Moho 5.2 Photoshop file export

Toontoonz · Post by **Toontoonz** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 1:07 pm

Why do I get this in Photoshop when trying to open some Moho exported .psd files?

Post by **Lost Marble** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 4:06 pm

Hmm...which version of Photoshop are you using?

Toontoonz · Post by **Toontoonz** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 4:12 pm

Photoshop CS (not CS2)

The problem does not happen with all files, but rather files that are a little more complicated.
For example, I tried to export the files in the animation 2Robots http://www.lostmarble.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1919
and got this problem in Photoshop.

But I will experiment around and see what elements or whatever is the cause. Could just be some minor glitch somewhere.

Toontoonz · Post by **Toontoonz** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 5:27 pm

I will email you a Moho file with the problem and you can test it.

(Could be I am doing something wrong - but I can also get it to work, too.
Just some files don´t work.)

Toontoonz · Post by **Toontoonz** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 5:40 pm

Not 100% sure on my finding the source of the problem....
but when I bring in a .png file (created in Photoshop) then bone it, animate it and export/render as .psd files the Moho created .psd files won´t open in Photoshop.

I have to do some more testing.

ADDED: I have tried it with 5 more .png files exported from Photoshop to Moho. After importing the .png files into moho, I bone the image (simple boning - 2 to 4 bones usually), animate it for a 12 frames or so, then render/export the frames as .psd files.
Shows them rendering in Moho, but they won´t open in Photoshop.
Can anybody else try it and see what happens?

Toontoonz · Post by **Toontoonz** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 10:17 pm

Now I have been experimenting with .ai files imported into Moho.
Same problem as with the .png files when I try to bring the Moho generated .psd files into Photoshop.

The only thing I am having any luck with so far are with things created solely in Moho (i.e. drawn in Moho). Anything else imported (.png and .ai files so far) in then exported out does not work.

Is anyone else having this problem? Has anybody even tried it???

Rai López · Post by **Rai López** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 10:28 pm

HI! But if you impor a AI file into Moho it is converted exactly into Moho drawing, isn't? ...Is weird then that it can generarte some kind of error different to a moho draw object... Well, that is that I think, maybe someone more experimented can tell us something about all of this...

Toontoonz · Post by **Toontoonz** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 10:34 pm

Yes, Ramon, it is a puzzle to me - I am thinking that I must be doing something wrong.
I even tried importing a .jpeg image then exporting from Moho as a .psd file.
It does not work either.
The only thing I can get to work seems to be things done within Moho.

So I must be doing something wrong.

I am waiting for others to try it and see what happens to them. I sent LM one of my files to test. I am sure they will point out the error in my ways.

Post by **Lost Marble** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 11:56 pm

OK, here's the problem. It's not the error in your ways, but the error in ours. Seems like there's a little problem with the PSD export. In the file you sent, there is a totally empty vector layer. Try deleting that layer and re-exporting - it should work then.

I don't know why yet, but the PSD export does something wrong when it encounters a vector layer with absolutely nothing inside it. Until we fix this, all you have to do is delete any vector layers you have that are empty - if they're empty then they don't really need to be there anyway.

Toontoonz · Post by **Toontoonz** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 1:18 pm

Yes, that indeed appears to solve the problem!

I was wondering why some of my many Moho files would work and most wouldn´t - they all had .jpeg, .png or.ai (ecspecially .ai files- my favorite drawing program

) files imported into them. But most would not export out as .psd files.
Now I see that those Moho files that worked did not have any empty vector layers in them.

It is not much one has to do for the workaround so it is really no problem to work with.

Now the real fun can begin in experimenting with Moho layers in Photoshop!

7feet · Post by **7feet** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 1:29 pm

A blue ribbon for the first person to post a Photoshop action that can work on a series of frames from Moho. That looks cool, of course. Seems like something that will be very useful. I'm more jazzed about the embedded scripts (check out the Targeting one in the Announcements section for 5.2 - that is too cool). I will be doing some cool stuff with that. I'll be happily non-broke in a few days, so maybe I can geek out for a bit.

Toontoonz · Post by **Toontoonz** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 1:37 pm

Nichod already found one -
Check out his post:
http://www.lostmarble.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1942
Read the article in the link with the Photoshop actions.

And go to Adobe - they have entire forums full of actions that could be adapted for a Moho animation.