Subscription madness!!!

[Shimakaze]

Holy shit! Image Modeller 2009, Realviz Matchmover AND Mudbox (6 month trial but still) included in 3ds Max subscription!!! Am I dreaming? Has Autodesk gone loopy?

[duke2]

You know what's awesome? We were asked to do an orthographic streetscape view in the city showing where our building was and surrounding buildings. So with a handful of photos and IM, it should be far easier than tracing them in Sketchup.

[ShaunDon]

Huh, what's this about? I've been wanting to try out Image Modeller -- are you saying we've had a copy of it as part of our subscription and I didn't even know?! Where do I find it?

[instinct]

This is new and yes it is available for download via your subscription center account.

Regards,
Thorsten

[ShaunDon]

Ahh, we got a call a month back from AD making sure we knew about the subscription center. Guess I'll go check that out now! They must be trying to add value to subscriptions out of fear that beleagered companies will opt to stop their subscriptions this year.

[Neilg]

Just to check, are they all 6 month trials or is it just mudbox with the trial?

[instinct]

Only Mudbox is supposed to be a trial. The others are full.

[chrisjacks21]

Ahh, we got a call a month back from AD making sure we knew about the subscription center. Guess I'll go check that out now! They must be trying to add value to subscriptions out of fear that beleagered companies will opt to stop their subscriptions this year.

doh, we cancelled our subscriptions a few months back...i think you are right, autodesk must be trying to add more 'value' to their ridiculous prices

[Neilg]

Only Mudbox is supposed to be a trial. The others are full.

Rock on.

Does anyone have experience with matchmover? Does it hold up ok, worth using for proper tracks?

[Shimakaze]

I've only tested Matchmover a little bit, but it seems pretty solid. Not sure if it's better then syntheyes which I've been using before though, I'll do some tests later I guess. One difference I've noticed is that Matchmover supports motion capture by using two synchronized cameras. Looks pretty cool.... gonna have to try it out sometime.

[instinct]

Syntheyes supports multiple cams as well, just like it also supports facial or fullbody mocap using multiple cameras.

Regards,
Thorsten

[dellis]

Is this the full license (standalone) of matchmover or is it like the plugin that was released awhile back for MAX?

I'm happy about the Imagemodeler...good addition. We'll see if matchmover is better then Syntheyes. I wonder if there will be some kind of discount offer at the end of the trial for Mudbox.

[Shimakaze]

Syntheyes supports multiple cams as well, just like it also supports facial or fullbody mocap using multiple cameras.

Regards,
Thorsten

Really? I'll have to look into that more closely. Strange there's not a tutorial about that on the website... or did I just miss it? :P

@dellis: It's the full program, not the plugin.

[instinct]

There is no Tut, but it's in the manual under "Motion Capture" if i recall right.

Here's a nice trick for doing it with one cam
http://www.ssontech.com/phpBB2/viewt...motion+capture

[simmsimaging]

Can you use Matchmover to do automatic camera matching to still shots, or is it just for multiple camera motion tracking? Just curious if it will speed up my camera-mapping type work for blending into stills.

I d-loaded Matchmover to check, but I'm not seeing anything in the help files to indicate.

Anyone know offhand?

From a brief glance it almost looks like ImageModeler would be better for it in any case.... So many things to explore, so little time.

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