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Hi everyone..just trying out the Moho demo.

Before I delve into al the tutorials I was wondering if some one can give me a heads up on using photoshop files and importig them into Moho.

If I have a character that is broken up iinto separate layers (for head arms,feet legs etc) can I export those layers directly in from Photoshop to moho and then create the bones?

Yes you most certainly can... and this can often lead to much better results than drawing directly in Moho. (In my opinion.)
You can either go to File>Import or just simply create Image layers. I think you'll want to save your Photoshop files as .PNG files so that you get your transparency happening.

I'd suggest you still go through the tutorials though, they're quite easy to follow and you'll learn a hell of a lot. You'll feel like a new man afterwards!

Hello Kirk,

kirkcanada wrote:If I have a character that is broken up iinto separate layers (for head arms,feet legs etc) can I export those layers directly in from Photoshop to moho and then create the bones?

There's a simple example of this technique in Tutorial 4.1.

Reindert (nobudget) posted a nice example of bitmap usage in his monster test.

Regards, Myles.

Excellent advice guys..thanks for taking the time out to offer your opinions.

I just need to brush up on my alpha channel work in PS.

But just so that I don't misunderstand ..you're both saying that the PSD file has to have every layer exported out separately as a PNG file with an alpha channel for transparency? Theres no way to import the entire PSD with layers as one file?

kirkcanada wrote:But just so that I don't misunderstand ..you're both saying that the PSD file has to have every layer exported out separately as a PNG file with an alpha channel for transparency? Theres no way to import the entire PSD with layers as one file?

Correct - Photoshop doesn't support Moho file export, and Moho doesn't support PSD file import.

To make the process a little easier:

I don't use it myself, but I believe later Photoshop versions allow you to export multiple layers to multiple files in one step - either through ImageReady and 'File/Export/Layers As Files', or through something like 'File/Scripts/Export Layers to Files' in CS or maybe CS2.

Julien Stiegler (janimatic) and Brian Quinn (7feet) have produced a number of Moho scripts for importing groups of images - see the thread at http://www.lostmarble.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1402
(Thank you to both of these hard-working and generous scripters!)

Regards, Myles.

Hi everyone, I need some clarification please.
I followed the the links for the scripting you all are discussing about multiple images. It is in Lua language.
How do I use this script, where do I place it?
I have downloaded Crashcore and they don't look like the script I saw in the links I followed.
I do become easily confused------

Thanks for the PS tip...all this time and I never knew that one!! Talk about a time saver!

Unfortunately PS doesn't do PNG as a script export option,but I'll look inot IR.

Thanks again for the help!!

ingie01 wrote:How do I use this script, where do I place it?

These types of scripts need to go in a sub-folder of C:\Program Files\Moho\scripts\menu, assuming you are using Windows and the default location for installation.

You can either use one of the existing folders or add another one e.g. "Moho Forum". Restart Moho (or Ctrl-F5) and the scripts will then be available under the Scripts menu in Moho.

Regards, Myles.

kirkcanada wrote:Unfortunately PS doesn't do PNG as a script export option,but I'll look inot IR.

Ouch.

I don't know when it was introduced, but apparently there's a "Jump To Imageready" button at the bottom of the toolbar in Photoshop. This should jump the file into Imageready (via a temporary file) complete with layers.

Let us know if Imageready's "Layers As Files" export has PNG (with transparency) support.

Regards, Myles.

myles wrote:

kirkcanada wrote:Let us know if Imageready's "Layers As Files" export has PNG (with transparency) support.

It does, I've used it together with photoshops animation feature.
One thing to keeep in mind is that imageready doesn't have the image handling capacity of photoshop, it stalls and often crashes if you got more than ~100 layers or files over 1Gb (approximately).

myles wrote:

ingie01 wrote:How do I use this script, where do I place it?

These types of scripts need to go in a sub-folder of C:\Program Files\Moho\scripts\menu, assuming you are using Windows and the default location for installation.

On Mac OS X this is /Applications/Moho/scripts/menu/
(Applications might be called differently in Finder, if you're on a non-English version of Mac OS X; it is the name of the folder where all your programs are stored.)

Ah ha, thanks to all- that's why I love this forum. You guys are the greatest!