mcjSaveAnim: Save material and mcjJet's particle animations as Daz Scripts

mCasual

mcjAniMatSave is Here !!

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts4/mcjanimatsave

the manual will be improved monday sept 8

it lets you save material animations created with MatAnim

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts/matanim

and particle animations created with mcjJet / mcjJet2

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts4/mcjjet2

Since i learned that DS 4.6 doesn't save the animation data from the material properties

and since matAnim, mcjJet1 and mcjJet2 animate material properties

i wrote ( almost ready ! ) a script that can save the animation data as a sort of material preset file( daz script )

in the case of mcjJet animations, you'll even have the option of saving the particle positions, orientations, sizes plus the material animations
in one script

you could use this to distribute special effects

the end user would simply load the same special figure used by mcjJet, and apply your custom animation script

the scripts will even be DS 1, 2, 3, 4 compatible

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note the nyan cat animation was created using MatAnim and Vertical Tiling Offset animation
and the image-strip shown here

mCasual

making it ds 1,2,3,4 compatible,
the exporter
and the importability of the scripts produced

mCasual

ok getting back to this after trying to make high waisted shorts for Aiko3

i'd say the script will be ready tonight matter of minutes or an hour or 2

mCasual

cool i'm closer than i thought !

most of the work left is back/forward compatibility coding

mCasual

this StarWars-worthy MatAnimation was created in DS 3.1
exported as a DS1/2 compatible script ( .ds )
Applied in DS 1.8 and rendered in DS 1.8

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fig 2 MatAnim'ated displacement map in DS1.8
but the exporter script is unfortunately not yet DS1.8 compatible
i hope i can make it work tonight !!!

fig 3 - almost there
MatAnim'ated displacement map in DS1.8
exported as .dsa format
imported/applied in DS 3.1
but the image-map didnt follow .... yet

fig 4 : yay it works !
the image-map on strength properties was not implemented, it now is , in the DS 1,2 version

fig 5 almost ready !!
i didn't re-test DS4.6 though ...

mCasual

Ds4.6 tests ...

yay, the mcjJet (particle-figures animation ) animations exported from DS 4.6 are compatible with ds 1, 2, 3

which is not so easy since figures and bones and materials are quite different

mCasual

mcjAniMatSave is Here !!

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts4/mcjanimatsave

the manual will be improved monday sept 8

it lets you save material animations created with MatAnim

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts/matanim

and particle animations created with mcjJet / mcjJet2

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts4/mcjjet2

( bummer my google-drive gif anims are no longer accessible on my google-sites ....
i'm really annoyed by Facebook and google's anti-gif ways )

juve_satriani

Excellent and thanks for your efforts to make DAZ Studio more useful

Ruphuss

hey that works
thank you casual

mCasual

REPAIRED !  REPAIRED !  REPAIRED !  REPAIRED ! 

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts4/mcjanimatsave

Some changes occured in Daz Studio 4.9's script engine ( maybe 4.8? too ) 

and they made matAniSave produce unusable material-animation files

but i repaired it and it seems to work fine now

the funny thing is, the version of the script for DS1/DS2 was pretty much what i had to do to regain compatibility

technical detail : in DS3 and DS4, before, you could write file.write( myfunction ); and the source code of myfunction would be written out

but with DS 4.9 it writes [native code] ... So the new (and very old) versions write line by line the source code of "myfunction" 

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another Note  rendering the animation shown here failed with iRay - apparently, Daz Studio doesnt expect UV

tiling to be animated and doesnt send them to the iRay render engine during render of animations

BUT a while ago i wrote a script that lets you render a subset of frames, and i think, since this script manages the rendering .... maybe it's a work-around !

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts/mcjlistrender-for-ds-1-2-3-4

if this doesnt work, try texAnim or even voodoodaz ( i mean when you really really want it ! )