AN8BACK
RENDERING CRE8OR SCENES
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Demo: Cre8or Physics in Anim8or: Anim8or Physics

NOTE: Loading the created scene files is the square of the file size in megabytes. So a 2 megabyte file will take 4 minutes to load and a 4 megabyte file will take 16 minutes to load.

You'll need Cre8or Version 0.10a in order to run this correctly. Working on fixing the camera orientation, which is not converted properly during rendering.

      In this tutorial we will take a look at the new feature in v0.1a, the An8Back Module. The Module can record frames and write the data back to a An8 Scene File. Then the scene file can be imported through Anim8or. Allowing you to add some physics to you Anim8or Scenes. Currently An8Back is new and a bit primitive. Give feedback on the forum.

We'll use a sample game file, download this file ****PhysicsRamp****

Ok so let's get started by starting up Cre8or. Once in Cre8or open the Physics Ramp Game file you downloaded from the link up above. Click the scenes folder on the left side of the screen and go to Scene01 so we can add the events for recording:

In the Scene Object, Add an Event by clicking the "Add Event" button. And add the "Scene" "Step Event":

Drag the Record frame button from the Anim8or category on the right side of the screen. Adding this, will record each frame while the game is running:

Now add the "Scene End" event so we can write the data to a file:

Now drag the "Write Script" action over to the Scene End event:

There are two parameters:

File: This is the location of the file to save to
Scene Name: This is the name of the scene.

Now run the game, but don't run it for too long because then it'll take a long time to load it into anim8or. Now go to the orginal Anim8or file OR click on the EDIT Anim8or File If you have Anim8or Files open by anim8or as a default.

NOTE: You may need to download this file and open it in Anim8or: ****Physics Anim8or File***

Once in anim8or, go to Import Scene, in Scene Mode:

Now navigate to the Cre8or folder, where you downloaded and extracted Cre8or.exe to, and go into the Temp directory:

Now go to the name of the Game:

Now selecet the anim8or file:

It Will most likely take a while to load 2-5 minutes, and if you have A LOT of objects and were recording for a LONG time then it will take very-very long (10-15 minutes):

Working benizier curves to simplify the amount of keys, and auto recognition of the non movement. That will speed of the loading process.

Back in Anim8or

Well that's all for now with An8Back. In the future it will support more things.

To see how to create your own scenes go to the Tutorials Page

Copyrights (C) 2007 Keith Tabert
Thanks to R. Steven Glanville for Anim8or, Robin