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Re: Ldraw Minifig "Machinima" POVray include file
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lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation
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Fri, 27 Feb 2004 13:38:44 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Miguel Agullo wrote:
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As it stands right now, the latest (yet unreleased) file includes support for
multiple minifigs at once plus custom minifig placement and orientation within
a scene.
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Cool. I’m anxious to see it. I’ve built most of my MLCAD scene for it already -
as soon as you release I’ll put it to work and make ‘em sweat. :)
There’s just one thing about this include file that is bad but indirectly very
good: it makes my L3PBatch program totally obsolete. :)
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At this point, the user can already ask the inclde file to “make this minifig
take 2 steps - in whatever direction -; stop for x amount of time and then
continue walking” (using #if statements based on the POVray clock).
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That has enormous potential, I think. A crosswalk or something like that,
perhaps.
Uh-oh. Looks like the cable connection is going to quit again today (like it
always does on Fridays). Better hurry this up.
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This is 90% completed, although I’d like to include a “variance” variable that
will make the timing of the movement of multiple minfigs slightly different
for each one of them. This is specially important if, for instance, a scene
includes several minifigs moving in group in the same direction. Without a
slight variance between them, it looks too mechanical, too in-step.
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That would be cool too - great idea. Even just a very tiny variance would break
it up a little and take away that CGI perfection feeling.
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Things to come in the longer term include making turns and better “acting”
support (i.e. “make this minifig wave its hand, then take 2 steps, then turn
right, then take one more step”).
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Miguel, I must say this: when you complete this file, it will revolutionize the
hobby of stop-motion animation!! Imagine - we could now be doing half a movie
with one file. Wow!!
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Also, at one point I’d like to replace all the
trigonometry functions with matrices: I’ve heard it’s more “elegant” that way
in the POVray user forums ;-)
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Elegant schmelegant - it’s also harder to understand. But on the other hand, I
definitely need to figure those out soon.
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Any suggestions, offers for help, etc. are welcome - but I’d
really like to see people at least pick it up and breathe some life into
their fav minifigs.
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Very interesting choice of words there (you’ll see why when my film is
completed). I’ll do my best.
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Here is an example of a scene with multiple minifigs. Please take into account
that minfigs can be placed anywhere (not simply merged together initially,
like in the video), can be of different kinds (in the video, it’s the same
instance repeated four times) and can have different walking cycles / timing /
movements (in the video, they all have the exact same settings).
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That is so cool. I can’t wait to get my twitchy (20fps, of course) little
fingers on that file!!
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(Stop motion is
very cool but this may actually be cooler in the long run)
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Well, I’m not sure if I could pick a winner between, say, “Toy Story” and
“Wallace and Gromit”
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Or...Chicken Run and Ice Age? (I watched a good part of Chicken Run at 1/32
speed yesterday and still couldn’t figure out how some of it was done.)
More like...three cheers!! :)
-Mike
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