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3D Glass Window
I have a 3D composition that I want to add a window effect to…
right now I have a solid [with the opacity at 10] as a placeholder
Whats the best technique to create a window effect.. it needs to still reveal the layers behind
Thanks
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What do you think of when you see the term “window effect”?
You want to put a window into a wall in the scene?
You want a light to shine through a window?
You want the window to pass before the camera?
You’re just trying to figure out how to build a window object that looks like window?What do you really want?
bogiesan
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As bogiesan indicates, your question is pretty vague. You could mean a million different things. But if you just want a solid layer to be mostly transparent and give the impression that you’re looking through a window, you might find/create an image that represents what might be reflecting in the window (whatever the environment should be behind the camera) and use that as your “window” layer.
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Aharon’s first tut, Creating An Old TV Screen , has a nice reflection on the screen (near the end of the tut), which really helps to sell the window/glass effect. That might help.
Really it’s just a white solid with a mask the shape of the reflection, feathered mucho.
Click on Aharon’s head, Main Page, then scroll down to the bottom for the tut.
You can even fog up the eddges of the window with a mask, oval or window shaped, Blur, adjust mask Expansion and feather, on a duplicate widow layer (what you see thru the window).
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I was really trying to find a way to almost create an element that acted like glass… since this is a 3d comp and the camera move around the glass it’s harder to create a video for the reflection for the current camera position…
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> I was really trying to find a way to almost create an element that acted like glass… since this is a 3d comp and the camera move around the glass it’s harder to create a video for the reflection for the current camera position…< Then we are dealing with a language translation issue, too. Like most Americans, I know only one dumb language. Looking through "glass" requires a refractive index that can be accomplished only with a true 3D modeling system. You can fake it AE with displacement mapping but it has no credibility, especially if you add camera movement. bogiesan
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Alright I was able to create the effect… here is the final version:
Watch the street reflections and let me know what you think
https://33post.com/pages/whatchu_want.html
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Alright I was able to create the effect… here is the final version:
Watch the street reflections and let me know what you think
https://33post.com/pages/whatchu_want.html
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