flame_channel_parser

DESCRIPTION:

Includes a small library for extracting, parsing and baking animation curves made on Discrodesk Floke/Inflinto, also known as flame. Thanks to Marijn Eken, Philippe Soeiro and Andre Gagnon for their support and advice.

FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

  • All extrapolation and interpolation methods are supported (yes two keyframes with tangents across 2000 frames will do!)

  • Expressions on channels won’t be evaluated (obviously!)

SYNOPSIS:

To just bake a specific channel, use the bake_flame_channel binary.

$bake_flame_channel --channel Timing/Timing -e 123 /usr/discreet/projects/BZO/timewarp/s02_tw.timewarp > /mnt/3d/curves/shot2_tw.framecurve.txt

If you just need to process a timewarp, use the bake_flame_timewarp which autodetects most of the settings by itself and gives you a nice .framecurve.txt file

$framecurve_from_flame /usr/discreet/projects/BZO/timewarp/s02_tw.timewarp

This will create a framecurve file called s02_tw.timewarp.framecurve.txt next to the setup

To use the library:

require "flame_channel_parser"

# Parse the setup into channels
channels = File.open("TW_Setup.timewarp") do | f |
  FlameChannelParser.parse(f)
end

# Find the channel that we are interested in, in this case
# this is the "Timing" channel from any Timewarp setup
frame_channel = channels.find{|c| c.name == "Timing/Timing" }

# Grab the interpolator object for this channel.
interpolator = frame_channel.to_interpolator

# Now sample from frame 20 to frame 250.
# You can also sample at fractional frames if you want to.
(20..250).each do | frame_in_setup |
  p interpolator.value_at(frame_in_setup)
end

REQUIREMENTS:

  • Ruby 1.8.6 and above

INSTALL:

  • gem install flame_channel_parser

LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2011 Julik Tarkhanov

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