u/No_Profession_9078

No updates on the tool but here's another render ig

Big improvements since last time!

First of all, I got the object smoothing to work consistently.

I upgraded from 3 to 6 animated meshes.

the program now stops when you finish an animation.

you can choose how many frames to render.

and I removed the materials tickbox since you can just choose whether or not to use a Bryce material by leaving the tack on the board.

And you can customize your render resolution.

There are still a few things I need to do before considering this ready for release though.

First there's a problem where it (VERY RARELY) won't load the mesh on some frames, If I can't fix that directly, I should be able to fix it be letting you choose to render a specific frame in the sequence Instead of all of them at once (I'm probably gonna do that anyway though)

Second, I still haven't added support for the bryce built in animator, but don't worry that's on the way too!

Third is that I need to make sure that it will work on multiple resolutions, since a good portion of this tool relies on screen coordinates, I'm either going to have to figure out some kind of workaround or make multiple versions of the application for different resolutions.

After testing Susanna (The Animated Object Importer from my last post), I wasn't able to get to work on modern systems or interface with any version of bryce beyond 5.5.

I decided to look through the manual a bit, and I found that Susanna essentially automates the keystrokes to import a model, so I did my best to recreate it with Clickteam fusion!

It's still under development but currently:

It can import up to three meshes at a time (Obj file sequence).

You can use the pin icons to select a bryce material for each mesh (But only from the user tab).

And you can choose whether to smooth the mesh or not.

It still has its fair share of problems though:

It's a bit buggy, this GIF is edited because the main body piece kept switching between smooth and flat and smooth.

You'll have to put a little square in the corner for each mesh so it can delete the mesh and take it to the next frame.

Only works with bryce 7 on a 1920X 1080p screen because I have to direct the mouse cursor to specific coordinates to import meshes, add materials, and tell whether or not bryce is busy Rendering importing or smoothing by reading colors on specific spots of the screen
(Although I plan to make a 1280/780P version so everyone can use it If they change their display settings).

So far, it doesn't interface with the animation timeline, although that's what I'm currently working on.

There's also no reasonable way for me to path an animated mesh, So I'm not even going to work on that, also you can't animate the textures on the animated models.

All that aside once I fix the smoothing issue, add a 1080p or 720p version, and get the animation timeline working I should be ready to release it