Addon: Fast Animation Studio Tools = Faster Animation Workflow

OK thank you so much I missed that one

Yea, Iā€™ve been using Daz for 6+ years as well as Diffeomorphic add-on in Blender. Actually I use Fast menu from time to time but it depends on what Iā€™m gonna work onā€¦ so I frequently swith the mode in b/t Fast menu and Blender menu, then I found that little bugā€¦ No problem, thanks! Looking forward to the fixā€¦

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OK I got it fixed and uploaded the update now you donā€™t even have to save preferences when you change this setting itā€™ll stay saved even if you force close blender right after or it crashesā€¦

Another programmer made this functionality but he was busy so I had to fix it so I fixed it so if thereā€™s any other issues the turn around time will be way quicker on this now because I know it nowā€¦

And just to note Iā€™m here 16 hours a day you need anything about this addon just send a message and Iā€™ll get to it right awayā€¦ And Thank You Very Much for being a Valued Customer!!

Iā€™m sorry I just noticed this commentā€¦

I really made the diffiemorphic part a lot better you should try it out I really made a lot of big informative tool tipsā€¦ Iā€™ll make a video on it tomorrow so itā€™s clear but basically you just save a genesis 8 character and your DBZ file to the diffeomorphic_save folder in FAST INSTALL FOLDER and your animation to the pose folder inside it and then open up blender and check monitor on the fast diffeomorphic panel and

it will import it automatically .and merge rigs and import whatever morphs that you selected on the panel and add anim and parent it to an emptyā€¦MIMIC works!..got check visemes(or facs on 8.1)I

'm still testing this Iā€™m gonna test this more tomorrow and try and make a video within the next couple of days as Iā€™m currently fixing some green edges around the images on the fast keyā€¦

but just note the tool tips are packed with information on every related function and the console has a lot of awesome information too I made it a lot better but itā€™s not fully tested so Iā€™ll be testing it if you have any feedback and you wanna put here that would just help me moreā€¦

Diffeomorphic has an API now so weā€™re gonna be making like everything really streamlined and like take as many button clicks out of their processes and chances of error as possibleā€¦ Diffeomorphic really is the best thing to ever happen to blender besides blender itself which is geniusā€¦ Note if you wanna use any of diffeomorphic API functionality itā€™s already to go in FAST to write scripts with itā€¦ just call import_daz in the text editor in blenderā€¦

Oh and to use any functionality you just gotta click the diffeomorphic button in fast add-on preferences that installs the add-on you will know itā€™s installed because youā€™ll see an * next to diffeomorphic on the button and you donā€™t even have to restart blender after you install it ā€¦I donā€™t think itā€™s been working for meā€¦

You probably know more about diffeomorphic than I do so any tips or advice or any extra functionality you want just let me know and Iā€™ll add itā€¦ Also came up with a nice dark theme as well on the latest updateā€¦ Also any any ideas on the fast menu let me knowā€¦any way i can impove it

Yeah, now it works well! Many thanks for the quick update! :laughing:

Iā€™m so glad youā€™re happy with the updateā€¦FYI I got instructions for Diffeomorphic posted on documentation tab of blender marketā€¦so you knowā€¦ Itā€™s such a treat to import a Character with animations from Daz Studioā€¦ anyways you need anything you notice any issue about the add on or would like to request functionality iā€™m here 16 hours a day. :grinning:

I updated the version for times in Preferences, to 5.4.0. Afte restart Blender, it still always shows 5.3.8ā€¦ Iā€™m using Blender 3.6ā€¦ Pls check.

Now it shows update availabel to 5.3.9 other than 5.4.0 ? !

Iā€™m working on that right now I should have it done by the end of the night

Thanks for letting me know by the way Iā€™ll get these taken care of quicker iā€™m making a super strong test process Iā€™ve written special software for my test process. so these errors wont happen in futureā€¦fixed a major diffeomorphic import issueā€¦ Today please let me know if you have any issues at all with this functionality and notice there are paths where you could add temporary daz asset libraries for the functionality to useā€¦ on the FAST panel in 5.4.0 coming toniteā€¦ Those paths revert to whatever you had set in diffeomorphic Global settings after the characters imported

let me know if you have any issues at all and Iā€™ll stay on it tomorrow till itā€™s fixedā€¦ Iā€™ll be testing it and upgrading it anyways tomorrowā€¦

Now the update works and the version was successfully updated. Thanks for the quick response! :smiley:

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Happy toā€¦ the functionality of this add on is my top priority, remember if you click issues I do offer phone support too to make sure we could get things done as soon as possible and Iā€™m also gonna start providing patches if I could get those to you quicker than an update iā€™ll e-mail you a patchā€¦ likely if itā€™s an error Iā€™ll know exactly what it is,

Thanks a lot! but I sitll found an issue: with the add-on activated, the launch of Blender turns slow now (nearly 15 seconds)ā€¦ If I deactivate the add-on, the launch speed is pretty quick as usual (in 4-5 seconds). So can it be optimized ?

OK Iā€™m working on that right now actually iā€™m finishing up a new auto save feature and Iā€™ll do everything I can but keep in mind this add on has over 20,000 lines of code in it and thatā€™s a big part of the reason why itā€™s taking so longā€¦ If you count the libraries that it imports it has over three million lines of codeā€¦As youā€™re probably already a happy user of the add on you know how much stuff Iā€™m adding to this iā€™m making this into a real serious thingā€¦ Day by day itā€™s getting stronger and to compare it I opened up adobe premiere pro software which if you donā€™t know itā€™s really high level video editing software they use in the Hollywood industry and I tested it and that takes about 11 or 12 seconds so Iā€™m trying to stay right around there but I will optimize this as much as I can and keep you posted about thatā€¦ If you have any questions at all please feel free to click ISSUES as that might be a little bit easier than going to blender artistsā€¦ And any hitches at all is to the operability because I just made a lot of changes that are coming in this coming update so any hitches at all we do offer phone supportā€¦

TBH, I donā€™t really mind about that speedā€¦ If I open Adobe Substance Painter or Photoshop (I donā€™t have Premiere), it nearly takes 25 - 30 secondsā€¦ though I have a pretty robust PC. I just wondered if there would be any chance to make your add-on even optimizedā€¦ Thanks for your attention. :smiley:

BTW, I got the add-on from gumroad and got the coupon code just from youā€¦ :laughing:

OK Yeah it doesnā€™t matter about coupon codes at all you know any customer you know I put at the top of the list you know itā€™s my mission to make this as good as possible now I gotta finish up a couple other parts of my update and then but shouldnā€™t take that long today and then Iā€™m gonna start analyzing and see how I could optimize the startup I know because when youā€™re starting Blender youā€™re so excited and any way to make that less would be awesome

Nice! Many thanks in advance!

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OK just so you know Iā€™m gonna keep an eye on the startup times and might end up hiring a coding specialist to analyze it and come up with some sort of genius way to implement faster startup time I agree with you it would be nice if when we started up the FAST add-on it would take the standard blender 4 seconds start up time

Thanks for letting me know Iā€™m working on that error right now I should have it uploaded by the end of the day

And just a quick note I appreciate you using the DIFFEOMORPHIC functionality and have the intention to keep it top notch so if you ever notice any issues at all no matter what it is as far as this not working as intended or you wish it would work better then feel free to send me a message and Iā€™ll start working on it right away and get the update to you before you know itā€¦ Iā€™m in the process of getting this add on listed on the Daz Studio store I think itā€™s gonna be like the first Blender add-on to be on there so any help at all in that regard as far as reporting issues would be a big helpā€¦ A new update is coming within the next couple of days thatā€™ll improve the merging of rigs for some charactersā€¦ And I have cleaned up the panel quite a bit so you know Iā€™ve been busy in the last couple weeks creating a new auto save feature for the add on so thatā€™s coming as wellā€¦ When itā€™s all said and done, using the FAST add-on youā€™ll be able to be at the helm of three awesome autosave systemsā€¦ I created the FAST version to be crash proof and Iā€™m currently testing that functionality.

Yea, Iā€™m a Diffeo user as well, and so far so goodā€¦ Sure thing ~ I will let you know if thereā€™s any issue.