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Prep AE graphics for Spherical mapping in C4D?
I need to create a mov of graphic circles in AE, then distort it correctly so that it will map appropriately on a sphere in C4D. Can anyone point me to a basic workflow? It seems like it’d be as easy as tossing in an effect to pre-distort for a sphere (or UV mapping, or Cylindrical). Is that the case? Most general mapping method would work, although since I’ll be transparent over the poles, it seems like Cylindrical or Spherical would work best (since they distort most at the poles)
Thanks for your input.
Antifreeze Design
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Hmmm. That didn’t really work, at least not the way I was applying it. I need to distort my graphics so that pixels at the top and bottom of the (2×1) image get smeared across the whole horizontal length. Much like how Antarctica spans the width of a map, even though it’s basically a circle.
Photoshop’s Polar to Rect distortion filter seems to be trying to do something like that, except that it’s only stretching it for one pole, so I’m not yet sure how to utilize it, or replicate it in AE so that it can be animated.
Antifreeze Design
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I think you should take a look at CFX Sphere Utilities.
They are all specifically made to work on spherical maps. -
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CFX Mappit will be perfect. I had given them a quick look previously, but didn’t realize their product will also do the number-crunch prepping for creating animation to use as spherical texture in Cinema 4D. The math is odd enough that there’s no way you could do this without a plug– or at least some crazy-serious expressions.-Greg
Antifreeze Design
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Cheers,
Having worked with lots of these kind of jobs, I know what a pain it can be. Some of the functionality in these plugs can really save hours of work.
Happy that our tools did the job!
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