f1oat opened this issue on May 10, 2010 · 9 posts
f1oat posted Mon, 10 May 2010 at 5:16 PM
Good news: here is a new release of the PyCarrara plugin with some new exciting features
As usual, the plugin is available from http://pycarrara.sourceforge.net
I am waiting for your feedback, especially for the user manual: I believe that some parts may need additional wording work !
Here is an example of shader alpha channel animation : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JthuvE-0P68
Frederic
pauljs75 posted Wed, 12 May 2010 at 2:47 PM
I tested a little in Carrara 6.2. The included demos work ok. Outside of the demos it seems there are some bugs that come up, but I think they're something that has always been in that version of Carrara rather than anything you did. (Seems like certain actions can trigger a bad memory leak when dealing with sound. Ends up freezing and needing task manager if not a full reboot.) The only thing that might be PyCarrara related is that occasionally some MicroSoft Visual C++ error will occur when editing a Python script in the window in Carrara. Why it does that, who knows?
I did get something simple working to show for it though. So it does have its uses when Carrara is willing to go along with it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a7RIJgSXq8
Oh and the manual seems to read alright, I didn't catch anything in the technical stuff. (But then again, my knowledge of Python is limited.) Only thing that I'd change in translation is "boomer" to "speaker" or "woofer" depending on how specific you'd want it. Oh and you might want to note that the sound has to be at very first frame for the script to detect it. (Just have to edit the sound and add silence to the beginning if you need it timed different.)
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f1oat posted Thu, 13 May 2010 at 1:47 AM
Congratulations, you are the first one to post a render with this new release !
With C7 I experience also some freezes with PyCarrara, especially when closing the software. Did not yet found what is wrong in my code.
Thank you for the feedback. Ok, I will update the doc.
Frederic.
holyforest posted Fri, 14 May 2010 at 12:42 AM
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I did get something simple working to show for it though. So it does have its uses when Carrara is willing to go along with it.
Interesting work :)
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Analog-X64 posted Mon, 24 May 2010 at 8:33 PM
dont know how I missed this thread, but its funny today, being at home due to a holiday. I decided to revisit this plugin and sure enough I noticed it has been updated to 0.4 alpha.
I installed it on my C6 Pro 6.2 and didnt crash, it actually ran for me.
So next step is to try and get something animated and pumping to the beat of a song.
f1oat posted Tue, 25 May 2010 at 3:58 PM
Welcome ! For sure, the number of users for this plugin is not yet very high.
Do not hesitate to ask for help.
The 0.4-alpha is an update for C8/32bit. C6 and C7 are still ok and I will continue to support them.
Frederic.
Analog-X64 posted Tue, 25 May 2010 at 4:28 PM
Thanks for doing this Frederic it is appreciated. Now I'll have to learn how to use it, I have no knowledge of Python.
f1oat posted Tue, 08 June 2010 at 12:44 PM
Here is a new test with my PyCarrara Python plugin : a fountain driven by an audio spectrum.
The fountain is built with 100 particle emitters. Each particle emitter is associated to a frequency range of the audio spectrum. The simulation handles about 25.000 particles (250 per emitter).
The Python script contains a loop with 5 steps per second. At each step, the script does:
Rendering with Carrara Pro 8. Final compositing and color grading with FXhome VisionLab Studio.
Frederic.
Analog-X64 posted Tue, 08 June 2010 at 8:45 PM
Very interesting concept I like it, its like a rendered audio spectrum analyzer made of water fountain.