Mitchoss 0 Posted February 5, 2020 Hello everyone, I'm a design student and I was asked to imagine an area of a festival and make a 3D model of it. I was wondering if there was anyway to make a video of a character moving in this space, to show it at the presentation. Thanks! Quote Share this post Link to post
jcogdell 110 Posted February 5, 2020 Vectorworks will not do this sort of animation. We can render walk-through videos of of you design with static figures but this is about as close as you can get to what you want. Potentially, if you have access to Vision and understand how to program lighting consoles you could use the DMX transform feature to move the figure around in Vision, but it would not be animated as such, just moving it in 3D space within a predefined movement range. Quote Share this post Link to post
Pat Stanford 1,631 Posted February 5, 2020 The Australian VW distributor has (had?) a product called AnimationWorks that did a basic version of what you are requesting. It does not appear to have been upgraded to work with VW2020 http://www.ozcad.com.au/products/animationworks.php 1 Quote Share this post Link to post
jcogdell 110 Posted February 5, 2020 Thanks Pat I didn't know this existed. Hopefully they will update it for 2020 Quote Share this post Link to post
Kevin Allen 269 Posted February 5, 2020 Reach out to them, OZcad is very responsive and perhaps there is a 2020 version, ie maybe the 2019 version will work. I love AnimationWorks, BUT if you're after something articulated, like a dancer AnimationWorks cannot create that type of movement. You could get an object to track through. Quote Share this post Link to post
rDesign 479 Posted February 5, 2020 In addition to the suggestions above, you could also take a look at the third-party application Twinmotion, as it handles animated characters with relative ease. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post
milezee 82 Posted February 5, 2020 20 minutes ago, rDesign said: In addition to the suggestions above, you could also take a look at the third-party application Twinmotion, as it handles animated characters with relative ease. @rDesign what he said above ☝️, Twinmotion will give you what you're looking for , its still free too 👍 1 Quote Share this post Link to post