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Alternative Radio Wave Technique ?
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Well, for true 3D shading or hard extruded edges you’ll need a 3D app or plugin, of course. But, for example, if I were to want those waves in my sample to have more substance to them, I would do the same procedure, but add a duplicate of my ring layer (currently turned off and only used for the distortion source.) Currently my distortion layer is (appropriately) black and white, so I’d probably also add some sort of coloring–tint or my favorite: Colorama. Or you could use it to mask some footage of something more interesting like fire footage. The different transfer controls would help me make it look less “stuck on”, and give it translucence, if that’s what I was going for.
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How did you create the overall wave effect. I don’t need extruded hard edges just not transparent as in the case in your example.
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I’m not sure what you’re asking, but the distortion of the footage comes from the displacement map effect being applied to a layer that contains white concentric radiating circles (visiblity turned off).
Antifreeze Design
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All I need to create is a vector file with circles, but I don’t want no ripple just the wave and not a full wave if you take a circle and cut it in half then cut even more off from the circle that is what I’m after. A few quarters circles (about 3) coming out from left and right.
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What you’re describing sounds like how one might illustrate “sound” coming from a loudspeaker. You could try the radio lines effect but crop it. However, note that AE doesn’t do animated vector graphics. You might look to Flash if you want animated vector graphics.
Antifreeze Design
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Radio lines ? That is not within the radio wave effect !
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Sorry, I meant “radio waves”.
I’m afraid you’ll need to describe more about what you’re trying to do for us to be very helpful. I can’t conceptualize what you want to achieve from your description.Antifreeze Design
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Sorry, you were dead on with the effect as in Stereo waves that is the effect I’m trying to achieve.
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Ah, yeah, try setting yourself up with some nice emanating radio waves (create a solid–which is needed as a base layer for the effect generation, then apply the radio waves effect), then use your pen tool or shapes to draw masks to only reveal a quarter of your circle. You might want to pre-comp your radio waves before doing additional transformations or effects. Often, effects that are generated from scratch and use a solid as a base can’t have additional effects applied to them, since those additional effects aren’t taking into consideration your previous effect generator. For example, I used the pen tool to add a mask to my radio waves. It didn’t do anything. But if you precompose the radio waves solid into it’s own composition, then apply a mask to that precomp (in a new composition), it will mask as expected.
Antifreeze Design
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I create a layer apply radio waves, pre-compose that then make a bunch of masks to reveal a quarter of the wave ? Then how do I trigger the bulge to cause the wave ?
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