#3d special Effects
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Hi
I have just got the book 3D-studio Special Effects
And I am Stumped.
Maybe you can Help! Me
I have 3ds4 and Animator 1.3.
In the book special effects, Effects 9 Laser-Burnin
I have tried making a Opacity map flic like the project
file for this effect in ani-pro
First i make a gif file of the text in 3ds4, them I go to ani-pro
I set the value to opaque, set pallette to gray scale
them back to the home panel.
There I start painting the text, frame bye frame and apply ink to each frame
Then I save it as a Flic.
Go back to 3ds4 and use the Text-flc. Map in the Materials Editor
and it does not cover all of the text.
in the model, the Author of this project is Martin Foster OF ANIMATRIX.
PLEASE HELP I need Details on how to make this map and have it work
THANKYOU
J.J.
June,
>> the Author of this project is Martin Foster OF ANIMATRIX <<
never heard of him. Who the heck is he anyway? <G>
>> Go back to 3ds4 and use the Text-flc. Map in the Materials Editor
and it does not cover all of the text. <<
First of all, let me explain that I'm in no way contractually obligated to
provide technical support for those chapters – WYSIWYG. However, since I'm an
incredibly good sport and an all-round hapless fool, I'm going to give you some
pointers 🙂
There can be some trial-and-error in getting the map to fit the text. You might
try adjusting the planar mapping with the surface/mapping move, scale and
region fit commands. A trick that might help is to temporarily set up your
opacity map as a background and turn on the background in an ortho view (views
menu, see background option). You can then zoom in/out, pan etc. until the
geometry is position correctly over the opacity map. When it looks right, do a
surface/mapping region fit around the outer boundary of the bitmap.
Good luck.
Thankyou
Martin
Also I live in San Bernardino
And would like to see your shop some day
Do you know of any user groups out here or
down in O.C. Or L.A. that are good!
C-YA
thanks again
June,
>> I live in San Bernardino And would like to see your shop some day <<
A few things have changed since I wrote my bio for the book. I recently became
an employee of Virgin Interactive Entertainment in Irvine, Ca so most of my
work is there now. However, I still maintain a freelance operation out of my
house in Laguna Beach, mainly to do corporate/industrial type animations for
video.
>> Do you know of any user groups out here or down in O.C. Or L.A. that are
good! <<
the only one I know, and one I can highly recommend, is SoCal 3ds and Animator
Pro user group. Here's the scoop:
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usual location of 17632 Metzler, Suite 211
Huntington Beach, CA Saturday at 10:00 am
near the intersection of Gothard and Slater
more info: Bob Weil (714) 953-2218
We are meeting on the third Saturday of every month.
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the next meeting will be in January, since we break for Christmas. I'm
intending to go to the January one, that is if I can get out of bed on time
<g>.