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#Flic as background prob

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#196861From: Grady SainOct 24, 1995 4:47 PM
Howdy, I'm using a flic as a background in the keyframer, and I'm trying to get the proxy image to update with every frame. It only shows frame 1, no matter what frame I'm on. I'm using 3DS ver. 4. Any suggestions? Grady
#197125From: MARTIN G FOSTEROct 26, 1995 2:32 AM
Grady, >> I'm trying to get the proxy image to update with every frame. << that's the way it works, unfortunately. If you are doing some camera tracking you might look at a file I uploaded which describes a technique I used. It's cam-trak.txt in lib #3. I came up with a useful workaround.
#197281From: Grady SainOct 27, 1995 1:40 AM
Martin, Thanks for the response. Your technique will definitely work, the problem is we have to (nearly) match hundreds of keyframes. We are doing a sort of homebrewed motion capture translation of a videotaped actor to an animated character. We shot an actor doing a series of moves against bluescreen wearing a dark suit with reflective joints, and are using very low res edits of his moves to match the IK character animation to. The charcter will be rendered in realtime (for a videogame), so it's geometry is very low res. I need some way to load every frame of the background proxy in correspondence with every keyframe, automatically. I'm sure there would be a way to script a routine to do it, but I'm no programmer… Thanks, Grady