Maya motion blur 2d plugin for shake

[masternull]

Hi, I would like to know if anyone ever wrote a plugin for Shake that can read a maya iff image that have motion blur motion vectors saved in it. I would to be able to apply the 2d motion is post process in shake instead of using the maya command line blur2d.exe.

If anyone have this and would be interested in selling it. I would be interested.

You can contact me via email if you prefer at sb@alpha-vision.com

Hope anyone have this and is ready to sell it.

[pierrejasmin]

The short answer is No (motion whether it comes from RPF, PSD layers as Lightwave can output... or IFF) is not something Shake understands as a filein

Alternatively one can bypass that approach as we do:
http://www.alamaison.fr/3d/lm\_2DMV/lm\_2DMV.htm
which works with our Motion Blur product in Shake
http://www.revisionfx.com/mblur.htm

Luke Tokheim at http://www.stdout.org/~luke/iff2tga/
has some code that comments reading the motion vector data if someone wants to give a go to a stand-alone converter that would take the XYZ data out of the IFF file and make it another IFF file that Shake can read, putting XY in RG... or something that makes sense -- note to my knowledge the auxiliary channels don't output then coverage data which is an issue but presumably can be derived from Z itself... within a converter

FYI, it's not just SHake, no one supports Motion Vectors from IFF files... -- If you find such a thing, our users need it too...

Pierre
www.revisionfx.com

[masternull]

Do you mean that shake can't read a .iff file that have motion vector, or that shake discards the motion vector part of the file?

Shake seems to understand a .iff file with motion vector. Unless shake discards the info, it could be possible to access the info from within shake.

The shake support didn't told me if it could be done, but told me that they won't do it because not enough people request it.

Bottom line if you want this feature to appear in shake, please suggest it. If they have enough people asking for it, they will implement it in futur release.

[pierrejasmin]

it skips over the motion vector data as far as I can tell. Will read the RGBA data fine.

Pierre
www.revisionfx.com

[user_deleted]

aye,

as pierre already suggested, use the lm_2dmv shader. for use with maya get the template from this excellent site:

http://www.impresszio.hu/szabolcs/MentalRa...mvMayaFiles.htm

now get the revisionfx RSMB ... or ... give my macro a try
you will find it here:

ndo_IDirBlur v0.3
http://www.highend2d.com/shake/macros/?section=filters#2965

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If the iff2tga Converter does its job by converting the motion vectors into color channels, I could imagine that it would be possible to write a macro like ndo_IDirBlur for use with that. It's not that difficult...

have fun,
nando.