Prepare project for Motion

Prerequisites

Erizos Plugins

1. Go to Pixotope Cloud > Downloads and, for the latest release, click on the "Tools” button on the top right

2. Download the Erizos UE Plugin installer and install it.

3. Go to C:/Program Files/Erizos/Pixotope Plugin/ and copy both folders

   

4. Go to [Pixotope installation folder]/Pixotope Engine/Engine/Plugins and create a new folder called Marketplace

5. Paste the above folders in it

   

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If you have created the project from Director using the Motion template, below steps are not needed.

Enable Plugins

1. Click on Edit > Plugins in the Pixotope Editor

2. Enable

   • Erizos Tools for Motion Design

3. Restart the Editor

Create Motion level structure

The Motion workflow requires the following level structure

Create Main level

This is the level that

• will be used to import all Motion Design levels containing templates through the Erizos plugin from using Erizos Studio

• will be played from/which Erizos Studio will launch Live

• Create and open a new empty level

  • We call it Main, but it can be named anything

• Add a Control Motion Design actor to the scene

  

• Go to Pixotope World Settings > Motion Design and make sure the Enable Motion Design Overlay checkbox is checked

  

• Save this level

Do NOT enable Motion Design on this level!

Make sure that the main level is never turned into a Motion Design level. A level for which Motion Design was enabled once and saved will unfortunately not work as a Main level even when disabling Motion Design again.

Create MD_YourTemplate level

This is the level that contains a template. Create one of these Motion Design levels per asset that you will turn into templates, expose properties from, etc.

1. Create and open a new empty level called MD_[templateName]

2. Click on the Motion Design button on the top right to turn that level into a Motion Design level

   • The icon will now show up with a Pause symbol

     

3. Save the level

Connect your Main level and your MD_YourTemplate levels

1. Open your Main level

2. In the normal Outliner, select the ControlMotionDesign actor

3. Go to the Details panel

4. In Control > Playback channel, type "Channel_1"

5. In Control > Folders, click on '+' to add entries to the array and, in each of them, select a folder containing the templates (Motion Design levels)

   

6. Alternatively, you can add the Motion Design levels one by one in Control > Levels following a similar process

   

Next step

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