsforum3/images/smilies/Schneeemann2.gif[/img]

RE: Wishful Feature & Roadmap

Visconti — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:15:00 GMT

Hi, sirf

Do you mean that...you can preview the motion after you one click on the icon in the motion template panel?

Regards
Visconti

RE: Wishful Feature & Roadmap

Sifr — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:42:39 GMT

How about animated previews in the preview window when you place your mouse cursor over the pictures, to save on loading time when applying the animation, project file i.e. ect. Like this:[url]http://www.reallusion.com/iclone/gallery_motion.asp[/url]

RE: Wishful Feature & Roadmap

Sifr — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:49:56 GMT

Hi Visconti,

That's great to hear about the new features added to 3d Xchange. What I ment to had said wuz models with textures included,including if any, animated procedurals, because a lot of my models import into 3d Xchange as meshes even though the the textures are included in the files as .jpg or uv textures. When I load into other 3d programs I can apply the textures to the mesh.

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Visconti — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 04:55:02 GMT

Hi, Sifr

Do you mean "import texture with models" or "import model with textures"?
I am not quite sure what texture with models mean. Any further info?

With regard to the custom bones, I think you can make it in the next version.
As I know, you won't have to follow our white paper with the offered Max template to create characters for iClone in the future.

Thanks
Visconti

RE: Wishful Feature & Roadmap

Armstrong — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:53:16 GMT

Slim Bellied Foals.

Before editing. After editing.

The Horse pack is stunning.
When minimising the Horses to make a Foal their bellies are too chubby. :P
A slimmer small horse would be of benefit.
It's not a crisis, I can get by but....
Just food for thought.

(P.S. Jason... Re: Shadowing. The peculiarity only happens in the world wilderness woodlands scene on the outskirts regardless of Drop or self cast. Again, it's not a crisis at all, more of a curiosity regarding the evolution of Shadow generation. The workaround is simply to drop the whole 3D environment a few clicks and the shadows are fine again. ) :hehe:

RE: Wishful Feature & Roadmap

Sifr — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:55:46 GMT

How about an easier way to import textures with the models, including imbeded textures. Also the ability to create custome bones and assign them to imported models before exporting to iClone, to use the motion library already built up.

RE: Wishful Feature & Roadmap

Visconti — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:07:26 GMT

Hi, Neil

I think you need to switch your shadow setting.
If you select "Drop Shadow", you will find the shadow can not be on the surface of the 3D Scene.
You should select "Self cast shadow" (available in pixel shader).

Drop shadow

[img]http://forum.reallusion.com/image/2007.10.26_001.jpg[/img]

Self case shadow

[img]http://forum.reallusion.com/image/2007.10.26_002.jpg[/img]

Thanks
Visconti

RE: Wishful Feature & Roadmap

Armstrong — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:43:51 GMT

Hi Visconti...
I'm in the middle third of a scene for the Horses... One thing that is beating me a little.

Shadows.
I notice that on some angles the shadow slips below the ground because the plane it is on does not curve with the Earth.
Are you looking into a way of making the Shadow level curve with the earth plane.

Armstrong.

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Sifr — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:12:34 GMT

Hi Visconti

The new Flying Cloth Feature sounds like a good start. If this feature could have options to apply to the Hair Packs and G2 Clone Cloth Pack, with adjustable modify peramitters, this would be a great tool with alot of potential. Visualize the controls simular to the Particle F/X tool with customizable modifiers that can be saved and applied to basicly any iClone object in the scene, for large exterior scences where a universally applied wind velocity modifier effects hair,cloth and hanging garments such as ropes, belts ect , and when no wind velocity is applied, the cloth/ hair should respond to the characters movements similar to the reaction of the Jet Particle F/X when attached to an object.

The new Wall Detection and Terrain Following Features should be applied to all objects in scene, not just characters.

Thanx

And once again, the names Sifr not Sirf..... oh, never mind

RE: Wishful Feature & Roadmap

Visconti — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:05:26 GMT

Hi, Sirf

I am afraid the feature "dynamic movment control" would not be supported in 3.0.
But here are some related enhancements for 3.0 for your reference.

(1) Characters can walk accordingly along the surface of the terrain.
(2) Barrier detection - Characters will stop walking when meeting a wall.
(3) Flying Cloth - The features will be visualized as live props which can be applied to make flag, skirt, nechchief, and etc. The feature will be released before December and fully controlled (advanced modify panel) in 3.0.

Thanks
Visconti

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Armstrong — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:10:28 GMT

Relocated mispost.

Working on a scene of "The Gate...." one particular scene has very detailed close ups of a sequence that involves flight using the 4 section animted wings I use for the Woodlander people.

For the wings I use the standard iClone Architecture model Paper_A found in PROPS > TEMPLATE > 3D SURFACE >

This is the ONLY item that works beautifully for wings in that it
a) Reshapes when using the SCALE > "Y" Control during the animation.
b) Will animate by adjusting this according to the speed and direction of the wing mapped to it thus giving a superb illusion of stress.

By increasing the Y value the "wing" can stress according to the speed it flaps.
NOTHING else in your entire collection has this valuable property.

What I would dearly like is
1) To have the object duplicated with its reverse twin.
That is, an opposite of it so that left wings can curl upper-right-down-left and the left wings curl upper-left-down-right breaking the symetry you get when attempting this with the simgle plane.
If we could have an opposite of Paper_A the solution would be simple.

Also if the existing paper_A had the facility to use inverse values, that is, when Scale(Y) gets to zero, flat, and then went into negative -001 ++ etc the desired effect would result in the same solution and we could have inverted wings on the other side with the one model.

The benefit of THIS solution is that on a down stroke the wings could stress/curve upwards and on the up stroke would then flex oppositely.

So in summary, an inverse or opposite of Paper_A please.
Armstrong.

RE: Wishful Feature & Roadmap

Sifr — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:56:03 GMT

Hi Visconti

Nice to see you're taking serious consideration of my request, by the way the names Sifr(cipher), not Sirf.

This is the cloth/hair dynamics controllers from the company that invented it.[url]http://http.download.nvidia.com/developer/SDK/Individual_Samples/MEDIA/Video/Samples/Cloth.wmv[/url] [url]http://developer.download.nvidia.com/SDK/10/direct3d/Source/Cloth/doc/Cloth.wmv[/url]. These controllers can be adjusted to effect hair and cloth with wind volocity peramitters and automaticly calculated collision detection.

The following links are to give the forum members an idea of what tools are available in realtime rendering advancements so as to understand what has already been achieved[url]http://http.download.nvidia.com/developer/SDK/Individual_Samples/samples.html[/url], where realtime stands today[url]http://developer.download.nvidia.com/SDK/10/direct3d/samples.html[/url], and where it's headed[url]http://www.reallusion.com/iclone/[/url].

Download the full SDK for Drect X 10[url]http://developer.nvidia.com/object/sdk_home.html[/url] and Direct X 9 on down[url]http://developer.nvidia.com/object/sdk-9.html[/url],so you can give all of the available tools a spin for yours. Which ever ones don't load means your graphics card, not your entire computer is obsolete to these advancments, you may have to upgrade, but this is the best way to test your graphics card for everything available in terms of realtime rendering. Visconti, Reallusion should also seriously consider upgrading their renderer to utilize the latest Direct X 10 advancments featured in the link above.

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Visconti — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:27:34 GMT

Hi, Sirf

I am afraid I misunderstand your idea.
Can you give me an example of "Dynamic movement controllers"?

Thanks
Visconti

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Visconti — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:24:50 GMT

Hi, Cricky

>> 1. UNDO - Self Explanatory
Yes. "Undo" is available...finally:P

>> 2. Deletions - Send to Recycle Bin instead of immediate deletion with no chance of recovery.
Smart mechanism...will consider it.

>> 3. Character Saving:
I need to check more detail and get response to you regarding this issue.

Thanks
Visconti

RE: Wishful Feature & Roadmap

Visconti — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:19:13 GMT

Hi, Cricky

>> Timeline: The ability to edit and copy timeline activity from one single item on the timeline to another separate item (i.e. duplicate actions for multiple props).
Here is a trick for you.
In iClone 2.5, you can link A to B easily. Therefore, you can link A to B (including a finished timeline), and hide B. Then, you can get the same result.

>> Able to select a sequence on the timeline and reverse the sequence after copy / paste.
Reverse is not decided so far, sorry.

>> Rendering: Disable the View screen while rendering as an option to restore additional video resources to the export rendering possibly speeding up the export process.
Actually, iClone has processed it when rendering. I am afraid it could't be faster.

>> Selection (Right Panel): Retain it's view properties when iClone is restored instead of having to choose the view option each time iClone is closed and re-opened. Retaining last settings used for things such as render size, FPS, Quality, etc.
This is a very good idea, the product team will consider adding this featute to their list.

>> Apply imported textures in 3dXchange as well as the current options of color to individual nodes.
This will be fixed after the next released version. The next version (2.0) will conduct the relationship between iClone & Google 3D warehouse first. We need your patience, thanks.

Visconti

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Visconti — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:10:28 GMT

>> hi visconti - i was hoping rotoscoping can be applied to textures - example i can map an avi onto a tv prop so it canbe part of the scene.

Hi, Gabe

Yes. You can import avi to prop to make TV show in 3.0.
No problem with that.

Visconti

RE: Wishful Feature & Roadmap

Cricky — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 09:44:01 GMT

3 more items to add to my list:

1. UNDO - Self Explanatory

2. Deletions - Send to Recycle Bin instead of immediate deletion with no chance of recovery.

3. Character Saving: A selection box or preference setting which allows me to choose whether the Character is saved with all accessories or not. Without this option, I am duplicating the accessories that I already have on file when saved with the character. This has the potential of tripling the size of VNS files stored concerning the accessories; One in Accessories, One stored with the character, and one stored in the project file. Imagine how many are saved when multiple characters use the same accessory in a single project!

Saving accessories with the Project file is understandable, but not always necessary when the character is saved separately. Multiple characters would be a storage nightmare eventually if you use multiple characters in a project that utilize the same accessories (e.g. Knights using the same armor and comprised of 20 using the same accessory(ies).

Perhaps a dynamic linking to the accessories folder for the accessories used in a project would be possible. Then when the character is loaded the accessories are re-linked to the character for items already available in the accessories folder.

RE: Wishful Feature & Roadmap

Armstrong — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 07:04:05 GMT

Thanks Peter... that has to be a good thing. For a second I wondered if it was relating to point light source & etc. ;)

Armstrong.

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Peter Edwards — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:29:42 GMT

[quote][b]Siouxie Sioux (10/13/2007)[/b][hr]I don't understand LIGHT: 3. Cast shadows etc.

I thought we had this since v.2?

And therefore, to what does this relate?

Armstrong.[/quote]

I think this may be because Self Cast Shadow is currently only fully enabled on Nvidia cards. Most ATI cards do not support this feature so hopefully iClone 3.0 will correct this for ATI users too.