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[tcastudios]

A 8 min tut on how to loop clothilde using a basic flag example.

http://tcastudios.com -> tutorials

Excuse the sound, it's done straight into the laptop. My studio
is still on the road.
It also shows the nerve-wrecking stop issue.....


EDIT. I can't count really:) everything 6 is 3seconds....

Cheers
Lennart

Edited by tcastudios, 29 March 2012 - 07:27 PM.

[ChrisC]

Magic! That was like a suspense movie. Looping cloth... how the... he must be...? Then - ahhh! - all is revealed

I once spent an afternoon trawling through animations frame by frame to find a good spot to cross fade cloth in AE, never looked quite right, this would have been perfecto.

Don't worry about the 6s, just pretend you live in an obscure country that uses 12.5 fps. No-one will notice ;-)

[Kastro]

Thanks for creating it

Edited by Kastro, 03 June 2008 - 02:03 PM.

[the_Monkey]

Nice one Lennart.
That's a clever solution to a slew of other imaginable problems as well.
Thanks for sharing.



-m

Edited by the_Monkey, 03 June 2008 - 02:39 PM.

[triplej96]

That link isn't working for me.

Nice one Lennart.
That's a clever solution to a slew of other imaginable problems as well.
Thanks for sharing.



-m

[the_Monkey]

That link isn't working for me.

Just tried it. Works for me.

-m

[tcastudios]

I've changed the link.
It looks as a (hopefully) temporal hickup with the redirecting.

Cheers
Lennart

// And temporal it was... it must have been something happening at my provider side.

Edited by tcastudios, 17 June 2008 - 07:51 PM.

[triplej96]

thanks!

I've changed the link.
It looks as a (hopefully) temporal hickup with the redirecting.

Cheers
Lennart

// And temporal it was... it must have been something happening at my provider side.

[fernan!]

anyone know how to do that in blender?

[the_Monkey]

This is not cloth but it's using the same method in Lennart's tutorial.
The fish was built with bones, constraints and CS_Tools and then Point Cached. The Point Cached objects were then blended with a PoseMixer to yield a seamlessly looping fish.

I'm currently trying to figure out a method for looping hair animations. I'll post what I learn when I figure it out... unless Lennart figures it out first (ooo... sounds like a dare, huh?)



-m

[tcastudios]

Cool!
I'm a complete waste when it comes to Hair... but isn't there a Haircache thingy as well?
If so the workflow should be the same.

Cheers
Lennart

[shinjin]

Great technique, should indeed come in handy in a few other situations.

Thanks for sharing.

[lumaform]

Wow, thank you for your generosity. This is an invaluable tutorial; not to mention it's a video.

[tcastudios]

Apparently the PoseMixer in R11.5 is on lunch..

Temporarily have a go at this simplified two way PointMixer.
Comes as a COFFEE Tag, should of coarse be
placed on a PointObject and is driven by two
( A & B ) other Point Objects that are point animated
or cached.

Simple PointMixer

Cheers
Lennart

Edited by tcastudios, 03 October 2009 - 10:27 PM.

[jandrew]

Lennart,
incredible...thank you so much for that "point Object". I struggled with the silly posemixer for an hour and couldn't figure out why it wasn't working.

/j

[tcastudios]

The PoseMixer should be working again now in R11.528.

Cheers
Lennart

[tcastudios]

I'm currently trying to figure out a method for looping hair animations. I'll post what I learn when I figure it out... unless Lennart figures it out first (ooo... sounds like a dare, huh?)

-m

I think we still need to go via PLA for this,
as we can't use a cache offset (even not with a PointCache
as it doesn't work for spline objects afaik).

Please have a look at this basic example:

SplineLoopTut 14mb QT

Cheers
Lennart

[tcastudios]

Hm, Loop Hair. While possible it's not trivial as far as
I can see.
Thanks to no cache offset it looks as if PLA baking is the option at hand.
In rough terms, use a MoSpline with the Hair Object as source.
Then run a script to make a editable version of the MoSpline and
read the PLA values for each frame while baking it.

And then do the PLA looping described earlier.

An addition option is then to re-bake the sweepNurb to a
PLA baked polygon object, run a PointCache on that.
This way the animation can be slowed down -much- more
thanks to the PointCache's higher subframing.

A couple of first tests (loops are perfect but playback with H264 is not).
HairToPLA 9mb QT
HairToPLA02 7mb QT


Cheers
Lennart

[the_Monkey]

That's the sound of.... RESURRECTION!!!

(cue zombies)

What happened Lennart?
Couldn't sleep?



Of course you had to do this right as I went back to work today.
I've been farting around with experiments for the last 2 weeks and was looking for something new.
Can't wait to get a second to go through what you got.

-m

[tcastudios]

Muha-ha-ha-boo!

I got reminded by a question of looping spline dynamics.
But to be honest, as it isn't as easy as the cache solution,
I'd say it would need a specific task to be worth it.

-m, do you have any idea for what it could be used other than
wobbling fur or sea grass? Both that might be easier using
regular deformers and such.

Cheers
Lennart