Make a character move in a model

[Mitchoss 0]

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!

[jcogdell 114]

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.

 

 

[Pat Stanford 1,660]

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

 

 

[jcogdell 114]

Thanks Pat I didn't know this existed.

Hopefully they will update it for 2020

 

[Kevin Allen 274]

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.

[rDesign 480]

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.

[milezee 82]

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 👍