Is there any way to get the actor to just lie on his back in bed and put a sheet over him as if he is a very sick patient? Or will I have to make a dummy myself and import it?

Yeah Primaveranz, is it this kind of thing you mean?

Erm, a couple of minutes... See, in 3d Coat, you can just 'drop' a sheet of 'cloth' over something (in this case PatMarr's body template) and it conforms to the shape for you. Simples!

Yeah Primaveranz, is it this kind of thing you mean?

What is OB format? I apologize for being uneducated in all of this for now.

Is there a way to extract the 3D mesh for one of the Muvizu dummies into a modelling tool, or do you have to create it from scratch?

Thanks, Pat. I learn more than one new thing every time I use Muvizu or something related to it. If I wanted your new female character, then would I have to have a 3D modeling program to use it? Or, will it just open in Muvizu?

Thanks for the link and thanks Pat! I will use it as a guide for the proportions for my Male patient.

Rocque wrote:


It won't open in Muvizu. The only 3d formats that open in Muvizu are ASE and FBX.

The OBJ files are useful only in a 3D modelling program where you need to make something like a helmet that fits one of the characters... (You can fit it to the OBJ model)... or in the case of Ziggy's project, he used the model to help form the shape in the sheet.

Without having something the right size for fitting, you end up blindly making an item, importing it to Muvizu, seeing that it isn't the right size and/or orientation, going back and resizing blindly until after a bunch of tries you end up with something that works. Having a reference model saves a few steps.

Then, whatever gets created in the 3D program can be saved in the FBX or ASE format for use in Muvizu. Make sense?

@ PatMarrNC Good Beefy shape, thanks again Pat!

And thanks for the Fat Man Pat

primaveranz wrote:


The quick answer is "no, we can't export a character mesh from Muvizu"

awesome Ikes!

Since you already know how to do it, any chance you'd be willing to extract the basic mesh for each of the Muvizu characters and post the collection somewhere in OBJ format?

For the purpose intended, details don't matter.. just the basic shape and size.

Thanks Ziggy, do you do all the texturing and rendering using 3D Coat?
The visual quality of your screenshots always look better than anything I can achieve in Muvizu.

And thanks for the Fat Man Pat

I can control them at last! Well, not really - it's just a static mesh, but it's a great base to work from (and very accurate, of course).

Hats off to Ikes for pointing us in the right direction

And apologies to Primaveranz, I seem to have hijacked your thread! but hey, it's lead to something positive - whatever position you want the patient to lie in, it can be done much more convincingly now

I have extracted the default actors and uploaded them here as OBJ and blender:
www.ikes.nl/downloads/muvizu_default_meshes.zip

ikes it looks really good......The link to the zip doesn't work

the upshot of all this is that, with models, UV maps and keyframing, we can now create all those moves that were never before possible with standard actions.

Ikes,
what ZIP program and version did you use to create this archive? I downloaded it but my version of 7ZIP doesn't know how to extract it

Extracted and prepped as FBX models.



I will put this set into the store (free, of course) so you can use it for reference if you don't want to have to extract the figures yourself.

Dude, have you ever tried to make something in a 3d package and then try to get it to match the dimensions/curves of a character? It ain't easy, and the characters move, and you have to put them into poses to see what's happening... This set just keeps them nailed in place in a nice, easy to see pose when creating new attachments.

PatMarrNC wrote:


Uh, I just packed it in windows 7 by rightclicking the folders and "copy to zip"? No idea why you can't open it.
I've just also packed it as rar, maybe you can open that...
http://www.ikes.nl/downloads/muvizu_default_meshes.rar

Thanks everybody for the compliments, I'm glad this opens up new posibilities.

ziggy72 wrote:

Ah I see!
Can you link the FBX models with the set?

I can finally make Sinister put his hands down and use him for something.

Extracted and prepped as FBX models.



I will put this set into the store (free, of course) so you can use it for reference if you don't want to have to extract the figures yourself.

ziggy72 wrote:

Please! Sinister is really well designed the the floating hands just look so strange!

Edit: Any chance of a dodgy mod to create custom actions?
edited by MrDrWho13 on 23/06/2016

ziggy72 wrote:

Ziggy, where did you get Sinister, Beefy, Blob and Rosie? And the Asian characters? They aren't in the RAR file....
edited by PatMarrNC on 23/06/2016

So could you download a mesh, remove the head (presumably you'd need to keep the same number of vertices) and replace the one in the Muvizu folder to have a headless actor? You'd have to switch that mesh in and out to get the original back of course.

And that's it, that's what I always do with every video - I go from no lighting to complete lighting by starting with a shadow system that works the way you'd expect, rather than the random, directionless blobbyness of the default Environmental settings. Hope that helps someone
edited by ziggy72 on 23/06/2016

You could try but this sounds like the sort of thing that would cause a crash. I'd be interested to see how it goes though.

So could you download a mesh, remove the head (presumably you'd need to keep the same number of vertices) and replace the one in the Muvizu folder to have a headless actor? You'd have to switch that mesh in and out to get the original back of course.

... better to just create her head as a standalone object.