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Aniblocks import

starboardstarboard Posts: 452
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Helo,

I bought the animate aniblocks for Carrara some time ago but was never able to open them in Carrara. I gave up on trying to open them and just made my own walk cycles using Phill's tutorials.  But now I would like to use them, but I am still unable to open them in Carrara 8.5 .  

They do show in My DAZ  3D Library but they do not respond to a click or open up any files in the right pane.

They do not appear in my DAZ 3D library runtime, as I suspect they are not a runtime file.

So what am I doing wrong? Where should they be placed?

Thanks for any help,

Ray

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,190

    you need the aniblock importer plugin installed and load them from file with the figure selected not from your browser.

    Alternatively you can bake any aniblocks to the timeline in DAZ studio and save as an animated duf pose, I actually prefer this to importing aniblocks for later figures but all the animation needs to be set up in DAZ studio as it bakes keyframes for every frame.

  • starboardstarboard Posts: 452

    Thanks Wendy,

    I don't use DAZ Studio, so I am stuck with the Carrara solution. I thought I had the Aniblock plugin installed, it shows up in my DAZ 3D Library.  I tried selecting the figure and then went to file at the top left and selected  import, but the files in the aniblocks were greyed  out. It is confusing.

     

    Ray

     

     

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,190
    edited March 2020

    check it is in extensions, I admit I have had issues with the plugin on my 8.5 release build but it works on my beta one I have Octane render installed to 

    Mimic plugin and a few others been giving me issues too on release

    Carrara crashes to desktop on startup with them installed

    others such as inagoni crash the beta so I use both builds

    V4 even crashes one of them!

    this is Windows 10 all work on my Win7 machine

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  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,232

    You have to drag the clip into the "Clip" section of the Window at the lower right portion of the Assemble Room.  Then drag the clip from there to the Figure's "Track" in the Sequencer.  See attached.

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,190

    yes those are NLA. clips native to Carrara

    Aniblocks are a DAZ studio format gfa the file extension and need importing under file top left like you would FBX etc but with the figure selected

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,232

    Yes.  I imported the aniblocks and saved them as clips.  The original post third screen shot seemed to show similar clips in the browser, created independently of aniblocks (" I gave up on trying to open [aniblocks] and just made my own walk cycles using Phill's tutorials.  But now I would like to use them, but I am still unable to open them in Carrara 8.5" ).    It seemed the poster just wanted to know how to use clips.

    But sorry if I'm confusing the issue.

  • starboardstarboard Posts: 452

    Steve,

    Thanks for jumping in.  I have no problem making NLA clips, saving them and then implementing them when needed. What I cannot do is bring in the aniblocks which I paid for.

     

    Ray

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,190
    edited March 2020

    is it installed in your extensions folder?

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  • starboardstarboard Posts: 452

    Wendy,

    I have tried what you suggested, but I am not sure at all that I am looking in the right place or would recognize the file if I saw it. 

     

    This is what I think you are saying, though I probably have got it wrong, I select lets say a M4 character in the scene panel on the right, and highlight this figure. Then with this highlighted I go up to the top left and click on File on the bar.  This drops down a menu (New,Open, Open Preset, Close, Save...etc) ..Is this correct?  When I go to Open and navigate to the aniblocks they are not active..

    Thanks again,

    Ray

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,190

    OK  a video

    are you by some chance on a Mac using Catalina?

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,232
    starboard said:

      When I go to Open and navigate to the aniblocks they are not active..

    No, not "Open", that is for Carrara scenes.  Use "Import" for aniblocks.  

     

  • starboardstarboard Posts: 452

    Steve and Wendy,

    Sorry, that was a typo.I meant to type import... When I go to the gfa files they are greyed out.  When I look at the bar with all the import options I do not see .gfa as one of them.  This is probably the problem.  Is the Go Figure download supposed to provide this?

     

    Thanks, Ray

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  • starboardstarboard Posts: 452

    Wendy,

    Yes I am on a Mac, using  Mojave 10.14.3.  Is there a problem with using the importer ona Mac?

     

    Ray

  • starboardstarboard Posts: 452

    Wendy,

    Thanks for the video.This is what I have done..but I can't click on the .gfa files.

     

    Ray

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,190

    there is an issue with opening files using Catalina apparently, I don't know much else being a Windows user

    support will probably just refund you as they are not fixing Carrara anymore angry

    you might have to install their golden child DAZ studio to bake and save aniblocks 

  • starboardstarboard Posts: 452

    Wendy and Steve,

    Thanks for your help.  The solution is beyond my grasp of the program.  I will stick to making my own NLA clips.

    Thanks,

    Ray

     

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