New effects?
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Brad,
What effects, Please expound to your hearts content, are you talking FX
or Textures or what.
While other software products are spending more time on making more
effects, they spend no time making the software faster, and eaiser to use. I
realize that this may be a hard pill to swallow but here is the deal. Impulse
is going to make Imagine easier to use than any other product without
sacraficing any speed or power.
New toys are just that, of course we have new toys, but they do things
that no sparkly effect will do no matter how good they are.
So I have as you asked responded, your turn
Mike
Mike,
I've been moving the last month or two and missed any announcements
about your upgrade shipping. I did, however, find what I think may be the
last newsletter – "Summer '93"? Is the offer form valid on the back? (I
thought I remembered you guys moving too!)
I need to generate a moving starfield for a local cable station, and
someone said that 2.9 would do a nifty job of that. Time to upgrade!
Thanks,
Karl
(Customer no. 812)
Karl,
"I need to generate a moving starfield"
Just create a few large spheres and give them the new 2.9 confetti texture,
with a small confetti size and a range of white-to-dark grey colors; it makes
wonderful starfields. Place your camera at the center of the spheres and give
them a slow rotation in Z, each sphere rotating at a different pace. Presto,
instant depth-defying <g> starfield!
Of course, if stars moving from left to right isn't your bag and you want the
typical "screen saver" Star Wars-type effect, create some really long tubes
instead, and have your camera point straight down them. Scale the tubes to
different diameters and give them the aforementioned confetti texture. To
eliminate the annoying flicker from far-away confetti specks, add global fog,
set to black. It will have the nice side effect of removing stars from the
center area of the image, where you'd presumably overlay a nice logo. The
varying sizes will give the "stars" several layers of motion, and the confetti
specks on the larger cylinders, being farther from the camera, will seem dimmer
because of the fog.
Blaq!
Blaq-dude,
Thanks for the great hints. That spheres-idea sounds like it should
work nicely. I assume you meant that they are varying diameters? I can
hardly wait to try it. (Unfortunately, I've lost track of this upgrade. I
believe that Impulse has moved and the last newsletter I can find doesn't
have a number for them. Hopefully, Mike will respond soon.)
Thanks again!
Karl
The nomber for Impulse is 1-800-328-0184 or 1-612-425-0557
also I find that v.2.9 has a problem with using the movie end.
Good Luck!
N.S.
NightStalker
Thanks for the note regarding "movie end". Can you describe this?
Karl
Hi Blaq,
I tried this sphere stars in an animation I made for a customer, but it didn't
work for me. Also it slows down redering a lot since you have to adjust the
size (in globals) when you use trace mode (which I had to). If the Imagine star
field would create stars with random size and color it would look better.
-David
David,
animating in TRACE mode? Eeeek! I'd _never_ do that. Your customer must have
very deep pockets; I couldn't possibly quote my client a price based on trace
render times.
Blaq!
Render time isn't the important thing. I count the time *I'm* sitting
on the 'puter doing the anim. I render at night. I had gold letters
in this anim and they looked ok in scanline mode, but they looked
really like gold in trace mode.
Cool trick Blaq! Thanx for the tip on Starfields. Tho I usually CHEAT and
just do it with Dpaint and save as a series of pix used as a Backdrop in
Imagine.