Animation Editors (Free & Commercial)

Animation editors, post below
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Just listing up..

<<Free>>

Avimator>>> a reference thread

slat>>> a reference thread

DAZ|Stuido>>>a reference thread

Blender>>> a reference thread

<<Commercial>>

Poser>>> no need any reference...

Posemaker>>> a reference thread

Maya>>> a reference thread

Adding:

<<Free>>

QAvimator (http://qavimator.sourceforge.net/) - An extended version of Avimator, offering simple in-scene props, a timeline with keyframe moving feature and soon multiple avatar animations.

So I was able to download the qavimator and made a couple anims with it but I can't access the links to wiki, or the extended version. Keep getting page cannot be displayed and since I get the some for the wiki having some problems lol, help me Mr. Wized.

The server where the domain is hosted is currently down, but it's being looked at to get it back up as soon as possible!

For now try: http://zi.furhome.net/downloads/qavimator-win32-0.01.zip

Hi,

I've just finished making a bvh conversion tool that can be used to convert some bvh files to a format compatible with SL. I've called it bvhacker.

bvhacker was written for and tested with the bvh files available from bvhfiles.com, although it will work with many other bvh 'flavours'.

you can download it (for free) here: http://www.davedub.co.uk/bvhacker/

I've started a new thread: /52/41/152115/1.html should anyone have any comments or suggestions...

enjoy!




April 2007 update:

Due to increased interest in bvhacker recently, I have just finished adding some upgrades.

The new bvhacker (v1.1) has the following enhancements:

- Fitting of motion data to SL skeleton is now greatly enhanced.
- Arms alignment conversion now works far better.
- Ability to add, remove and rename joints.
- Various UI enhancements.

The download and forum links are unchanged.

Feedback greatly appreciated!

; - Dave

so is blender a good one or should I by poser?

<<Commercial>>
a reference thread

Basically this program makes the data needed for BHV files from within SL. Got sick of poses and aniamtions not matching up to my AV. A year later we have this.
Demo available at
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Aglia/72/47/46

<<Free>>
Motion Maestrohttp://www.upl.cs.wisc.edu/~stephane/MotionMaestro/

I've been using bvhacker a lot over the last couple of months, and it's evolved!

I decided to package it up and release it:

/52/41/152115/1.html

; - Dave

Daz3d works in SL to make animations (and other stuff)

Tutorial and Links:

http://secondlife.dolphpun.com/daz3d/

I haven't figured out how to install SL Avatar... Can anyone help?

Just copy the SL Avatar folder into:

Crogram Files\DAZ\Studio\Content\Runtime\libraries\character

Or wherever you have Daz installed.

... is it better than Qavimator?

Hi Ana,

bvhacker is not a replacement for Avimator - Avimator is used to create keyframe based animations, whereas bvhacker is used for one of two purposes:
1) To either convert motion captured animation data to be SL compatible, or
2) As a finishing tool for either keyframe generated or motion-captured animations.

Many animators use a free editor such as Avimator or Daz3D to generate their animations, then use bvhacker to do 'final tweaks' on their animations befor uploading to SL. Common final tweaks might include: adding the frame 1 t-pose and centering animations, but bvhacker can do much more than that!

I wrote a short tutorial detailing how I currently use bvhacker. It is available here:

http://www.davedub.co.uk/bvhacker/tutorial_2.html

I hope you find it useful!

- Dave


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"Better" is a relative term. Blender is a tool that is useful for much more than just SL animation, so if you intend to use any work you create outside of SL (or even just want to leave the option open for the future) then using Blender could be a better choice. Otherwise, qavimator is a much easier tool to learn because it doesn't present you with an array of options unrelated to SL. And the difficulty difference is not slight; while qavimator was built from the ground up for working with SL, I can't off the top of my head think of how to use Blender with SL; I'm sure it can be done, it's just not immediately apparent to me.

Dave I used your BVhacker. very cool tool thanks :+)

Jacek Antonelli generously wrote a bvh exporter and an animation rig for SL for Blender.

She has a tutorial at http://tentacolor.com/sl-animation-for-blender-newbs/

The animation rig and exporter are available at http://tentacolor.com/2008/06/02/animation-exporter-update-june-2/ (and also linked to from the tutorial)

<<Commercial>>

3ds Max>>> /52/59/254674/1.html

Now you can create Second Life animations with Abu Nasu's Max Script BVH exporter in conjunction with your choice of Abu's armature, a Biped based rig, or a traditional bone based rig.

Forgive me if this is already posted, but.

Is there a rig available for Maya? (hopefully a .ma file?)

Does it have the geometry with it/restraints?

Actually reading the thread would have told you if it's already posted, right?


See this thread for more info: /52/15/87870/1.html

The original links are broken, but if you read through the thread you'll find alternate download links.


P.S.: Attention Forum admins... The whole 'Turning off BBCode instead of actually fixing the issues' thing has made it kind of hard for people to read the forums in some cases. For instance, the early posts in this thread used bullet list functionality that no longer exists, making the forums much less useful to people looking for answers.

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Ah, thanks man. It must have been in that horrible cloud of BBCode

Yeah... That really sucks, I wish they would fix it

I want to write but if there are errings in English is this that/because I am Israeli with a little problems is Bengali sorry

I search a software that it's possible to work with two similarity in the same time like that I can the flint of animation of hug etc... then I request help if it's possible to help me in the search of good software of animation to the flint two similarity in the one time

If I will work on one image alone this there will be very hard to do a hug or kiss etc...

Then please help I already recognize the softwares that/because there is here this is not really good for me I search an other type of softwares of animation

Addition:

AnyPose BVH
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Inworld pose tool and BVH generator. Allows you to pose your own avatar, and generate a BVH file via IM or Email.

Available on XstreetSL

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