plug in request, for production frame - cbr file uncompress utility

Mistara

please, can someone make something to bring the production frame into selected camera view?
lost it twice this week

four secret Carrara primitive ? :)

would be fun to work the camera, or obj, with a joystick control :lol:
red leader

WendyLuvsCatz

Magnifying glass icon, increase % and with camera selected you can also drag the corners

WendyLuvsCatz

If anyone here reading that does plugins, I would LOVE a solid bounding box view esp using replicators.

Mistara

cookie for plugins :cheese:

Mistara

wendy♥catz said:

Magnifying glass icon, increase % and with camera selected you can also drag the corners

i zoomed and zoomed. couldn't find the borders of the production frame.

had to create another camera. :)

3DAGE

Hi Misty Whisky :)

Pic to help

You can hold "Alt" and click the magnifier tool to zoom back out, if you've zoomed in.
but you may also have used the "Pan" (Hand) tool to move in 2D, so your Camera's "production frame" can become lost.

It's better not to use those 2D tools, but to use the camera "tracking" tools to either track in or out , pan, left or right, or rotate around any selected object.
You can also hold "Alt" and click-drag in an empty part of your scene, to move around, use a combination of Left click and drag, or Right click and drag, while holding Alt to move the camera around.

You can also set any camera to the "Reference" camera position, ...this is the default view for the Directors camera.

Saving different camera positions as you roam around the scene, then moving your main camera by loading different positions at different points in the sequencer time-line, can be a simple way to create a camera animation.

Mistara

thanks

couldn't figure out how i lost it in the first place. twice in one week was up late passed midnight

the 2d tools the culprits. release the kracken on them. :cheese:

Mistara

can someone make a cbr file uncompress utility?

thanks.

Philemo_Carrara

I'm not sure I understand, but, if you mean just have it in a readable form that can be opened in a text editor, ZIP utilities do it perfectly (personally, I use 7-ZIP, but most will do).

Misty Whisky said:

can someone make a cbr file uncompress utility?

thanks.

Mistara

how do you do that exactly?

it's not like a binary file or something?

thanks.

Mistara

can save the whole car file uncompressed.

looks like this is the shader section.

Philemo_Carrara

Actually, it is a zipped text file, which makes it binary.
If you unzip, it's a text file (but hardly easier to read :-)

internally, the file lacks the 4 bytes magic word identifying a ZIP file, so yan can not just rename it to .ZIP. You need a tool for that.
If you install 7-ZIP, you just open the file with it and voilà :-)

Below is an example of what you'll find in it (it's the beginning of the aged copper shader)
Good luck for decoding :-)

hdr {
scmp {
WfSt 0
Shc0 {
shdr {
clgr {
WfSt 0
Sh00 {
shdr {
snoi {
WfSt 0
SEED 0
ALGO 1332769843
INVE 0
SPAC 0
OFFS 0
AMPL 0.137255
SCAL 0.56
FRAC 1
FREQ 100
STEP 2.5
XSCA 1
YSCA 1
ZSCA 1
XORI 0
YORI 0

Misty Whisky said:

how do you do that exactly?

it's not like a binary file or something?

thanks.

Mistara

thanks. hunting the internet for 7-zip :)

and there's no syntax for telling carrara which uv_set to use on genesis?