fairing and rotoscoping, please!
Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:49 am
There are a few features I would dearly love to see in Moho and I fear that they are not planned for ver. 5.
1 - The program needs better control over fairings. Fairings are accelerations and decelerations between two key frames. By way of example, for a violent animation such as bringing an axe down on a piece of firewood, you would want the move to speed up from the first to second key through the whole action. At present, the only way of doing this that I am aware of is to go into graph mode and tediously add extra keys then smooth the graph shape by eye to what you're after. Other types of fairings such as smooth and ease in / ease out are given and are of course useful, but I would love to have ease in only or ease out only as other right-click options. Better still, as in the Animo program, it would be nice to be able to easily alter the shape of fairing graph lines just by tweaking the keys. Animo also has a fairings library such as for camera shakes (think dropping an anvil and the whole room judders) and I suspect this would be easy to implement for clever people who know how to program in the scripting language.
2 - I would very much like to be able to read in a numbered series of Tiff, TGA or PNG etc. files as a background layer for reference; in other words, I want rotoscoping. This is implemented in the very much more expensive rival Tab 2.2 program and I am sure it would be popular.
3 - lastly, a much less important feature for me but still welcome: I'd like a "graticule" that cam be switched on or off - by this I mean something like the markings seen in the viewfinder of a film camera with cross hairs and other reference lines. The difference between this and the present grid option is that the graticule stays firmly put whatever you do to layers so acting as an absolute reference to screen centre etc.
I'd just like to say that $19 seems extraordinarily reasonable for such a major upgrade and I hope others will agree that this is a price well worth paying.
1 - The program needs better control over fairings. Fairings are accelerations and decelerations between two key frames. By way of example, for a violent animation such as bringing an axe down on a piece of firewood, you would want the move to speed up from the first to second key through the whole action. At present, the only way of doing this that I am aware of is to go into graph mode and tediously add extra keys then smooth the graph shape by eye to what you're after. Other types of fairings such as smooth and ease in / ease out are given and are of course useful, but I would love to have ease in only or ease out only as other right-click options. Better still, as in the Animo program, it would be nice to be able to easily alter the shape of fairing graph lines just by tweaking the keys. Animo also has a fairings library such as for camera shakes (think dropping an anvil and the whole room judders) and I suspect this would be easy to implement for clever people who know how to program in the scripting language.
2 - I would very much like to be able to read in a numbered series of Tiff, TGA or PNG etc. files as a background layer for reference; in other words, I want rotoscoping. This is implemented in the very much more expensive rival Tab 2.2 program and I am sure it would be popular.
3 - lastly, a much less important feature for me but still welcome: I'd like a "graticule" that cam be switched on or off - by this I mean something like the markings seen in the viewfinder of a film camera with cross hairs and other reference lines. The difference between this and the present grid option is that the graticule stays firmly put whatever you do to layers so acting as an absolute reference to screen centre etc.
I'd just like to say that $19 seems extraordinarily reasonable for such a major upgrade and I hope others will agree that this is a price well worth paying.
