Marco_D wrote:


How would you amke that determination. How will you differentiate the character is holding an apple v.s. holding a gun? Holding a fork v.s. holding a knife? Holding a spear v.s. holding a rake?

because we thought that that was the best place to start, and musical animations and props have proved popular.

That sounds terrific! When will someday be (plus or minus 4 months). Make a rough estimate here, the community will not bite if you're off by a few yards.

I'd not seen this before, although it is quite old.

I guess we all must sound like MadDash212 most of the time.

Can I just chip in with something here...

We're going to someday have characters holding props. We may or may not make weapons for it, depending on how we feel about at the time. But whatever wieldable props we make, you're probably going to think of a hundred other things you'd rather see anyway.

So whenever we do this, we'll try to reuse the object importer that we already have. That way if we don't make the exact gun / sword / rocket launcher / you so desperately need for your clips, you can always make them yourselves (or find one on that there interweb).

How does that sound?

Can I just chip in with something here...

We're going to someday have characters holding props. We may or may not make weapons for it, depending on how we feel about at the time. But whatever wieldable props we make, you're probably going to think of a hundred other things you'd rather see anyway.

So whenever we do this, we'll try to reuse the object importer that we already have. That way if we don't make the exact gun / sword / rocket launcher / you so desperately need for your clips, you can always make them yourselves (or find one on that there interweb).

How does that sound?

claireq wrote:


What happens if you use after effects and trackiing to process the image and replace the guitar with a machine gun. Currently working on an animation using the tutorial at http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/demon_face_warp/ to face warp a muvizu character there are loads of free after effects tutorials on this amazing site. Nearly as inspirational as Muvizu.

Now, is there any chance that we could all play nicely for a bit?

vince (Muvizu MD)

I would hazard a guess that Marco's reply meant that they are toying with giving characters built in props to use as attachments, similar to how the musical instruments work, but none of the props they are looking at now are weapons.

We are looking at characters interacting with objects but none will be weapons for censorship reasons as a lot of young children also use the program.
edited by claireq on 25/08/2011

Any step forward is a good step in my book.

No...guns...?!? Seriously?! Because children use the program? A program that already contains a complete set of fighting moves, tanks, planes, bombs, zombie bits and a prop of AN AXE THROUGH SOMEONE'S HEAD but we can't have guns because, what, children might start remaking Reservior Dogs?!? Children, particularly boys, absolutely LOVE guns or have you not noticed?! Please Please reconsider your position - restrict them to over 18's if you have to, but don't exclude a critical part of story telling completely.

We are looking at characters interacting with objects but none will be weapons for censorship reasons as a lot of young children also use the program.
edited by claireq on 25/08/2011

Hi yankiankit1,

Welcome to Muvizu.

Unfortunately our characters cannot hold weapons or objects.
Holding objects is something that our team is thinking about, but as for weapons there are no plans to add that feature.