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MoGraph: How to create a video wall easily
I am using MoGraph to create what I would call a ‘video wall’. I have 75 photos of people that I want to map onto 75 TV shapes which I want to animate in various ways. I have the wall built using two cloner objects (one for columns and one for rows, nested). That all seems to work great.
My problem is: how can i easily map a folder of 75 individual .psd or .jpg files to the 75 TV’s? I would like to avoid manually assigning 75 separate materials, which (I think) would require me to not use a cloner object — is that right?
I tried creating a shader effector with a ‘multi-shader’ that had several shaders, each with a different photo. But I can’t get the any of the shaders to map to an object.
Thanks much for any help.
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Here’s how I would do it:
Create the wall with a cloner set to matrix mode.
Create a material with luminance channel only.
Place multi-shader in the luminance channel.
Now you’ll need AE, QT Pro or similar, and a batch image processing:
Batch rename your image files so they have consecutive numbers.
Load the images into a processing app as an image sequence and save out as a movie file.
Load the movie file into the multi-shader and click the “To Layers” button.
Drop the material on your cloner.
Create a Step Effector, set to affect color only.
That should do it.
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Would it be possible to change each image individually? Ie. could you make a wall of still photographs using this same process?
Thanks in advance for your help
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Sure, you could do the same thing with stills, but you’d have to load each image into the mograph shader which would be pretty tedious if you have lots of them.
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