animeeple sucks

#1 Boycott Animeeple....Animeeple Sucks and practices business unfairly and discriminates.

#2 Ran into a one problem working with makehuman BVH file :0 I will need to explore this a bit more.

#3 The problem was the makehuman BVH file has a error which wasnt allowing me to complete the setup in animeeple bones tab. In the BVH file the following joints were mislabeling after being exported from makehuman.

The right and left collar joints were the ones giving me fits heh.

JOINT l-collar should be JOINT joint-l-collar and viola you can continue on with animeeple setup and load your makehuman skeleton into the software.

#4 I'm messing with both MakeHuman and Animeeple right now, and I'm having similar problems, and not being used to workign with BVH files or so, I don't really know what's wrong or how to fix it, or if it's some inherent bug/problem with Animeeple or MakeHuman..

After a bunch of tweaking I got it to import the bones, but no geometry, nothing shows up... Any thoughts? Ideas?

#5 You can open up the BVH file with notepad to look at it and edit the mislabeled joints. but don't use (save as) just hit save. Also I believe makehuman only exports the BVH skeleton so you have to re-rigged the mesh in another program. I use poser 6.0 and export it out as a BVH file again. Now you should have geometry and the bones. I apply a simple walk cycle to the file in Poser to get some motion. Then in animeeple I can apply all the free BVH motions I can find to the rigged makehuman.

My reasons :)

1.Milkshape can import BVH files but cant export it
2.3D studio Max is waaaaay too expensive to be a simple file converter.
3.Ultimate Unwrap can import and export BVH files but you cant rig bones in it.
4. Poser 6 is only 29.95 in the mysmithmicro.com site I was surprised to find it still was after the Christmas special was over. :)

#6 Thanks for the reply Johnny, my first response is "Damn that's a lot of steps and different programs just to add animations..."

I wonder if the Animeeple team would be interested in making a DTS/DSQ exporter.

I mean, they did advertise it here on the GG forum.

#7 Yeah, LOL I tried to find a more direct solution and Poser was the only option that was within wallet distance. This is my current character pipeline I been messing with no secrets here LOL.

Lets see:

Poser 6.0 $29.95
Philcdesign Plugin Poser2Msd $24.95 <--gets it all into Milkshape :))
Milkshape 3D $35.00 ---> gets into TGE(A)
Animeeple Free
Makehuman Free
Numerous BVH files Free

If I need to make a tutorial on my process I would be happy to do so if only for folks to see how fun it is getting a moving char other than Kork into TGE(A).

#8 Gaa...I have a lot of FBX and DAE and BVH files...the program just doesn't seem to like any of these flavours...I can never Import my own shape...I can't seem to get out of the tabs[red X, green Checkmark].

#9 Boycott Animeeple....Animeeple Sucks and practices business unfairly and discriminates.

#10 Boycott Animeeple....Animeeple Sucks and practices business unfairly and discriminates.

#11 Boycott Animeeple....Animeeple Sucks and practices business unfairly and discriminates.

#12 Hi Joe,

Yeah, it's just that the imports tab shows an empty square, where the preview is supposed to be it's a "blank" preview.

#13 Boycott Animeeple....Animeeple Sucks and practices business unfairly and discriminates.

#14 Yeah, all the tabs were green.

I really have no clue why it doesn't work :/

#15 Boycott Animeeple....Animeeple Sucks and practices business unfairly and discriminates.

#16 Where can I find your email?
I'm about to run out for a bunch of errands but I can send it later.

(It's a test file I took from MakeHuman and tweaked until I got it to accept the right bones)

#17 truebones@gmail zip please.

#18 Boycott Animeeple....Animeeple Sucks and practices business unfairly and discriminates.

#19 Boycott Animeeple....Animeeple Sucks and practices business unfairly and discriminates.

#20 I've been away from modelling for a while but I want to get back into it, looking at Animeeple again.

Does anyone have any suggestions for converting to/from fileformats compatible with Animeeple?

Is there any .DTS support planned for Animeeple?