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Yep, I'm always checking back, but have been unsure and bought into Modo, which is a pain in the arse! I really want eias3d to live again! Keep us posted... Even a teaser... Mat.

Would I be right in saying that the model you aply the .mdd file to does not have to have exactly the same topology (i.e. vericies and polygons) as the original model you exported it from? (as you said you can apply it to the letter 'K'). I can see the 'point cloud' of the .mdd when I apply it, so it's coming in to eias, it's jusy getting it to work with the skin that seems awkward... Will keep you informed of my experiments! M.

Wow! Thanks guys! Sorry about the late reply, I didn't get an email so maybe I did need to check my preferences on the forum... Will give this a go over the weekend... Help much appreciated, Mat.

Hi, has anyone had any luck getting files from DAZ into EIAS. I've tried .mdd but it fails... I've also had no luck with the animation as an .fbx The error message with MDD is attached. Any tips much appreciated... Mat.

Thankyou!

Hi, I own series 1-4 is there somewhere I can download the updates for Mac? Help appreciated...

Great Blair! You just made my day! Mat.

would be interested to see the result! :-)

OK V9! Love it... Version 9.5/10 UI update . . . Modernise, add things like mouse wheel scrolling. I personally would like to just be able to set the scale to metric and use CM and MM, I understand the units but when you have models coming in from other software it would help import scaling.... Preset rigs, human, mouse, spider, horse etc... Took me ages to rig a butterfly . . . I'm not so good at it though... Render preset . . . Window Size, Full Size and 50% full size . . . Good for 1080p projects... Orthographic/Perspective window view.... that is not a camera window. Function curve editor - uneven beziers, illustrator style . . . for better control over velocities etc... Partner with Northern Lights! LOL sorry I know that may sound mad and is probably not likely but if you can ingest all their plugins and get them updated, you would have a lot of code built and a lot of extra power would be a great selling point... Also if they all previewed in the camera window properly that would be soooo helpful. I would happily pay for upgraded versions. Online repositories for models, textures, rigs, environments etc. . . There's more, but I'll leave you alone now! Cheers! Great work! M.

p.s. Importing system is making my life soooooo much easier! I'm coming straight out of modo into eias, no issues so far :-)

Hi, don't get me wrong, excellent upgrade, love it! The plugins not working so far are: placer deposit and flockthis . . . liquify, is working, these are the only 3 I've tested so far... I have most of them, so I'll keep you informed... Power Particles Pro seems to be OK so far... :-)

All seems good apart from Northern Lights plug ins arn't working at all... Any clues? I guess they have to be updated by the developer . . .

Got it! Cheers! Seems to be working well so far!

emmmm.. I'm not sure you can do this without a cycling model sequence...

Hi, I have a looping animation of a butterfly that has been UV textured (see attached). I wan't to use it withing flockThis by Northern Lights, however I believe that I can only do this if it is a child cycling model sequence, my problems is that I can't seem to export the sequence as a single parked mesh sequence with the textures in place. I'm not really getting how to export the animation as a sequence of single mesh items that I can then cycle in order to use in fock this... Anyone have any experience with this or any tips would be greatly appreciated... Thanks! Any help appreciated! Mat.

It seems pretty good to me, loving the bringing together of all my devices, notifications, vimeo and twitter account integration, reminders are helpful for a person with me mental capacity! Lots of nice touches like mini progress bars on folders being copied to, all my apps are working and it's cheap as chips!

EIAS is running under mountain lion for me, the only issue that I have come across so far is that when dragging windows the screen goes black and comes back on release, but then the moving of eias windows has always been odd so you previously didn't get any positional feedback anyway...

Can't wait!! I have a model I just can't seem to convert since obj2fact stopped working so really looking forward to better imports!! Excited! Mat.

or maybe i just hit it flat on with a different invisible object? that would work...

Hi eiasers, 'got a little question for you . . . I'm trying to do some hard body collision animation and I don't get something . . . If I have three items, the first one, that we will call 'the collider' is animated in the timeline to crash into the other 2 so that they fly off to pixel heaven, but how do I use rodeo to include the collider in the simulation, i.e. when it hits the other 2 I want it to behave in the way that it should within the dynamics engine . . . Is there a way to do this or do I have to kind of make an invisible clone of it and then kind of swap them out or something? Help appreciated! Mat.

Yeah, I do the same thing, or I get home from the office and want to try something and I can't.... How about a timed dongle with a countdown so you know! i.e. put your dongle in and fire it up, you have 30 days, for the last 5 days you are warned to put in your dongle before it is disabled. This way the people who pirate the software get involved with it and maybe even buy it, so it's like the dongle resets a trial period.... Just an idea...

I like it :-) Nice and clean. Is there an RSS feed option?

Oh... Yes. Function curve editor, ability to have different length bezier handles on a key frame... Would be magic!

Hi, I use it as a freelancer in London for multimedia projects...

Hi, Haven't tried hype but it looks quite cool and it cheap as chips.... Thanks! Adobe is coming out with Edge soon: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/edge/ But then that will be more Abobe high costs, and if people are already coming out with alternatives . . . again Adobe is not the only software developer . . . The only good thing about fireworks is 8 bit png indexed transparency as strangely neither photoshop or illustrator have it. (probably so Adobe can give it a purpose!) It's the only reason I use fireworks! The rest of it is like a bad implementation of illustrator. Also when I think about illustrator, the last few updates have not really made much difference to me . . . I could in fact just stick with that for a few years! Yeah, you're right about motion and after effects, I prefer after effects for the 'main build' and tend to use both for my work. I also love text wrangler and Espresso, when using them with also free cyberduck ftp client as you can set text wragler as your cyberduck editor, edit live in Espresso then just copy and paste into text wrangler and it uploads on save, don't know if you knew that one but its very handy! Dreamweaver I use as if it were a repository! It's css management is way too long winded. In terms of EI, I tried many other apps including modo and have never really liked them for the animation workflow, if EI can get the model importing sorted out and maybe some UV tools at some point, I'll be more than happy to continue with it, it's just nice to use. Shame that Silo stopped working properly as that was a great modeller and UV tool for organic stuff and was good value, fact export no longer works. I'm on Lion, so can't use rosetta. Interesting times! Mat.