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Hi,
This was briefly discussed here (https://forums.chaosgroup.com/forum/...mating-proxies). But I wasn't getting much luck and figured I would make my own thread as this is a feature that I would love to see implemented.
I work at a company which is involved with a lot of kinetic sculptures/artworks so I usually create the motion of these pieces in other 3D programs that are more particle/animation based etc. I then usually have to recreate a less animated version of this in grasshopper in order to articulate the structure and physical module sizes etc. so it would be awesome if i could marry the two in V-ray and show clients exactly what a piece could end up looking like.
I'm aware Animation functionality with grasshopper is on its way, and I've been testing the very welcomed addition of animated proxies in VfR 3.6 and think it is one of the best additions in recent years. But I am curious as to what extent this could potentially be implemented within grasshopper, i.e. being able to reference an animated alembic file / VRmesh with grasshopper geometry.
Here is my attempt at trying this with the most recent release:
The red surface is the alembic file i've imported but as you can see once the animation starts rendering, the green balls referenced from grasshopper are stuck on the first frame.
Do you think it is within reason to get this working in future releases so that it updates with each frame of the animation? or even potentially integrating a GH/Vray slider component that would allow you to scroll through frame by frame and preview the referenced GH geometry.
Thanks a lot,
Jack
This was briefly discussed here (https://forums.chaosgroup.com/forum/...mating-proxies). But I wasn't getting much luck and figured I would make my own thread as this is a feature that I would love to see implemented.
I work at a company which is involved with a lot of kinetic sculptures/artworks so I usually create the motion of these pieces in other 3D programs that are more particle/animation based etc. I then usually have to recreate a less animated version of this in grasshopper in order to articulate the structure and physical module sizes etc. so it would be awesome if i could marry the two in V-ray and show clients exactly what a piece could end up looking like.
I'm aware Animation functionality with grasshopper is on its way, and I've been testing the very welcomed addition of animated proxies in VfR 3.6 and think it is one of the best additions in recent years. But I am curious as to what extent this could potentially be implemented within grasshopper, i.e. being able to reference an animated alembic file / VRmesh with grasshopper geometry.
Here is my attempt at trying this with the most recent release:
The red surface is the alembic file i've imported but as you can see once the animation starts rendering, the green balls referenced from grasshopper are stuck on the first frame.
Do you think it is within reason to get this working in future releases so that it updates with each frame of the animation? or even potentially integrating a GH/Vray slider component that would allow you to scroll through frame by frame and preview the referenced GH geometry.
Thanks a lot,
Jack
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