That's right. I've already recommended them to my friends. What's needed most to reach the full potential of iClone? To me it's how to use iClone indigo render plugin. You can post a new topic so we'll vote what interests us. Most of us invested $200-$2000 to get the software and content (Daz3d content included) and can't find some intuitive courses on the whole internet. Even on Lynda.com and DigitalTutors.com there's no such courses at all.

Very glad you got it nailed.

I hope we get to do some advanced courses, it may be worth it to set up a thread asking people what interests them.  In the interim feel free to put in a good word for the tutorial series with your iClone contacts as the better the course does the more likely it will be that we will get to do a follow up.  We shall cross our fingers for the future.

All the best





Alan M

I finally find a solution: just ignore the annoying Gimbal Lock issue, animate from frame 1 to 50 and collect the clip, then add a perform command and loop the animation. Just stay away from frame 100 and everything goes fine. This idea is inspired by your amazing video tutorial you sent me. So thanks again, I'm looking forward to the advanced courses.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world to have such a great mentor!:cool::cool::cool:

Hi there, its not so much that you have to do the animation in the external app than the fact you need to isolate the propeller so that it goes into iC6 on its own as a prop.  Once in iC6 you can make an animation rig for it to get around the gimbal issue and then link, Link, but not Attach, that rig to the Aircraft.

I will see what I can do about the AC-130 tutorial.  I am back to my day job tomrrow so you struck lucky today in regard me free time.

all the best

Alan M

Thanks Master Marques!! Although I know how to make subprops in 3dXchange, your video tutorial showed me some fresh ideas, such as how to merge multiples parts to a big "sub"-prop. It's really a surprise 'cause I didn't know I can do that. Nice job!! So it seems we had to do the propeller animation in external applications then export to iClone via 3dXchange? It's a little sad if it can't be done in iClone alone.  'cause as the video shows, even if you import the aircraft into iClone, the Gimbal Lock issue still exists. I can rotate the propellers in Y axis with my mouse(like you did at the end of the video), yet I still can't go to frame 100 without messing up the X&Z value. So I have one last request (if I may): would you please finish the AC-130 tutorial ( one propeller will suffice)? So I can fully understand how to do a Y axis rotation (especially propeller rotation animation) in iClone 6. If it's time consuming, please ignore this request. Thanks Master! Have a Nice Day!

Alan just a quick thank you for the PDF and dialogue files

Best Regards
George

OK here you go.  A video showing you how to do Sub-Props on propellers on a AC-130 in 3DXchange.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gp09hzvcixp1rwu/SubProps_in_3DX.zip?dl=0

Enjoy

Alan M

OK the way you need to do this I am afraid is you will need to use Maya or Blender etc.  You need to extract the geometry for the props in Maya say.  This then becomes a prop all on its own.  Then delete all the props from the aircraft and save a version without them.  Take that aircraft into iclone along with the single prop, so two completely separate exports from 3DX.  You can pre-animate the single prop before you copy it.  That way you get all the copies doing the same cycle.  Take those four animated props offset then to the right positions and then attach them to the aircraft and save the aircraft into your custom Props library.

Ultimately though you can actually animated subprops one in iClone if you have set them up properly.

Alan M

Thanks again for the amazing suggestions!! The problem is, when I want to create a cycle animation for the 4 Propellers of AC-130 (as picture shown blew, I made them sub-props of the aircraft), I can't use the attach or linkage method. Because the propellers are child of the aircraft, they've already been attached to AC-130 and the linkage option greyed out. (The prop above the aircraft is the dummy object I made)
76% of original size (was 660x19) - Click to enlarge

That said I really appreciate your help, a billion thanks! And I've learned a lot from your training courses. So I really hope you'll do the advanced courses, I believe they'll sell well 'cause I've bought the F103 and F104 already and still want more. Please keep them coming!!