#AAP HELP
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Jack,
I give up. I've been through the AAP manuals and the tutorials and I still
don't get it. I'm pretty good at some of the AAP features but the CEL and
TRACE departments remain tierra incognita.
I'd like to be able to have an "onion skin" type overlay upon which I could
draw a line over a flic frame — while viewing both the overlay and the
flic frame, — apply it to the frame, then adjust the line (in length and
position) and repeat the process. My objective is to show a line growing in
length on an object as it moves in the flic.
Is this possible in AAP?
Thanks,
Alec Jason
Alex
Have you looked into the Next Blue feature in aapro? Page 3-43. It
allows you to advance a frame and see the previous line location to trace
over. It sounds to me like it does what you want, if I understood the
problem.
TedB
I'm not sure I completely understand the result you're looking for. But, of
course, that won't stop me from providing a solution…though it might be a
solution to the wrong problem.
Assuming you want a line that grows, or "draws" itself, along a flic, and
assuming the overall line is not moving within the flic, I would take one
frame of the flic and put a copy of it in the Swap buffer. Draw the
completed line on that frame and trade it with the Swap buffer so the line
is in the Swap buffer and the current frame is "virgin" (no line). Now, I'd
use Scrap ink, one frame at a time, to increasingly reveal the line in the
Swap buffer.
But, you've probably got a moving camera and want a growing line to appear
on moving geometry? If that's the case, I think I'd render the growing line
in 3ds to begin with, as a piece of geometry, or as an animated texture
map.
Give me some more detail on the problem, and I'll be glad to rethink this
thing. From your description, I'm not quite sure what you really need.
– Jack