Schematic Editor

[567legodude 0]

It would be nice if there was a schematic editor, like the ability to move/animate the individual blocks of a schematic. Right now anything that I want to move, I have to remove from the creation, and then add it later.

On a piston door for example, to be able to select the blocks of the door and animate them to open, instead of deleting the blocks from the schematic and adding them in.

[SDWAN 2.8k]

There's a thing called scenebuilding

[567legodude 0]

Just now, SDWAN said:

There's a thing called scenebuilding

Is that a part of mineimator? Where would it be?

[Devin Manning 440]

19 minutes ago, 567legodude said:

Is that a part of mineimator? Where would it be?

He means open minecraft and create a map for your animation, you can import worlds through mine-imator with a simple world importer included with the program. If you want to edit the included schematics open mcedit and import them into your world and go into minecraft and then edit the map.

Animating is not meant to be easy, there are tools that make is simpler than it was before, but they don't want to make it too easy for you otherwise you create cheaply made animations with almost no effort or quality... wait a second

[geotrax2001 399]

26 minutes ago, Devin Manning said:

He means open minecraft and create a map for your animation, you can import worlds through mine-imator with a simple world importer included with the program. If you want to edit the included schematics open mcedit and import them into your world and go into minecraft and then edit the map.

Animating is not meant to be easy, there are tools that make is simpler than it was before, but they don't want to make it too easy for you otherwise you create cheaply made animations with almost no effort or quality... wait a second

that  and what your doing are the only ways of doing this currently.

[567legodude 0]

Just now, MineshaftGT01 said:

that  and what your doing are the only ways of doing this currently.

Okay I guess. But there seriously needs to be a checkbox to make torches/fire emit light in the schematic; I shouldn't have to place 1,700 point lights manually...

[Devin Manning 440]

Just now, 567legodude said:

Okay I guess. But there seriously needs to be a checkbox to make torches/fire emit light in the schematic; I shouldn't have to place 1,700 point lights manually...

From what I know People who use Blender and C4D have to do that, why should we get a free pass on having to do that

[567legodude 0]

Just now, Devin Manning said:

From what I know People who use Blender and C4D have to do that, why should we get a free pass on having to do that

I placed every torch in MC manually. Emitting light would be very simple.

[Devin Manning 440]

1 minute ago, 567legodude said:

I placed every torch in MC manually. Emitting light would be very simple.

So did all of those Blender and C4D animators when having to do a lot more to export their worlds to be usable in Blender and C4D

[567legodude 0]

Just now, Devin Manning said:

So did all of those Blender and C4D animators when having to do a lot more to export their worlds to be usable in Blender and C4D

This isn't blender though, we shouldn't limit ourselves just because someone else did. And I know how to code it would be less than 10 lines.

[Devin Manning 440]

6 minutes ago, 567legodude said:

This isn't blender though, we shouldn't limit ourselves just because someone else did. And I know how to code it would be less than 10 lines.

 Mine-Imator is simply made to easily open the door to allow you to learn how to animate with a simple but complex interface to allow you to understand how to use more complex animation software (using minecraft as the base)

Or at least that's how I look at the software

Edited November 11, 2015 by Devin Manning

[567legodude 0]

1 minute ago, Devin Manning said:

 Mine-Imator is simply made to easily open the door to allow you to learn how to animate with a simple but complex interface to allow you to understand how to use more complex animation software (using minecraft as the base)

Or at least that's how I look at the software

Is it gonna kill someone to simply loop through the schematic and make light where there is a torch?

At least in those other programs you could make a plugin/filter to do it for you.

[Devin Manning 440]

Hey I don't have a problem with it, and even though you got a plugin/filter it's like installing a mod to fix a game, it's not the game you downloaded/bought is it? It's an addition which makes a task easier

[geotrax2001 399]

2 minutes ago, 567legodude said:

Is it gonna kill someone to simply loop through the schematic and make light where there is a torch?

At least in those other programs you could make a plugin/filter to do it for you.

@David please handle this...

[567legodude 0]

14 minutes ago, Devin Manning said:

Hey I don't have a problem with it, and even though you got a plugin/filter it's like installing a mod to fix a game, it's not the game you downloaded/bought is it? It's an addition which makes a task easier

But you have to use a mod to fix what the original doesn't have. Or just add some things for fun.

@MineshaftGT01 What is the need for that? It probably won't be added.

Edited November 12, 2015 by 567legodude
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[geotrax2001 399]

34 minutes ago, 567legodude said:

What is the need for that? It probably won't be added.

this isn't something to talk to us about. if this is such a big issue for you, take it up with David.