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Animated walk cycles
For anyone who is not a full-time rigger or animator, but has tried to create a simple walk cycle, you'll no doubt remember all the time and effort you put in, only to have your character walk like a zombie. Well, a fellow MODOnaut, Michael Gass, has created this animated walk-cycle script for ACS rigs that will help you out immensely. Even if it's not perfect, it will get you well on your way!
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May 26, 2015
Posted by Debi in All Articles, Layouts, Neat tips, Texture Locators, Textures, Tutorial Video IndexLining up texture locators
Most people think that Texture Locators are just those widgets that get in the way while you're trying to work on your scene, but James Darknell takes some time to explain how they work and offers a different way to quickly align them to your item's surface.
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Numeric Entry Field Tips
One of the handiest things you can use in your everyday workflow is the versatile way you can approach entering numbers into MODO.
Here in this video, James Darknell explains a variety of ways that even many MODO experts are unaware of.
http://community.thefoundry.co.uk/tv/training/view.aspx?id=659
I particularly like the Gang Edit. 🙂
In addition to being able to edit the number fields by typing in numbers, users can gang edit all three fields simultaneously by LMB+Clicking the icon to the left of the mini-slider enabling the feature.
INDEPENDENT - The default is i 'Independent', controls are edited independently.
COPY - The first click changes the field = 'Copy', will make whatever you type into the first field, the same in the other two fields.
PROPORTIONAL - The second click changes to ∞ (infinity) 'Proportional' where value changes are applied proportionally to all like controls.
RELATIVE - The third click changes to + 'Relative', the value change is added to all like controls. For instance if you divided the first field by /2 the other two fields would recalculate dividing by two as well.
When entering numeric values, you can use keyboard equivalents as well, such as;
'Ctrl'+'Alt'+'Enter'for Copy
'Ctrl'+'Enter' for Proportional
'Alt'+'Enter' for Relative
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| Description | Using the new particle system, create the effect of dust being kicked up as a hover biker travels across open terrain. | ||
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| Origin | Supplied by Luxology as part of the Spotlight video series that came with the release of 701 SP1 | ||
| modo Version | 701 SP1 | ||
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With the supplied hoverbike, rider and terrain, this series shows how you can create dust particles and get them to kick-up when the hover bike flies by. |
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| URL | 701Spotlight_Video_01.mp4 (Download from your Luxology account) | ||
| Presenter | Andy Brown | ||
| Description | In this video, Brad brings in a mesh that already has a morph applied. Then he imports an audio clip, and then using the schematic viewport, wires the audio to the morph animation to produce a woofer speaker pulsing to the beat of the music. |
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| Origin | Supplied by Luxology |
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| modo Version | Released during 701 |
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| Description | Key points:
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| URL | YouTube | ||
| Presenter | Brad Peebler |
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| Description | If you're a photographer, when it comes to setting up your cameras for rendering in modo, you'll no doubt understand aperture sizes, what 'depth of field' is, and what F-stops are. But some of us who don't have a feel for these numbers need to eyeball things in order to get them how we want. In this Lux TV video from some time back, Brad shows how to access the advanced feature in the modo toolpipe allowing you to display extra handles to position the camera when using depth of field. He also shows how you can click on a point anywhere within a scene and have the camera focus there automatically. |
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Advanced camera handles
Autofocus under mouse |
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| Source | You can watch a video that details the process here | ||
| Author | Brad Peebler | ||
Here's a trick for when you need to look at your scene up-close without actually messing things up and moving your render camera
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