Chambers wrote:
> So I know that for still images, I can export from Poser (or, in my 
> case, Daz Studio).  However, what if I want to do animations?  What are 
> the best tools for this?
> 
> I'm guessing that most people who animate characters don't use POV, but 
> I'm not most people :)

If you don't mind using a modeler that is still mostly beta, you can try 
the LionSnake modeler:

   http://www.geocities.com/evilsnack/lionsnake.htm

It's designed for creating posable meshes that can be exported as 
POV-Ray scripts.  You still have to hand-code the posing in POV-Ray SDL, 
although I intend to add a scene-building capability when issues with 
modeling are finished.

Regards,
John

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"Chris B" <nom### [at] nomailcom> wrote:
> One potential option is to use POV-Person to auto-generate a crowd of
> stationary people standing around in the background (see the examples in the
> download and in the documentation) and punctuate with occasional animated
> character, plus hand-crafted foreground characters converted from Poser or
> another modeller. The disadvantage is , of course, that you'd end up having
> to learn something about both techniques.

I've got a feeling that the difference in quality between the two types of
people would be jarring, but I'll take a look at it.

I wouldn't mind using Daz studio to pose people, but I've never done animations
with it, and I don't even know if Pose-ray can import an animation from it (a
quick google suggests that it can't).

....Chambers

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On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:14:07 +0100, Mike Williams <nos### [at] econymdemoncouk>
wrote:

>To get fairly realistic looking animations of realistic looking Poser
>figures you can perform the animations in Poser, either by interpolating
>between a series of Poser poses, or using a built-in animated pose, or
>by using a motion capture file.

I've used the BVH method a few times, after downloading a series from one of the
American universities, years ago. I don't find Mikes method cumbersome, time
consuming, yes :)
Poser can export a series of obj or 3DS files and PoseRay has a batch process
that zips through converting them to Pov inc files. Here is a couple of the one
I found here that I posted


http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.animations/thread/%3Co5cos1tjr1upujtsa0417f0cqtq8ddeg16%404ax.com%3E/?ttop=282885&toff=150

http://news.povray.org/moray.binaries/thread/%3C3de55a13.43690794%40news.povray.org%3E/?ttop=240019&toff=150

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Regards
     Stephen

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