Moho 5.0.8

bupaje · Post by **bupaje** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:04 am

Hey LM, great update. Thanks very much for adding the split curve tool -very cool.

Rai López · Post by **Rai López** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 6:05 pm

YES!!! THANKS FOR ALL THAT WORK! UPDATES ARE GREAT!!

cribble · Post by **cribble** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 8:19 pm

The Updates are great. I can not say how much i love the F5 function, coming from someone that renders every 5 seconds, its soooo useful.

Thank you

i'm a happy bunny

jorgy · Post by **jorgy** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 9:42 pm

Thank you so much for the update!

Bone dynamics work in particle layers. Here's an example:
http://www.lostmarble.com/misc/flying_frogs.mov

Any chance that you'd share the moho file for this?

jorgy · Post by **jorgy** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 10:13 pm

Preview rendering: press the F5 key to render out a quick preview of the current animation.

Since this is using the sorenson codec, I assume that this feature is not available in linux because there is no quicktime support for linux?

Post by **Lost Marble** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 12:19 am

jorgy wrote:Any chance that you'd share the moho file for this?

Sure:

http://www.lostmarble.com/misc/flying_frogs.moho

Post by **Lost Marble** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 12:19 am

jorgy wrote:Since this is using the sorenson codec, I assume that this feature is not available in linux because there is no quicktime support for linux?

Unfortunately, that's correct. Since Moho does not output any movie format on Linux, this feature is not available.

jorgy · Post by **jorgy** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:28 am

Lost Marble wrote:Since Moho does not output any movie format on Linux, this feature is not available.

Thanks for your prompt reply.

Do you have any ideas for how to get linux up-to-speed with the other versions? Or are you pretty much limited to platforms that are supposed by quicktime?

(I ask because I was wondering about another thread here on the forum where users can animate an explosion with an alpha layer, and then composte it in for quicker rendering. I would like that feature on the linux version.

)

Post by **Lost Marble** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 2:09 am

It's really a problem of there being no QuickTime on Linux. QuickTime provides a really nice cross-platform (Mac and Windows at least) way to handle various types of media. Re-implementing these features without using QuickTime is just not something we've been very eager to do.

jorgy · Post by **jorgy** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 3:28 am

Lost Marble wrote:Sure:

http://www.lostmarble.com/misc/flying_frogs.moho

Thanks! I love to take things apart to see how they work.

nobudget · Post by **nobudget** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 9:57 pm

About the frog animation; I've noticed the slightly annoying particle problem that particles just "die" after a certain period. Is there some way to keep them visible so they just stack up or fade/scale away gracefully? Fade them out in the particle layer perhaps but that would require good timing I suppose...

Reindert.
www.nobudgetvideo.com

Post by **Lost Marble** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 10:30 pm

Particles die after their lifetime is up (particle lifetime is set in the Layer Settings dialog for particle layers). There are two solutions to keeping them from just disappearing instantly:

1. Adjust the particle lifetime so that the particles are sure to be offscreen beofre they die. I didn't both to do this for the frogs - some of them die on screen and some after they've gone off-screen.

2. Fade the particles. The frogs, for example, have a lifetime of 72 frames. What you could do is go to the frog layer, and set it to fade out at around 60 frames. Then, as they play back as particles, each one will fade out starting at 60 frames, so that there isn't the sudden disappearance at 72 frames. Here's an example - I used the "Wavy Fade" script to fade out the frog layer - it is then automatically repeated as each particle approaches its "death":

http://www.lostmarble.com/misc/flying_frogs_fade.mov

(The fading may be hard to notice with all the frogs flying around, so try stepping through the movie slowly.)