View Import

[landskiplab]

Hi, haven't found a topic on this, so here goes:

I would like to import a series of views from outside CC, largely to achieve more control in the animation command, and set up smoother transitions (more views, to make a "curve", or even a turntable effect).

The BIN format is however not very transparent - is there another manner (CSV?) to import view data?

Thanks in advance!

[daniel]

Sadly there's currently no way to export the viewports. First we would need an open format to be able to export them (do you know any?).

And of course it would be cool if a contributor could add the option to generate smoother curves or turntable effects directly in CC ;)

[jedfrechette]

Nuke's .chan format would probably be the simplest format as it's basically just an ASCII list of camera poses:

https://en.blender.org/index.php/Extens ... xport/Nuke

However, as with most of these sorts of txt formats it is a little bit ad-hoc and there tend to be a few different dialects.

For something a little more well defined Alembic would probably be a good choice. I guess the FBX importer/exporter could be extended too, but that's not really open.