HELP_Animate in EIAS render in other ?

[WHD]

Hi All,

Pardon this silly question but has anyone explored the options other than camera to render an EIAS animation?

I have a client who wants me to do some texturing and animation for him. A basic animation cycle. For some reason he needs to render it on his own render farm with some other software. I suspect the final project is in Maya or Max but I do not know. Unless I can give him something he can render in his own system I will have to turn down the job. This is where I suspect FBX out would probably come in handy.

Has anyone animated in EIAS and sent things out to render in Mentalray, Renderman, or other?

Bill Dempsey

[Tomas Egger]

Hey Bill,

To be honest, we dont have a easy way to export a animation to be rendered on another Software, EIAS dont export FBX and MDD for now.

Sorry my friend

Thanksss

Tom

[WHD]

Hey Tomas,

Thanks for the reply. I figured that was probably the case but since things are moving quickly these days I decided that I had better ask first before turning down potential work.

Bill

[Tomas Egger]

Hey Bill,

I really would like to have a better answer for your request.. believe me.

Thanksss

Tom

[David]

Hi!

How to make material more smooth on the curve surfaces, so that I don't see the triangles of the model?

[Ian]

Hi David,

The normals on that model are not smoothed. In your modelling program, set a normals angle of 40 degrees. Alternativly you can try this on importing the model into EIAS by checking the 'recalculate normals' box.

Transporter can also recalculate normals (should be in your EIAS folder).

Best,

Ian

[David]

Thanks Ian,

Yes, the normals on the model are the problem. I made this model in Archicad and I realize that fact model from Archicad does not have smoothed normals. The only solution is to save model from Archicad in 3ds format and then import in EIAS. The material names in 3ds format are lost, but I can live with that. The list of materials is very long, is it possible to merge materials in Animator? (I know for "Merge Groups" option in "Import Object", but this is not useful for me)