How to use FunscriptToolBox MotionVectors Plugin in OpenFunscripter

[Zalunda]

@RedZadow

This isn’t the full story and after installing it, I wanted to move it to a different location, but ran into the issue memeweaver encountered with FunscriptToolbox not being recognized as an internal command as the path in --FSTB-PrepareVideoForOFS.1.0.bat did not get updated even though I re-ran the batch script as instructed.

If you moved the ‘whole folder’ (i.e. Funscript folder with the ‘use case’ folders still under it), then you are right, rerunning the installation will not update “–FSTB-PrepareVideoForOFS.1.0.bat” (because you might have made some changes to the script that I wouldn’t want to override). I didn’t think of that.

I only thought of the scenario where you put Funscript folder somewhere, ran the installation, and then, move only the ‘use-case’ folder somewhere else (ex. “FSTB-PrepareVideoForOFS”). In that case, rerunning the installation would recreate the whole “FSTB-PrepareVideoForOFS” folder, including the batch file, from scratch.

Anyway, I’m glad you managed to fix it.

@RedZadow

I patched this up and got rolling however I ran into another issue where after running the batch file I did not have the *.mvs-visual.mp4 file. Instead I had *.mvs-p-frames.mp4 and *.mvs-visual.mp4.temp.mp4. These as you may expect did not work correctly.

Not sure what happened there. “*.mvs-visual.mp4.temp.mp4” is the temporary file name (yes, it’s a bit weird). In theory, you could have that state if the application was killed or crashed after creating “.mvs-p-frames.mp4” but before finishing creating the .mvs-visual.mp4 file.

I don’t think messing with the OFS extension was needed in your case but no harm was done by doing it.

[Zalunda]

@Bella

I’m looking for a “best practices” way of handling a particular kind of scene:

The girl is rubbing her pussy in a circular motion, so at the top all of the vectors are pointing right (3 o’clock), down as she moves her hand down (6 o’clock), left at the bottom (9 o’clock) , then up again as her fingers move up (12 o’clock), finally turning to the right (3 o’clock) .

In setting up the stroke points in OFS to prime the tool for the best outcome, is it better to ‘lead’ the top and bottom point so that they are still on the up/down vectors, or at the top and bottom of the swing, where the motion is 3/9 o’clock?

Unfortunately, I don’t have best practices for that. You are describing a somehow complex movement. The plugin is mostly able to follow movement in a single direction (12 different angles, like a clock). You’ll have to see which option gives the best result in your particular case.

@Bella

Also: Some of us are red/green colorblind, so if there’s not-green arrows out there (not the black and white arrows), I can’t tell.

Nope, it’s only green arrows.

@Bella

When you’re adjusting the Activity/Quality/Min sliders, and the vectors on the part of the video you’re interested in are going the correct direction, but thin black arrows, and not the fat (green) arrows, what does that mean?

Thin black/white arrows (depending on the background color) are generated during the file preparation (i.e. .mvs and mvs-visual.mp4) and are ‘baked’ into the image. This is why we always see them when working in OFS. They represent the motion compared to the last frame, nothing more. They can be useful when scripting manually since you might see a frame where there aren’t many long arrows, which means, it’s probably the point where the girl is changing direction.

Fat (green) arrows are only shown in the plugin UI. In that case, the plugin analyzed all the video-motion-sensors (i.e. the thin black arrow) of all frames from the “stroke points” you provided. It determined which video-motion-sensors angle ‘agreed’ most often with your strokes (ex. stroke going up when the motion sensor was going to 4 o’clock, stroke going down when motion going in the opposite direction, 10 o’clock) and show fat green arrows to represent them (if they aren’t filtered by the different settings: Activity/Quality/Min%).

@Bella

Do the mpg files have to be in the .\FunscriptToolbox\FSTB-PrepareVideoForOFS folder once you’ve prepped them, or can they be moved to a project folder to be opened with OFS?

They can be moved to another folder. That’s what I do.