question bout animating an PNG image

praxis · Post by **praxis** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 4:26 pm

Hi,

I cut my figure into pieces in photoshop. head, arms, legs and body. And saved them as PNG. Imported them in moho and gave them bones.
When I move the arm it gets very ugly and edgy around the elbow.
But when I render the image it looks quite well actually.

How can I see instantly what is going to be rendered?

thanx!

bupaje · Post by **bupaje** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 4:39 pm

At the bottom right of the main drawing screen you will see a button labeled "Display Quality." Try the settings there.

praxis · Post by **praxis** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 4:42 pm

Well, i tried high, medium low and it ain't helping. Weird...

bupaje · Post by **bupaje** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 4:50 pm

The window is a preview mode so it will always look 'different' or lower quality but if you can post a small screen shot we can tell you for sure what you are seeing.

praxis · Post by **praxis** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 8:56 pm

Maybe a stupid question, but I never posted an image. Can you tell me how to do that? Then I will post the rendered and the (ugly) "pre"rendered version.

Niek

bupaje · Post by **bupaje** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 9:21 pm

Sure. You need to first upload your picture to your website or some free website or gallery online. You can conduct a search for "free image hosting" or "free website hosting" or ask in the Miscellaneous Chit Chat forum if anyone has suggestions.

Anyhow on a quick search I found one that doesn't even require registering -don't know how good it is but try if you need one. They also provide standard links to your image so you can just cut and past the forum link preformatted.

http://www.theimagehosting.com/

Otherwise just press the 'Post' button here, click on the URL button, paste the address to your online picture and then press the URL button again, or if you include the whole address -http: etc the forum will recognize it as a link without formatting. Usually small images you can put inline doing the same procedure using the Img button in the 'Post' section but as a matter of courtesy very big images are usually done using the URL since some people have slow connections and may not appreciate loading an 11GB image.

praxis · Post by **praxis** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 12:30 am

THnx!
I'm gonna try...

praxis · Post by **praxis** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 12:36 am

voila

Can you see what I mean? The render still doesn't look that good though. I'm doing something wrong with giving bones, I want the arm to bend smoothly but it bends crackly (whatever that means!?).

Anyway the render looks very different than the one in the working area.

And maybe any suggestions making the arm bend more smoothly?

p.s.: that imagehostingsite turns out to be handy for a quick upload

Post by **Lost Marble** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 12:49 am

One thing to try would be to adjust the bone strengths. It may be that the bones in the upper and lower arm are too strong and are having too much influence over each other. Try adjusting the bone strength regions so that they are just barely wider than that section of the arm in the image.

praxis · Post by **praxis** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 10:01 am

That helps quite a bit! Thanks. But as you can see the workarea "elbow" differs al lot from the final render. Every time I move something I have to check if things are right in the render...