Exported bin file's rotation problem

Krakatoa for 3ds Max
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Hi all.

Now, I try to export Pflow to bin file,and load in Realflow by Binary

loader.But loaded bin file is wrong direction. It rotates -90 degree in

X axis.why?Anyone has same problem? Please tell me what should I

do.

My max's version is 8(servis pack3)and realflow's is 4.3.6.0121.

best regards

Kei Yoneoka

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RealFlow uses a Y-up coordinate system, where X is pointing to the right and Z is pointing at the viewer when looking through the front viewport. Same applies to Maya, XSI etc.

3ds Max uses Z up where X is pointing to the right and Y is pointing away from the viewer when looking through the front viewport.

Krakatoa DOES NOT perform any coordinates conversion when reading and writing BIN files. (I will have to ask the developers why, but it does not at the moment). So it is up to the user to orient the emitters to match the target platform.

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>Krakatoa DOES NOT perform any coordinates conversion when

>reading and writing BIN files. (I will have to ask the developers

>why, but it does not at the moment). So it is up to the user to orient

>the emitters to match the target platform.

Thank you Bobo.I hope this kind of specification will be fixed soonsmileI deal with this problem by rotating Pflow's root dummy and it is succesfull.

But another problem has happened in some cases.When I saved particles as bin file.Krakatoa error "realfolw_bin_particle_ostream:Did not expected number of  particles to file.There were:-1 particles left"occured .

What does the error mean?And can I deal with it?

best regards

Kei

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Kei,



We are looking into the possibility to add an option to transform between Y-up and Z-up coordinate systems when saving and/or loading BIN files.



I will have to ask the developer responsible for the feature to comment on the other problem. He will be back in the office on Thursday, so please be patient.



Regards,

Bobo


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I believe you can script an axis change in Realflow for the imported bin files.

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>Kei,

>We are looking into the possibility to add an option to

transform

>between Y-up and Z-up coordinate systems when saving and/or

>loading BIN files.

>I will have to ask the developer responsible for the feature to

>comment on the other problem. He will be back in the office on

>Thursday, so please be patient.

>Regards,
>Bobo

 

Thank you Bobo! I hope to hear a good news.smile

>Beatriz

Hi.Unfortunately,I'm not good at scripting.sadI know to bring out krakatoa's performance ,I shuold study scripting...

best regards

Kei