Hi,

Now that MotionBuilder 2011 is available, I thought it would be good to have a thread where people can give us feedback on how they like it and what’s happening for them.

What would we like to hear? Things like:

* how do you like the release?
* are you having any problems?
* what would you like to see in the future?

Thanks,
Cory

Cory Mogk
http://www.autodesk.com/mayalicious

Hi,

I Just installed motionbuilder 2011 and opened a project I’m working on with MoBu2010.
And well the first impression was that saving the file (16MB) take about 25secs!

Ok, further on. At the moment I do a lot of mocap data cleaning in MoBu.
So I resumed cleaning my marker data, fixing occlusions, swaps and so on.
When creating rigid bodies in the optical editor you see the curve of the selected rigid body
in the editor. OK, thats normal, but by selecting other RBs you see all this curves at the same time, all the curves at once! But that’s not all! Selecting a marker
brings up the x,y,z curves for this marker, on top of the RB curves! Damn! What a mess!

By switching to the Dopesheet/FCurves/Story or whatever window an then back to the Navigator window with the marker selected cleans the graph area and shows only the expeded curves. Seems like an refreshing bug.

And I have one special feature request for the optical editor:
swapping markers within a selected frame range would be nice.

Best regards
Sven

Dear oh dear…

New animation layers look great. Just tried them and though the implementation looks nice but they are now unusable. This is particularly serious since it’s one of the most used features and it’s not available the old way.

On 2 separate attempts so far:

Attempt 1:
Successfully set some keys on a new layer with offset animation. Adjusted the weight of the curve, works nicely.
Tried to remove the layer, nothing happened.
Tried to duplicate the layer, animation offsets as you’d expect, no new layer created.
Repeated several times, animation offsets, no new layers are visible.

Looked in the fcurve window, which tells me that i am on layer13, Animation layer only has 2 layers visible. Maybe it’s a redraw issue? Shutting the window down and re-opening it should help right? Nope.

Attempt 2:
Setting a key on the second layer caused Motionbuilder to crash.

This is on Windows XP 64 bit, apparently compatible with the release. I’ll be lodging a case with Autodesk asap.

Interesting discovery. With Motionbuilder 2010 doing LIVE PHYSICS I could only crank up the SOLVER resolution to 3 or less and iteration to 150 or so. Above that and my laptop slowed to almost a stop. With 2011 I can now crank up LIVE PHYSICS resolution to 10 and above with super smooth performance. Particles and everything else runs much better. So, Iam really impressed.

Update:

I’ve had layering working on several attempts now. On one occasion deleting a layer crashed motionbuilder.

Maybe it’s just new install jitters :). I’ll be getting more feedback soon.

mg

Well unfortunately MoBu 2011 still eats half of processor on Windows 7 64bit. Maybe there some optimization for Win7 x64, but still this is big problem in work.

Well… Why then there is no such “not big” problem in Windows XP?

By the way. Still it is very hard to set up actor via Python Script - because of constant data about actor position, scale and translation (functions always give default state). Is it normal? I think no.

It does seem slow to me… I have a new Corsair SSD drive and it still takes awhile.

I find the logic of MB a little hard to fathom sometimes. It seems designed for pipelines and scripting. I guess that’s the intended market.

For example, when you load in a new character or BVH file, it would be nice to be able to just wire the bones in; the drag and drop process is a little cumbersome. Just saving out a template can be a pain if you click the wrong setting when exporting.  Maybe some of the more commonly performed actions could be a little more automatic, like zeroing the rotation of a character to put him in a T-pose.

At the least, detailed tutorials and videos from Autodesk would be very helpful. I know training is part of the revenue stream of them/their partners, but some of their programs are so complex and daunting that there are probably a lot of fledgling users that just quit in frustration.

I have problem with the automatic reach T/R keys, dont like that, would like to be able to set it on/off or take it away completly

I would like to see a version for Mac OS X

an easy way to move around with your windows, to move away tabs from one window to a new or to another window

Better support opening older files so you dont have problems uppgrading from earlier version to the new one

I rather see that you realese an upgrade every second year, make the program less buggy when you realese it

I still prefer 2010, everything works and I have a good working flow whitin 2010

when I work with MBuilder i setup my timeline as pal or sometimes ntsc but when i close and open the programme (sometimes scene) its almost always return as defult 24 fps...is this bug?

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