convert animated proxy

[peterguthrie]

apologies if this has already been covered (the search function seems to be down this morning).

Is there any way to convert or render an animated vray proxy? the animated vray proxy displays fine in the viewport, and renders the first frame (when set to display whole mesh mode) but doesnt render the rest of the frames.

[maru]

Sorry, I am not sure about an "official" workflow for this, but I just checked and, strange enough, it seems that animated Vray proxies render fine when set to "preview from file". They can be also saved as Corona Proxy in that mode. But I can understand this is hardly ever an option (usually "full mesh" would be required).

[peterguthrie]

yeah its actually very handy that they render in corona when set to 'full preview' mode.

What I'm unsure of is how to convert an animated proxy to corona?

[Ludvik Koutny]

Hi, I've just tried it and encountered same problem. It seems that in process of creating animated CoronaProxy, viewport is not refreshed and VrayProxy in full mesh is updated only on viewport refresh call. I logged it in our bug tracker, and hopefully it will be resolved soon.

[peterguthrie]

wondering if rendering it via backburner would help?

[maru]

Looks like this is fixed in the newest dailies:
https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php/topic,7238.msg63575.html#msg63575

checking... yup, works out of the box :)

[peterguthrie]

yeah I saw, just haven't managed to get it working yet

[maru]

I created an animated teapot, then converted it to Vray animated proxy, selected "show whole mesh", then create an empty Corona proxy, picked the teapot from scene.

I understand there maybe troubles when automating multiple proxy conversion.  This would require a new proxy converter script.

[peterguthrie]

ah cool, figured it out with Robin's help. I thought the proxy exporter script would do it, but your method is the way to do it

[racoonart]

I understand there maybe troubles when automating multiple proxy conversion.  This would require a new proxy converter script.

I'm currently looking into that. At the moment I don't see a way to read out info about animation state and range from vray proxies. I made a forum request in the chaosgroup forums. If that comes out positive I'll add proxy conversion to the Corona Converter.

[racoonart]

I asked for help in the Chaosgroup forums and even though Vlado knew what I wanted to use it for, he helped me by directing me to the Vray sdk documentation. So, kudos to Vlado - that was a very nice thing to do!

I managed to write a basic reader for the .vrmesh format in c# that I can use to find the necessary information about animation ranges. So stay tuned :)