Support for a focus axis that works for both digital lenses and geared lenses.

If this happens, try exporting again or try restarting blender.

For Raw Move export, there is an occasional issue in which an axis position does not update from the previous frame, yielding a 'flat spot' of two identical position values in the Dragonframe export.

However, there may be slight discrepancies between how Blender and Dragonframe interpolate between keyframes, so use Raw Move for results that exactly match Blender.

Export as an Arc Move file type to be able to edit keyframes once in Dragonframe.

This is demonstrated in the example file. For example, parenting a slider block to a slider allows the slider to be positioned in any location and orientation in space, but the position of the slider block remains a relevant value that can be used for moco export.

It can be very useful to parent referenced objects to other objects, so that the position being recorded is with respect to the parent object's origin, not the global origin.

Be sure to match your Blender scene units to the units you want to use for your axes in Dragonframe.

The units of distance will match the units settings in the Blender scene.

To get an object to rotate with a pan/tilt/roll or heading/attitude/bank style, use the YXZ Euler rotation mode.

In Dragonframe, import as a Raw Move or Arc Move depending on selected export type. The file will be saved to the same directory as the Blender project.

To export, enter a filename and click the export button.

To animate the axes, animate the position values in the tool panel, do not animate the location and rotation values for the actual referenced object.The order they apear in will be order exported for Dragonframe. Axes can be organized by moving them up and down.LX/LY/LZ are position components and RX/RY/RZ are rotation components.

Select the object and component in the axis box.The addon panel appears in the tools panel of the 3D view in a 'Moco Export' tab when in object mode. Each axis can be named for your reference. Click 'Add New MoCo Axis' to add a new axis.To run the addon, open File -> User Preferences -> Addons -> Install Add-on from file -> Select the MoCoExportAddon.py file.The value that is exported for each axis is determined by a reference to some object in the Blender scene and the relevent component of the object's position: location X/Y/Z or rotation X/Y/Z. This allows a scene to be animated and previsualized in Blender, then finally executed in Dragonframe. This is a Blender addon to export motion control movement paths from Blender to Dragonframe.

Dragonframe stop motion