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3D Studio Max
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3d Studio Max - Maxscript
After Effects 3D position and Debris Maker scripts
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TheOnlyAaron 188 posts07 Jan 2010Hey everyone, I finished up a couple of scripts here and thought that I would share.
AE Position Exporter
The first script that allows the user to bring 3D positions from 3DS Max to After effects, both
static and animated.
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To use this script and have your imported position data match your scene correctly, you will need to import your camera from max into AE. The best way to do this is to render your image, or images as an .RPF file format. After Effects can read this information (using the rpf camera import) and create a 3D camera that matches your scene in AE. You can then paste the keyframe data (Generated by this script) onto any object in AE that has its 3D position enabled. It is important to make sure your camera settings in AEmatch your camera in Max. For a walkthrough or any questions you can watch the demo video.
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Debris Maker
And the second one is a Debris maker that creates several types of debris quickly with user defined levels of detail, irregularity and chaos.
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This script is intended to be used for creating geometry for particle simulations or set dressing. It even can build a particle flow that has the newly generated objects loaded into it with some basic generation controls to save time. And I have a demo video for that as well.
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Anyways let me know what you guys think, these are the first scrips I have 'released' so I'd love to hear what anyone has to say about them.
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10 Jan 2010Hey man, these scripts are great! I'm quite impressed with the AE export one. I can see the debris script coming in handy too. I often do shots with little chunks of stuff flying everywhere and it's always a pain to have to go and remake the little gibs all the time.
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TheOnlyAaron 188 posts10 Jan 2010Hey man, glad you like them
And now that the debris one is built it will be super easy to add new types of rubble into it, or to change the script to make nicer geo.
I've already a suggestions for a few more types of shape that I think i'll be adding before too long, so if anyone has some ideas i'd love to hear. -
12 Jan 2010HOLY SH.T!
belive it or not i was writing the same script for max and afx.
I had kinda the max part done but was struggling with the afx part.
but i guess i dont need to complete it anymore
well now i can do it for the challenge
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TheOnlyAaron 188 posts14 Jan 2010Yeah it is a good learning exercise, I hadn't done anything with writing out files, or using the filestream operations, and I learned some about time control, the script is pretty simple in everything that it does, but it was a few new things I hadn't done before. If you finish up yours, i'd like to see how you approached things differently
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23 Feb 2010seriously why am I working with Maya again?
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