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By duchess110 - 18 Years Ago
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Hi been trying out a few things with the max developers bits and somehow managed to get an Elephants inside iclone as a Character (iAvatar). The motions still need somework as its hard enough to use the editor for 2 legs but now I have four to try and sort out, but this just gives you an idea of what can be achieved with iclone now
Would appreciate your comments and ideas for Animals. duchess
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By Ari M - 18 Years Ago
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Hi Duchess, I have not upgraded to 3.0 yet but seeing examples of the quality that can be achieved is certainly tempting me. I think your elephants look fantastic!
Would love to see them once you have conquered the 4-legged motion issues.
Well done so far.
Ari
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By Popeye - 18 Years Ago
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Very good Duchess!!
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By shygirl - 18 Years Ago
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Excellent job Duchess......you must have great patience. Shy
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By gizmo - 18 Years Ago
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Absolutely superb Duchess. I don't need to know how you did this but I need to know that you will follow it up and make any fruits of labor available to all somewhere.
Surely the next evolution of iClone.
Well done.
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By Peter (RL) - 18 Years Ago
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Very impressive Duchess. Excellent work. :)
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By Alley - 18 Years Ago
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Awesome Duchess, that looks fantastic! :D
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By warlord720 - 18 Years Ago
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Absolutely awesome work duchess! Looks fantastic.
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By Raven2angel - 18 Years Ago
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They look fantastic Duchess :D
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By Popeye - 18 Years Ago
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Looking at the movie again Duchess could it be possible to see the one walking in the background as well as the one washing a little closer. They look great!!!
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By Sifr - 18 Years Ago
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Hi Dutches
That opens up a lot of new possibility for animals, did you rig it with Clonebones or is it a Max rig:cool:
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By duchess110 - 18 Years Ago
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Hi Sifr no it was done with Max, something similar could be made using the clonebones bending and stretching the bones into an animal shape and then trying to attach body part then trying to get the movements right. Still working on fine tuning some motions and creating a few more. Thanks all for the comments appreciated. duchess
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By duchess110 - 18 Years Ago
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 Well after goodness how many attempts at doing the xml for this guy finally got there, now to me he is a proper iavatar with his own persona. duchess
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By gizmo - 18 Years Ago
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Congratulations Duchess. It looks brilliant. Really well done!!!
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By Bigboss - 18 Years Ago
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Very Nice ! Bravo !
Did you implement it as an avatar of as an iProp and do you have the ability to right click and select Perform commands?
I am trying to get there whith little success so far...
Any help on would be appreciated.
Thanks.
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By duchess110 - 18 Years Ago
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Hi guy langlois Yes it is an avatar (Character) and yes you can right click and use commands as I created the motions and also the persona enabling the right click option. I was also able to bring it in as an iprop but prefered to keep it as an avatar (Character). The trouble with iprops are that you can only use those set of commands that are embedded into the iprop but with an avatar you are able to completely edit the motions joints etc like any other avatar with the edit joint commands making it fully posable. I am not able to offer any advise at the moment as I am still learning myself and would hate to cause any computer crashes if I gave incorrect procedures. duchess
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By warlord720 - 18 Years Ago
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You are absolutely awesome duchess... no one has animated animals as a character in iClone to this degree that I am aware of. Bravo!
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By Popeye - 18 Years Ago
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Wow Congratulation Duchess if you have managed this. It could be a a major breakthrough and we could soon be talking to the Animals like Dr Dolittle LOL. I have only managed to make original meshes and put in the the traditional boning rigging. After that I was able to make my own motions up and export from max so these become iProps. I have managed a number of dinosuars doing this as well as the ones below. However I am working on more as I have had requests to do a number of animals. Thought you may be interested to see these :D 
Watch Short clip here http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dK_OSwQQTHM 
Watch short clip here: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9ax4yPI7Rbo
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By ThreeDimensionalThings - 18 Years Ago
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Great wolves popeye, tried to find them on clones2go, but couldn't. Got a link??
Loved the elephants Duchess, look forward to seeing a virtual zoo! :)
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By Popeye - 18 Years Ago
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The Wolves will be going up to Clones2go today. You will find them in New Content section as well as the Props Area.Thank you for your comments. :D These are now on the store Peter.
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By warlord720 - 18 Years Ago
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Great original meshs Popeye. Nice modeling and rigging.
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By shalako42 - 18 Years Ago
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Great creativity and innovation
:Wow::Wow::Wow:
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By aknzrdude - 18 Years Ago
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duchess i must say that elephant texture is sooo awesome - looks very realistic
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By Apparition - 18 Years Ago
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Hi Duchess!
You are but the Queen of MAX!
Your pachyderms look fantastic. I have some ideas on animal design and later I will contact you to discuss the matter. I'm going to give you a hint: You can pair skeletons inside iAvatar and, although they will become a "new" generation they load OK. With an extra set of "arm" bones you can disable the skin to regular arm bones and enable the extra set. In the animation menu you will find means to transfer the left leg motion to the right new "arm-leg"
and viceversa with the other set.... Hummmmm:cool:
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By mrjoyce - 18 Years Ago
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Mike, You can pair skeletons inside iAvatar and, although they will become a "new" generation they load OK. With an extra set of "arm" bones you can disable the skin to regular arm bones and enable the extra set. In the animation menu you will find means to transfer the left leg motion to the right new "arm-leg" and viceversa with the other set. This is a technique I am working on as well. Can you shed more light on pairing skeletons?
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By gb_20090922173241209 - 17 Years Ago
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It look freaking awesome. Ive been trying to build an alligator for days now and i just cant seem to get it right. lol.
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By Wolfzone Digital - 17 Years Ago
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I wanted to take a look at this thread again to see if there's been any headway from any of the max experts with animal avatars. I know Duchess had some early success with avatars on the elephants and Popeye had some good work on animal props. I think it's a great area worth exploring a little deeper so I wanted to bring a contributory thread back into focus on the forum for poignant discussion.
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