The shopping cart will be unavailable for a little bit while we update the system. We do apologize for the inconvenience this may cause.
If you have any questions please feel free to email us at support@associatedfx.com! So in the mean time please bear with the delay while we do a li'l maintenance.
Cheers to all,
AssociatedFX
Mar 22nd, 2007
PIGGY UPDATE!
The PiggyPack has been updated to version 1.5. The new update includes a CAPS LOCK direct input entry feature for the Carrara 5 versions of the Copy Motion Data, Parent Modifier, Track Amplifier, Track Bounding Box, and FX Shaders plugin. When clicking on the Choose Button with CAPS LOCK enabled, a dialog will allow you to directly type the object name. This allows you to use the plugin interface completely from the keyboard whenever you know the unique name of the object you want to choose. The Attribute Iterator plugin has also been updated for a specific bug.
Cheers to all,
AssociatedFX
Jan 30th, 2007
HTTP LINKS ADDED
The old style http links have been added to the downloads section in case anyone has difficulties with the newer ftp links. If you have any difficulties with these links please feel free to drop us an email at support@associatedfx.com.
Also, the Attribute Iterator plugin has had a minor update to correct a bug with the recent version 1.4 of the PiggyPack Collection of plugins. This is the only plugin updated in the newer Version 1.4b. You may download this update from the product page or from the downloads section.
Cheers to all,
AssociatedFX
Jan 7th, 2007
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It can help out in animating complex scenes that have large amount of animated objects. Take a look at the demo video here.
The current version of the PiggyPack is now version 1.4. Besides the new Move Timeline plugin it also includes updates for the Attribute Iterator, Parent, and Tweener Iterator plugins.
Cheers to all,
AssociatedFX
Jan 2nd, 2007
LINKS UPDATED Download links have been switched over to our ftp server for better service. This should give more reliable downloads than the http links from before. Currently, this applies to the downloads for the commercial products only. Free plugins will be added later.
If you have any problems or any questions please feel free to contact us at support@associatedfx.com !
Cheers to all,
AssociatedFX
Dec 22nd, 2006
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UPDATED! The Driven Package has gotten a new command added called Remove Static Keys. |
 
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Remove Static Keys will remove keyframes that do no change between the previous and the next keyframe thus cleaning up your timeline. You can use it alongside the Animation Record and Bake Tweener commands to create smoother and cleaner animation timelines with less keyframes. |
Cheers to all,
AssociatedFX
Dec 21st, 2006
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UPDATED! The PiggyPack collection has been updated! The current package version is v1.3. The new version updates the Parent plugin, the Parent Modifier plugin and the Tweener Iterator plugin. |
It fixes a bug with using the Parent and Parent Modifier plugin with grouped object and a bug with using the Tweener Iterator plugin with the Driven Tweener plugin. You may download the new package version from the right hand side of the PiggyPack product page or from the downloads section .
Also, a new video tutorial on using the Animation Record and Bake Tweener commands from the Driven tweener package to create and bake an IK animation has been added to the tutorials section under "Driven Tutorials." It shows how one can use Animation Record to rough out an animation on an IK rig and then to "bake" the keys so that the IK targets and modifiers can be removed while still maintaining your animation.
Lastly, the FXSelect plugin of selection commands is currently on sale for $14.95 now until the end of the year!
Cheers to all,
AssociatedFX
Dec 13th, 2006
NEW! FXSelect is a plugin of various commands to help make selecting objects, keyframes and timelines easier. It contains Quick Select , Selection to Keys , Keys to Hierarchy , Master Select , Select Up and Select Down , and Sort Children commands.
| Quick Select allows you to save and load object selections. These selections get saved with the file so that the next you load it up, all your user made selections are available. |
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Selection to Keys and Keys to Hierarchy allow you to go from a keyframe to the corresponding object or shader or other time based category and vice versa. Allowing you to select all the keyframes of an object with one click.
| Master Select will take a selection of a master object or shader and will select all the instances of that master for you. |
 
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| Select Up and Select Down will change an object selection to either the parent or the children of an object. With CAPS LOCK, it will select the upper or lower neighbor of the object on the hierarchy list allowing you to "pick walk" through a complex object hierarchy or allow you to open and close groups with the keyboard. |
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Sort Children will take a object and will sort the children of that object in the hierarchy list allowing you to view large amounts of object according to alphabetical order or to a transform parameter that you specify. It can make selecting large amounts of objects easier in the hierarchy list.
Cheers to all,
AssociatedFX
Dec 1st, 2006
NEWER UPDATE!
The
Bake Tweener command of the Driven
plugin has been
updated to include a new option that enhances your ability to bake
animations. The "Include Behaviors" option will bake in the "end"
transform from modifiers and inverse kinematics. This will allow you to
for example, create an animation that uses the Track modifier to track
an object. After using the Bake Tweener command, you can then remove
the Track modifier and the animation is still preserved. Take a look
the new tutorial.
The new version is now 1.6. This version also includes all previous updates including the Animation Record command plugin which allows you to record your real time changes into keyframes. You simply begin recording, transform an object over time and then stop the recording. Animate Record will then take those changes and recreate them as keyframes on the object's timeline as over the timespan that it took the user to create them. Take a look at this demo video.
You may download this new version from the Driven product page here.
Cheers to all,
AssociatedFX
Dec 1st, 2006
Previous News
Universal Binary versions of AssociatedFX plugins are now available! You can download these new versions from the downloads section of our website or from the individual plugin pages. These include UB versions for our free plugins too! Universal Binary are to be used with the Mac Intel computer version of Carrara 5.1 and will not function with PowerPC Macs or the PowerPC version of Carrara. PowerPC versions can still be found from the "PPC" label next to the download links. Running pre-Intel Carrara on a Macintosh Intel is inherently slower from the Universal Binary edition because Carrara has to run from a compatibility layer built into OSX.
These new plugins have not been throughly tested. As with the other plugins, if you find any bugs please report them to bugreport@associatedfx.com.
UPDATES
There are also new updates to the Parent Modifier plugin, Driven plugin, and Convert to Wireframe plugins. These updates fix bugs in the plugins and add functionality too! Download these updates from the downloads page or from the plugin pages. Check the pages for these new download version numbers.
Cheers to all,
AssociatedFX
Oct 19th, 2006
There is a newer version of the Parent Modifier plugin already! This corrects a bug that may cause it to disable itself when it shouldn't. As part of our commitment to rid the world of such nasty glitches we went and ahead and released a newer more up to date and shinier version. If you were one of the early ones who got version 1.0, you can download the newer version 1.0a with the more up to date patch for the PiggyPack Collection here. It corrects a bug that causes the plugin to stop functioning if you make use of animated enabling. The PiggyPack Collection download has also been updated.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
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An example video for
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| Cheers to all, AssociatedFX Sept 9th, 2006 |
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For a limitied time only the PiggyPack is on sale for $19.95. Purchase of a serial number will unlock all 10 plugins! |
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The PiggyPack is a collection of 10 plugins including command tools, modifiers, shaders and a comment entry helper object. There is support for modifying attributes for attached bones in Attribute Iterator and Copy Motion Data. Eight shaders added in the FX Shaders package including a Binary and Flipped Normals shader. Most of these plugins have evaluation modes so that you can try them out before you buy one serial code to fully unlock them all. The command plugins will only function on one selected object, tweener or keyframe at a time. The modifiers, shaders and Copy Motion Data plugin will function for only a limited amount of time. The shaders will also add a small striping watermark on renders. And in evaluation mode, no functionality is available for loading or saving files that have shaders, or modifier, or the Comment Pad plugin. However, if you purchase a PiggyPack serial number, you will be able to unlock all these features and get full functionality for all 10 plugins! A download of the complete PiggyPack of all 10 plugins is available here. |
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Driven is more than just a tweener. It is a system of driving your animated keys. It allows you to use the transform attributes of another object to drive any animated parameter. You can also apply your own attributes to drive. It allows you to use one control to change the animation of several objects at one time or several controls to control different animated parameters of for object. It's up to you.
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And since it's a tweener. You control over which parameter and over how much of the timeline that this object will have control.
The plugin also includes Bake Tweener command so that you can "bake" your tweeners into linear keyframes so that you can share your animation with others that do not have the plugin installed. You can also bake other tweeners into linear keyframes. The fidelity to which the new animated parameter matches the original is up to how many keyframes you decide to use.
Check out the video tutorials to see how easy it is to create a custom controlled interface for your models or rigs.
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The download will also include a set of controls from which you can use to create your rig, or driven tweeners from. This set of controls can be manipulated like a custom built user interface for your model's animation.