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    • giftlift
      giftlift last edited by giftlift

      Just found this last night https://gitlab.com/mattia.basaglia/tgs/
      It has a addon for blender that lets you export lottie files ๐Ÿ™‚ I have exported some basic animations but haven't had time to try them in hise yet.

      ~This is how to set it up~
      I'm on a Windows 10 box
      Add the "tgs_io" folder found here
      https://gitlab.com/mattia.basaglia/tgs/tree/master/addons/blender
      to your blender addons folder.
      (Running import addon_utils; print(addon_utils.paths()) in the blender python console will locate your addon folder)
      Mine is C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 2.81\2.81\scripts\addons

      Next open the cmd as admin and cd to the blender python exe.
      Mine is C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 2.81\2.81\python\bin
      Then run python.exe -m pip install tgs

      Open blender
      go to edit>preferences>addons and check the box next to
      Import-Export: Lottie/TGS Export

      That's it, let me know if any of y'all figure out anything cool!

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      • Brian
        Brian @giftlift last edited by

        @giftlift that looks absolutely amazing! Fingers crossed that it can work within the right specs of the rLottie framework that HISE has, if you have any test animations I would love to see the results ๐Ÿ™‚

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        • ustk
          ustk @giftlift last edited by

          @giftlift Thanks!

          I have figured out how to install it for Blender on macOS after errors due to an alias folder:

          • Copy the tgs_io folder (from tgs_master/addons/blender) to /Users/{user}/Library/Application Support/Blender/2.81/scripts/addons
          • the tgs alias folder didn't work on my end, so I replaced it with a real folder, inside of which I placed the content like below:
            (This way I can delete the gitlab download)

          Untitled.jpeg

          • In Blender, go to Edit/Preferences/Add-ons, look for tgs and activate it:

          Untitled.jpeg

          Now, I still have to figure out how it works ๐Ÿ™‚

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          • ustk
            ustk last edited by

            To myself: File -> Export -> Lottie(.json) ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿปโ™‚

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            • ustk
              ustk last edited by

              After some tests, this tool seems a bit limited in Blender.
              The colour doesn't export with the Lottie (the shape keeps its grey colour, but maybe the colour can be integrated later),
              and if you use shape transform (Shape Keys), the exporter throws an error...

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              • dustbro
                dustbro last edited by

                Gonna tinker with this soon and see what's up

                Dan Korneff - Producer / Mixer / Audio Nerd

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                • ustk
                  ustk last edited by

                  There's another tool that can create Lottie (probably easier than AE), but it's still 15-18/month subscription...
                  https://www.haikuforteams.com/animator/

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                  • Christoph Hart
                    Christoph Hart last edited by

                    Yeah Iโ€˜ve checked that at the beginning. Export works fine (actually even better than AE), but I couldnโ€˜t justify the subscription cost for my โ€žonce every two yearsโ€œ usage.

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                    • giftlift
                      giftlift last edited by giftlift

                      Hello all!
                      It indeed seems limited in blender. The only way I could make a decent animation was in edit mode in 2d animation, and I had to record frame by frame.
                      I'm completely new to blender so I was just trying everything.
                      I also installed the optional dependencies, so that might have helped.
                      There are some cool scripts included, if your good with python.
                      There is also a plug-in for inkscape.

                      But none of that matters because this all is a fork of the new lottie export plug-in for synfig, and if you don't feel like building synfig (me)?
                      https://www.synfig.org/2019/12/27/whats-coming-to-synfig-1-4-0-part-2/
                      This post says they will release a dev version this week with lottie export functionality! They are also creating a documentation of the lottie format ๐Ÿ™‚
                      Just thought I'd pass along the info.
                      Thanks and Happy New Year!!

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                      • ustk
                        ustk @giftlift last edited by

                        @giftlift Wow, I can't wait for the release! This should definitely fill the gap...

                        Tired to press F5 in the forum...
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                        • ulrik
                          ulrik @giftlift last edited by

                          @giftlift great news!

                          Hise Develop branch
                          MacOs 12.4, Xcode 13.0
                          http://musikboden.se

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                          • Brian
                            Brian last edited by

                            For OSx peeps, here is a cheaper app that I just found for 30$

                            https://www.keyshapeapp.com/

                            Still gotta put it through the paces, but the interesting one is that it claims it can even edit already existing animations in Lottie format.

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                            • ustk
                              ustk @Brian last edited by ustk

                              @briandoliveira Will try it ASAP!
                              Synfig promises to be cool at first, but some functions appear to be tedious to use (like handling a simple rectangle), and it's full of bug on OSX (not big ones but...)
                              Anyway it's free and will probably be ameliorated later so finger crossed!

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                              • Christoph Hart
                                Christoph Hart last edited by

                                Nice one Brian, I've downloaded the demo and the first test exported perfectly and loads in HISE... Might be the goto solution on macOS (plus the UI resembles Affinity Designer which is much more intuitive than After Effects).

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                                • ulrik
                                  ulrik @Brian last edited by

                                  @briandoliveira Great find! ๐Ÿบ

                                  Hise Develop branch
                                  MacOs 12.4, Xcode 13.0
                                  http://musikboden.se

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                                  • Brian
                                    Brian @ulrik last edited by

                                    @ulrik @Christoph-Hart Yeah I just got into it now and its sweeet! Its drop-dead simple to animate and export, and for simple design work its also not too shaby. The bonus is that it also does PNG image sequences that work with HISE knobs, so you can just pick your flavour of poison if you need flex both ๐Ÿ˜‰

                                    Screen Shot 2020-01-08 at 6.09.54 PM.png

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                                    • M
                                      mattbas last edited by

                                      Hi all, I'm the author of the Blender addon mentioned above.
                                      I've also been working on a proper animation program for Lottie, I just released a first version of it: https://gitlab.com/mattia.basaglia/glaxnimate/-/releases/0.1.0
                                      (It's free and open source)

                                      Since it's the first release it doesn't have all the features that Lottie supports but I have to start from somewhere ๐Ÿ˜› It should be more than enough to create simple animations.

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