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[Released] ABAS: Animated Shaders System Plugin

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  • AlbertoAlberto Posts: 1,436

    ScreenscapeS said:

    Unable to locate file. I have the Animated Water Normal maps found here: https://textures.pixel-furnace.com/texture?name=Animated Water

    This consists of 120 png files named from 0001.png to 0119.png. I load the first file 0001.png and when I move the completion slider, it gives the following warning: Could not find file: F:/Animated Water Normal Map/0001.pn0001

    It is not looking for .png, rather it seems to be looking for the .pn(filename).

    The naming of the filename is confusing ABas. Add a prefix to the files or increase the padding to 6 zeroes.

    You can use the Rename Master utility (http://www.joejoesoft.com/vcms/108/). In the ABas' Manual Apendix there are some descriptions of the usage.

    Add a prefix by checking the Add to Begining/Ending option of the Renaming Script tab. Set a prefix (e.g "file" o whatever name you prefer)

    It's better to start counting from 0 instead of 1 (to match the numbers in the files with the number of frame in Studio's Timeline)

    Set "0" in start counting at the option of the Counting tab.

     

    Click on the button Rename.

    In ABas, set Off, then On in the Enable files animation property to synchronize the files.

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  • gregored_05754256ddgregored_05754256dd Posts: 21

    I recently purchased your product, and have been trying it out.  The above posts mention a manual--where can it be found?

     

    thanks

     

  • AlbertoAlberto Posts: 1,436

    gregored_05754256dd said:

    I recently purchased your product, and have been trying it out.  The above posts mention a manual--where can it be found?

     

    thanks

    Click on the (?) in the toolbar (or use F1 shortcut) to go to the Help panel and expand Plugins in the Contents tab. Next, expand the entry ABAS Animated Shaders System and click on Documentation.

    It's the same to find any plugin manual: Here is an example: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/7865311/#Comment_7865311

     

  • mhartman.art_53c60a8640mhartman.art_53c60a8640 Posts: 22

    I just purchased the ABAS plugin for Daz Studio 4.21 and I'm unable after several unsuccesful attempts to get the plugin registered. Could you please assist? 

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  • AlbertoAlberto Posts: 1,436

    mhartman.art_53c60a8640 said:

    I just purchased the ABAS plugin for Daz Studio 4.21 and I'm unable after several unsuccesful attempts to get the plugin registered. Could you please assist? 

    Copy-Paste your Serial Number in the ABAS entry (as shown in your image). If you're logged in, you can find the serial number at https://www.daz3d.com/downloader/customer/serialnumbers.

    Next, click on OK, and then restart Daz Studio. It's all.

  • videospugervideospuger Posts: 3

    Bought the plugin and I was exited untill I loaded my .vdb files. Could not see a thing.

    Tried it with a demo than I get an image. Good... Now I want to animate and the whole pane is not there... reinstalled

    mannually installed. But the pane is no where to be found. I just bought it but starting to think it's a miss on this one. Would have been

    perfect if it just worked out of the box.

  • AlbertoAlberto Posts: 1,436
    edited March 2023

    videospuger said:

    Bought the plugin and I was exited untill I loaded my .vdb files. Could not see a thing.

    Tried it with a demo than I get an image. Good... Now I want to animate and the whole pane is not there... reinstalled

    mannually installed. But the pane is no where to be found. I just bought it but starting to think it's a miss on this one. Would have been

    perfect if it just worked out of the box.

    If the pane cannot be found, the most common cause is that the plugin isn't registered yet (using the Serial Number).

    To know how to register any plugin, check this: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3916516/#Comment_3916516 

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  • agent_537agent_537 Posts: 8

    I've been using ABAS for some time now, have never had an issue, but today i cannot get it to work properly.   Here is what is happening.

    New scene,   set total frames to 181.  create primitive plane,  add  ABAS animated shader

    under base image, i navigate to my folder of my images.    they are named   g000.jpg   through  g180.jpg

    i select the first image, then enable ABAS, the image appears in the viewport.  all good so far

    then i enable files animation,  go to the final frame in the timeline

    in ABAS after i enter 100%  for competion   and it responds with many "Unable to Locate" errors 

    it appears to be looking for  g000.jpg180     which obviously doesnt exist.      it should be looking for  g180.jpg   

    i've tried different naming of the image files, but nothing seems to work.   not sure how to proceed 

    i'm using Daz 4.22.1.41  Public Build [Beta]    and  ABAS version 1.1.2.0     

      

  • AlbertoAlberto Posts: 1,436

    agent_537 said:

    I've been using ABAS for some time now, have never had an issue, but today i cannot get it to work properly.   Here is what is happening.

    New scene,   set total frames to 181.  create primitive plane,  add  ABAS animated shader

    under base image, i navigate to my folder of my images.    they are named   g000.jpg   through  g180.jpg

    i select the first image, then enable ABAS, the image appears in the viewport.  all good so far

    then i enable files animation,  go to the final frame in the timeline

    in ABAS after i enter 100%  for competion   and it responds with many "Unable to Locate" errors 

    it appears to be looking for  g000.jpg180     which obviously doesnt exist.      it should be looking for  g180.jpg   

    i've tried different naming of the image files, but nothing seems to work.   not sure how to proceed 

    i'm using Daz 4.22.1.41  Public Build [Beta]    and  ABAS version 1.1.2.0     

    It's a bug. An update will follow but it can take some weeks. In the meantime, you can avoid it: Change the prefix name of the files ("g" in this case) for any other. You can use it with more characters (i.e. "gg" will work) or even a single character, but avoid in any case these: "jpg", "jp", "pg", "j", "p", and "g" (pg001.jpg, pg002.jpg...  will fail, for example)

    You can easily rename the image filenames using a tool like the Rename Master utility (http://www.joejoesoft.com/vcms/108/).

  • ImagoImago Posts: 5,157

    He can also solve separating the "name" frome the "progession numbers" with underscore. For example using Frame_000, Frame_001 and so on.

    I never had problems using that system.

  • agent_537agent_537 Posts: 8

    thank you both for your suggestions.    using the rename master, i renamed my files to "test_xxx.jpg"  and that solved it for me.   the other day when i tried a rename,  i named from "gxxx.jpg"  to  "pxxx.jpg"    just bad luck on my part to choose that specific letter.        

    even with this minor bug,  this is a great plugin.   easily in my top 5 of daz plugins. 

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