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Any couples pose animation vendor scripts anywhere ever?

Matthew Devanter
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Join date: 15 Aug 2006
Posts: 7
11-22-2006 05:42
I initially posted this in 'Scripting tips', not sure why I didn't post here first - maybe it's because I'm an upstart beginner animator I felt somehow ashamed and unworthy to be mingling with animators proper. Now I'm ashamed of feeling ashamed. So, anyway...

I'm a beginner animator who is trying to set up a little shop to sell innovative couples (and solo) animations. I'm not a scripter - although I can make minor adjustments with well noted scripts. I've wasted 600 dollars on three different well reputed vendors that seemed to be able to do the minimum of what I needed, but they can't. (I think these are good products, but not able to do the job I need). I'm reluctant to spend the thousands (as a new businessperson dipping his toes into the commercial waters) on the bigger flashier models as it doesn't really seem that they do exactly what I need. I don't wan't to keep making the same mistake. What I need is (ideally) this:

A vendor that can rotate couples animations (I imagine poseballs is the only realistic way of accomplishing this) with the customer still 'sitting' (I know this seems impossible, but I've SEEN it, honest!) and the camera angle not swinging behind the av (as one of the vendors I have bought does *wtf!*). I've seen it done, so I know it is possible, but I've searched EVERYWHERE: in-world searches, slexchange, slboutique. And I can't find one that does this. Surely I'm wrong! Does anyone know of such a thing?

Second best is to have a mod/cop vendor that displays one animation and scrolls through without customer having to stand and has a 'face the AV' camera angle. Then I could put two side by side and have the customer choose and match the 'couples'. But how tragic is that? Please help, I was so excited about this project and was willing to spend most of my waking hours animating to build up a good stock, but if I can't sell them for want of a practical vendor, it's just not gonna happen. So I'm a bit desperate. If anyone has any ideas or tips, please help.

Thanks,
Desperate sad bloke.
Johan Durant
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Join date: 7 Aug 2006
Posts: 1,657
11-22-2006 07:29
Well the approach I take is to have a separate vendor for each product and have a demo set of poseballs in front of the vendor, so I don't have any input to you as far as multi-vendors. My question though is if you can move the camera around even after the camera shifts to a new position. If so, perhaps the vendors you already have are useful to you and you just have to live with this minor annoyance for a while until you can find better vendors to replace them with.

Note by the way that lack of demo units isn't the end of the world. Although in my main shop I have demos for customers to try out all of my products, in the Animation Warehouse I don't have demo units for any of my products, and they still sell fine. As long as you provide a good screenshot and descriptive text in a notecard they get by clicking the vendor, people will still purchase animations even without a demo.
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Matthew Devanter
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Join date: 15 Aug 2006
Posts: 7
11-22-2006 17:16
That's a really interesting insight from an experienced animation seller, thank you for that Johan.

I suffer from Obsessive Prim Frugality disorder and find it very difficult to allow for one vendor and poseball set per animation as you do. I'm thinking though that maybe a compromise is in order. Maybe have demo vendors for a few of my best animations and some non-demo multi-item vendors with images & descriptions for the lesser animations. Hmmm.

If anyone has any further ideas, solutions or tips (or vendors!) then please let us know.