speaking of multilight - automatic keyframing for animations - Maxwell Render

speaking of multilight - automatic keyframing for animations#263661

By Cadhorn - Thu Mar 13, 2008 1:17 am

- Thu Mar 13, 2008 1:17 am #263661

Unless I've missed something obvious: the current method for making animations from multilight renders is ... really time-consuming. Setting a keyframe for every step of light change. Would be handy to have a bit more of a traditional (3ds max style?).

I wondered for a while why I wasn't seeing more multilight-based animations around here, until I tried to make one myself, and realized I had to set a keyframe for every single frame of the animation... ugh! ouch!!

#263709

By Bubbaloo - Thu Mar 13, 2008 4:03 pm

- Thu Mar 13, 2008 4:03 pm #263709

You don't have to set a key for each frame. Just the "peaks and valleys" of the illumination. It then interpolates the steps in between, like Max.

Brian Looney
Maxwell + RealFlow
http://www.turbosquid.com/Search/Artists/Bubbaloo
Help! I'm dispersing into a haze of probability!

#264093

By def4d - Mon Mar 17, 2008 5:17 pm

- Mon Mar 17, 2008 5:17 pm #264093

just save each light separately, and make your anim with a video soft!

https://soundcloud.com/davidboura/tracks
http://davidboura.deviantart.com/gallery/

#264125

By Cadhorn - Mon Mar 17, 2008 9:56 pm

- Mon Mar 17, 2008 9:56 pm #264125

Bubbaloo wrote:You don't have to set a key for each frame. Just the "peaks and valleys" of the illumination. It then interpolates the steps in between, like Max.

it does interpolate the lighting from keyframe to keyframe when you move the slider, but have you tried to make it save each step (frame) to an image file (for compiling into video via Premiere etc.)? near as i can tell you have to set a keyframe for each step to get it to write the image file, or move the slider step by step and go File -> Save Image for *every* frame. super-tedious!

unless i've missed something obvious (entirely possible)... it's sooo close to being an awesome way to make a light animation, but not quite there yet.

#264131

By Bubbaloo - Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:07 pm

- Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:07 pm #264131

It's been awhile since I've done a ml animation. Does it save it as a sequence of images or a movie file?

Brian Looney
Maxwell + RealFlow
http://www.turbosquid.com/Search/Artists/Bubbaloo
Help! I'm dispersing into a haze of probability!

#264140

By KurtS - Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:57 am

- Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:57 am #264140

It's extremely simple. Just set the "peaks and valleys" as keyframes and hit "save sequense". Maxwell saves all the frames in just a minute or two.

#264147

By Cadhorn - Tue Mar 18, 2008 4:52 am

- Tue Mar 18, 2008 4:52 am #264147

Thanks KurtS and others. You're right. It *is* extremely simple.

I don't know why the h*ll I couldn't figure it out!

The preview window doesn't refresh when I move the frame number slider (at the very bottom) and click "refresh", but the frames export just fine when I use "save sequence". Correction: the preview *does* change once I slide to a keyframe.
That'll work!!