How vantage using character animate such as ANIMA AXYZ or Point Cache or GrowFx animate?

[wa_pp]

I try to export VRSCENE from 3ds Max with point cache of ANIMA AXYZ charactor but they don't walk in the Vantage. How Can I do?

[Alexander.Atanasov]

Hi wa_pp,

Currently this is not possible as Vantage doesn't support deformable meshes. We will add support for it soon but no ETA at the moment.

Best regards,
Alexander

[Macker]

Any update on this at all?

Many thanks,
Chris

[Alexander.Atanasov]

Hi Chris,

Support for deformable meshes from vrscene is still not implemented. However, you can try the Render animation via Live link(check the docs here: Render animation with Chaos Vantage Script) feature which exports every frame from Max to Vantage and renders it out.

Best regards,
Alexander

[Morne]

Great
Alexander.Atanasov please confirm we can render ANY animation in this way with Vantage

So if we had Madcar in Max, Populate People, ANIMA People, GrowFX wind, RayFire physics and fracture animation, tyFlow fractures etc

Anything works as long as it is rendered to Vantage from within Max using the "Render Animation with Chaos Vantage Script"?

Anything that is NOT supported yet?

[Alexander.Atanasov]

Hi Morne,

Anything works as long as it is rendered to Vantage from within Max using the "Render Animation with Chaos Vantage Script"?

I can neither fully confirm nor deny . If you send us a basic sample scene that illustrate your setup we can test it and inform you if everything should render fine. One thing that is not supported in Live link is animated vrmeshes(VRayProxy), animated image sequences (ifl, movie files, etc). It will not update each frame so if that is what you are using or have in your setup it will not render as expected.

Best regards,
Alexander

[Morne]

Hi Morne,


I can neither fully confirm nor deny . If you send us a basic sample scene that illustrate your setup we can test it and inform you if everything should render fine. One thing that is not supported in Live link is animated vrmeshes(VRayProxy), animated image sequences (ifl, movie files, etc). It will not update each frame so if that is what you are using or have in your setup it will not render as expected.

Best regards,
Alexander

Ah we were actually thinking of making animated proxies from the GrowFX plants. That way not all artists need a GrowFX license to get wind animation
Well there goes that idea.....

Will it be supported in the future, or its too expensive performance wise to have animated proxies?

[Alexander.Atanasov]

We do plan to support animated proxies when rendering High quality(offline) sequence at first. They will not update while navigating though the scene though. Performance wise - it will slow down rendering and probably increase memory usage but that is a guesstimation. We will inform you when there is some development there but no current ETA.

Best regards,
Alexander

[ronaldograxa]

when I render animation with the vantage script link, the tone mapping I have done inside 3ds max and VFB is gone in vantage, then I fix inside vantage but when I render the images, they come out without the tone mapping. Any idea why? using vantage 2

[vladimir.nedev]

then I fix inside vantage but when I render the images, they come out without the tone mapping. Any idea why? using vantage 2

You need to make sure to keep the live link running.
If you restart it, all the render settings will be reset to defaults.
You can save/load a vantage file as config during a live link.

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev