Live Animation Creator [Beta]

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#169

This’ll be handy for those who can’t animate. I can see this being used for stuff like dance or hangout games.

Some things will still need to be manual animated though, like first person animations. (Unless you’re going to set this up to work with custom rigs and be able to import only certain body parts. E.g. clicking an option that says “First Person” and having whatever algorithm be swapped or tweaked for that).

Also, a question about privacy with this:
Do you delete these videos (and anything else related to them) when done processing? And do you process them on your own servers or use a third-party?

Keep up the good work!

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#171

Is there a way we can export these animations to an external program like Blender to adjust them to our liking such as locking the elbow joints in a certain rotation? Or are we stuck with the result we get in studio.

#172

Actually, yes. When you import a video, a FBX file is left in your Downloads folder. Open that in Blender and modify it.

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#173

I took it for a whirl myself, and happy to say… While it is something you don’t want to see it ever again on your end, it does work for me so results can vary from person to person after all. It’s just the head movement that has problems, which I have yet to figure out how to fix.

P.S. I used a plugin to convert them to R6, and Sana is eternal.

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#174

Is it just me or does this feel like some dark wizard magic? Like it’s crazy this is even possible

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#175

God, I hope “animators” on fiverr or something say the “animated” this and a person paying for it LOL

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#176

I do love the idea, but… it tried it once to try to make a reload animation but that didint work

#177

I don’t have the option to choose this beta feature. Am I missing something?

#178

honestly one of the best features to be added in my opinion it truly works rather well.


thank you to the roblox team for making this possible!

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#179

i already did that. im sorry my bro

#180

Don’t worry, I think that over time it will be finalized and it will be available to everyone.

Regarding the new roblox technologies, I’ll add: this is very excellent, keep it up!

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#181

This is simply revolutionary for the platform. Amazing work. Animation is a lengthy process that takes a lot of time and effort put in to look natural - with this feature it would bring say a 10 minute long project to a minute or less. Brilliant, absolutely love it.

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#182

I have done some testing without and with objects.
Without objects:
Wave

Sad

Nobody is watching - Yaay

Digging

With objects:
Cleaning with broom

You’re a wizard Harry! (Riding a broom)

Conclusion

  • It works almost smooth. There’s some shaking while the video is steady.
  • If you’re a heavier person like me, it’s important to have your arms straight next your belly with a small air pocket in between. If it’s not possible, the animation arms will look a little strange like mine.
  • It works while holding objects perfectly ++
  • I love testing, experimenting and using it, super good job for everyone who worked on it!
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#183

Seems like me after I eat doritos.

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#184

I have 1 question - will this feature work on custom rigs (Skinned meshes with 60+ bones for example)?

#185

Thank You Roblox, it worked perfectly.

Edit: It was meant to be a dance.

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#187

Wow this is Really good and good for devs, although animators might become less prominent

#188

This looks AMAZING, I’m so interested to see where this goes and the potential this has just unlocked.

If this works smoothly, you’ve just effectively allowed people with no prior animation skills to make beautiful life-like animations and I love it.

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#189

One problem I have is essentially the animation is uploaded fine, the fotoage is alright, lighting is all good - but whenever I import the video file(keep in mind there are no corruptions in the file itself), it always imports with the lowertorso being 180 degrees rotatted on the Y axis. Got no clue why this is happening, tried rotating the camera (really unnecessary), getting better lighting, taking my shirt off but to no avail. Got no idea why this is happening.

EDIT: I’ll try and use a .mov file rather than .mp4
edit 2: nope

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#190

I’ve just got to commend you on your dancing skills my dude :rofl:

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