New ways to set up interactions with props and to animate foot and hand placements The update also adds a new Pose Mixer, described as a “powerful mashup system for still frames”.Īs well as creating new poses by blending existing ones, the system lets users mirror poses. Users can pin a character’s hands or feet in place using a new End Effector system. New HumanIK-based control rig and Pose MixerĬhanges to character posing include a new on-screen control rig based on HumanIK, Autodesk’s full-body IK solver and retargeter, also used in Maya and MotionBuilder. It is also possible to switch between camera positions at runtime, to ‘direct’ a scene in real time. Users can move characters directly using a gamepad or WASD controls to make them walk or run around, or by clicking in the viewport to set waypoints.īackground characters can be set to follow the lead character at a user-adjustable distance, move along paths, or perform contextual idle animations, like NPCs in a game.

Major new features in iClone 8 include Motion Director, a new system for animating characters semi-automatically, using a similar control system to those within videogames. New Motion Director system lets you animate characters with game-like controls In addition, Reallusion is scrapping 3DXChange, the paid add-on used to export data to other DCC software, incorporating its functionality into iClone, and raising the price of iClone to $599. Rendering changes include support for volumetric lighting, motion blur, lens flares and a mirror shader. The release also adds a new HumanIK-based control rig, a Pose Mixer, an animation layer editor, an integrated curve editor, and new options for blending and looping motion clips.

New features in the update include Motion Director, a new system for animating characters semi-automatically using game-style controls.

Reallusion has unveiled iClone 8, the next major version of its real-time character animation software. Scroll down for news of the commercial release.

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