Saving Animations separately

#1

OsciStudio Version: v0.7.0.4
Operating System: Windows 11

First I found out, that apparently the live connection Blender to OsciStudio has some issues when using “Curves”. They are not displayed the way you are putting them, they just all overlap.

But then I just transformed them to “Meshes” which seems to solve the problem.
Sending the animations via the Blender plugin works fine - but I wonder how I can save the animations separately - when working with other OsciStudio files/saves.

Is there a way to save the animations separately?

#2

hi!

sorry for the late reply. i guess the easiest would be to store the blender files separately, then you can easily send them to any oscistudio file you like.

can you describe what you mean by “they just all overlap”?

best, hansi.

#3

I would also like different methods for bringing animations into OsciStudio that don’t need blender.

I can already drop things like obj files from the file explorer directly into the midi group I want to display that file. If I want to have multiple shapes in that midi group, I highlight them in the file explorer and they all appear as distinct sliders with their filenames.

Is there a similar functionality for the animations themselves?

Right now I’ve been getting around this by going into the save files for OsciStudio with a text editor and finding the area where the animation is described, then extracting that and saving in a separate text file. When I want to create a new scene/orchestration/piece with those different animations, I copy and paste their code into the new save file.

Otherwise, I arranged everything in Blender and pipe it over with the “Send Animation” command. I just wish that using “Send Animation” didn’t clear the obj files that were already running the all the midi groups.

#4

oh, that functionality happens to exist.

  1. select your files in explorer and begin the drag
  2. alt+tab over to oscistudio
  3. press and hold the CTRL key
  4. drop your files where you normally do

this way you should get a single animation instead of individual sliders.