boujou into smoke

[CrumbsChief]

Hi all –

I have a reasonably quick way to get boujou camera data into smoke DVE. Thought I would share and I don’t know if it’s been discussed here before.

Save the Boujou export as a flame action setup. All you have to do is open the .action with a text editor, copy the camera data and paste it into a blank dve setup.

Also – Remember when exporting from boujou to scale by 100 for the flame setup.

Action and DVE setup files are almost identical. I’ve gotten in a few situations where a flame artist worked on a project and then it came to me… and I only have smoke. Usually you can poke around and cut/paste keyframe data to work it out.

CC

[Rob]

You can also get boujou data into the DVE by exporting as .FBX and loading that in. You may need to set it to static camera / moving world if you need are adding static supers. Good luck!

[Tommi Lehtonen]

In DVE, if you go to import camera… the options are ASE or 3DS (using smoke 7).

I’ve tried importing fbx, raw, and 3DS into dve but I haven’t been able to get it to work. That’s why I was poking around in the action setup.

If you know how to get fbx data in to DVE, let me know because that would be the easiest way.

[greek]

hi,

set a layer to geometry & load > fbx, this gives you the option of selecting the camera (needs to be target cam, of course)

ciao
robert

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