Tvori News

Finally, with the new update, you will be able to export your meshes with animations in Alembic & FBX from Tvori! Here's an example of a video that was made by Sterling Osment from Framework VFX using Gravity Sketch for modeling, Tvori for the layout and animation, and Marmoset for rendering.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6zSMYNNkNM

An animation and look development process:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyinV1SoKHg

Here's how you can export the whole scene in either of the formats:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7P6UF5Z9gw

With this update, we introduce 360 video export and the support of exporting videos with sounds as well lots of improvements and fixes!



You can export 360 videos from regular cameras as well as from play areas. To export a 360 video, select a target camera or a play area from which you want to export the video, press Share button at the top-right on Timeline, and then press "360 Video" on the appeared context menu.

Here are two examples of 360 videos made in Tvori—a sneak peek of a short called Lightning by Jeremy Casper and a scene from Captain Blue Screen by Sterling Osment‎—the winner at our recent contest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTA1_P0Zt0w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q2UyIF5ZeE

• 360 video export
  
• Export videos with sounds
  
• Fixed problems with sounds on Timeline. It's now possible to edit the timing of sounds on Timeline without glitches
  
• New video settings
  
• Fixed situations when Timeline didn't have active target cameras or play areas after opening a scene even though visually something was selected
  
• Added a preview image on the Timeline from play areas
  
• Fixed bugs when switching between tabs on Timeline
  
• Fixed glitches on cameras that was copied
  
• Sound players are not playing all at once when you start a scene now
  
• Removed rotation gizmo pivot point from the camera view
  
• Disallow an export option in the context menu for imported sounds and images
  
• Improved the logic of Scale gizmos in the snapping mode
  
• Improved "Up to" button on the Shelf in Import
  
• Fixed gizmo handle position on Fog when Fog was extremely thin
  
• Fixed the lock highlighting for grouped groups
  
• Fixed twitching when holding the linked objects in hand if they are selected
  
• Fixed when both initial and copied linked objects were staying selected after copying
  
• Fixed wrong object position after Undo if it was in the process of deletion either by throwing or moving into the bin. Was especially evident on body parts
  
• Improved the runtime reloading of imported objects
  
• Fixed animation recording for parameters such as FoV on cameras, and Color or Light Intensity on Lights
  
• Fixed the sun not loading its orientation and scale correctly on new scenes
  
• Made it possible to draw on surfaces of small objects
  
• Added rotation gizmos to the sun controller
  
• Fixed Gizmo handle positions on sound players
  
• Fixed the informational label on Gizmos when in the rotation and snapping modes
  
• Fixed decreasing program's performance after Undo with the tutorial video turned on
  
• Visual elements on controllers respond to input even when they are disabled
  

With this update with improved the way objects link to other objects, visualize their links, and gizmos are working.

Fixes and improvements:
— Problems with linked objects on puppets
— Locker highlight for linked objects
— Gizmo handle position on selected objects with odd pivot points
— Gizmos handle rotation direction for chains of linked objects in the rotation mode
— Wrong connection line position on linked objects
— Disallow linking objects on skinned meshes
— Disallow linking objects on locked puppet's controllers
— Wrong initial transform for some skinned meshes after loading the scene
— Disappeared root bone in some skinned meshes

We would really like to support our creators who are now participating in #TvoriMediumTime contest and thus in this update we’ve mainly concentrated on fixing bugs and polishing some features to assure smooth experience during the contest.

#TvoriMediumTime contest is organized by Tvori with Oculus Medium. Check this link for more details http://www.tvori.co/tvori-medium-time

With this update we fixed the way animations are saving to the sun—so it’s possible now to edit animations of the sun and load them correctly. We improved the way gizmos work in general and with a selection of objects in particular—it’s possible now to animate a group of objects using gizmos, and gizmos should be less annoying for the first time users. Using puppets and cameras became more convenient as well.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOtpOjVNcOU&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG1rVVW63lE

Improvements & Fixes:
— It’s possible to move and rotate cameras, lights, projectors, and play areas with gizmos
— Switching materials for containers.
— Objects that you lock with Lock tool are now saving their state of being locked to a scene, so you don’t have to lock them again after opening a scene you were working on before where the objects had been locked
— It’s possible now to bend a chain of objects linked together using Gizmo
— Animate multiple objects at the same time with gizmos when in recording mode
— Made gizmo handles more precise on a group of selected objects.
— Improved the way Mixed Reality controllers vibrate
— Gizmos are turned off by default now so if you’re using Tvori for the first time you will not grab them by accident
— Gizmo handles are hiding if you are holding an object
— Gizmo handles on multiple selected objects are aligned by world axis
— Puppet pieces are locked by default on Shelf now
— You can use as many cameras as you would like on a scene now. Before the limit was 10 cameras

— Sun. It’s possible now to animate and edit animations of the sun, save them and load correctly.
— Made selecting and copying of puppet parts work correctly.
— Made getting objects out of Shelf work correctly in cases when objects' pivots are set far away from the actual model. It often happened with imported sculpted from Oculus Medium.
— Fixed incorrect undo/redo of manipulation with Gizmo controls on a selection of objects made with the selection sphere
It’s possible to undo/redo locking of objects

With this update, we focused on making the saving system more stable. We still do have this annoying window that appears when something is wrong internally in Tvori, but we plan to replace it with a much more subtle UI in the future updates.

We fixed a critical problem in real-time animation recording where it wasn’t really possible to re-write animations correctly.

We fixed and improved several other parts of Tvori. See below:

Fixes:
— Made it possible to re-record real-time animations
— Fixed potential errors when loading models on the scene
— An error that happened after undoing several events that involve using grabbing objects from Object Shelf
— Sometimes loading a scene would cause an error
— Made it possible to select and delete brush strokes without any errors
— Fixed opening a tutorial video when hovering over any part of the camera
— Scale objects gradually when they get off the shelf

Improvements:
— Made the saving system safer. A save shouldn’t rewrite itself if something has happened in the process of saving
— (Steam) Improved the way loading screen shows up
— (Oculus Store) Added loading screen on Oculus
— The way indication of scale appears when scaling with one hand
— Onboarding videos for Oculus
— Switching between different object gizmos (move, scale, rotate)
— The way how logs (a list of messages stating how Tvori is doing, including errors) get saved internally