Beg-inner wrote:
Hi studio and all...
well I really dont know what to say...
Hope this one isnt too lengthy..and with nothing at all in it..=(
All I have tried in all years..is to be nice and also helpful as much
as I can and at times when I can...=(
You still after all this time, cant even care to learn my real name...
you keep on saying Steph....eventhough I left many options up, since I
put my full name and my online nick, in all my posts.and eventhough I
pointed out how important that is to me. ! =(
Then you bash out on, even after I have explained that I really have
wanted to make a REAL Tutorial on all this Char Anim stuff that I have
learned and found out over the years, (also on many other stuff),
since a long time... but havent yet, since my life really is a
horrible mess...and I dont hardly have energy at all... =( and I dont
know when it will brighten up.. if ever.. =(
It doesnt make things better that when trying to just take some few
steps to get started to share some..., to get it all thrown in the
face...
btw.. did you even bother to load in the prj files, one of them had
some docs in the actual prj file in RS.. ?
If you did.. did you think it was not good enough..? all of it? or
what parts ?
Did you study any of the prjs, and look abit on them to try to see
what the keys to them could be? and after that ask some more specific
questions about it..to better understand it..
Why didnt you enter the threads, both mine and Matthias, and just
asked something?, instead of stepping in on my post with the anims...
Is it better for you that nothing is shared, just cause not everything
has a step by step guide ?
Must all things that is shared or talked about on the list be in such
a way that everyone at all time gets everything ?
Or should we all just take it as a good thing that something is
actually shared?, and just snap up the things and pieces that we can
use and skip the rest (or ask the poster, in a friendly way, if he/she
could help out some more on some parts of it, that we dont understand
or need more info about..)
There are many times topics on the list are things I dont care at all
about, or that I dont understand (some VSL stuff comes to mind..), but
either I just skip it,or some I look at and test, and some I ask some
more questions to the poster..and some I leave for another day, when
hopefully I get more experience so I actually do understand what those
posts where all about and then I can use the info in it..!
Cant just things that is being shared, no matter what it is.. a cool
image, some workflows in an anim..some prj files.. or whatever.. be
seen at times as just inspiration..and just get others an idea that
this and that actually IS possible in RS, which then leads you to try
to figure it out...
I am always looking on other sw tuts or online articles or whatever I
am intrested in, and then my mind thinks abit how this actaully can be
done..in a RS specific way...or in my own way..
So at time one really needs to try to figure somethings out..(that is
one of my own inspirations.. to find my OWN solutions on things I want
to be able to do in RS, thats why I have made tons of workarounds for
stuff over the years.. I especially loved those days when the list was
very active and ppl always asked alot of questions.. or had threads
going on with cool ideas.. which made my inspiration flow..=)
I think what you are doing can really make the sharing of stuff, to
decrease.. =(
For ppl to feel encouraged to share ANY thing, then a good and
friendly atmosphere is needed, so the whole range from very simple to
ultra advanced, as well as not documented to Fully documented stuff,
could be shared...
Every extreme seems hard to handle..
Since.. some users can think, this prj of mine or this idea or tip, or
workflow of mine is toooooo simple, or just nothing new, so I better
not share it..
Others can on the other extreme...hmm.. maybe this is just too much,
too advanced.. too little documented.. too showy...Its better that I
dont share this..
Any of this should be able to be shared..and anything that is shared,
no matter how simple or advanced it is.. has always things in them
that are golden..to someone..!
Hopefully I will continue to share..but this really has got me
thinking.. =(..
Take Care
Best Regards
Stefan Gustafsson ( Beg-inner )
A Proud Owner and User of Real3D and Realsoft3D..
Hi Beg-inner,
There is 2 problems on this list:
-The list is divided in 2 groups : ultra beginners and experts
(geeks that are more programmers than 3D artist)
-Because Realsoft has a button or a function for everything, it
makes the mind lazy.
My point is that with very simple 3D software without any special
function other than moving keyframe on the timeline, basic modeling and
creating materials with check boxes and sliders, you don't get that kind
of problem. Why, because there is no complex function to automate the
process, so just by observing the work of other you can replicate it.
Automated function, like in Windows makes users becomes more and
more ignorant, because they loose their ability to think by themselves.
And automated functions hide what is really going on.
Like I said many times : You don't need all those fancy features
because you can do them all by hand. If the animation is not to your
liking animate frame by frame. Model point by point, Make your material
in Photoshop, Do adjustements in photoshop on the final render. Attach
the point to the bone point by point. Animate physic by hand. Do it
manually.
Note : Scripting, Automated Rigging, Multi UV map, Complex shaders,
Automatic Walk, batch rendering, Constraint were all made for Big
studios, not for 3D artists. They are made for big production, And I
don't think anyone on this list will ever animate more than 10 minutes
of video.
From what I have seen elsewhere (other simpler or limited 3D app)
the beginners are doing much more impressive stuff with simpler software
and faster.
If I was responsible of the desing of Realsoft I would cut the
features in half. And I think that instead of people asking what is the
magic script to do this and that, we would see people actually doing
stuff, not thinking about how to do it, but doing it right away.
Sometimes this list is look like the developer list of AmigaIntent :
people are talking about the software but never really using it for a goal.
Realsoft users are trying every feature of the software instead of
doing a project of their own.
In short : don't rely on automated features, the time it takes to
find out how that feature is working it's the time it takes to do it
manually.
Next time, if you see an animation on this list, don't ask how to do it
in Realsoft with the automated fuction. Just do it manually like you
would when your wife has a bad headache.
Don't take this too seriously : )
Jean-Sebastien Perron
www.neuroworld.ws
