[sleepingfish]

I'm currently working in a 3D animation that features a robot character.

The plan is to give the root a mouth light, that lights up when he talks - not lip sync animation or anything to technical, just a flash when he talks.

Rather than spending hours animating the light to the audio, I wondered if there was an easier way; does anyone know if there is a plugin or feature that can make an objects properties react to sound in 3D MAX?

[sleepingfish]

no?............................no one? :cry:

[Narate]

"With Foley Studio MAX, 3ds max™ users can effortlessly add .wav files that interact with your scenes in 3D space. As a simple example, you can attach a footstep sound to a walking character and specify that the sound be triggered every time a step is taken. This powerful functionality gives you the ability to turn your 3ds max environment into a fully functional sound stage"


a bargain at *cough*

Foley Sound $379.00

[sleepingfish]

cheers Fed3raL, may well give that a go (if I can find a cheaper version )

For the time being, I've managed to attached an audio file to the colour attribute of an object - so the wave form controls the colour, which works fine for what I want.

[Narate]

saves you a wodge oh cash hey

btw would like to see the finished job as you dont see that many 3D animations on the net, especially with sound! and it also sounds cool.

[sleepingfish]

I'll put the url up when it's done. There'll be two versions, one for a dvd - full screen, proper frame rate and sound track- and one for web. It's likely that I'm going to have to hack the frame rate down considerably and make the screen size pretty small - i'll be using Flash's video compression.
It's looking ok at the moment, but the robot is starting to turn a bit camp!