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    simplecarnival got a reaction from dmob in AutoIt is helping make a 3D movie!   
    Thanks, John!

    Basically, I'm using AutoIt as a major part of my graphics rendering pipeline.

    The main animation program I use, Anime Studio, has some limitations in the way it exports 3D. I'm using AutoIt to work around them.

    My AutoIt app takes an Anime Studio project file, then calls a separate C# app which makes two copies of the project file (one for the left eye, one for the right), then parses through the files and adjusts the camera positions appropriately (based on the "Interaxial distance" parameter shown in my talk). Then AutoIt calls out to Anime Studio and renders each project file separately.

    After that...well, there's a lot of things the AutoIt app can do. Sometimes I pull in what I call a "convergence file" (again, I go into this in the talk) and AutoIt loops through the rendered images and adjusts the convergence (horizontal position of one of the camera's images) on a frame-by-frame basis.

    If a shot requires what's called a floating stereo window (a vertical black bar on the edge of either the right or left eye's image -- it helps conceal distracting objects on the edges of the screen), the AutoIt app will handle that as well on a frame-by-frame basis. I went into some detail on the convergence and floating stereo window features on another talk I did earlier this year:



    I'll also usually have the AutoIt app render the final left and right images as a side by side video file.

    Oh, and then there's the ability to run batches of scenes through the AutoIt app, so I can render one Anime Studio project file after another for days on end.

    AutoIt uses ImageMagick for all of its graphics manipulation and VDub for its movie file manipulation.

    From a coding and user interface standpoint, my AutoIt app is a mess. But it works really well for my purposes, and it's a critical tool in my 3D pipeline.
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    simplecarnival got a reaction from jvanegmond in AutoIt is helping make a 3D movie!   
    Howdy --

    I'm a long time AutoIt user, and I've put it to use when rendering shots for a 3D animated music video movie I'm working on.

    I gave a talk last week about the process of creating the movie, and started showing the AutoIt related stuff around the 23 minute mark:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY4ZDgQ3O1c

    Anyway, thought you might find this to be an interesting sort of use for AutoIt.

    Jeff Boller
    http://www.simplecarnival.com
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