Creating a field of postcard images

[John Macenroy]

Hi Kevin,

if I was to do it I would first try to use the MoGraph Multi-Shader in Combination with a Random Effector on a Cloner object to achieve your goal.

First make a Cloner object to create your Post Cards, then connect a Random Effector to this cloner object and disable Position changes. Turn on Color Mode and set it to add. Then create a new material and select MoGraph->Multi-Shader in the drop down menu of Color. Click on it and for shader 1 choose the first picture of your library with the postcards. Then click on the picture and choose calculate. The Multi-Shader now loads all the pictures in the directory because he thinks it’s a sequence. Now click the arrow up to get into the Multi-Shader properties again and hit “to layers” he will insert all the other pictures of the library and attach the material to your cloner object.

Hope this helps

[Kevin Camin]

Thanks for the detailed tut, John, I really appreciate it.

I did get stuck though:

I created the Cloner Object, attached a Random Effector to it, and disabled Position Transform parameter.

I created a new material and selected MoGraph->Multi-Shader in the drop down menu of Color. I then clicked on it and loaded the first picture from the Finder into Shader 1.

I clicked on the picture. Here is where I had a problem. I could only find the Calculate button under the Animation tab so I clicked it there.

I then hit the up arrow and selected ‘to layers’. I applied the material to my object within the Cloner. I enabled the Position parameter in the Random Effector.

The only image that appeared was the one that I selected from the finder and half the postcards are a blank, bright white.

Any additional guidance would be much appreciated. I’m using R11.

Best regards,

Kevin Camin

[Tim Shetz]

Not to talk you out of using Cinema, but is there a reason you don’t just do it IN after effects?

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Tim Shetz
c4dtraining.com

[Kevin Camin]

It’d like to get some glossy reflections on the postcards from the environment to add a little something extra. And I might play around with the Random Effector to have them collapse together at the end.

Best regards,

Kevin Camin