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eoyilmaz / anima

VFX & Animation Pipeline Library
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Hey, can you explain about the new 3dsmax workflow for anima? #21

Closed tws0002 closed 6 years ago

tws0002 commented 6 years ago

Hey, do u mind to give some explanation about 3ds max workflow for anima?

eoyilmaz commented 6 years ago

There is no workflow yet.

I've created the necessary code to open & save the scene (and thus create a project structure, set the render resolution and scene frame rate etc.) with the regular Version Creator UI.

And lately I've been working on a code that automatically converts the scene from VRay to RedShift (anima.env.max.vray2rs). For now the code can successfully convert material nodes such as: VRayMtl, VrayBlendMtl, VRayColor, VRayDirt, VRayLightMtl and the Normal Bump node of 3ds Max to their RedShift counterparts. Seeing the same render done in minutes rather than hours is fun :)

I plan to add XRef support. So the user should be able to create rederences and track them as we do in Maya.

That's all.

tws0002 commented 6 years ago

Thanks for the explanation.

Question -How to setup anima environment in max? -How to execute version_creator() in max?

eoyilmaz commented 6 years ago

If you're able to run version_creator in Maya, then you do not need to do anything. Just open the MAXScriptListener select Python and run the following code:

from anima.ui.scripts import max
max.version_creator()

If it complains about that it can not find anima than add the path of the anima library to your PYTHONPATH envrionment variable. But as I've said, if you're able to run it in Maya than it should run in Max without any further adjustment.