Make sure the sphere is scaled up big enough so you can move around in it. It's fine to translate the camera but be aware that the illusion will probably break if the camera moves too far from the center region. In general, you'll want to keep the camera in place and animate the rotation. To complete the scene, place your Moho layers (i.e., animated characters or props) around the inside of the sphere and orientate them to face the camera. I haven't taken this any farther in Moho yet but here are some tips based on my experience with other animation programs: I wrote this from memory so I'll document the steps properly the next time I do this, just in case I missed a step. If necessary, scale the sphere up to enclose the entire scene. Set the position for your camera to 0,0,0, and set the lens to 70mm or whatever looks good to you.Ĩ. (You don't want any of the toon shading effects for this.)ħ. In the Layer window's 3D options, disable Silhouette and set the Shading to None. I had to save and close the file and then re-open it for the texture to become visible.Ħ. For some reason, the texture wasn't immediately visible after I imported it. obj with the UV map this is probably true for other 3D programs.ĥ. In LightWave, I have to apply the texture to be able to export the. Set the luminance shading to 100% and diffuse shading to 0%. Apply the spherical image texture (an exported Pano Paint image, for example) to the sphere. I used LightWave to do this but there's nothing special about this technique any 3D program should be able to create a sphere like this with couple of mouse clicks.Ģ. In a 3D program, create a sphere with a spherical UV map. I'll make a proper tutorial later but here's a quick list of steps:ġ. It's essentially the setup described earlier: I imported a sphere with flipped polygon surfaces (facing inward.) The sphere has a spherical UV map that wraps the applied texture inside. I don't typically do 3D inside Moho but if I have time this evening, I'll check if Moho is able to accept a spherical map and let you know how that goes. In earlier versions of Moho, I think you would use spherical mapping? For now, I'm totally just guessing about this. For object formats, I know Moho 13 is supposed to accept OBJ with a UV map-you can create a sphere with the map easily in almost any 3D program. I never tried to create this effect directly inside Moho but, in theory anyway, it should be possible. (Sorry, that was years ago and I would have go back and check what I did there to be sure.) For some of the scenes in Scareplane, (my very first Moho short,) I think I may have combined Moho character renders with LightWave for this effect. A lot of environments seen on any of my demo reels were created this way. Since I like to output my Moho animations for compositing in programs like After Effects or Fusion, I would project the 360 image inside a sphere in either of these programs, or in a 3D program like LightWave. Done right, using a spherical map can be significantly faster than rendering a lot of actual geometry in a scene, and it can look every bit as convincing. See also the RRename utility for symbol table renaming using regular expressions.Mapping a 360-degree painting, rendering, or photograph inside a sphere with flipped polygons is a commonly used 'cheat' for 3D animation and compositing programs to create backgrounds, reflections, and scene lighting. If you disable FILEDIA, you can run commands in this application also from batch scripts, e.g. If you are renaming symbols in similar DWG drawings (containing same named blocks, layers, layouts, etc.), you can start just with the command RenameImp and re-use a single common renaming table (a "translation" vocabulary for name replacements). Now start (type) the RenameImp command in AutoCAD, select the same CSV file and let it perform all the imported rename operations (from OLD to NEW). Open this file in your Excel and edit any names in the second column ("NEW") you want to change (rename). The utility exports a CSV file of a similar type (you can set "," or " " as a field delimiter): Rename :Ĭhoose the style to export (or ALL) and confirm the output file name (the default is. using Excel or other worksheet table or database apps (CSV files).ĭownload RenameCSV from Download, load it into your AutoCAD with APPLOAD and start the RENAMECSV command. The RenameCSV LISP utility by CAD Studio allows to mass rename AutoCAD symbol tables like layers, blocks, views, styles, etc. How to rename layers or blocks in a DWG drawing in Excel? RenameCSV - rename layers, blocks, layouts, views, linetypes using Excel tables