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  • .mov as material on object

    Posted by Mara Novak on May 31, 2010 at 12:09 pm

    dear helpful cinema 4D users!

    i have a mov exported from aftereffects with a transperant background. it is an animal, moving as a loop and goes from one side of the mov to the other. i wanna use this mov as an material in cinema 4D. this animal should “swim down the steps” i made.

    (this is just how it should look like. backgroundpicture out of aftereffects)

    my question is, how can i tell the material from which side it has to start. (wow.. sorry this is getting a bit confused)
    so basically my problems are that the animal doesnt go dow the stairs it just starts horizontly

    …and it isnt quite transparent it is a bluish kind of colour when i render it (but not all frames, some are normal).
    (i tryed to play arround with the alpha and in the preview it works in most of the frames)

    i hope u get what i mean i know i’m quite bad in describing
    do you think it is a bad way to coordinate the animal or do you think it might work bether with align to spline or something like this?
    (i have to confess that i’m a tatal beginner in cinama 4D)

    thanks for reading
    mara

    Brian Jones replied 16 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Brian Jones

    June 1, 2010 at 3:37 am

    at least a couple ways to do that with a movie or with a still image if you use the right mapping and move it with the texture axis tools. With the still image the Offset in the texture can be animated, with the movie texture it just needs to be lined up correctly. Not the only way to do it.

    788_fishonsteps.zip

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